Sharon's Travel Agency
Based on 768 reviews
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I couldn’t have been more happy with our trip and the experience with the travel agency and Sarah specifically. She was amazing! She asked what our priorities were and what our budget was and I told her what activities were most important to us and she planned us the most incredible vacation of a lifetime! Our family will remember this trip for the rest of our lives! It was so much fun and everything weren’t so much more smoothly because of Sarah’s help. She made our life so much easier and made our vacation preparations so much easier! We will use her again and hope many others will as well. Our hotels were wonderful, our activities were fantastic, and our rental cars and itinerary were perfect!!Thank you for making this vacation so special for our family! You were absolutely the best to work with!
Kate's Travel Agency
Based on 70 reviews
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Kate at the travel agency was very helpful in helping us plan our trip to NZ. She listened carefully to our requests and concerns and responded with new ideas when necessary. She was especially helpful when we had to change a few days of the trip due to the cyclone that hit the North Island.
Rick's Travel Agency
Based on 149 reviews
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The trip was great! I loved working with Rick to put together our itinerary. When I didn’t listen to him I wish I had. He felt that since I was not a Lord of the Rings fan there was no point in going to Hobbiton. He was right. It was disappointing. He said since we were going to see glow worms in the South Island there was no point in going to see them in the North island. He was right. He talked us into going whale watching despite the fact that I had been disappointed in the past. I went and it was exactly what he said it would be. Before we left he put together a 2 1/2 hour presentation over Webex with us. That was completely unexpected and useful during the trip. When it looked like we weren’t going to make it to Picton he worked with us to be sure the boat would meet us. He even gave us his personal cell number if we ran into problems, because he wasn’t going to be in the office when we might have a problem going to Picton.I would highly recommend Rick to anyone traveling to New Zealand.
Roseann's Travel Agency
Based on 233 reviews
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My husband and I went on a wonderful trip to New Zealand - North and South Island - that was actually planned for 2021 but could not go until this year. I like to work with an agent and Lindsay from our travel agency was extremely responsive offering helpful options and suggestions. Even though the time we spent on the North Island was right after the torrential rains, we modified the itinerary to spend 4 days in the Taupo area and 2 days in Rotorua. We hiked in the Tongariro National Park and part of the Great Lake Pathway, sailed to view the Maori Rock Carvings and visited Orakei Korako geothermal pools and Huka Falls in the Lake Taupo area. In Rotorua, we relaxed in the mineral pools of the spa and enjoyed the indigenous Maori experience at Te Puia. The next 12 days were spent on the South Island where we had sunny and warm weather! One of our favorite places was Abel Tasman Park where we went Kayaking and hiked on the beautiful Coast Trek. We continued our adventures on a memorable heli-hiking experience on the Tasman Glacier in the Mt. Cook region, followed by visiting the unique blue penguins and Royal Albatrosses on the Otago Peninsula and a hike and cruise on the famous Milford Sound in Fjordland National Park. We ended our journey with 3 days in Lake Wanaka area where we kayaked, hiked, and went to some of the region's famous wineries.
Jo's Travel Agency
Based on 28 reviews
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We loved our NZ/Australia travel specialist! Our original trip in March 2020 was delayed bc of Covid. Jo kept us updated and then rescheduled our trip. Her suggestions about what to see and do fit in perfectly with what we wanted out of our trip. Taking the trip and all we saw and did, was even better than what the terrific itinerary showed. Just a truly awesome trip in every respect!
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Very responsive, friendly and helpful when it came to a big change in our departing flight plan.
Did not feel that our opinions regarding the ideas for the trip and our preferences were initially taken into account or considered, we had to request a lot of the fine tuning of the trip and do a lot of the legwork regarding research of the country.
Would have been nice if there were more options for the trip given from the beginning without us having to request and adjust each of the details, especially when it came to issues regarding the weather and time of year being on the cusp of fall/winter. For example, we had been scheduled for the Dart River JetBoat, which ultimately, would have been a waste of an experience and quite miserable considering the local weather in Queenstown typical for early June, we noted this and requested it to be cancelled from or itinerary, but would've expected this to be researched by the travel company as well.
Disappointed by a couple of the accommodations, in Auckland and Taupo, while decent, but dated facilities, they were a 10-15 minute drive or taxi from the central or restaurant districts of town, would have preferred a more central location, with consideration to neighboring activities, again this was not discussed or asked of us during the booking or planning process.
We also had no communication and the local company did not touch base with us on a single occasion during our trip - this is in great contrast to our previously experience with a Zicasso company in another country, from the time we left, we felt that we were out of their hands and left to figure out the details of our trip based solely on separately emailed documents, no welcome packet with hard copies, etc, which were later requested at nearly every ticket operator, tour company for confirmation requiring local cell service, internet etc - again, this was not a consideration. Lacking on the details.