New Zealand Impressions

Welcome to New Zealand Impressions.

We provide personally fully-guided tours, and independent self drive tours of New Zealand, for the discerning traveler.

Each tour is custom made for you - no two vacations are the same.

Personally Fully-Guided Tours Our personally driven tours of New Zealand are carefully planned according to your preferences and requirements. You tell us where you'd like to go and what you want to do in New Zealand by completing our Itinerary Development Form and we will send you a free draft tour itinerary with no obligations whatsoever. If you choose to travel with us, you will be allocated your own personal guide/driver, who will accompany you throughout your New Zealand holiday in the comfort and safety of a modern, spacious vehicle.

Piha beach, New Zealand

Piha Beach, New Zealand

Balloon over Canterbury

Ballooning over Canterbury, New Zealand

Self Drive Vacations

If you would like to drive independently, we will tailor a vacation through a personalized itinerary based on your vehicle, accommodation, and touring preferences by using the information from your itinerary development form. We will make all your bookings in advance and give you a comprehensive touring pack, including a cellphone. We will meet you at your arrival airport and even drive you FREE on day 1, and give you 24 hour a day telephone support, so that we can comfortably leave you in the knowledge that you have all the necessary information for a safe, secure and enjoyable vacation in New Zealand.

Whether you choose to be driven or to drive yourself you'll experience some of the most amazing scenery in the world, great accommodation in picturesque locations, and enjoy the very best of New Zealand's celebrated cuisine and fine wines.

Then there's all the activities to choose from: scenic flights (in planes, helicopters and hot-air balloons), boat trips, whale-watch, winery visits, train journeys, jet-boat rides, bungy-jumping, para-gliding and much, much more. And there will be plenty of opportunity to do some shopping orjust relax and do as you please.

Vino Vino, Waiheke Island, New Zealand

Waiheke Island, New Zealand

Milford Sound in summer TNZ

Milford Sound, New Zealand

We'll show you the great geographical diversity and astonishing natural beauty that only New Zealand has to offer. You'll see stunning mountain ranges, mighty rivers, lakes, fiords, sounds, glaciers, beaches, national parks, thermal resorts with bubbling mud pools and gushing geysers, sites of historical interest and modern, clean cities.

You'll meet friendly locals - not just tourist industry workers but real New Zealanders - and enjoy their down-to-earth humour and genuine homespun hospitality. What's more, you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that, even in today's world, New Zealand remains an unspoiled, safe and affordable place for tourists to visit.

Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand

Please complete our Fully-Guided Itinerary Development Form or our Self Drive Itinerary Development Form to get a free, no-obligations draft itinery of your personalized New Zealand vacation.

Customer Comments from Margaret and Bill Atkinson, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Our trip was as close to a 'ten' as you could imagine and in fact, it might have been a 'ten' if we had got to Milford Sound. Despite how great Cath is - she has no control over the weather - as skiers, we know that this is fact.

To have a Driver/Guide was perhaps one of the smartest decisions that we have ever made. Then to have someone like Cath made us look like genii!!! Her upfront help in planning the trip was done in a prompt, helpful and customer focused manner. When we got to New Zealand, her immediate demeanor made us feel like we had known her for a long time. Her knowledge of New Zealand and its customs and history was extremely helpful and interesting and her expertise in the wine and food industry was 'second to none'. THe B & B's were terrific and Cath's driving skills got us to places that any normal person would shudder in their boots. There is much more that could be said but hopefully, you get the message that we loved your country and especially, Cath.

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Mt Cook reflected in Lake Matheson, New Zealand		Grand Chateau, Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand
Sailing in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand		Boiling Mud Pools, Rotorua, New Zealand
Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand		Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand
The Desert Road & Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand		Whale Tail, Kaikoura, New Zealand