Waitomo Glowworm & Ruakuri Twin Cave Experience - Smågruppetur fra Auckland
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Waitomo Glowworm & Ruakuri Twin Cave Experience - Smågruppetur fra Auckland
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Alder: 0–99 maks. 16 per gruppe
Varighet: 11 t
Starttidspunkt: Sjekk tilgjengelighet
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Direkte veiledning: Engelsk
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- Fullt guidet returtransport fra Auckland
- Gratis henting og avlevering fra Auckland CBD
- Gratis forfriskninger og vann om bord
- En lokal engelsktalende tur eskorte gjennom hele turen
- Luksuriøs temperaturkontrollert transport
- Adgang til fullt guidet 45 minutters opplevelse av Waitomo Glow Worm Cave
- Båttur på en underjordisk bekk gjennom Waitomo Glowworm Caves
- Adgang til fullt guidet 90 minutters opplevelse av Waitomo Ruakuri-hulen
- Opplev de beste North Island-destinasjonene på en dag på en altomfattende tur
- Beundre fryktinngytende stalaktitter og stalagmitter under de ikoniske Glow-worm Caves
- Bli betatt av de tusenvis av magiske glødeormene mens du glir lydløst med båt
- Se opp på tusenvis av glødende glødeormer over deg
- Gå gjennom katedralhulen og opplev den fantastiske akustikken
- Fordyp deg i geologien og historien til Waitomo-grottene ved hjelp av en reiseleder
- Se flere glødeormer enn du noen gang kunne forestille deg at alt lyser opp over hodet ditt!
- Oppdag Waitomos lengste underjordiske guidede vandretur mens du utforsker Ruakuri-hulen
- La deg ha åpen munn, ærefrykt og ydmyk over naturens rene majestet
- Beundre unike fjellformasjoner, underjordiske elver og tusenvis av glødeormer
- Gå dypere inn i historien mens du går nedover den dramatiske spiralinngangen
- Gratis høyhastighetsinternett ombord på minibussen
- Inngang/adgang – Waitomo Glowworm Caves
- Inngang/adgang – Ruakuri Cave
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- Startpunkt:Flere hentesteder tilbys.
- Mövenpick Hotel Auckland, 8 Customs Street East, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, New ZealandVårt sentrale møtepunkt i Auckland City er foran Movenpick Hotel (8 Customs Street East, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010). Dette møtepunktet er godt forbundet med Aucklands offentlige transportnettverk. Gi oss beskjed om du vil møte oss på dette stedet.
Informasjon om hentested- Vi henter passasjerer fra utvalgte hoteller i Auckland CBD. Hvis hotellet ditt ikke er på denne listen, vennligst velg det nærmeste alternative hentestedet. Hvis du trenger hjelp til å velge nærmeste alternative hentested, vennligst kontakt operatøren på forhånd slik at vi kan hjelpe deg. Vennligst se tidspunktene for hentingen din nedenfor basert på det valgte hentestedet. Sørg for at du er tilstede på hentestedet 10 minutter før det planlagte hentetidspunktet. Vi kan ikke holde bussen hvis du kommer for sent, og ingen refusjon vil bli gitt til sene eller manglende oppmøte. Planlagte hentetider [06:00 AM - Sofitel Auckland, Park Hyatt, Swiss Bel-Suites Victoria Park]; [06:05 AM - M Social, Hilton Auckland]; [06:10 - Mövenpick Hotel, Nesuto Stadium Hotel and Apartments, Adina Apartment Hotel]; [06:15 AM - Pullman Auckland, JW Marriot, voco Auckland City Centre, Holiday Inn Express Auckland City Centre, ibis Budget Auckland City Centre]; [06:20 AM - Crowne Plaza Auckland, SkyCity Hotel, The Grand By SkyCity, Heritage Auckland, Rydges Auckland]; [06:25 AM - Four Points By Sheraton Auckland, Grand Millennium Auckland, VR Auckland City Hobson Street]; [06:30 AM - Cordis Auckland, Mercure Auckland, Kiwi International, VR Queen Street Hotel & Suites]
Henting ved hotellet tilbysVed betaling kan du velge fra listen over inkluderte hoteller.Sluttpunkt:Denne aktiviteten avsluttes på møtestedet. - Ingen rullestoltilgang
- Nær offentlig transport
- Seter for spedbarn tilgjengelig
Hvis du har spørsmål om tilgjengelighet, hjelper vi deg gjerne. Ring nummeret nedenfor, og oppgi produktkode: 168163P9- Bekreftelse mottas ved bestillingstidspunktet
- De fleste reisende kan delta
- Denne opplevelsen krever et minimum antall reisende. Hvis den avbrytes fordi minimumskravet ikke er oppfylt, vil du bli tilbudt en annen dato/opplevelse eller full refusjon.
- Vennligst bruk komfortable klær som passer for forholdene, solbeskyttelse, jakke/varmt lag og alle viktige personlige gjenstander.
- Enkelt og godt kondisjonsnivå kreves.
- Dette er en guidet tur og fornuftig fottøy anbefales.
- Ingen fotografering er tillatt inne i Waitomo-hulene, og kameraer og Go Pros kan ikke tas med på turen.
- Fotografering er tillatt i Ruakuri-hulen, så ta med kameraet ditt for å klikke på de beste bildene.
- Ingen ryggsekker eller store poser tillatt i hulen på grunn av delikate formasjoner.
- Ikke berør formasjonen i hulen da den lett misfarges, vennligst hjelp oss med å beskytte hulen vår.
- Du må kunne klatre og gå ned trapper og gå i uasfaltert eller ujevnt terreng.
- Denne opplevelsen krever godt vær. Hvis den avbestilles på grunn av dårlig vær, blir du tilbudt en annen dato eller full refusjon
- Denne opplevelsen krever et minimum antall reisende. Hvis den avbestilles fordi minimumsantallet ikke oppfylles, blir du tilbudt en annen dato/opplevelse eller full refusjon
- Denne turen/aktiviteten har maksimum 16 reisende
- For full refusjon avbestiller du minst 24 timer før startdatoen for opplevelsen.
- Hvis du har spørsmål om denne omvisningen eller trenger hjelp med å bestille, hjelper vi deg gjerne. Ring nummeret nedenfor, og oppgi produktkode: 168163P9
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Wentzu S
1 bidrag
okt. 2024 • Familie
The driver Ama is knowledgeable and helpful, she makes 5 hours drive (round trip) in bus very vibrant and lots of fun and laughter. The tour inside of cave is an unforgettable experience, must try once in a life time!!!
Skrevet 21. oktober 2024
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Kia Ora Wen,
Thank you very much for choosing to book with ExperienceKart and leaving us a glorious review! It was our privilege and honour to host you and we are stoked to hear that you had a wonderful day. Thank you sincerely for recommending our services. We look forward to hosting you on another adventure soon!
Skrevet 22. oktober 2024
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Jeff H
4 bidrag
Our tour guide, Ama, was engaging and had a focus on the customer. She gave us a great all round experience and added some great Māori history and stories which helped whittle away the long drive to Wiatomo.
Skrevet 21. oktober 2024
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Kia Ora Jeff,
Thank you very much for taking your time to leave a lovely 5 star review and we are stoked to hear that you had a great day all around travelling to Waitomo and exploring the glowworm and Ruakuri caves! We hope you enjoyed your day listening to some great Maori history and stories shared by our lovely guide Ama! Thank you sincerely for choosing to book with ExperienceKart, it was our privilege and honour hosting you on our tour! We look forward to hosting you again on another adventure soon!
Skrevet 21. oktober 2024
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Kelly W
2 bidrag
sep. 2024 • Par
My boyfriend and I took this day trip with Experience Kart to the Waitomo Glowworm and Ruakuri Twin Cave. We have been driving all around the North Island and wanted to give my boyfriend a break from driving. The pickup and drop off from our hotel in central Auckland was smooth and the drive to the cave was relaxing in the van. Our driver and tour guide, Karthik, gave a great tour with fun little tidbits of New Zealand.
The glowworm cave itself was amazing, but the addition of the Ruakuri Cave made the drive worth it. I would recommend this tour company to anybody who wants to see the cool sights of New Zealand, but is weary about driving all the time.
The glowworm cave itself was amazing, but the addition of the Ruakuri Cave made the drive worth it. I would recommend this tour company to anybody who wants to see the cool sights of New Zealand, but is weary about driving all the time.
Skrevet 29. september 2024
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Kia Ora Kelly & Louis,
Thank you very much for your lovely 5 star review and we are delighted to hear that both of you enjoyed your day trip from Auckland to the Waitomo & Ruakuri Caves! It was our pleasure to host you on our tours and we look forward to welcoming you onboard some of our other tours in the future! We really appreciate and love the title of your review "Amazing Day Trip". We thank you sincerely for choosing our tours and recommending our services. We strive hard to provide exceptional services to our guests and we wish you all the very best for the remainder of 2024 and a great beginning to 2025!
Skrevet 29. september 2024
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susanmosaics
Roma, Italia15 bidrag
sep. 2024 • Familie
Our tour operator Karthik was wonderful start to finish. Very informative with lots of details about the history of the area and interesting landmark details. We started the trip with our hotel pick up and were each given a “snack care package” (water bottle, drink, snacks etc) before getting started. The stops we made were well timed. The caves were both fabulous and well worth the long journey. My daughter and I were both very happy with the trip experience.
Skrevet 23. september 2024
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Kia Ora Susan & Jessica,
Thank you sincerely for choosing to book with ExperienceKart and we are very delighted to hear that you enjoyed your trip to explore the Waitomo Glow worm & Ruakuri caves on our combo day tour from Auckland and we love your comment "Karthik was wonderful start to finish". It was our great privilege hosting you and we look forward to seeing you on one of our 70 tours we have on offer. Best wishes for the remainder of 2024 and the start of 2025!
Skrevet 23. september 2024
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10teresaj
Garden City, ID80 bidrag
This was a great experience! Our guide, Ama was so wonderful! She arrived promptly and was warm and welcoming. She shared lots of interesting information about the Māori culture and area as we travelled to the caves. We were given a lovely goodie bag when we settled in the car that contained a bottle of water (and there was more available onboard), cookies, tissues, snacks and a local favorite - L & P. The car was very comfortable and had onboard WiFi. Regarding the cave adventure, the Ruakuri was very informative and interesting. We learned alot and the guide was informative and helpful answering many, many questions. He also allowed ample time for pictures. The Waitomo Glowworm tour was much more touristy. The experience in the cave was very brief. The experience on the boat staring up at all the glowworms was amazing.
After the caves, we stopped at The Thirsty Weta Bar in Otorohanga and it was delicious!
Overall, it was a great day.
After the caves, we stopped at The Thirsty Weta Bar in Otorohanga and it was delicious!
Overall, it was a great day.
Skrevet 21. juni 2024
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Kia Ora Teresa,
It was our pleasure to host you on an epic day trip from Auckland to Waitomo to explore two of our iconic caves in the region. We are delighted and super stoked to hear that you had a truly wonderful experience as this is what we do at ExperienceKart, it is always about the experience! We are really pleased to hear that you enjoyed your day and our exceptional guide Ama will be very pleased to know that your experience was very rewarding! Thank you sincerely for choosing to book with ExperienceKart and we look forward to hosting you on another adventure soon!
Skrevet 22. juni 2024
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Vanitha c
2 bidrag
apr. 2024 • Familie
Good service and very organized guided tour . On time for pick up and drop-off . The vehicles was very convenient and clean .
Skrevet 20. april 2024
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Kia Ora Vanitha,
Thank you very much for choosing to book with ExperienceKart and we are delighted to hear that you found our tours very organized, on-time and our vehicles to be very convenient and clean. Thank you for taking your time to leave us a lovely review and we look forward to hosting you again!
Skrevet 20. april 2024
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Margaret W
7 bidrag
feb. 2024 • Par
My review of Karthik, ExperienceKart is 5/5. If you want to book the Twin Caves, I have no complaints!
Biggest point of review is more - is the drive down there and back worth it.
After doing the trip, my husband and I (in our late 30s) debated if this trip was worth the 10-11 hour day made up of 5-6 hours driving. We decided this was worth it, but just barely. If you have any way of breaking up this drive, to avoid the out & back, I would suggest doing that! We were not in great spirits by the time we returned to our hotel at 6PM.
The Waitomo Glowworm cave was so incredibly spectacular and we felt a must-see & was the only reason this trip was worth it. 100% need to do this.
The Ruakuri caves are much more vast with the stalagmites and stalactites, formations, and it has more walking around. FWIW, my husband has done a few cave walks and felt it wasn't anything more remarkable than caves he had seen in the US. This was my first cave experience, so I was very awestruck. You can take photos in Ruakuri - be warned there are a handful of glowworms in Ruakuri, but no chance your photos will produce anything besides some dots - haha.
I do feel that if we just drove down, saw Waitomo Glowworm cave & drove back, it would feel way too short. However, the Ruakuri cave added another 1.5-2 hours to the day.
Our tour guide (who owns the company) was Karthik. At pickup (6:45AM), he provided us with a bag of water and NZ snacks which was a nice treat. The drive down seemed pretty painless, we stopped halfway for coffee & toilet break. During almost the entire 2.5 hour drive down, he provided us with seemingly endless facts and trivia tidbits that he used to fill the drive down, he had a great sense of humor. (Unfortunately, we sat in the back of the bus and the guests in the middle were not engaging at all, which was regretful, but not his fault!) I would have loved to ask him question after question to pick his brain. He has been a tour guide for over 6 years and was a great story teller.
After the cave tours, you eat lunch in Waitomo area, a cafeteria esque meal, and can order from an array of options. It was decent enough food, but nothing special. (The fish & chips were pretty bad, but the burger was great).
Be warned: The drive back into Auckland felt painfully long. We hit traffic so it took over 3 hours. We arrived to our hotel around 5:30PM. So a 11 hour day in total with only 45 min tour in the Waitomo Cave & 1.5 hour tour in the Ruakuri cave.
The bus only seats 10 so its a nice size tour and makes the breaks less time consuming. The only con is that the seats are not super comfortable at all. My husband is 6'-2" and it was a tight squeeze for him. I'm 5'-2" and my butt felt pretty flat by the end.
All in all, Karthik did a great job of making this tour the best of the options. He was a great tour guide, prompt, and really engaging. The biggest question you should ask yourself before booking is if you can manage the drive - 2.5 hours there and 2.5-3 hours back. If yes, I would definitely book this tour!!
Biggest point of review is more - is the drive down there and back worth it.
After doing the trip, my husband and I (in our late 30s) debated if this trip was worth the 10-11 hour day made up of 5-6 hours driving. We decided this was worth it, but just barely. If you have any way of breaking up this drive, to avoid the out & back, I would suggest doing that! We were not in great spirits by the time we returned to our hotel at 6PM.
The Waitomo Glowworm cave was so incredibly spectacular and we felt a must-see & was the only reason this trip was worth it. 100% need to do this.
The Ruakuri caves are much more vast with the stalagmites and stalactites, formations, and it has more walking around. FWIW, my husband has done a few cave walks and felt it wasn't anything more remarkable than caves he had seen in the US. This was my first cave experience, so I was very awestruck. You can take photos in Ruakuri - be warned there are a handful of glowworms in Ruakuri, but no chance your photos will produce anything besides some dots - haha.
I do feel that if we just drove down, saw Waitomo Glowworm cave & drove back, it would feel way too short. However, the Ruakuri cave added another 1.5-2 hours to the day.
Our tour guide (who owns the company) was Karthik. At pickup (6:45AM), he provided us with a bag of water and NZ snacks which was a nice treat. The drive down seemed pretty painless, we stopped halfway for coffee & toilet break. During almost the entire 2.5 hour drive down, he provided us with seemingly endless facts and trivia tidbits that he used to fill the drive down, he had a great sense of humor. (Unfortunately, we sat in the back of the bus and the guests in the middle were not engaging at all, which was regretful, but not his fault!) I would have loved to ask him question after question to pick his brain. He has been a tour guide for over 6 years and was a great story teller.
After the cave tours, you eat lunch in Waitomo area, a cafeteria esque meal, and can order from an array of options. It was decent enough food, but nothing special. (The fish & chips were pretty bad, but the burger was great).
Be warned: The drive back into Auckland felt painfully long. We hit traffic so it took over 3 hours. We arrived to our hotel around 5:30PM. So a 11 hour day in total with only 45 min tour in the Waitomo Cave & 1.5 hour tour in the Ruakuri cave.
The bus only seats 10 so its a nice size tour and makes the breaks less time consuming. The only con is that the seats are not super comfortable at all. My husband is 6'-2" and it was a tight squeeze for him. I'm 5'-2" and my butt felt pretty flat by the end.
All in all, Karthik did a great job of making this tour the best of the options. He was a great tour guide, prompt, and really engaging. The biggest question you should ask yourself before booking is if you can manage the drive - 2.5 hours there and 2.5-3 hours back. If yes, I would definitely book this tour!!
Skrevet 26. februar 2024
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Kia Ora Margaret,
Thank you sincerely for choosing to book with ExperienceKart and we sincerely appreciate your lovely review. It was our pleasure to host you and we are very pleased to hear that you had a great time travelling with ExperienceKart. We continue to strive very hard to provide exceptional services to our guests and your feedback is much appreciated. We wish you all the best for 2024 and safe travels. Thank you sincerely for choosing to book with ExperienceKart and recommending our services!
Skrevet 28. februar 2024
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joniw90
Birmingham, AL25 bidrag
nov. 2023 • Par
My husband and I recently embarked on the Waitomo Glowworm & Ruakuri Twin Cave Experience Tour, and it was nothing short of amazing. Our guide, Karthik, impressed us with his knowledge and friendly demeanor. Despite the long drive, the well-planned rest stops made the journey enjoyable. The glowworm caves were a breathtaking sight, offering a genuine New Zealand experience. We're grateful for Karthik and ExperienceKart, making our tour memorable. If you're seeking exceptional tours out of Auckland, don't hesitate to book with this company. Highly recommended!
Skrevet 3. desember 2023
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Kia Ora Joni,
Thank you very much for this beautiful and lovely review, we are deeply humbled. We thank you for taking your time to leave us with a glowing 5 star review and we are very pleased to hear that you had an amazing and exceptional service from ExperienceKart. Thank you very much for choosing to book with us and we sincerely appreciate recommending to book our services. We look forward to hosting you again in the future and until then, wish you safe travel and warmest regards!
Skrevet 4. desember 2023
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Daniel P
11 bidrag
nov. 2023 • Par
The both tours were excellent. While the Waitomo Glowworm cave had you riding in a boat through part of the cave, however, I liked the Ruakuri Cave tour better. We saw alot more while hiking through the Ruakuri Cave tour. Both were narrated by knowledgeable docents. Due to cave darkness, you had to slow the shutter down to pick up the faint light. None of my cave pictures turned out from Waitomo Cave.
A tripod would have helped produce clearer pictures.
That is where the hiking was better since you could stop and set your camera on a stable surface for the pictures.
A tripod would have helped produce clearer pictures.
That is where the hiking was better since you could stop and set your camera on a stable surface for the pictures.
Skrevet 29. november 2023
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Kia ora Daniel,
Thank you sincerely for choosing to book with ExperienceKart, and recommending our services. It is wonderful to hear that you enjoyed visiting the Waitomo Glowworm & Ruakuri Twin Cave Experience! We look forward to hosting you again!
Skrevet 1. desember 2023
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Tina F
Atlanta, GA19 bidrag
okt. 2023 • Familie
An amazing experience! Karthik was absolutely sensational as was Elana, the Ruakuri Cave guide. We learned so much and had a fantastic day!
Skrevet 17. oktober 2023
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Kia ora Tina,
Thank you very much for choosing to book with ExperienceKart and recommending our services. We are very glad that you had a fantastic day visiting the Waitomo caves! We look forward to hosting you again and wish you safe travels!
Skrevet 18. oktober 2023
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