2025 Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Award

2024 Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Award

2023 Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Award

Auckland North Island Tours Rotorua

Rotorua Highlights including Wai-O-Tapu & Te Puia

From NZD$399

4.8

(351 reviews)

Departs from: Auckland

Duration: 12 hours

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Experience the very best of Rotorua’s geothermal wonders and cultural treasures on this fully guided small group day tour from Auckland. Explore two of the region’s most famous attractions, Te Puia and Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, along with scenic highlights and insightful commentary from your expert guide. Enjoy a comfortable journey through the rolling Waikato countryside, take in Rotorua’s city highlights, and discover the power, beauty, and spirit that make this region truly unique.

Please note

Depending on your selected package and preferences, not all guests will participate in the same activities, ensuring a tailored and personalized experience for everyone!

Why you’ll love this

Explore two of Rotorua’s top attractions in one unforgettable day

Marvel at the vivid geothermal features of Wai-O-Tapu, including the Champagne Pool and bubbling mud pools

Learn about Māori culture, art, and geothermal wonders at Te Puia

Travel in comfort through the lush Waikato farm region with photo stops along the way

Enjoy a personal and flexible small group experience tailored to your preferences

Itinerary

What’s included

Complimentary Auckland hotel pick-up and drop-off

Entry to Te Puia and Wai-O-Tapu

Professional world famous driver-guide

Air-conditioned, comfortable, luxury small-group transport

Snacks, water, and scenic photo stops

Why choose us

Famously passionate tour guides

Our guides share stories, laughs, and Kiwi charm on every journey.

Travel in comfort

Small groups, big comfort. Relax in our modern Mercedes minibuses with style and space.

Award-winning tours

Thousands of five-star reviews and top travel awards - experiences loved worldwide.

Kiwi owned. Kiwi operated

Proudly local and passionate about sharing authentic New Zealand with every traveller.

Stories worth sharing

1/3/2026

Highly recommend-Especially if Ben is your guide

This excursion was a great experience! Rotorua was fabulous. Te Puia was a great way to learn about the Māori culture and history and see Kiwis. We followed it by the Polynesian Spa experience which was a perfect way to relax. We had plenty of time to soak, shower, eat and shop in the store area. The entire trip was made better by our awesome tour guide Ben. He was informative, but was such a fun, light and positive guy. Had to post the gem I found on my camera roll when we asked Ben to take a pic of us…he did take our pic too 🤣 Highly recommend.

Laura W

1/2/2026

Full day trip to Rotorua

We had a wonderful full day trip to Rotorua. Ben was our guide and he did a wonderful job, following up his customers professionally. If I could come with an improvement point I would recommend to have a bus with a bit more leg room, my long legs had problems to find a good position. Apart from that everything was fantastic!

Cato W

12/31/2025

Rotorua and Te Paiu tour

We had a lovely day on your Rotorua tour on Friday 27th December. Alberto was a very informative guide and helpful. He made sure that we understood where we were to be collected and patient. Thank you.

Genny W

12/29/2025

The best of Rotorua!!

We had the best time on our tour with Grant! He was funny, respectful and super knowledgeable! Thankful to him for suggesting we had time to add on an extra activity. It made our experience much more enjoyable!

M E

12/17/2025

Great tour guide and a must place to see when visiting New Zealand.

The your guide is very professional. He explained everything about the tour and gave the whole group a suggestion for us to make a tour worth for what we spent for the day.

Brian T

12/14/2025

We spend most of our morning just soaked our body in the hot spring pool. And breathed in the purest oxygen in the redwo

We had great time with our driver/ guide, Jeoff. He is very passionate and friendly. He responds to our questions promptly and respectfully.

Grace K

12/14/2025

Amazing day

I had Grant as a tour guide and he is absolutely amazing! He made sure everyone was taken care of and on time for all of their activities. I booked this as a solo trip and he made sure I felt very welcome into the group. Thank you so much for the experience Cheeky Kiwi, you have a true gem!

spicymang0

12/14/2025

A good introduction

A good way to visit the sites from Auckland for those with limited time. Our driver/guide. Alessandro, was informative and engaging. However, he was not involved at the venues themselves: we were part of a larger group for our visit to Te Puia, and left to our own devices once we had entered the complex at Wai O Tapu. The fact that different members of our group had signed up for different activities did mean that there was some wasted time shuttling between the various locations, which was a little frustrating.

PDS2

12/4/2025

Great one-day Rotorua experience

I am blown away. The trip was perfect, start to finish. Got picked up perfectly on time, Grant (our guide) was lovely, very knowledgeable and friendly, I felt safe in the car, and everything was organised on point. The individual tours were information-packed and well thought out. We had enough convenience breaks and got a lot of recommendations. All in all a top day! :) Thank you, Grant!

Michèle H

12/3/2025

Great tour

Our experience was really great. We felt very taken care of while on this tour. They are top notch company. when you travel half way around the world you want to know that you have a good experience and that's what we had. thank you

Marcy T

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