Australia & New Zealand Luxury Trip Review: Camel Ride to Field of Light Show, Queenstown, Steam Ship to Sheep Station, Culture

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Karen M.

11.12.2019

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Which Country (Countries) did you visit on this trip?

Australia

New Zealand

Your overall comments on the trip and the travel company:

TOP Notch! This was a fantastic trip from the moment we chose the "in Country" agent to help us with the planning. In Country made the difference to not have to worry about time zones if there were any glitches. Our travel planner was fantastic to work with! Everything was planned - almost down to the minute. The tours, the tour guides, the buses or vans (we preferred small groups), the hotels, the documents, the AXUS website and mostly our planner's ever present help the few times we needed it (no fault of this company - just the weather or one late plane arrival) were EXCELLENT! We LOVED, LOVED, LOVED every minute of the 22 day planned trip! Again, I can't say enough about the travel planner! His calls, his suggestions, the itinerary, ALL made this a trip of lifetime! We were just sorry to not be able to meet our planner somewhere in Australia!

What were the most enjoyable or memorable parts of your trip?

EVERYTHING!!!! We loved each tour, each adventure - Camel ride to the "field of Light", all the city tours - Melbourne with the private tour and our guide, the Syndey Opera House backstage tour and the suggestions of places to eat. Ayers Rock and Uluru were great as were Phillip Island with the Penguins. Maori village tour was great. Would love to go to an actual village on a tour. My favorite was the Milford Sound "Fly-Cruise-Fly" over the Southern Alps of New Zealand South Island! What a glorious sight! Loved the Earnslaw and the High Country Farm tour and the Gondola, Queenstown to see the entire area. Favorite town was Queenstown, NZ where we rode a steam ship to a sheep station. The food was excellent there. Would have loved to stay an extra day or two in Queenstown.
Our Hobbiton enthusiast was overjoyed to visit while the rest of our group - three of us - loved the countryside getting there.

If you could take your trip again, what would you do differently?

Stay extra days in Queenstown, NZ, shorten the great Ocean road tour to include a stop at a local dairy and some of the countryside for pictures instead of "many" ocean sites (I realize this should be changed with the actual tour company that provided the tour).
I would also change the Penguin tour to the "top Premium viewing level" WITHOUT dinner included! Our guide took so long to get there (killing time) that we did not have time for the planned dinner so we GULPED a sandwich standing in line. The best (and really only place) to see the Penguins without binoculars was at the Premium site.We did see some closer up on the way back to the main building.
We wouldn't have missed any one of these but some minor changes to the tours themselves would help with the enjoyment!

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