Group Vacation Review: New Zealand Luxury 2-Week Trip, Heli-Hike Franz-Josef Glacier Experience, Hangi Feast & Village Culture Tour

My husband and I travelled with 3 other couples to New Zealand for 2 weeks.  Our travel advisor from this tour company did an excellent job arranging out entire trip.  I initially communicated by email with our advisor to get an idea of an itinerary our group would be happy with.  Then I went back to the group, we researched the activities/cities we wanted to do and also looked at accomodations the travel advisor suggested for us.  As we narrowed down our choices, our advisor spent quite a bit of time on the phone with me as I told her the more ideal itinerary and accomodations.  We had several changes along the way, particularly when it came to accomodations and the fact we would be travelling to NZ when it would be very busy there.  But our advisor accommodated us all along the way which resulted in the itinerary we wanted and reservations in the hotels we were happy with.  Let me tell you, it is not easy to have the patience working with a group of 8 professionals, almost all type A, most of us having fairly extensive worldwide travel experience and be pleased with a trip as we all were.  She gave us good pointers about not renting a car and driving in NZ; all the drivers we had were very professional, competent drivers and somewhat of a tour guide in the cities they drove us to.