Waitomo Caves & Te Puia Rotorua Small Group Day Tour

Hanoz was our guide. He made the 8 in the group introduced ourselves. I enjoyed the caves mostly. My son loves the geysers. Anyway, I love that they were generous with their bottled drinking water and snacks. Their transport allows you to charge your phones. The ostrich feeding experience was fun.

The only downside of this tour is the early 5:45 am pickup, which can be tiring. However, you can sleep on the bus 💤, as the journey is quite long, allowing you to rest. The destination includes three attractions. The first one, where you must see the fireflies, is worth visiting. The second attraction is the indigenous people's handicraft school, where you can also see New Zealand's Kiwi bird. The third attraction is the sulfur eruption, which is also worth seeing and can give you skin that looks 20 years younger! 👍🏾 Overall, it's quite comfortable, with transportation provided throughout, as well as coffee shop stops for rest, snacks, and restroom breaks! The vehicle itself can accommodate 11 people, so it's comfortable if the group is small. The tour guide and driver are the same person (GRANT). He clearly guides you to the attractions, specifying departure and meeting times! He explains what's fun about the attractions. Additionally, he provides information on the bus, pointing out and describing the local scenery. 👍🏾 I think this Klook tour is great; the small group size is perfect! It's also very punctual!

Super fun tour! We had Dave as our guide and he was really efficient and knowledgeable about everything, and also brought us to spots that weren't part of the original tour since we had extra time! Dave also provided us bottled water and snacks and helped us take photos throughout the tour. Would love to travel with him again :)

Totally great tour!! We went to not only scheduled spot like Waitomo cave, Te Puia and Rotorua but also suspension bridge, feeding a ostrich, and Tip Top ice cream. The driver Jeff guided New Zealand while driving. The tour schedule was not too tough. I thought the tour price is pretty expensive at first, but I definitely experienced valuable things.

I had a lovely tour with our tour guide Michael who was very engaged and friendly. He was knowledgeable about the culture and shared lots of interesting facts with us. The transfer to different sites was smooth and easy. The morning drive out to our first site was so beautiful as we were able to catch the sunrise. Out of the two places, my favourite was the glow worm caves - highly recommend!!! The limestone “cathedral” was a sight to remember and the glow worms were truly magical. No photos allowed until the end but was still able to catch some on camera. We learned a lot about Moari culture, how they live and respect the land. We were able to get some food on the way as well - a quick pie stop in the morning and also a cafe at Te Puia in the afternoon for a quick bite before the second tour started. Not too much traffic and we ended the tour on time, dropped off at the our different pick up spots. Overall, a great experience and grateful to Michael for the lovely chat the entire ride!

it’s was a long trip but very unique. I appreciate the driver and the whole process was smooth from pick up to drop off. join this if you are solo traveler and want to experience cultures and nature outside Auckland

Really good and informative guide and overall flow was really good. Although at times it was quite rushed because we had places to get to. Just a heads up. But was worth it as it is pretty difficult to finish this itinerary on your own.

Pick-up was there at meet up point as scheduled. Waitomo Cave is really one of a kind with the glow worms and it's a very surreal experience! Also got to see an actual Kiwi Bird at Te Puia. Wasn't fortunate enough to see geyser activities much, though. Overall, worth it experience for the price and convenience.

My tour guide and driver was amazing. Very organised and gave lots of interesting and relavant information including historical, geograpgic and cutural. He was clear about where we were going, what to expect and where and how to meet up again. He made sure we were comfortable, had snacks and water if needed and negotiated comfort abd other interesting stops too. The caves were amazing and the Rotorua visit was incredible. Both had well informed and excellent local guides. Rotorua was on my bucket list since a child and it didn't disappoint. There was lots of additional Maori cutural knowledge, history and customs shared as well. Thank you.

Coach/Driver Mike is very friendly and informative, providing us lots of information and brought us to a very good resto for lunch. The wormcave and te puia were worth to visit!