Auckland City Guided Tour: Comprehensive Half-Day Exploration in the City of Sails

Experience the best of Auckland on a comprehensive half-day guided tour. Explore the city center, suburbs, and stunning beaches, and enjoy panoramic views from Mt Victoria. Limited to 16 people for a personalized experience.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Queen Street - After pick up from your central Auckland hotel, travel up Queen St - the main street of the city centre and home to iconic buildings and mixture of shops and CBD offices
  • Ponsonby - Continue on through the picturesque suburb of Ponsonby, known for its historic buildings, before heading over the Harbour Bridge to the North Shore….
What's Included
  • Easy walk from the Cruise port at 188 Quay Street (HSBC Tower)
  • Worry-free Shore Excursion Guarantee
  • Local guide
  • Transport by air-conditioned mini-coach
  • Small group tour - max 17 people
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

Explore Auckland’s highlights when your ship docks and discover why it’s called the ‘City of Sails’ on this 3-hour city tour.
This Auckland shore excursion takes you through the city center and nearby suburbs. Journey through inner-city parks with comprehensive commentary from knowledgeable driver guides. Cross the Auckland Harbour Bridge, walk along a…

Location
188 Quay Street
Quay Street
Pick up will be from the bus stop outside the HSBC Building (Stop #1346)), 188 Quay Street, Auckland at 8.50am (located next to MSocial Hotel). Please confirm this with us. (If you are travelling pre or post a cruise please confirm your inner city Auckland accommodation with us for pick up)
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Sharon_h
Feb 12, 2025
Brief but well-done city exploration - Great intro to Auckland! Our guide, Murray, was very knowledgeable and shared lots of information in an easy to follow manner. The van held about 15 people so it was comfortable and very easy to get in and out. We thoroughly enjoyed this tour and give it high marks!
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Nancyhk1278ih
Jan 25, 2025
We enjoyed touring with a small group. - Our tour with Wayne gave us a good overview of Auckland in a short amount of time— a great option for passengers arriving by crisis ship. The meeting place was easy to locate as we left the pier, and we enjoyed touring with a small group rather than the large groups on excursions booked through the cruise lines. Bush and Beaches gave us a great value with our half day tour.
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Billwashingtonstate
Jan 20, 2025
Great introduction to Auckland - Nice introduction to Auckland. Driver was very knowledgeable and friendly. Would definitely recommend if you’re new to Auckland.
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Miriam
Jan 6, 2025
Wonderful experience - Great tour & tour guide, the experience was lovely, the timing for picking me up was excellent, I really love it
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Familyhughes
Jan 2, 2025
Very useful as an... - Very useful as an introduction to the city and our guide was very knowledgeable and also made us feel very welcome as visitors!
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Teaser27
Dec 24, 2024
Fantastic tour with Kelly - Kelly gave us a great tour of the city and surrounds. We saw and learnt so much in the 3 hours. Perfect amount and pacing of information, he is very knowledgeable about the city, people, economy and sights. Good fun and happy to answer any questions along the way. Stopped at really good places for photos, views & coffee. We’ve done quite a few of this type of tour and this was one of the best. Would highly recommend
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Denise_j
Dec 12, 2024
Excellent, tour... - Excellent, tour Instructions on finding the departure point very good easy to find and communicate with the with the company, transport comfortable and guide well versed in the area
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Carol_r
Dec 11, 2024
Informative and interesting tour - We enjoyed our tour with Murray very much. An easy 5 minute walk from the cruise shop pier, and a warm welcome to the comfortable mini bus by Murray. Very impressed with the commentary which was interesting and informative, would highly recommend.
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Bob_b
Dec 20, 2024
Lots of info only a... - Lots of info only a couple of stops but were of no interest to us but our heads were filled with plenty of city information
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David_t
Dec 1, 2024
A great day 1 introduction to Auckland - It turns out Auckland is a lot bigger and hillier than we expected(!) so this was a fabulous way to get to know the city on our first day, while waiting for our accommodation to be ready. The tour gets out to some of the further away suburbs to give you a great understanding of life across the city (including onto the North Shore) and is a handy way of picking up tips about places to go back to and visit when you have more time. Milton (our guide and driver) was hugely knowledgeable and eager to tell stories about the city and country. If you’re already planning on visiting Devenport and some of the other further out parts of the city, this might be a bit surplus to requirements, but anyone wanting a quick grounding in some nice neighbourhoods of Auckland, I’d recommend.
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