Aoraki/Mount Cook Flight: Scenic Helicopter Tour

Experience Mount Cook’s grandeur and vast glaciers from above. Enjoy an alpine landing and breathtaking views of New Zealand’s highest peak.

Duration: 55 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Aoraki Mount Cook National Park (Te Wahipounamu) - Soar over the Mt Cook National Park and its vast glaciers and snowfields. Experience what it feels like to stand in snow amongst the mountains as you take in a spectacular view of New Zealand’s highest peak, Aoraki/Mount Cook during your snow landing.
  • Blue Lakes and Tasman Glacier walks - See…
What's Included
  • Scenic helicopter flight
  • Pilot guide
  • Alpine Snow Landing
  • See Aoraki/Mount Cook, Tasman Glacier and West Coast Glaciers
  • Goods and Services Tax (GST)
What's Not Included
  • Items of a personal nature
Additional Information

Our premier flight over the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park and its vast glaciers and snowfields. See the ancient waters of the Tasman Glacier lake before flying the length of the Tasman Glacier, New Zealand’s longest glacier. Experience what it feels like to stand in snow amongst the mountains as you take in a spectacular view of New Zealand’s…

Location
The Helicopter Line, Mount Cook
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Graham
Jan 8, 2025
Couldn’t recommend highly enough - Absolutely stunning helicopter ride and Greg the pilot was fantastic. exceptional weather and the landing was amazing
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Kw33mn
Dec 3, 2024
Spectacular Birdseye views - Phenomenal flight. Luck with the weather! Marc was a terrific pilot. Absolutely breathtaking views. Even managed to see climbers!
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Jo2107
Nov 28, 2024
Stunning - Fantastic trip - well worth the money. The pilot was informative and views were spectacular. Got see all the glaciers even though it was a little overcast and the proximity to MT Cook was amazing. We went as a group of 6 but unfortunately due to weight restrictions we couldn't all fly together however the company made sure our snow landing was together - very accomodating.
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David_m
Nov 22, 2024
Great views! - We hiked around the Mt Cook area but decided to take a helicopter to see even more. It was so worth it!
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Elizabethmo7767go
Nov 16, 2024
Incredible experience!! - Top notch experience from start to finish. Our tour had to be shortened due to weather, but the 30 minute tour, including landing on a glacier, was well worth it! Couldn’t stop grinning! Wonderful photos and videos.
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Angel_h
Oct 1, 2024
Pending for refund - Due to weather condition 55 minutes was changed to 45 mins and still not received email for refund. Please advise ASAP. We should refund $200*2=400 for 2 bookings.
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Davidda5611le
Jun 29, 2024
Amazing view - Amazing view surrounded by glacier, we took very beautiful pictures of ourselves. Worth the experience. Highly recommend.
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Go43382746612
May 18, 2024
This trip exceeded our expectations, and great value for money. - Check in was easy and we took of on time. All of the staff were knowledgeable and good communicators. Greg our pilot was very knowledgeable. Happy that our experience exceeded our expectations.
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Krystyna_w
Oct 29, 2024
Frustrating - We had the worst communication and customer service leading up to our booking. Multiple phone calls to change our flight time with various inconsistent reasons. Things like, not meeting minimum numbers, flight over weight, another couple cancelled, ither couple did not arrive, flights are delayed flights are on time etc..after checking and waiting for our booked flight (which was altered 3 times before we arrived) we were told our 55min experience was cancelled. This was after watching 2 other groups who arrived after us board the helicopters in our booking time. We were offered a reduced flight time of 30min as bad weather was setting in, but we walked away very disappointed with our experience. Our originsl time was 3 hours earlier in the day when the skies were crystal clear. We understand the weather can cancel flights but this wasn't our issue.. Staff told us differentl story's, changed reasons making it very frustrating. I would recommend booking with another helicopter company with better service. Which is what we have done.
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Joshua
Apr 13, 2024
Beware of bait and switch and dishonest business practices. - We (family of 4) booked the 55 min tour through a local tour operator in Queenstown and after driving 3 hours to Mt Cook, were told due to weather that only a 40 min option would be available. Before agreeing to the downgrade, we were promised a pro-rated refund on site (Suhas) due to the shorter fight time and missed sights, and to follow up with the local tour operator directly upon return. However, upon returning to Queenstown, the refund we received was unusually small. We asked for an explanation from the tour operator and they said that only a small amount was authorized by The Helicopter Line and that we had to follow up with them directly. Since we could not determine why we received hundreds of dollars less than expected, we asked The Helicopter Line directly for additional details about how our refund was calculated. The Helicopter Line ignored my request for more details (I provided all of the prices from their website to base my prorated refund calculation on) before Hazel finally responded (after yet another email prompting) with simply “this is all we are refunding”. No further explanation, no math, nothing. I asked one more time for details and was ignored. I’ve never written a negative review on TripAdvisor before but in this case, I have the email receipts. Actual trip was fine but hard to enjoy when you are ripped off, especially when you purchased their most expensive trip package. Half a world away I have no further recourse other than to leave a review and warn others. We trusted them to do right by us and they took advantage of us. Highly recommend you book with another provider.
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