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Hell's Gate Geothermal Walk: Active Geothermal Reserve Tour in New Zealand
4.6
70 Ratings
Rotorua
Experience the power of nature on the Hell’s Gate Geothermal Walk in New Zealand. Walk among erupting waters, mud volcanoes, and land coral. Get your hands dirty in a healing mud foot pool and learn about Maori carving.
Experience the power of nature on the Hell’s Gate Geothermal Walk in New Zealand. Walk among erupting waters, mud volcanoes, and land coral. Get your hands dirty in a healing mud foot pool and learn about Maori carving.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Hell’s Gate Geothermal Reserve & Mud Spa - Take a guided or self-guided tour of New Zealand’s most active geothermal reserve, walking amongst erupting waters, an active mud volcano and land coral. Experience getting your hands and feet dirty in our healing mud foot pool or try your hand at MÄori carving. You’ll soon discover the legends and myths behind Hell’s Gate.
- Hell’s Gate Geothermal Reserve & Mud Spa - Take a guided or self-guided tour of New Zealand’s most active geothermal reserve, walking amongst erupting waters, an active mud volcano and land coral. Experience getting your hands and feet dirty in our healing mud foot pool or try your hand at MÄori carving. You’ll soon discover the legends and myths behind Hell’s Gate.
What's Included
- Option for either a guided or self-guided geothermal walk
- Option for either a guided or self-guided geothermal walk
What's Not Included
- Bathe in Mud Bath & Sulphur Spas
- Food & Drink
- Bathe in Mud Bath & Sulphur Spas
- Food & Drink
Additional Information
Take a guided or self-guided tour of New Zealand’s most active geothermal reserve, where you can walk among erupting waters, an active mud volcano, and land coral. Get hands-on and try Māori carving, uncovering the legends and myths behind Hell’s Gate.
Complimentary guided tours are available daily. For the latest departure times, please visit the Hell’s…
Take a guided or self-guided tour of New Zealand’s most active geothermal reserve, where you can walk among erupting waters, an active mud volcano, and land coral. Get hands-on and try Māori carving, uncovering the legends and myths behind Hell’s Gate.
Complimentary guided tours are available daily. For the latest departure times, please visit the Hell’s Gate website.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- You must be able to walk on unpaved or uneven terrain.
Location
351 State Highway 30
State Highway 30
Hell's Gate is located just outside of Rotorua's city centre. From the city simply travel east on State Highway 30. At approximately 5 minutes past the airport, you will turn right towards Whakatane. Hell's Gate is 3kms down this road.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(70 Ratings)
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Marianal478
Oct 10, 2024
Very interesting - The tour is super nice, Luke our guide was very engaging and gave us plenty of information. We not only learned about the reserve, but also about Māori culture, and some fun facts about New Zealand’s nature and history. Top experience.
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Dream64539003291
Sep 19, 2024
Beautiful place - A beautiful walk, so many different things in one spot! We missed the guided tour by an hour but managed to catch up to one and stuck with them. The tour guide Luke was very informative and nice. He even gave us some special mud to try on the walk, which I swear worked wonders on my acne scarred skin. Either that mud or the mud spa mud, who’s to say. Either way, super cool and learned some interesting stuff while also seeing some interesting sights.
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Amerdeeps2014
Sep 13, 2024
Great - I did the guarded walk and also the mud bath. Firstly, the guy did walk was with a gentleman called Liam who was really really great. Stop. He was so informative and funny that it really made the walk. So fantastic. This is definitely a place to visit and the mud bath was just superb.
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Cjpe60
Sep 11, 2024
Amazing guided walk - A brilliant place to go especially the guided walk, our guide was very knowledgeable. It took nearly 2 hours but so much awesome information. We would have just walked right past many of the areas of interest. The wood carving was fun as well, your own little carving to take home.
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Dreamer09512748994
Aug 29, 2024
Walking trip - The whole trip is so fascinating although one should be aware that this is actually more than an hour walk. The wood carving station is also fantastic!
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D1494omdc
Aug 27, 2024
Fantastic!! - Completely worth booking the tour through the Geothermal Reserve. Our guide, Luuk was amazing! He had a great sense of humor and a lot of knowledge. We learned a lot from him. He was also very patient with our questions and took the time to take pictures for us. You can do the tour without a guide but the guide adds so much more to the experience.
The mud bath was an amazing experience. It was very relaxing. Also in August there are less tourists, so we basically had the bath to ourselves! I think during summer it is much, much busier! You can shower in private showers near the baths instead of the open change rooms (I did not like the open change rooms).
The employees are all very helpful and pleasant.
We used old bathing suits for the mud bath and disposed of them afterwards. Some people say the smell lingers on your skin for days, but we did not find it stayed for more than a day.
Overall a great experience and we would do it again if we come back to New Zealand.
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208shanaem
Aug 16, 2024
Not to be missed - Definitely worth the guided tour! Really beautiful to look at and enjoyed learning about the facts and stories told with it from our amazing guide Luke! Special mention to Luke he made the experience 10x better. We enjoyed do the woodwork shop afterwards I didn't get the older gentleman's name but he was also wonderful to interact with. It was an afternoon/evening we will remember fondly ☺️ all the staff were friendly, welcoming and approachable, but those two gentleman stood out to us. Then doing the mud bath and spas with a cold plunge *optional* was very relaxing with a stunning view. Can't recommend enough!!!!
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Venture602822
Jul 30, 2024
Geothermal guided tour - We attended the guided tour of the geothermal reserve and I could not rate this experience enough. Our guide (with the very long name ) was fantastic with a rich knowledge of the Maori culture. The mud spa was also a fabulous place to relax and unwind.
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Pualelew
Jul 28, 2024
Amazing - The size of the activity was impressive. Large areas of geothermal activity. Of special interest was the bush walk and the sulphur effect on the trees. Well worth the cost. Enjoyed the ambience😊 Should be advertised locally
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Samantha_d
Jul 6, 2024
Don’t miss this - It was well worth waiting for the guided tour! We had T as our guide and he was wonderful! Full of so much great information and very funny. Thanks T!!
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