Hell's Gate Geothermal Walk: Active Geothermal Reserve Tour in New Zealand

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Rotorua

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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

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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.

What's Included

Option for either a guided or self-guided geothermal walk

What's Not Included

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…

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.

Customer Ratings

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730atousay

Dec 7, 2024

Definitely recommended - This spa and Geotechnical park is amazing. Thanks to our lively tour guide Ivee for the amazing introduction around the park and for even letting me use her phone to keep taking my photos wjen my phone died and teaching us about Maori's culture. She is the best. All other staff were so helpful too. Amazing experience in mud spa. Definitely recommended.

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Les_b

Nov 18, 2024

Nice day out. - Excellent tour guide who was very knowledgeable and well spoken. Easy walk with plenty to see. Guide took time to answer all questions and ensured a very pleasant experience.

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Eric

Nov 17, 2024

Relaxing spa and informative geothermal walk - The hot springs were quite relaxing and the mud bath soothing. The self guided walk was well organized and signed. There is a shuttle from the information center out couple times a day

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Katherine_s

Oct 23, 2024

A great way to see and learn about the geothermal landscape - Very dramatic landscape, well sign-posted. The extra walk through the forest was a lovely addition - so beautiful. We enjoyed the carving at the end.

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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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Brigittems3241ir

Nov 18, 2024

Expensive fun - Actually a nice, interesting trip, just hopelessly overpriced. Another problem: My silver jewelry has turned black. I put my necklace back on about 2 days later (so not worn in the bathroom), my bangle only about 4 weeks later.

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