Stevensons Island Cruise and Nature Walk: 2-Hour Luxury Cruise to Scenic Wanaka Island

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Wānaka

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Embark on a 2-hour luxury cruise to Stevensons Island, where you’ll enjoy stunning mountain scenery, a guided nature walk, and photo opportunities. Relax on a comfortable catamaran and indulge in complimentary refreshments. Don’t miss the happy hour at the licensed bar!

Duration: 2 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Lake Wanaka - Cruise on Lake Wanaka NZ to Stevensons Island for a guided nature walk.

What's Included

Local guide
Afternoon tea
All taxes, fees and handling charges
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Cruise and guided Island walk
Tea and coffee
Department of Conservation Park fees

What's Not Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Additional Information

Enjoy a 2 hour small group cruise and nature walk to Stevensons island. Once aboard the luxury catamaran, guests will relax in comfort and enjoy a 45 minute cruise among spectacular mountain scenery followed by a guided tour to the island summit with outstanding photo opportunities. Once back to your vessel enjoy complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits…

Location

Wanaka Lakefront

Ardmore Street

At the lake front near 100 Ardmore St directly across the road from the Wanaka iSite.

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

4.7

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Richard_w

Oct 8, 2024

Excellent cruise to protected island - Enjoyed the cruise with friendly crew and they were also very knowledgeable about the area. The walk to the top of the island was interesting

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Helenrawlinson

Jul 13, 2024

Great afternoon - Beautiful scenery for two hours, glassy lake, tour leader knowledgeable, nice little walk hot coffee/ milo and biscuits

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Kevin_j

May 24, 2024

Great views great value for the money - Great value for money! It is only 2 hours but we had a spectacular day with the weather. Great crew!

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Sarah_o

Apr 15, 2024

Enjoyable boat tour - The captain and first mate were great! Could walk around the boat, buy a drink at the on-boat bar, and enjoy the sites on the ride over. Disembarked and took a short walk up to a view point. Back on the boat for complementary biscuits and tea for the ride back. Would recommend.

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Lucy

Apr 10, 2024

Beautiful day, fab cruise - Booked online, then the next day hopped on the boat, looking forward to a peaceful cruise on Lake Wanaka. The weather was perfect, sun, blue skies, water reflecting the sky, great visibility. It’s a fairly small catamaran, think there were a max of 18 of us and we all found a place to sit and enjoy the rays and tranquillity. After 45 mins we alighted at Stevensons Island, and followed the guide up to the top of the hill. It’s a pretty easy 15 min walk, gentle slope up, with only a couple of rocky/steepish parts that I needed a stable husband to support me with. Lovely view from the top, so worth the short hike. There’s a loo onboard and on the return trip we were served a cuppa and biscuits. Perfect. A lovely two hour excursion which l would highly recommend.

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764delwynb

Nov 13, 2023

Definitely recommend this trip - Weather was perfect - sea was very calm. Our sea captain and tour guide were very friendly and knowledgeable. Idyllic 45 minute trip each way to the island, with time on the island for a comfortable walk to a lookout. Drink and biscuits were supplied on the way back to the marina

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Martinwm7617nm

Jul 12, 2023

Very pleasant cruise. - A very pleasant cruise across Lake Wanaka surrounded by stunning scenery, followed by an informative short nature walk to the top of Stevenson Island. Highly recommended.

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Jill_k

Feb 26, 2023

Safe, interesting, great hosts. - The hosts Reon and Adrian were very attentive, knowledgeable, funny and embraced all the cultures on the boat. It was quite rough out in the open but Reon navigated it all expertly. The walk up the island was awesome, just enough puff to let us know we had had a workout. Magnificent views and interesting stories. It was a fun, informative comfortable afternoon followed by a welcome cuppa on the way back.

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Bookwormkarin

Apr 17, 2024

Relaxing Way to Discover Lake Wanaka - A wonderfully relaxing cruise on a beautiful ship. The guide was a little too fast for my liking (it was hard for some of the group memembers to keep up with him), but he was very knowledgeable on the flora and fauna of the island. There were even tea and busicuits on the way back to Wanaka. On the whole, a very enjoyable way to discover more about the lake and its islands.

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Bhavdeep_g

Jan 11, 2024

Island cruise and nature walk - Practically, just boat ride. No history while en route. Walked at the claim is just a short walk and our guide had no knowledge of the vegetation around us. He did try to explain Manuka and Kanuka trees, but did not know much, and he admitted that. Tea and biscuits on the way back were ok, regular butter cookies and nothing special about that. No need to spend the kind of money on this boat ride. I’m writing review for that cruise and nature walk. No need to spend so much money on this boat ride.

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