Hi Lee I am not sure which of our excursions you are specifically asking about as we have several on offer. Most of our tours have some walking throughout the day which are very short and definately not arduos and most of these has somewhere to sit and rest. Maybe let me know exactly which one you are thinking of taking and send me a messagea boutt it and I will answer more in depth to cover your concerns. JanD

Hello--I was on a similar cruise in December. We used Zealandier in Tauranga to go to the thermal areas in Rotarua as well as to Hobbiton and loved the tour. They offer a variety of options but weren't too big like the cruise ship buses. Also recommend reviewing TripAdvisor to see which companies get good reviews in your ports of call. For some things you can probably just do on your own. For example in Akaroa I went on a sea life boat ride. You should be able to book in advance rather than going through the ship. Also recommend perhaps signing up for Cruisecritic as we joined up with others on our cruise for three tours of about 12 people each and they were great tours. Best tour we took though was in Auckland prior to our cruise that I found out about on TripAdvisor. It was called Coast to Coast tours and I just wrote a review of our experience. I highly, highly recommend that tour if you have the time. Have a marvelous cruise!

Hi Larry, Absolutely we can cater for this time discrepancy. We run our tours predominantly to cater for cruise ship clientele, which means we run them to fit in with cruise ships arrival & departures times. If you would like to go ahead and reserve your seats for this tour, we do require that you complete our booking form on our website. Warm regards Sharee