Hi, we run these tours as Shore Excursions mainly to fit with cruise ship passengers when visiting port of Tauranga- this does not stop other people joining these tours - but it has to be on a day when a cruise ship is in port and you have to fit with cruise ships timeframes- that being said we have a cruise ship in port on 19th Feb and we currently have a few spaces on the Hobbiton tour. However we possibly wont be able to collect you from your accomodation place due to time contraints to get to Hobbiton to make our tour times. We have a set departure time from outside port of Tauranga main pedestrian gates in Mount Maunganui and sometimes this is not strictly adhered to if cruise ships are late arriving. This is an easy place to access - local busses run & drop close by or Uber is easy also. At end of day we can drop you off if neccessary. Hope this is helpful. Regards Jan .

Hi - just put your bookings in and cross refference them - Once the first booking is in - use the Booking ref# to cross reference adn lead travel name - You cna do this in notes. We will watch out for it now we know - Jan

Hi , I am sorry to say this tour will not be able to be offered , as completion of two attractionons in 2 differing regions is not possible in the time you have available ashore. You cna choose to either visit LOTR / Hobbiton Movie Set tour OR either of the Rotorua tours. Jan

Hi Newhall California - in regards to your question - you are much closer to Hobbiton Movie set from port of Tauranga. It is only just over 1 hours travel from port of Tauranga.

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

Hi Diane , yes we offer this as a private touring option . Here is the link to the tour which we recomend from our website , but you could do this tour with adding in any other Rotorua attraction , which gives you two attractions to experience in one day , making the best use of your time ashore. For more information about this tour - visit our website zealandiertours or send me an email to directly from there to myself Regards Jan

HI Belinda, You can book our tours at anytime, and yes it pays to book well in advance so as not to miss your opportunity as a lot of our tours fully book our early.