Cycle Journeys West Coast
Cycle Journeys West Coast
Cycle Journeys West Coast
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Cycle Journeys is your local cycle tour operator living by the matra we know: we care. We personlise your cycling adventure on the West Coast Wilderness Trail. Our services include bike hire, shuttles, luggage transfers, accommodation and activity bookings. We are proud that our first class service reflects in our Qualmark Gold and the TripAdvisor Excellence status.
Hokitika, New Zealand
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Apr 2024 • Friends
Outstanding service from the Cycle Journeys West Coast team when we had our van relocated whilst riding the West Coast Wilderness Trail earlier this month. Excellent communication, efficient, friendly & knowledgeable team. We made use of the great changing rooms & facilities in Greymouth when collecting our vehicle. Very impressed!
Written 18 April 2024
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Robin Capper
Auckland, New Zealand30 contributions
Mar 2022
I booked the West Coast Wilderness Trail with CJ as part of a larger trip. I had my own bike but noted their rental fleet was a good mix of quality 'ambient' and e-bikes. The trip and logistics were handled perfectly, great staff with a wealth of local knowledge and a few off-trail excursions added a great deal of value to the short shuttle legs. Their accommodation partners were brilliant, and I stayed with one pre/post trip.
The trail is easy riding with fantastic scenery and packed with history. Don't let the relatively short daily distances deceive, there is so much to experience you will have no problem filling the day.
The trail is easy riding with fantastic scenery and packed with history. Don't let the relatively short daily distances deceive, there is so much to experience you will have no problem filling the day.
Written 28 April 2022
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ruth5ofus
Launceston, Australia20 contributions
Jan 2023
We did the Big Day Out and it was one of those experiences we will always treasure. The ride gave a taster of all of the best of the variety of NZ terrain: bubbling streams, man-made races full of gold mining history, rivers, weirs, bridges, different rain forests, mountain meadows alive with wild flowers, a stunning lake, coastal views, and all in the shadow of NZ’s majestic mountains towering overhead. Cycle journeys made this not only possible, with limited time in NZ, but highly enjoyable. The bikes came with everything we needed and were in top condition. We were given a quick and informative tour of the area while we were taken to the start of the ride, which also gave us a starting elevation that we didn’t need to ride. The Big Day Out is designed to encompass one and a half sections of the wilderness section of the West Coast track and making use of e-bikes meant we could fully enjoy the ride. We loved dipping our feet in the river, and swimming at Hans Bay which was just stunning! The ice-cream van there was a bonus! We had more than enough battery to crank up to full for the last part when we were tired. (Although most of the section from the lake was downhill back into Hokitika), and rode along the coast a little way at Hokitika before returning the bikes. Overall I couldn’t rank Cycle Journeys more highly!
Written 4 January 2023
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Thank you for your heartwarming review :)
Written 22 January 2023
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TRUDY V
1 contribution
Dec 2021
Every day was different terrain and scenery. The track was in great condition and the staff at the Hokitika branch were amazing - went over and above our expectations and we learnt so much about the area on our van trips out to the start of the tracks from Mike one of the awesome van drivers. Would recommend Cycle Journeys to everyone - great value, great service and just the best time - just what we needed after 4 months of lockdown!! Thank you all so much.
Written 27 December 2021
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TonyM
6 contributions
Jan 2023
The whole experience was one to be savoured- the weather was beautiful, the company great and the WC Wilderness Trail is a wonderful ride, not too physical but the forest is beautiful and stunning, especially round Lake Kaniere which is a scenic reserve and if you go there do the Kahikatea Walk, beautiful original trees and birds singing all over the place.
Cycle Journeys were helpful and their bikes are mint and beautifully maintained. The crew at Cycle Journeys looked after us and we'd thoroughly recommend them. Great folks.
Cycle Journeys were helpful and their bikes are mint and beautifully maintained. The crew at Cycle Journeys looked after us and we'd thoroughly recommend them. Great folks.
Written 30 January 2023
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Gillian W
2 contributions
Jul 2022
I have cycled around much of Te Waipounamu as a young adult in the late 1970s. Revisiting some of these places through riding the West Coast Wilderness Trail was awesome! The Trail is beautifully constructed following upgraded existing features - a disused railway line, tramways, bush tramways for log extraction, water races, and little used farm roads, as well as being built from scratch in many places. The bush, shrublands, wetlands, coastline and mountains are stunning. The gold and coal mining and timber extracting history is fascinating. The storyboards and signage is great. We thought that cycling the Trail in the winter was like the West Coast's best kept secret! We wore several layers and were prepared for rough weather, but the weather was great. Thank you for giving us such a wonderful experience.
Written 15 July 2022
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KellyNewZealand
New Zealand58 contributions
Feb 2023 • Friends
We have just finished the West Coast Wilderness Trail with Cycle Journeys and had a ball.
The team at Cycle Journeys could not have done a better job. We were a bit of a complicated group and they handled all our requests with no issues. The team at the base were super friendly giving us our daily overviews, fitting our bikes, answering all our requests and having plenty of laughs with us. The drivers were brilliant, sharing many stories of the region with us. The accommodation partners were great, as were the tourist partners at West Coast Scenic Waterways.
The West Coast Wilderness Trail is magic. It’s a combination of bush tracks, roadways, swing bridges, board walks and gravel roads providing lots of variety to suit everyone.
I will recommend Cycle Journeys to everyone and we are already looking to see when we can do A2O with them. Thanks for providing this group with an awesome holiday.
The team at Cycle Journeys could not have done a better job. We were a bit of a complicated group and they handled all our requests with no issues. The team at the base were super friendly giving us our daily overviews, fitting our bikes, answering all our requests and having plenty of laughs with us. The drivers were brilliant, sharing many stories of the region with us. The accommodation partners were great, as were the tourist partners at West Coast Scenic Waterways.
The West Coast Wilderness Trail is magic. It’s a combination of bush tracks, roadways, swing bridges, board walks and gravel roads providing lots of variety to suit everyone.
I will recommend Cycle Journeys to everyone and we are already looking to see when we can do A2O with them. Thanks for providing this group with an awesome holiday.
Written 11 February 2023
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The-Huttons
Wellington, New Zealand12 contributions
Dec 2020
We booked our extended West Coast Wilderness Trail trip before Covid. But the Australians had to cancel so just 6 of us aged 7 - 75! Cycle Journeys adjusted our plan. All their suggestions were, even with hindsight, extremely sensible such as staying mostly at Scenic Waterways, and being shuttled to Ross and also Cowboy Paradise from Hokitika. The six bikes we hired performed perfectly - and the Hokitika staff were all very helpful, even when we were latish getting back!
Written 3 January 2021
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Thanks for your review! We're so glad you were finally able to experience the beautiful West Coast Wilderness Trail with us.
Written 6 January 2021
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Anne C
4 contributions
Nov 2022
Had a great week cycling the trail even though the weather was wet and wild. Clair and her team at Cycle Journeys made our experience sooo enjoyable and we cant recommend them highly enough. Many thanks guys, hope to return again, Bruce & Anne
Written 5 November 2022
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Thank you for your kind words and we are stoked to hear you had a great time :)
Written 13 November 2022
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Vicky B
Napier, New Zealand9 contributions
Dec 2020
Cycle Journeys did a fantastic job of organising our trip. Very efficient during planning and also when we arrived. We would highly recommend them.
The scenery was amazing and the tracks very well sign posted.
We really enjoy our stops at the Treetop Walkway and also would recommend a trip to the Hokitika Gorge. Our last stop at Monteith Brewery in Greymouth
Our accommodation was great, and food was excellent.
The night at Cowboys Paradise was a bit "different" but rooms were clean and we were well feed.
We were all 60-65yr and reasonably fit, two of us rode e-bikes which I would recommend (unless you're really fit)there some big hills and it made our trip much more enjoyable.
Highly recommend doing this trip.
The scenery was amazing and the tracks very well sign posted.
We really enjoy our stops at the Treetop Walkway and also would recommend a trip to the Hokitika Gorge. Our last stop at Monteith Brewery in Greymouth
Our accommodation was great, and food was excellent.
The night at Cowboys Paradise was a bit "different" but rooms were clean and we were well feed.
We were all 60-65yr and reasonably fit, two of us rode e-bikes which I would recommend (unless you're really fit)there some big hills and it made our trip much more enjoyable.
Highly recommend doing this trip.
Written 8 December 2020
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Thanks for the wonderful review! It's great to hear that you had such a fantastic time riding the West Coast Wilderness Trail and experiencing what our region has to offer.
Written 6 January 2021
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