Top Things to Do in Christchurch - Christchurch Attractions
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Things to Do in Christchurch
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Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Christchurch Gondola, Nature & Wildlife Areas, City Tours. For personalised recommendations, try our AI trip-planning product.
Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Christchurch Gondola, Nature & Wildlife Areas, City Tours. For personalised recommendations, try our AI trip-planning product.
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- fromper adult$390
On the Waterfromper adult$120
Bus Toursfromper adult$40- fromper adult$135
Theme Park Tickets and Toursfromper adult$64- fromper adult$220
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Observation Decksfromper adult$42
Tranquil botanical space with diverse flora, themed gardens, and scenic walking trails. Highlights include rose and dahlia displays, a lake with wildlife, and areas for peaceful picnics.
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Mountain-top attraction with 360° views, historical exhibits, and scenic trails. Features a café and a well-stocked gift shop amidst panoramic city and harbor vistas.
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Historical trams traverse the city's main sights, providing a hop-on-hop-off service for flexible exploration, complemented by driver-narrated local insights.
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Nature & Wildlife Areas
Admission tickets from $35
Wildlife reserve hosts rare species like kiwi in a nocturnal setting, interactive encounters with farm and native animals, and seasonal baby animal viewing.
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Speciality Museums
Interactive museum dedicated to earthquake history with emotive personal stories and engaging exhibits. Allocate 1.5-2 hours to explore the moving, educational displays.
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Tranquil urban park with diverse flora, walking paths, and cycling routes, highlighted by a scenic botanical garden and a weekly farmers' market.
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History Museums
Military Museums
Interactive aviation museum with a vast array of historical aircraft, engaging exhibits, and a flight simulator, ideal for history enthusiasts and families.
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Scenic Walking Areas
Nature & Wildlife Areas
Wildlife park featuring unique animal encounters including giraffe feeding and a safari ride, with spacious enclosures and a conservation focus.
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- Raman GNoida, India604 contributionsMust visit in Summers. Very well maintained. A lot of flowers. Rose Garden excellent. Took a caterpillar tour first, 30 $ pp. Then walked around on r own. It is quite large. On one side is the Avon River. Their cafe is also good.Written 3 January 2025This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- TravelingMomGrandmaHouston, TX1,093 contributionsWe purchased this with the Hop On Tram but easily bought at the Gondola.
The views are great, even sheep grazing on the mountain side.
You can read the history after you are at the top.
If shopping for gifts, the prices in the gift shop are fair.
There is also a cafe at the top too.
Only drawback if taking a shuttle, the city buses run much faster.Written 18 January 2025This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Phil NCootamundra, Australia312 contributionsWith our friends we enjoyed exploring Christchurch on these old trams - some originally from Sydney. The old advertising from yesteryear that was still in some carriages added to the charm. We first did a full lap of the city then returned top various locations we chose to get off at.
The staff were friendly and informative, and all in all a memorable day was had.Written 8 June 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Alanna W2 contributionsThe staff were really helpful, giving lots of interesting facts. It was a great day out with lots to do and see for the whole family. The backstage penguin experience was wonderful to see the penguins up close and hear all the information on the penguins including work being done in the wild to protect them.Written 23 June 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- Sandy WVancouver, Canada1,803 contributionsWe spent several hours walking on the wooden and dirt paths slowly throughout the park. What a delight it was! There are birds everywhere. And not just sparrows. There are attractive and easy to read signs all over the place detailing the unique animal species that are located at Willowbank. There are pond areas and water areas everywhere.
It was a delight to see the children feeding the eels as soon as you walk into the park after paying admission. We caught the latter part of the magic show and loved it. There is a small little-used lunch area with picnic tables behind the magic show, and adjoining the toilets.
A great place for families. Easy to walk. Children love the smaller and larger animals, Especially the birds that are often roaming freely.
You can purchase a bag of small food to feed the birds and also a different bag of larger food pellets to feed the larger animals such as the deer. Make sure to purchase these small white bags when you buy your admission as they are not available elsewhere in the park.
And, yes, we were able to spot two kiwis in the darkened kiwi shelter. It was magical.
Thank you, Willowbank, for a delightful day. Please give me a link if you find this review helpful. You can also look for reviews that I have written for Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington as well as Brisbane.Written 16 January 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Shane CWatsonia, Australia63 contributionsThe devastating effects of the earthquake are everywhere to be seen in Christchurch. The clip of a man walking past a building and then 10 seconds later it in rocked to the ground is extraordinary. Glad we did go as we learnt a lot about Christchurch's history. But the cost is way over the top for a family.Written 9 January 2025This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- Lenny HAuckland, New Zealand1,035 contributionsDon’t just visit the botanic gardens. The park,is so much larger than that. Lots of places to walk. Many park benches, both in the sun and shade.Written 31 October 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- Robert DBrooklyn, New York5,234 contributionsThe upper floor at COCA is now the temporary home of the Canterbury Museum. They are rebuilding the museum buildings and will not complete the project until 2028. In the meantime, they are using the upper floor of COCA to house two exhibits. "Form & Fire: Celebrating Local Pottery" features pottery made in Canterbury over the past 60 years. The other exhibit is highlights from their permanent collection, such as a South Island Giant Moa leg bone. The moa was a huge flightless bird that was hunted to extinction by the Maori (indigenous inhabitants). The highlights exhibit shows the variety of the permanent collection. I'm looking forward to seeing the new permanent building's exhibits.Written 7 January 2025This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- Robert DBrooklyn, New York5,234 contributionsI spent the afternoon at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand. A memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the New Zealand Air Force marks the street that leads to the museum. Above the entrance hall, there is a replica of a Blériot XI-2 monoplane, which, in 1909, was the first plane to fly across the English Channel. The elevator is also an exhibit. It is the cockpit of an RNZAF Boeing P-8A Poseidon.
New Zealand's fastest jet is the McDonnell Douglas Skyhawk TA-4K, 1969. Sergeant Ron Hermanns made examples of trench art while serving in the Pacific during World War II. You can also see a Douglas C-47B Dakota, 1945, which served as the flagship for the Queen's Royal Tour in 1953.
This is an extensive museum, with lots to see. I highly recommend a visit.Written 8 January 2025This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
