Our Customer Reviews

Six months ago I made a decicion to travel NZ which was the best decicion ever! Amazing country with nice people and stunning landscape!

Kiwi Experience is amazing, the best way to experience NZ for the first time you see and learn so much. Our driver Ben was an absolute champ though, try and get in his bus.

Spent the best month on the kiwi experience, met some great drivers and friends I now consider family.

I'm happy that I did the Kiwi Experience because I met so many awesome people and got to see parts of NZ that I might have missed if I was on my own

It was just The best Travel thing ever and i have never met so many new people

Best way to see NZ, meet amazing people and do everything tot want to do!

Fantastic! Very well organised... I travelled in the winter so it was not too busy. I loved the hop on- hop off system and it worked very well.

8 hour trek doing the tongariro crossing, one of the hardest and most rewarding activities on the kiwi bus!

I purchased the Rangi pass before I started travelling. My first trip with Kiwi was up to the bay of islands. Jarrad- the driver was very knowledgeable and its was a good start to the Kiwi experience. From then I stayed on the bus doing all the North Island and the south as far as Kaikora. Positives- good way to see NZ if short on time or solo traveller Good offers on activities and the range offered is good- something for everything Negatives- relies too much on base hostels (often not the best deal), sometimes its like being on a school trip (though many people are young so maybe thats the reason) There are a couple of stops that don't quite make sense. For example- Wellington- you get to Wellington late and leave early the next morning Wellington is a nice city and worth spending half a day or a couple of days there. From Wellington you get the ferry and go to Kaiteriteri which is also a really nice place but again you don't get a lot of time there. From there you go to Westport which is not a nice place and the activities were called off- because it is winter. No idea why the stop is there. It would make more sense in the winter to go cross the ferry in the afternoon stay overnight in Picton and then go to Kaiteriteri and skip Westport. I stayed in Picton and it was lovely- good hikes and things to do. In Wanaka you stop at puzzling world for 1hr30. 10 mins down the road there is a shooting range and mini golf, driving range. This would be a much better stop giving people the opportunity to do more activities. Rob was the driver for the most part of my trip- he was great, informative without talking too much and was a good laugh. I also liked Sparrow and Jarrad. I had James for the beginning of my trip- he was lovely and would do anything to help you he just needs to chill out a little. He obviously knows the job and NZ but he's quite forgetful so he is very off and on the mic with bits he forgot

Great mode of transport but sadly drivers push too much information/activities on the road. Plus most kiwi drivers are very rude and cocky!!