Our Customer Reviews

The driver was really funny, the people really nice. It was never boring

My favourite part of kiwi experience was the amount of cool people we met!

I thoroughly enjoyed my time and met some truly amazing people. Some of which i am glad to call my friends and hope to visit in their own countries at some point. The knowledge and understanding form the drivers that i had was second to none. My favorite driver mainly because i spent most of my time with was Wazza. He was outstanding and i am gutted that he has decide to stop. I wish him all the best.

I travelled on the Kiwi bus in April this year on the Zephyr pass & I cannot recommend it enough!! The hostels are great, the activities are amazing & the people you meet make the experience incredible! NZ is an amazing country and Kiwi Experience is a fabulous way to see it... choose Kiwi and you'll have no regrets!

This honestly changed my life.. This was my first time out of the country, all the way from California. I was nervous at first (partly because I was alone) and didn't really know what it was going to be like, but I've made so many life long friends along the way.. I've never met so many awesome people at once. This is the easiest way you could travel, I feel like. Best purchase I've made. New Zealand was incredible, thanks to the Kiwi bus :) I already want to go back!

Fantastic purchase as got to see and do such a huge amount in such a short period of time a journey of a lifetime! Amazing places, activities and people !

Definitely glad I done it, I met so many strangers that now are like best friends and a long with having a great time we explored New Zealand and explored new levels of ourselves we never knew we had

Best experience ever!! Beautiful country made some amazing friends. Best way to see New Zealand by far!!

Good Way to travel around and meet a lot of new people!! You see all the cool places. I would just wish that i have had more time, so i could stay longer!

It's a good way to travel if you are young and with a group and want everything done for you. However the accommodation kiwi stay with is dire and expensive because they can only stay with big hostels eith thr capacity for busloads of kiwi experience people. Smaller hostels are much better, nicer, cleaner and it's easier to meet people as kiwi can be quite cliquey. However if you stay with alternative hostels, ss a solo traveller it is then difficult to hop back on the bus and gel with new people as they're staying together. I would suggest to more independent travellers to just do naked bus or intercity. Another major disadvantage of kiwi is that it is extremely slow getting from A to B, it takes usually an entire day. I found that we pretty much never got to our destination before 4pm, even when starting out at 7am (except Christchurch...but there is absolutely nothing to do there!!) Some of the stops kiwi does along the way for walks etc are good e.g. Lake Matheson, but some are completely and utterly pointless and just a waste of time. It would be better if they focused on getting people to the destination by say midday or 1pm so we could see more of places. Lastly I wouldn't recommend it to people over the age of 23 really as it's more of a pre- (& some post-) uni crowd. Stray would be better for the mid twenties onwards I think, although the accommodation they get is similarly poor.