8 Day "Tee Off" North Island Scenic Golf
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Day 1: Arrive Auckland
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- Highlights: Arrive Auckland, pick up your rental car at the Auckland Airport branch and make your way downtown to enjoy the waterfront and sights of this very cosmopolitan and vibrant city.
Day 2: Auckland - Paihia
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- Highlights: Pick up your rental car then travel north to Dargaville and continue to the Waipoua Kauri Forest and see 1000 year old giant Kauri trees. Day ends at Paihia in the beautiful Bay of Islands for the next 2 nights.
Driving time: Auckland to Paihia 6 hours (via Waipoua Forest).
Auckland to Paihia driving time: approx. 3 hours, 15 mins
Day 3: Bay of Islands (golf at Waitangi)
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- Highlights: A short 5 minute drive to Waitangi Golf Club to play 18 holes. Plan on an 8.30am tee off. Be back in Paihia in time to enjoy a 1.35pm departure on the Hole in the Rock dolphin cruise. Your boxed picnic lunch will be waiting for you on board.
Day 4: Paihia - North Shore/Auckland (golf at Gulf Harbour - optional)
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- Highlights: Drive south via Whangarei to the beautiful Hibiscus Coast for a round at Gulf Harbour Country Club (optional). Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr and scene of the 1998 World Cup of Golf, this course has magnificent ocean-front holes and spectacular coastal views. If you’re not playing golf, then relax and enjoy the tranquil Bay of Islands before driving south this afternoon. Stay tonight at beautiful Takapuna on the North Shore.
Paihia to North Shore driving time: approx. 3 hours
Day 5: North Shore/Auckland - Wairakei/Taupo
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- Highlights: Travel south via Auckland to the rolling green farmland of the Waikato. Perhaps stop for lunch at Rotorua, one of New Zealand Maori cultural centres. Destination today is the thermal region of Wairakei.
North Shore to Rotorua driving time: approx. 3 hours, 10 mins
Rotorua to Wairakei driving time: approx. 1 hour
Day 6: Wairakei (golf at Wairakei)
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- Highlights: Play a round of golf on the world-renowned Wairakei International Golf Course, set on 450 acres of gentle countryside. We suggest a morning tee off, then spend the afternoon sightseeing around the Lake Taupo area. Perhaps enjoy a luxurious soak in the De Brett Thermal Pools.
Day 7: Taupo/Wairakei - Auckland
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- Highlights: Morning at leisure to enjoy the alpine lake environment. Trout fishing is popular here ~ perhaps consider an early start and head out on a fishing charter to catch a few of your own! This afternoon, drive back north through Tokaroa in the heart of the Kaimai-Mamaku Forest Park to Tirau and on to Auckland. Drop off your rental car on arrival.
Wairakei to Auckland driving time: approx. 3 hours, 30 mins
Day 8: Depart Auckland
- Highlights: Enjoy time at leisure until you drop off your rental car at Auckland Airport on departure.
Fares and Pricing
Tour Code: G6TO
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Prices valid from 01 Oct 2018 to 30 Sep 2020 and are priced in NZD per person (based on 2 people travelling together).
Includes:
- 7 nights' accommodation as specified, or similar
- Green fees for 2 rounds of golf at the courses indicated, or similar (please note that green fees are non refundable)
- 8 day rental car hire in an intermediate vehicle for 2 people travelling, with unlimited kms and standard insurance (with excess)
- Hole in the Rock dolphin cruise including a boxed picnic lunch
- Complimentary ticket wallet with your travel vouchers and driving maps
Includes:
- 7 nights' accommodation as specified, or similar
- Green fees for 2 rounds of golf at the courses indicated, or similar (please note that green fees are non refundable)
- 8 day rental car hire in an intermediate vehicle for 2 people travelling, with unlimited kms and standard insurance (with excess)
- Hole in the Rock dolphin cruise including a boxed picnic lunch
- Complimentary ticket wallet with your travel vouchers and driving maps

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