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Special Interest Tours

Golf Tours

Wine and Food Tours

Ski Tours

Hiking

Golf Tours

Golf is a particular GSN Pacific strength; come play some of the most spectacular courses in the world. Stay a couple of days and play twice or move on through three, four or five magnificent courses throughout New Zealand.Course names like Gulf Harbour, Clearwater and Millbrook are known throughout the world. They provide the very best of golfing facilities, manicured fairways and true greens, often in a setting that is magnificent, sometimes beside the sea, sometimes with a back-drop of mountains.

Formosa Golf Resort (Auckland)

5,633 metres, designed by New Zealand's most famous golfing hero, Sir Bob Charles. Overlooking Auckland's Waitemata harbour, the course features quite heavily undulating greens and four holes which require negotiating around a lake. A course for positive golf strokes!

Gulf Harbour Country Club (North Auckland)

This is a 5,483 metre course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, the home of the Golf World Cup in 1998. A grand site overlooking the sea, this course is quite spectacular, featuring significant changes in elevation and large, undulating greens.

Clearwater Resort Golf Club (Christchurch)

One of New Zealand's longest courses (6,526 metres) Clearwater is just seven minutes from Christchurch International Airport and is set in country tranquillity with bubbling streams and lakes with trout. The course was designed by Sir Bob Charles and is a challenge for everyone no matter how great or little experience.

Millbrook Resort Golf course (Queenstown)

6,142 metres long, designed by Sir Bob Charles, this course with the majestic and craggy mountains surrounding it is one of breath-taking scenery. The famous par 5 fifth hole includes a dramatic dog-leg around a lake.

GSN Pacific can then produce an itinerary and travel package to suit. Give us your choices on Contact or Enquiry form. Maybe in Auckland, Christchurch or Queenstown.

Wine and Food Tours

Wine is one of New Zealand's most popular exports. We can help you see the vineyards, meet the winemakers, breath the terroir (the natural features which makes wines different from region to region around the world), have special wine tastings and food matches.

New Zealand wine is on a high point, quality wines from Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc to Merlot and Pinot Noir are available in several regions in both the North Island and the South Island. New Zealand exports wines to 70 different countries and is well known not for cheap wines but for quality wines, full of grape flavours and the regional difference New Zealand provides.

For parties as small as 1 to 3 in a luxury car GSN Pacific can help provide a fun and educational visit to wine regions, especially Marlborough, the country's largest vineyard region.

Visit some wineries, taste their wines, have wine and food matchings, meet the actual wine maker or proprietor, enjoy the very soul and essence of New Zealand vineyards.

Tours include part-day visits in Marlborough from client accommodation, or airports and ferry arrivals and drop them back similarly after a half day, a full day or several days of exploring this unique side of New Zealand.

Included can be a vineyard restaurant for lunch, sipping the wines of the estate with local food cooked by premium chefs. In-door or out-door settings to suit the season - and the luncheon. These can be wonderful meals, different wines for each course and sometimes the chef will be able to spend a few minutes to discuss the food flavours and their match with the wine.

Ski Tours

Skiing is a great winter-spring adventure in New Zealand and there are few places in the world to match the spectacular scenery and facilities of the slopes, especially in the South Island near Queenstown, Wanaka and Methven. Some of the southern hemisphere's best skiing is in New Zealand. Slopes and tow facilities are available in both North and South Islands, although the most dramatic and famous sites are in the South Island in the Southern Alps. The season depends on the snow levels but usually runs from June to mid-October.

Methven

Methven with the Mount Hutt ski-field is closest to Christchurch city, a mere 1.5 hour drive away, ski guiding available four days a week. Mt Hutt enjoys the best snow and is reknown for having the longest and most consistant season in the Southern Hemisphere. Mt Hutt is suitable from the novice to the die hard, skier to boarder.

Queenstown

Queenstown is in the heart of the South Island with the Remarkables (mountain range and ski-field) and Coronet Peak ski-field. Coronet Peak is the closest ski area to Queenstown- just 25 minutes on sealed road, and enjoys New Zealands best wide and rolling terrain. The Remarkables sitting high above Queenstown offers stunning scenery, family fun with great learner slopes. Queenstown can be flown into direct from Auckland or Christchurch and has a full range of activities on its own (wineries, entertainment, golf, gold-dredging, river jet-boating, lake cruises, bungy jumping etc) as well as servicing the ski tourist. Ski guiding available some days of the week.

Wanaka

Wanaka is 90 minutes drive from Queenstown and has the Treble Cone and Cardrona ski-fields. Guiding is available two or three days a week. Wanaka itself is on the side of Lake Wanaka and has its own small-town feel, bustling during the ski season and with a couple of wineries as well.

Hiking

Hiking through tracks of great splendour, mountains, rivers, lakes to add to the beauty, is a wonderful way to enjoy New Zealand. The many national parks in New Zealand provide such opportunities.Call it hiking or call it tramping, the opportunities are glorious in New Zealand with its mix of alpine bush and fiords to provide the breath-taking scenery. There are safe tramps for healthy people and some more mountainous which require some experience and a higher level of fitness.

Here are some very popular tracks beginning and ending at Queenstown

Milford Track

First day coach from Queenstown to Te Anau to cruise up Lake Te Anau to the Milford Track jetty , then 90 minute walk to Clinton Hut. Day 2 a 5-6 hour tramp beside the Clinton River to reach Mintaro Hut at the base of the MacKinnon Pass. Day 3 up through the McKinnon Pass, an optional walk to the Sutherland Falls and on to the Dumpling Hut, about 6 hours for the day. Day 4, follow the Arthur River to Lake Ada and on to Sandfly Point where the track ends, a cruise on the Milford Sound and then a coach trip back to Queenstown.

Routeburn Track

First day transfer from Queenstown by coach to Routeburn track via Glenorchy, 3-4 hour walk to hut. Day 2 sees a 6-7 hour tramp up to the Harris Saddle at 1277 metres (4000 feet) above sea level with grand views, down to the MacKenzie hut. Day 3 is more leisurely, enjoy the many different birds, leave the packs at Lake Howden Hut, after lunch climb 919 metre (3000 feet) Key Summit. Day 4 continue the track down through beech forests to Milford Road and enjoy a cruise on Milford Sound before arriving back in Queenstown late afternoon.

Kepler Track

The Kepler Track is a 60km circular track, through spectacular Fiordland National park. Access to the start of the track,is by coach from Queenstown to Te Anau, then clients board a water taxi to Brod Bay for the start of their 4 day hike. Day one is a steady climb up finally past the bush line to the Luxmore hut. Day 2 provides an opportunity to take in the stunning views from Mount Luxmore at 1472m before continuing along a ridge, along a series of zigzags to a hanging valley and then on to the Iris Burn hut. Day 3 takes you through native beech forest, to Moturau hut The final day is a gentle stroll through beech forest and wetlands to the swing bridge were clients are met and transferred to te Anau before catching the coach back to Queenstown.