You are right. I’ll remove Mount Cook helicopter / glacier lake kayak from the trip. Will save money and be less weather dependent. We’ve done this in Alaska and Iceland…
Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
With only 1 week you can only visit a few places. Don't rush it
Te Anau - Gore - Balcutha- Dunedin - Oamura will take longer to drive than you first think. Oamura better if hoping to catch a mid day flight from CHC. (Something I would not do)
During the week you may get some bad weather and delays due to road re-construction.
Not really, we will have tweens with us who wouldn’t fancy stargazing at midnight. But Otago Peninsula sounds good so if we drop Mount Cook / Twizel it gives us an extra day for Dunedin.
Originally Posted by
worldiswide
Some thoughts
Do you like star gazing type activites. St John observatory near tekapo runs programs at night at their observatory. It's a couple of hours .moves was midnight to 2 am and you could if so inclined drive to twizel after that for the night.
With so little time in each place don't have your heayiyset on heli hiking or glacier that are very weather dependent.
Mt Cook also adds a lot of time driving. It's one road in one road out so just depends on how you want to spend your time.
There is always more to see and do than you can plan for. Better 2 or 3 great adventures vs racing to try to do too much. Stop and soak in the views and you will be well rewarded..it keeps us coming back again and again.
My two cents
Queenstown I realize isn’t desirable spending a lot of time on…I’m just trying to use points at Holiday Inn as a base for day trips to Wanaka and Glenorchy / Paradise and onwards to Te Anau.