Lyttelton Shore Excursion - City Highlights & Waipara Wine Tour
Description
The Tour Start Time will be adjusted, where necessary to meet the cruise ships schedule. The start time displayed is a default time and not necessarily relevant to your cruise ships itinerary. Enjoy, both a complete morning tour of Christchurch city with a lunch and tastings at 3 beautiful wineries in the Waipara region on shore excursion from Lyttelton. This tour includes all major city attractions such as Mona Vale Gardens, historic buildings, botanical gardens and spectacular view of the southern alps and canterbury plains from the Sign of the Takahe. At the conclusion of your city tour, enjoying wine tasting from 3 popular wineries in the Waipara region.
Tour Options
Itinerary
The default start time is 8.30am or up to 1 hour after your ship commences disembarkation, depending on what time your ship docks.
Best spot to admire some spectacular views over the City, Canterbury Plains and Southern Alps.
Mona Vale Gardens with its picturesque ponds and water.
Christchurch Cathedral damaged by the earthquake and the rebuild that is taking place.
will have lunch & tastings at a Waipara Winery followed by tastings at another 2 wineries in the Waipara area
The first winery stop on this excursion where you will enjoy an individual platter lunch and wine tasting.
A second winery stop with a wine tasting included.
A small boutique winery offering fine quality, award wining wines. Here you will enjoy a tasting of their wines.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Meeting instructions will be sent upon booking. Please note that the default time for this tour is 8.30am but this can be amended depending on your cruise ships arrival and departure times. Please advise any dietary requirements at booking.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- At time of booking, cruise ship passengers must provide the following information: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
- Please note that activity times and schedules can be slightly amended depending on your cruise ships timetable.
- Photo ID required for tasting wine - passport recommended
- Please advise if you have any dietary/allergy requirements.
Reviews(22)
Gary was very accommodating and pkeasant. Was very informative, took us to Sugarloaf for great views. The garden walk was a delight and the wine tasting was tasty and enjoyable. Loved the Christchurch history and tour.
Thank you for your review and thank you for highlighting your guide. A great day had with wine tasting - perfect!
The landscapes in New Zealand are just fabulous and this tour is a great way to see them and enjoy the local wineries. Our tour guide was informative and helpful. It was a beautiful sunny day.
Awesome day and awesome review - thank you.
Excellent tour. Small size and buses made the city tour enjoyable. We visited places and routes the larger cruise ship could not go. Great wineries and wine on the wine tour. Only issue for me was 2 wineries before lunch after a small breakfast. Wine on a nearly empty stomach can be an issue.
Thank you for your review - such good insights regarding wine on a small breakfast!!. So pleased you had a lovely day.
It was great. The guides were very knowledgeable, insightful, and responsive. The city tour was really informative. The three wineries we experienced were top notch.
Great review and thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We enjoy those wineries also!!
Great day with Tiana our guide. First a tour thru Christchurch and a beautiful garden then off to 3 wonderful wineries!!! Great day!!! The wineries were the highlight!!!
So good that you had such a fabulous day. Sounds like you packed a lot into your day.
I recently went on a wine tour that was overall just average. The wines themselves were enjoyable, but each stop was extremely crowded, which made it hard to really appreciate the experience. Our group was consistently placed at the back behind larger groups, so we often felt a bit overlooked. With better scheduling to reduce overlap between groups, the tour could be much more enjoyable. It has potential, but the organization definitely needs improvement.
Great feedback and this is noted. Its certainly tricky navigating between scheduled tours and people and friends who drop into the wineries unannounced without warning. Its super tricky for the wineries to coordinate also. Really appreciate your thoughts.
Was a nice day. We were taken up to the lookout over Christchurch then through the city area with informative commentary about the earthquakes then we made our way out to the wineries with lots of countryside to view.
Thank you for taking the time to submit your review which are valuable to us to ensure we meet and where possible exceed our customers expectations. We do hope that you will have the opportunity to visit New Zealand again in the not too distant future, perhaps next time travelling around New Zealand by land, rather than cruise.
Started with a driving tour of Christchurch and learned about their devastating earthquake 14 years ago. Enjoyed a stop at a garden along the way. Then visited 3 wineries in the Waipara wine country - enjoyed the beauty of the countryside as well as each of the wineries. Had a nice lunch at the second winery. Our bus held 16 people - nice size and we had good people and a nice driver. This would have been a 5 star trip except for 2 things - one was the stop at the overlook was crammed with way too many people and buses at the same time which made it hard to enjoy and the bathrooms were very limited. The other was our driver had problems with his microphone so I think he didn’t share as many stories as we were driving.
Thank you for taking the time to submit your review which are valuable to us to ensure we meet and where possible exceed our customers expectations.
Very fun and informative outing. Our guide, Rob, was quite engaging. We had a nice tour of the city, with several stops. Then, off to the wineries. Really enjoyable!
Thanks for the review and pleased you had a great and enjoyable day.
Very nice tour. Driver-guide very interesting. Olveston House guide was very knowledgeable. We recommand it.
Thanks for the review and pleased you had a great and enjoyable day
