Explore the geothermal valley in its entirety with the full Waimangu Experience. Discover New Zealand’s geothermal landscapes at your own pace on this independent Waimangu walking & hiking tour. Follow gentle graded track or rugged hiking trails through the geothermal valley, and take in top natural attractions like Frying Pan Lake, the World's largest hot spring, and the stunning blue Inferno Crater Lake. The trails head down to Lake Rotomahana, where you'll board your geothermal boat cruise. Learn about the history of the lake and the famous Pink and White Terraces, and see geothermal lakeside features like spouting geysers and steaming cliffs and fumeroles. The valley is serviced by a free shuttle bus service, so you can walk as much or as little as you want, and return up to the visitor centre by bus after your cruise.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 3.
Explore the geothermal valley in its entirety with the full Waimangu Experience. Discover New Zealand’s geothermal landscapes at your own pace on this independent Waimangu walking & hiking tour. Follow gentle graded track or rugged hiking trails through the geothermal valley, and take in top natural attractions like Frying Pan Lake, the World's largest hot spring, and the stunning blue Inferno Crater Lake. The trails head down to Lake Rotomahana, where you'll board your geothermal boat cruise. Learn about the history of the lake and the famous Pink and White Terraces, and see geothermal lakeside features like spouting geysers and steaming cliffs and fumeroles. The valley is serviced by a free shuttle bus service, so you can walk as much or as little as you want, and return up to the visitor centre by bus after your cruise.
The trails head down to Lake Rotomahana, where you'll board your geothermal boat cruise. Learn about the history of the lake and the famous Pink and White Terraces, and see geothermal lakeside features like spouting geysers and steaming cliffs and fumeroles.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Full Waimangu Experience - Walk & Cruise lasts about 4 hours. The itinerary has 2 stops.
Prices start at $103 per person for this Rotorua experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There is 1 booking option, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs every day, starting at 8:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:00 AM, 12:00 PM, and 1:30 PM.
Children aged 6–16 pay from $52, adults from $103. Infants go free.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
The meeting point is The meeting location, is exactly the address provided. You will check in at the visitor centre, and then off you go on your walk. Hotel pickup is not part of this experience.
The experience is available in HI, DE, PT, KO, CMN, JA, EN, EN, EN, IT, FR, HE, NL, ES.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 30 participants.
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Wheelchair accessible Wheelchair access is limited. We only recommend it for confident and experienced wheelchair users.
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
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Kia Ora Casey and Team, We had an awesome Waimangu experience, the front of house team Shane and Jana were really knowledgeable, helpful, positive and gave us a warm friendly welcome. I recommend this as a Must do geothermal park experience. Cheers Daisy.
What a WONDERFUL & special experience, this is one of the best maintained & stunning natural attractions we have been to in the Rotorua area. From the beautiful person who greeted us & explained everything so well, to the condition of the tracks & viewing areas, this is top class but still completely natural. As you walk through, the scenery changes & opens out to the tranquil Lake 😍 Allow time to stop & enjoy the surroundings & don't miss the boat trip, it's the perfect end to the experience. Highly recommend 11/10
We did track 1, two years ago, but due to a person in our party having an undiagnosed broken toe we had to finish early. Thankfully the bus was a great relief to getting back up the hill. This time my family wanted to complete the 3 tracks plus the boat trip. Yes it’s pricey but I still feel it was value for money. After doing hobbiton and rail cruising, we rated this our favourite. With mostly downhill tracks it’s great for every level of fitness. We are not hikers at all. Only a small section on track 2 was closed to flooding so we had to hope in a bus to go to next safe drop off so we could complete our journey. Bird life especially around the waterways was fantastic for photographing. We stopped along the way with a premade lunch and enjoyed nature. Most improved from our last visit was decent toilets at each bus stop. Very handy and well maintained. Driving out from Rotorua we were concerned as there was a bit of fog. It didn’t ruin our walk, and we could see in front of us, it soon lifted and we had a wonderful day on the lake. The excursion on the lake was truly spectacular, inside a crate, a geyser, hot springs and the history lesson completed the wonderful cruise. The boats are very classy and our tour guide was wonderful. As May is a quiet time we had the boat to ourselves, a true VIP tour. So glad we went back.
Fantastic experience! A really good hike followed by an awesome boat cruise. The boat guide Martin was full of valuable information.
An amazing experience . Very well organized from start to finish .we did ' The Full Waimangu Experience ' .. highly recommend . Easy walk .. and the views of the volcanic activity was wonderful .
Great walk and boat ride afterwards. You get a nice up close view of the active geothermal environment. Love seeing nature at its finest. The cruise was informative and peaceful.
Full Maimangu walk & cruise. Doesn't seem a long way, but wear good footwear & prepare for a beautiful natural journey. The walk involves a lot of up/down steps - hence the time it takes (around 3hrs total). This walk is well worth the effort and highly recommended. The end cruise caps off the great journey with a knowledgeable cruise captain highlighting significant natural highlights and geological landmarks and facts around before & aftermath of the 1886 eruption. Fascinating and educational.
5 out of 5. Great experience. This was the first thing in country that really wowed us. Unexpectedly beautiful and serene, despite being in an active volcano field. It’s a self-guided, 2 hour walk, with some stairs and inclines, but absolutely worth it. You travel through 3 distinct levels, up close and personal with geysers, bubbling mud and Australasian swamp hens. At each section you can grab a bus to the boat or back up. The boat ride around the lake is with a guide. Wade, our guide, was very knowledgeable and had a good sense of humor. The story of the 1886 Tarawera eruption and the formation of Lake Rotomahana is fascinating and hard to believe. You see more geysers, including a baby geyser, and get nicely cooled off from your walk. Highly, highly recommend this tour.
Best place to go to.... good information to explain the many sights to see. Boat trip was great with s very good warning about the wind conditions that day
Great walk down to the boat. All 3 were not too strenuous. Lovely seeing all the geothermal activity and the information supplied. The boat trip was very informative
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