Rotorua to Auckland via Hobbiton Tour with Lunch - One Way | 7 hours 30 minutes

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Rotorua to Auckland via Hobbiton Tour with Lunch - One Way
2 Adults x $280.15
$560.30
Approx Total
$560.30
Pickup included

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English
  • Local guide
  • Drink inside the Green Dragon Inn
  • Hobbiton Movie Set entry and tour
  • GST (Goods and Services Tax)
  • NZ$10 Shopping voucher to be used in the Hobbiton Gift Shop
  • Drop off at inner city Auckland accommodation
  • Buffet lunch at Green Dragon Marquee
  • Pick up from selected inner city Rotorua accomodation
  • Gratuities

Overview

Travel the short distance from Rotorua to Matamata, home of Hobbiton Movie Set. Upon arriving at Hobbiton, meet your guide who takes you through this working sheep farm, a prime filming location for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movie series with incredible views overlooking the world’s biggest outdoor movie set. Fans will love exploring the Shire, home to hobbit holes including Bilbo Baggins’s house. Stop for photos in front of the Mill, the party tree and the double-arch bridge as you’re entertained with tales about the making of the films. Explore inside a Hobbit home at BagShot Row. Then head to the Green Dragon Inn for a complimentary cider, ale or ginger beer. After your tour of Hobbiton, enjoy an included buffet lunch at The Party Marquee before your day trip ends with drop-off at your hotel in Auckland.

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The main departure point is the Rotorua iSite. Pick up from selected inner city Rotorua accommodation included. - please advise where you are staying and we can give you directions to the central meeting point or a pick up time.

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Drop off at inner city Auckland accommodation included. Please advise where you are staying in Auckland for drop off at the end of the tour

Itinerary

  • Hobbiton Movie Set

    This trip from Rotorua to Auckland includes the Hobbiton movie set tour 1 hour journey from Rotorua to Hobbiton). Departing from Rotorua at 8am, this is a wonderful way to get to Auckland and include a magical journey through Middle-earth to the Hobbiton Movie Set from “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” films. On arrival at Shire’s Rest you embark on your Hobbiton movie set tour. This location is the largest “green set” in the world and the only part of the set remaining in New Zealand. You see 44 hobbit holes, the Mill and double arch bridge and the party tree. At this stunning location you can take a photo at the gate to Bilbo’s house, “Bag End” *please note from April to November 2023 there will be construction on set due to the Bagshot Row Development. This should not affect your tour too much apart from not seeing Samwise Gamgee’s home & a bit of construction noise. From 1st December 2023 the tour will be an additional 30 min to include the new Bag Shot Row experience.

    2 hours

  • N/A

    The tour concludes with a visit to the Green Dragon Inn where you can enjoy a complimentary ale, cider or ginger beer. After a drink, enjoy a buffet lunch at the Green Dragon Marquee before continuing onto Auckland Following the Hobbiton tour, enjoy the sumptuous buffet lunch in the Party Marquee which is fit for a Hobbit. After lunch we drive north through lush Waikato dairy farms and over the Bombay Hills before arriving in Auckland at approximately 3.15pm. You will be transferred to your Auckland inner-city accommodation.

    1 hour

  • N/A (Pass By)

    This tour finishes in Auckland and is a one way product. (2 hour journey from Hobbiton incl. a toilet stop)

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Additional Info

  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Minimum TWO adults required for this tour to run
  • The tour at Hobbiton joins a larger group with up to 35 people

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Incredible Tours, Top Notch Guides

Published on Feb, 2024

Incredible experience. We took the tour with pick up from our hostel in Rotorua to Hobbiton. Our driver for that leg, Willy, was kind and courteous and an absolute pleasure. We even had to take a detour due to a road closure but Willy navigated around and made sure we made it to Hobbiton right on time. He even waited and made sure we met our tour guide for the second leg, Damian. We were with Damian from Hobbiton to Waitomo, and then to Auckland. Damian was a wealth of knowledge about Hobbiton, the different cities and vistas along the route back to Auckland, and general facts and information about New Zealand - especially about bird conservation, predator remediation, and bush cabins. I really appreciated his insight and commentary on the ride. My partner and I are vegetarian, and Damian even made sure we knew what options were available to us at the Hobbiton lunch buffet. And of course, Hobbiton and Waitomo Caves were incredible experiences and I am grateful to have visited each site. I highly recommend Bush and Beach tours and I will tour with them again when I next visit New Zealand.

Punctual, Courteous, and Efficient Tour

Published on Feb, 2024

They were very efficient, punctual, and courteous. They managed it well despite this being a logistical jujitsu for they brought in tourists from Rotorua and Auckland in different buses with lots of luggage and dispersed them to different tours and destinations in different busses after the Hobbiton tour - without misplacing the bags! Our driver/guide, Kelly, was excellent in maintaining the schedule and giving us updates during the drive. Bush and Beach added a couple of nice touches as part of the tour package - a lunch and a NZ $10 discount voucher in the Gift Shop.

A must see for LOTR/Hobbit fans!

Published on Oct, 2023

Our tour was Auckland to Hobbiton to Rotorua. Milton was our tour guide, he was very knowledgeable about the entire trip down to Hobbiton, all the areas we passed through. Another guide drove to Rotorua, he was also knowledgeable about the areas we went through.

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