Napier Shore Excursion: City Sights and Hawke's Bay Tour
- 4 hours
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
This shore excursion highlights the best of Hawke's Bay and Napier, considered the Art Deco Capital of the world! Discover this areas unique history including its early settlement, the 1931 Napier Earthquake, and the rebuild efforts that transformed the city to what it is today. Travel through the beautiful rural pastures outside the city, make a stop close to the top of Te Mata Peak with incredible sightings, and explore the unique architecture of Hastings and Napier.
Inclusions
What's included
- Pick up and drop off (at the meeting point)
- Live commentary onboard
- Driver/guide
- Admission fees
- Air-conditioned vehicle
What's not
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities (optional)
Itinerary
After being picked up, you will begin your sightseeing tour of the city and surrounding areas. You will drive through the rural countryside while sighting sheep, deer, cattle, along with orchards, market gardens and vineyards, providing some of the most beautiful scenery in New Zealand.
Enjoy incredible views and a great photo opportunity close to the top of Te Mata Peak, which includes incredible sights of Mt Ruapehu on a clear day.
Drive through the city of Hastings on your way back to Napier, another city famous for its Art Deco and Spanish Mission style buildings from the 1930’s.
Return to Napier and see beautiful Art Deco style buildings and drive through an original 1930’s Art Deco housing estate. To conclude the excursion, you will tour the entire main shopping centre of Napier which contains even more Art Deco architecture. Time permitting you will be able to walk the main street on foot which provides some great photo opportunities (time in the city is dependent on cruise ship schedules). Afterwards we return you to the Aquarium where you can catch the free shuttle back to the cruise ship.
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 20 travellers
- Operated by
- Leisure Tours
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children 2 and younger are complimentary provided they do not occupy their own seat.
How it compares in Napier
- Its from-price is 19% below the median of the 62 experiences we list in Napier.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 37 of 62.
About Napier
Napier is an Art Deco seaside city on New Zealand's Hawke's Bay, rebuilt after the 1931 earthquake and close to vineyards and a famous gannet colony.
Napier was flattened by an earthquake in 1931, and the town was rebuilt in the styles of the day, giving it a rare concentration of Art Deco and Spanish Mission buildings. Walking tours pass pastel shopfronts with zigzag and sunburst motifs, and every February the city dresses in 1930s clothes for the Art Deco Weekend. Marine Parade runs along the shingle beach, with gardens, an aquarium and a bronze statue of Pania of the Reef.
Top-ranked sights in Napier: Mission Estate Winery, Church Road Winery.
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