A private Bay of Islands day trip with a real catamaran cruise to Hole in the Rock.
A private tour for your group only, with a genuine catamaran cruise to Hole in the Rock and Urupukapuka Island.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include a catamaran cruise to the genuine Hole in the Rock, Urupukapuka Island, and Cape Brett Peninsula.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in central Auckland.
A genuine, dramatic natural rock formation.
Genuine boat transport included.
12 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, with a genuine catamaran cruise to Hole in the Rock and Urupukapuka Island. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include a catamaran cruise to the genuine Hole in the Rock, Urupukapuka Island, and Cape Brett Peninsula.
The Bay of Islands is a genuinely vast stretch of water, scattered with some 144 islands, and this catamaran route threads through several of its most storied corners. The signature stop, Piercy Island — known to Ngāpuhi as Motukōkako — rises roughly 148 metres from the sea and is pierced by a sea arch nearly 16 metres high, carved out over centuries by wind and wave; Captain James Cook charted and named it in 1769. To Ngāpuhi the island and its archway hold deep spiritual significance — Māori warriors are said to have once paddled canoes through the Hole in the Rock before heading into battle, treating any water dripping from the cave roof onto them as a blessing.
Urupukapuka Island, the largest in the bay, carries its own unlikely twentieth-century history: in 1927 the American author and big-game fisherman Zane Grey built a fishing camp and lodge at Otehei Bay, and the resulting Zane Grey Sporting Club drew wealthy and famous visitors from around the world, effectively putting the Bay of Islands on the map as a serious sport-fishing destination.
Nearby Russell, once known as Kororāreka, has an equally real but very different reputation — by 1830 it had become one of the largest whaling ports in the Southern Hemisphere, drawing thousands of whaling ships, and its lawless frontier atmosphere earned it the nickname "the Hell Hole of the Pacific" before it briefly served as New Zealand's first capital, at nearby Okiato, ahead of the capital's move to Auckland.
Cape Brett Peninsula closes out the route with its own genuine maritime story — its cliffs have guided sailors for roughly a thousand years, and the lighthouse finally built there in 1910, after a century of lobbying triggered by an 1808 shipwreck, kept watch until it was automated in 1978.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.