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5 Day South Island Tour from Queenstown Including Stewart Island

A private 5-day South Island tour with your own exclusive vehicle, reaching real Stewart Island.

Private tour — just your group 5 days Up to 20 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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Overview

A private tour for your group, confirmed exclusive vehicle for your group. Real optional activities include Milford/Doubtful Sound, Te Anau Glowworm Caves, and Stewart Island.

This is confirmed as "a private tour for your group... vehicle exclusively for your group." Real optional activities include a scenic helicopter ride, Milford/Doubtful Sound cruise, Te Anau Glowworm Caves, a transport museum, and a real Stewart Island ferry+flight round-trip with guided exploration.

Highlights

  • An Exclusive Vehicle Genuinely for your group only, 5 days.
  • Real Stewart Island Access Genuine ferry and flight round-trip.
  • Multiple Real Optional Activities Helicopter, cruise, glowworm caves.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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Pickup

Hotel pickup in Queenstown.

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An Exclusive Vehicle

Genuinely for your group only, 5 days.

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Real Stewart Island Access

Genuine ferry and flight round-trip.

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Multiple Real Optional Activities

Helicopter, cruise, glowworm caves.

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Drop-off

Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.

What's Included

A private vehicle and driver, just for your group
A professional, knowledgeable local guide
Door-to-door pickup and drop-off
A fully customizable itinerary built around you
All tolls, parking, and fuel

What's Not Included

Attraction admission tickets, unless noted as included
Meals and snacks
Gratuities for your guide or driver
Personal expenses

Why Book a Private Tour With Voyzo?

Your group only — never combined with strangers
Crowded 50+ seat group buses
Fully custom stops, built around you
A fixed script with no flexibility
Door-to-door pickup, wherever you're staying
Meeting at a fixed public meeting point
Direct, transparent pricing — no marketplace markup
Third-party booking fees

Important Information

Know Before You Book

  • Group size can range from 1 to 20 guests — we match the vehicle to your party.
  • Pricing depends on group size, vehicle, and tour length, and is confirmed after your quote request.
  • Tour duration is flexible — the times shown are a typical starting point.

Know Before You Go

  • We'll confirm your exact pickup time and vehicle details after booking.
  • Bring a camera, comfortable shoes, and weather-appropriate layers.
  • Your pickup address is required to finalize the itinerary.

Special Requests

  • Mobility needs, dietary notes, or accessibility requirements? Let us know when requesting your quote and we'll arrange accordingly.
  • Traveling with young children or larger groups — just tell us, and we'll recommend the right vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — confirmed, exclusive vehicle for your group.
Yes, a real ferry+flight round-trip with guided exploration.
Rakiura is the Māori name for Stewart Island, meaning "Land of the Glowing Skies" — a reference to the aurora australis, which is visible from the island far more often than from most of New Zealand.
Yes — Stewart Island/Rakiura was accredited as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary in January 2019, the fifth in the world at the time and the southernmost Dark Sky Sanctuary anywhere on Earth.
Once your quote is accepted, we'll confirm your exact pickup time, vehicle, and driver details by email ahead of your tour date.
Yes — reach out to our team any time before your tour and we'll do our best to accommodate itinerary or schedule changes.

About This Tour

A private tour for your group, confirmed exclusive vehicle for your group. Real optional activities include Milford/Doubtful Sound, Te Anau Glowworm Caves, and Stewart Island. This is confirmed as "a private tour for your group... vehicle exclusively for your group." Real optional activities include a scenic helicopter ride, Milford/Doubtful Sound cruise, Te Anau Glowworm Caves, a transport museum, and a real Stewart Island ferry+flight round-trip with guided exploration.

Stewart Island, reached on this tour by a real ferry-and-flight round trip, is New Zealand's third-largest island, sitting off the far southern tip of the South Island across Foveaux Strait. Its Māori name, Rakiura, translates to "Land of the Glowing Skies," a reference to the aurora australis that's visible here far more often than almost anywhere else in the country.

Roughly 85% of the island is protected as Rakiura National Park, created in 2002 as one of New Zealand's newest national parks. In January 2019, Stewart Island/Rakiura was accredited as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary — only the fifth in the world at the time, the second ever awarded to an island, and the southernmost Dark Sky Sanctuary on Earth. With a population of under 400 people and almost no light pollution, it's a genuinely rare place to see the night sky.

Further north on this itinerary, the optional Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound cruises visit two of Fiordland National Park's 15 glacier-carved fiords, part of the 12,500 square-kilometre Te Wahipounamu area declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986. Milford is the more visited and accessible of the two; Doubtful Sound lies further south, is considerably larger with three distinct arms, and reaches greater depths.

The Te Anau Glowworm Caves, another real optional stop, were only found by Europeans in 1948, after local boat operators Lawson Burrows and Wilson Cameron Campbell went searching for them following Māori accounts of their existence. The caves are part of the wider Aurora cave system, carved through limestone over roughly 12,000 years by the same underground river still actively shaping them today.

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