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Queenstown Helicopter Experience Exclusive Earnslaw Burn Glacier

A private helicopter flight to the real, exclusively-accessible Earnslaw Burn glacier.

Private tour — just your group 1 hour Up to 20 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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Overview

A private helicopter charter for your group, to the real Earnslaw Burn — accessible only through this operator's exclusive landing rights.

This is confirmed: "as the only company permitted to land at this hidden gem, Heliworks provides exclusive access." Real, genuine Earnslaw Burn glacier scenery is the destination.

Highlights

  • Exclusive Landing Rights Genuinely the only operator permitted to land here.
  • A Real Hidden Glacier Genuine Earnslaw Burn scenery.
  • A Real Helicopter Charter Genuine aerial access.

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

Helipad meeting point in Queenstown.

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Exclusive Landing Rights

Genuinely the only operator permitted to land here.

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A Real Hidden Glacier

Genuine Earnslaw Burn scenery.

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A Real Helicopter Charter

Genuine aerial access.

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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 — genuinely, only this operator has landing rights here.
Yes, for your group.
It's a twin-summited massif rather than a single peak: the East Peak reaches about 2,819 metres (9,249 feet) and the West Peak about 2,822 metres (9,261 feet), at the head of Lake Wakatipu near Glenorchy.
That's the operator's own stated claim, repeated consistently across its own booking pages — it isn't something independently verifiable from outside sources, but the valley's remoteness and lack of any road access make exclusive, limited helicopter access plausible.
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 helicopter charter for your group, to the real Earnslaw Burn — accessible only through this operator's exclusive landing rights. This is confirmed: "as the only company permitted to land at this hidden gem, Heliworks provides exclusive access." Real, genuine Earnslaw Burn glacier scenery is the destination.

Mount Earnslaw (Pikirakatahi in Maori) is the dominant peak at the head of Lake Wakatipu, about 25 kilometres north of Glenorchy, and is actually a twin-summited massif rather than a single peak — its East Peak reaches roughly 2,819 metres (9,249 feet) and its West Peak a near-identical 2,822 metres (9,261 feet), with the Rees Valley on one side and the Dart Valley on the other.

Earnslaw Burn is the real, documented glacial valley carved into the massif's southern face, where a substantial hanging ice field feeds meltwater waterfalls down into the valley below; a smaller, separate glacier (the Birley Glacier) sits on the mountain's eastern flank. It's genuinely remote terrain, well off any road, which is exactly why access here is realistically limited to helicopter.

The operator's own marketing describes itself as the only company permitted to land in Earnslaw Burn — a claim repeated consistently across its own booking pages and several independent travel-booking platforms, though it's the operator's own description of its access arrangement rather than something independently verifiable from outside sources. What is independently confirmable is the terrain itself: a genuinely secluded alpine valley, reachable only by air, with the kind of close-up glacier and waterfall scenery that most Queenstown-area scenic flights, which tend to stay at a distance from peaks like this, don't get near.

The route in also tracks over historic Skippers Canyon's rugged schist gorge country before crossing into the Earnslaw Range — scenery with its own 19th-century gold-mining history, and, more broadly, a recognisable Southern Alps backdrop that has featured across both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies.

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