Thinking about booking your holiday to New Zealand with Silver Fern Holidays?
We’re different from other travel agents. We specialise in 100% tailor-made holidays to New Zealand; it’s what we do, and it’s what we love.
We have over 25 years’ experience planning and booking trips to New Zealand for our clients and customers. With a team who have lived, worked, and traveled the land of the long white cloud, you’re in great hands when it comes to tailoring your perfect holiday. No matter what you’re interested in, from walking to wine, and skiing to exploring New Zealand by campervan we’ve done it all; and more!
We work hard to get to know each and every one of our clients so that we can plan the perfect holiday to New Zealand, every time. Don’t just take it from us, though. Here are a selection of stories and experiences from our clients.
Our Client Testimonials
And Just a Few More Stories from our Clients
Here are a few more stories and pictures shared with us from our happy customers…
Jane & Steve Silvester

Every part of our trip surpassed our expectations.
As for South Island and our (your!) itinerary it was wonderful-so many highlights-Abel Tasman, Wanaka, and Mount Cook being the most special as you would probably expect.
We loved the variety of travel - car, coach, train, plane, boat (we went to Milford Sound from Queenstown) and kayaking (Abel Tasman).
The accommodation you organised was superb, particularly the B&Bs in Wanaka (location and hosts), Queenstown (food) and Fox Glacier (view).
So all in all - a holiday of a lifetime! Thank you so much for your guidance.
Jane & Steve Silvester
Jane & Steve Silvester
Jan & Chris Gadsby

John's knowledge of New Zealand is incredible and his recommendations about bases, accommodation, excursions and fun activities were all spot-on for us - and for our budget.
We covered both islands, taking in 10 areas, and the well-planned, detailed itinerary, which included driving times, accurate directions and precise arrangements for car hire, internal flights and transfers, ran like clockwork. Nothing was too much trouble for Silver Fern - even when circumstances dictated that we had to cancel everything and rebook it all later.
We have fantastic 60th birthday trip memories of our stay in New Zealand and Singapore. Every bit of it was special!
Thank you, Silver Fern! We will be back soon, asking you to organise another trip for us!
Jan & Chris Gadsby
Jan & Chris Gadsby
Alastair Johnstone
Alastair Johnstone
Alastair Johnstone
Chris and Joyce Brill

We travelled with Silver Fern on one of their Small Group Journeys tours.
Very much enjoyed the superb Gallipoli exhibition at Te Papa Museum, Wellington.
Our train journey from Auckland to the Capital City, Wellington was brilliant and we loved the jet boat trip on our day out to Arthur’s Pass and the caves at Charleston.
A wonderful holiday!
Chris & Joyce Brill
Chris & Joyce Brill
The White’s

The White's
The White's
The Brown’s

The Brown's
The Brown's
Mrs Manning
Mrs Manning
Mrs Manning
Mr Richardson
I was not sure whether I was ready to do it on my own.
I decided that the first move was to talk to someone so I spoke to John on the phone and arranged to come and have a chat. We had a long meeting and it all sounded ideal. All I needed to do was convince myself.
Once I made the decision everything was so easy thanks to you. You kept in touch right up to me going and I always felt that I had a good contact if I had a problem.
Now onto the tour. Not much to say. It was even better than I had expected. The coach and driver were top class, the hotels and food were very good and the itinerary meant we visited everywhere we needed to see New Zealand.
However, as you know the highlight of my 6 weeks away was meeting my 5 month old grandson in Sydney.
That said, I am so pleased I made the trip and even more pleased that I arranged it through Silver Fern Holidays; everything was first class.
“wonderful”
“exceeded expectations”
“exceptional driver – very experienced”
“the mix of people only added to the enjoyment”
Richardson
Richardson
Colin and Maureen Smith

The Million Dollar cruise on Lake Wakatipu was absolutely brilliant – the guide was very knowledgeable and we would highly recommend this trip.
Our meal on the Mission Estate was one of the best meals of the holiday and the gardens at Hamilton were a real surprise.
But the main highlight has to have been the Milford Mariner overnight cruise – not the best of weather, we couldn’t get out on the kayaks – but a wonderful experience.
Colin & Maureen Smith
Colin & Maureen Smith
Barry & Maggie Westby
Silver Fern Holidays arranged excellent accommodation for us, with a good mixture of hotels, B&Bs and a farm stay.
There were many highlights but some stand out: a walk through the rainforest in Abel Tasman National Park, with stunning views of the sea; a night on a boat on Doubtful Sound, and watching the sunrise over Mount Cook reflected in the still waters of Lake Matheson at Fox Glacier.
Silver Fern Holidays gave us excellent guidance and advice and we have no hesitation in recommending them to others planning a visit to New Zealand.
Barry and Maggie Westby
Barry and Maggie Westby