Testimonials

Travelled on a Silver Fern Small Group Journey



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.

 

 

 

 

In all stages of our booking, Silver Fern have looked after us with professionalism, efficiency and good humour. Laura has been exceptional in every way from tailoring our requirements and offering helpful tips and insights to what to expect. Everything was handled from beginning to end in a calm and helpful manner, including contact whilst in New Zealand and post trip follow-up. We have already recommended Silver Fern to friends.

Thanks once again for organising the holiday. We had a great time despite the weather. I am sure we will visit again one day.

The couple on the stand were very knowledgable and helpful with the planning of our holiday. Laura Ling our contact was very helpful and easy to talk to when planning our trip. She took a keen interest in us and our holiday requirements.

Very impressed with detailed itinerary and how it was presented.

Fantastic experience all round.  All the accommodations were superb. Many thanks for your help with the doctors and pharmacies!

We had a great trip to New Zealand. Everything had been very well organised so we had a trouble-free experience, giving us the chance to visit some great places with a mixture of cities and beautiful scenery.

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.

We are seasoned world travellers who generally travel independently and make all our own arrangements. However as we had an extended trip of the Far East culminating in a road trip round New Zealand we were delighted to be recommended to Silver Fern.

Both Barbara and John spent a considerable time with us finding out what we wanted to do and then imparting their considerable local knowledge to put a wonderful itinerary together for us.

The accommodation they recommended was exactly as we had requested according to the budget we have given them, driving distances were well planned and we were even met at the airport and given a detailed itinerary and plenty of local information about getting around New Zealand.

Suggestions were also made for places to visit that we would otherwise not have considered. Just before we were due to leave we had to change our travel dates and Barbara seamlessly rearranged the accommodation where required. We cannot recommend them highly enough.

Thank you John and Barbara.

The trip was very enjoyable - just what we hoped it would be. Thank you for organising everything for us.

 

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!

 

We had a fabulous holiday...not sure I can pick out the best bits! Tiri Tiri Matangi trip, Bay of Islands (dolphins), Kauri trees, Cathedral Cove, Tongariro, Queen Charlotte Sound in to Picton, Kaikoura Peninsular, Lake Matheson, Glaciers, Wanaka, Milford Sound, shotover jet in Queenstown, Mt Cook Hooker Valley walk.....all of it really!

The accommodation was all superb and we loved the book of prepaid vouchers...I know we've paid but not having to think about how much we were paying as we went along  made things more enjoyable somehow, especially given the excellent B&B's and hotels you found us and the 5 star nature of some of them!

I also want to say that directions to the various accommodations given in the final itinerary were spot on and took us straight there every time..I don't think we ever got lost which is impressive! Everywhere we stayed we found ourselves ideally positioned for whatever we were there for which was much appreciated and well thought out.

We loved the scenery everywhere we went...as one fellow tourist commented at the top of Mt Ruapehu it doesn't seem fair that one country should have everything! We never felt it was time to go home since there was always something special to look forward to the next day and the one after that...the four and a half weeks just touched the surface but we're so lucky to have been able to make the trip and will remember it for years to come.

Thank you for helping us to have the holiday of a lifetime. We are certainly recommending Silverfern to everyone we talk New Zealand to!

 

I could not mention all the highlights because there were so many. It really was a fantastic trip. We did not have any of those “I wish we’d made time to do that instead” moments, which is real testament to your expert local knowledge and your understanding of what we wanted to do. THANK YOU!!!