Testimonials
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
Here are a few stories and pictures shared with us from our happy customers…
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
Alastair Johnstone
Alastair Johnstone
Alastair Johnstone
Pam & Dave Waller

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.
Pam & Dave Waller
Pam & Dave Waller
The Brown’s

The Brown's
The Brown's
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
Brian & Melanie Atkinson

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.
Brian and Melanie Atkinson
Brian and Melanie Atkinson
Mrs Manning
Mrs Manning
Mrs Manning
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
Brian & Nicky Dale

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!
Brian & Nicky Dale
Brian & Nicky Dale
Simon Acland
Simon Acland
Simon Acland