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.

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

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 had a FANTASTIC time thank you! 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.

We were introduced to Silver Fern through Hyde Barker, both companies based in Southwell.  We were planning a trip to New Zealand with some stopovers there and back and Laura at Silver fern was able to put together an excellent draft itinerary.  After making a few amendments, the result was a seamless trip which went absolutely according to plan.  The attention to detail by Laura was excellent, all hotels, cars, flights, campervans and trips were booked in advance and one great thing about this was taking away the worry of getting it right ourselves and days of searching for information on the internet.  It was wonderful to be met in Auckland by the resident Silver Fern representative and being presented with all tickets and information required for the four weeks ahead. David & Yvonne, Nottinghamshire

Friends recommended Silver Fern to us, and we, in turn, would not hesitate in recommending Silver Fern to anyone who wants a tailor-made, hassle free dream of an experience in New Zealand and Singapore. 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!

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 organisation through the whole trip was marvellous – much better than if we’d planned it ourselves.

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