For lots of travellers in New Zealand, hop-on/hop-off bus journey has been an vital a part of their expertise. It has been the basic strategy to discover New Zealand for years. However instances are altering, and now we have improved the basic hop-on/hop-off expertise.
Change is nice
With out change, there isn’t any shifting ahead. At Stray, we like to assume outdoors the field, be inventive and make the journey expertise for our clients even higher.
We’ve been taking individuals on superb adventures since 2002. We’re a bunch of travellers who wish to journey slightly in another way. We love ticking off all the massive bucket checklist experiences, however our actual mission is to go additional off the crushed monitor. There’s at all times extra to find in case you simply Stray slightly additional off the freeway.
You’re most likely questioning, “why change the hop-on/hop-off journey community that you’ve got created years in the past?” Easy. We’re making it even simpler so that you can discover New Zealand, with out taking away the enjoyable of travelling in New Zealand.
We’re taking the effort out of hop-on/hop-off
Essentially the most requested query about travelling on the hop-on/hop-off community was “the place ought to I hop off and the way lengthy ought to I keep?” And the second-most standard query was “If I hop-off in XYZ is it assured I can hop on once more in X days?”.
For many travellers, it’s their first time travelling to our superb little nation. After all, everybody needs to get essentially the most from their once-in-a-lifetime journey to NZ. And who needs to fret about issues like hopping off, discovering lodging and how one can get to the subsequent superb vacation spot?
Due to this fact, we created Stray Journeys some time in the past. And now we have simply taken these new excursions to the subsequent stage. These bus excursions are greater than only a bus tour. It’s a fixed-length tour with lodging included. Now you may actually sit again, chill out and benefit from the journey. You’ll arrive super-relaxed at your subsequent vacation spot. And you recognize that as quickly because the bus stops, you may have arrived at a tremendous place.
A spot the place you are able to do quite a lot of free or paid actions. The Stray Driver is your information on these journeys. And they’re full of information about every cease alongside the way in which. They’ve a lot inside info, suggestions and info that aren’t even talked about in standard journey books. It’s like travelling with a neighborhood.
Benefits of Stray bus excursions in New Zealand
Right here’s an summary of why you’ll love these new Stray Journey Excursions.
Lodging
Lodging is included on these new excursions. You’ll be staying at 3-4 star lodges for a lot of the nights and excessive nation farms or scenic lodges near the waterfront or nationwide parks in our distinctive locations. Resort rooms are ensuite, whereas shared services are in Strademark locations. Improve to solo occupancy can be doable. See for more information and reserving these excursions.
Personal coach transport
Take the strain off, relax, chill out, take in the surroundings and let another person do the driving. You’ll journey by personal, air-conditioned bus.
Stray Information
Anticipate entertaining anecdotes, nice suggestions, additional help and native insider information out of your charismatic information. They know each inch of this nation. You possibly can’t get this from a Google search!
Strademark Expertise
A number of of our excursions embody Strademark Experiences, particular locations or experiences that you’re much less more likely to discover within the guidebook. You’ll be speaking about these superb locations lengthy after your journey has ended.
So what makes a spot or expertise worthy of the Strademark badge? We’ve got some easy guidelines for that, it should:
- Be a novel native, cultural expertise
- Have an environmental or conservation focus
- Not be accessed by public transport
Our Strademark Locations will let you see extra and do extra. We take you to locations that you’d by no means in any other case see. Tick off your bucket checklist locations and expertise our particular, distinctive spots too.
Will hop-on/hop-off return as soon as the worldwide COVID / Corona-virus pandemic is over?
By no means say by no means… However for now, all our NZ Hop-on/Hop-off Excursions and passes are paused till 30 September 2022. If that adjustments you’ll examine it on this weblog and on our web site.
We’re assured that you’ll take pleasure in our present number of excursions. These excursions will make your New Zealand journey simpler. No have to make a plan your self. Simply flip up on the day of departure, meet your fellow travellers and off we go. Aotearoa awaits. We’re wanting ahead to seeing you on considered one of our excursions.
Safe your seat & keep versatile
Are you excited to go to New Zealand once more as soon as the border is open once more? We’re so wanting ahead to seeing you all once more… For now, solely travellers from Australia can enter New Zealand through the Trans-Tasman Journey Bubble however hopefully extra nations might be added to that checklist.
Regardless that issues could look unsure, there may be plenty of flexibility while you e-book your Stray Tour now. It’s all a part of our reserving ensures, our guarantees so you may e-book with confidence.
- The beginning journey date is versatile. In case your plans change, you may at all times change your journey dates, so long as you tell us earlier than the scheduled day of departure.
- Tour swap choice. Change your thoughts about the place you need to go? You possibly can swap your journey for an additional Stray journey in any vacation spot we function in.
- Ebook now, pay later. Solely a ten% deposit is required to safe a seat on considered one of our excursions.
- No reserving charges in any respect. It’s simple to e-book your Stray bus tour on-line. The worth you see is the value you’ll pay. There are not any nasty charges, like fee charges or bank card charges.
And our pleasant crew of journey specialists are at all times glad to assist and to reply your questions. Publish ‘em beneath within the remark part or contact us through electronic mail, telephone or chat.
