New Zealand Travel Guide

We had an amazing time on our trip! The Great Barrier Reef and the whole time in Port Douglas were very cool! We loved the Dart River safari in Queenstown.

Our hotels in all of our cities (Sydney, Port Douglas, Queenstown, and Auckland) were in great locations and had great service and great breakfasts.

We would definitely use Zicasso's travel specialists again!

Based on his credentials and experience, I let Zicasso’s travel specialist plan our bucket-list luxury trip to Australia. The trip was fantastic and the support was perfect.

It was fantastic and perfect.

We would recommend Zicasso’s travel specialist and the tour operator with enthusiasm to everyone!

We loved the trip, accommodations, and tours set up by Zicasso's travel company.

Zicasso's travel company and our travel specialist, who was my contact, were fabulous! She designed a perfect vacation. We just returned from three and a half magical weeks. She ensured everything was seamless.

We had four helicopter trips and, before each trip, she checked the weather and checked with the helicopter provider to ensure our trip was still scheduled. Only one of the four trips was canceled and she ensured we would get a refund. Not only the refund, but she worked on a Plan B.

Each place we stayed was simply wonderful and we did not have to go through the usual hotel/lodge registration because she had ensured the hotel/lodge knew our information.

The day visits were so memorable–just magnificent–from our private sailing adventure on a 54-foot yacht to our magnificent private helicopter rides, viewing volcanoes (active and inactive), the Marlborough Sounds, and whales and dolphins in Kaikōura. We went on a ferry in Milford Sound. Magnificent! We traveled on the TranzAlpine train to Arthur's Pass.

I cannot list everything we did, but each experience was magnificent. The guides themselves were all top-notch: knowledgeable, friendly, and wonderful to spend a day with. Our travel specialist was available for all kinds of requests, like making dinner reservations and then canceling those reservations if we changed our mind last minute. My husband asked me on a few occasions, "Does she have a life other than helping us 24/7?"

Truly, it was the most memorable trip we have ever taken. (And in the past two years we have traveled to Canada, Acadia National Park in Maine, Alaska on a cruise, Chile and Antarctica, Paris, and Italy, each with different travel vendors. But this trip, with the travel company and the travel specialist, was the most memorable, the most magical, and I mean every single day!

Please list the travel company as a five-star, top-notch travel designer in New Zealand and Australia. (And, as a footnote, of the two hotel choices the travel specialist gave me, she recommended our hotel in Sydney, and I'm so thankful I agreed with her recommendation. It was simply wonderful–a great final note, with three nights in Sydney before we went home. Not to mention the private tour of the Sydney Opera House!) Thank you for connecting us with the travel company.

Zicasso’s travel partner prepared an itinerary that was a perfect match with our interests. They were responsive when we asked to make a few revisions and helped us before and during the trip.