An interview with Guided Walks New Zealand - Queenstown

Interview with Pete from Guided Walks New Zealand

Marijke: "Could you tell me a bit about Guided Walks New Zealand?"

Pete: "Sure, We are the oldest guiding business in New Zealand, dating back to 1868.
We pride ourselves on being flexible, and offering our clients the guiding experiences that they want and not trying to sell them something along the lines of  mass tourism."

Marijke: What do your customers particularly enjoy about the experience?

Pete: "Our clients really enjoy the one on one experience we offer. By joining our trips of one guide to six guests max, or taking our privately guided option.
Our clients have given us great feedback on Trip Advisor, and we have learnt that they really love the the fact that our guides are so knowledgeable."

Marijke: "What’s new this season?"

Pete: "Well! We're really excited about our new product YOU vs WILD (Interactive Survival Experience), based on the ever popular T.V. series MAN vs WILD staring Bear Grylls. This has been and still is great success, with C&I groups, FIT's. And now childrens birthday parties which we never even thought of. 

With the runaway success of our new product and after listening to our clients and concierges in and around Queenstown, the feedback we received was, "I'd love to do it again, where else can you take me".  We  needed to think and act quickly. So after talks with a local helicopter company, Karyn and I spent the day today, flying by chopper deep into a valley on the other side of Lake Wakatipu (the Breathing Lake), where we dropped in on wilderness for a reconnaissance trip, and found an amazing valley that's perfect for another take on this trip. I think that we'll call it YOU vs WILD/ Drop Zone. We'd really like you to be involved yet again, by giving us a few ideas for the name of this  new version, by writing to us on this blog."


Contact details:Name business: Guided Nature Walks
Website address: http://www.nzwalks.com/ & http://www.snowshoeing.co.nz/
Email: info@nzwalks.com
Contact person: Pete & Karyn