Travellers Testimonials and Reviews: First Light Travel

I had my second trip to New Zealand again arranged through First Light Travel. Last year the South Island this year the North Island. Again all was well arranged. One of the many high-lights was a helicopter trip to an active vulcano "white island" on the East Coast. A flight from Rotorua. Great Experience. 

Thank you again Judith. 

Frank Govers (Holland)

What a great piece of luck we found on the internet by connecting with First Light Travel and Shelley. Through e:mail and a couple of quick phone calls, Shelley matched our personalities with activities and accommodations that led to a flawless trip of a lifetime to New Zealand. We left New Zealand anxious to return! We highly recommend Shelley and First Light Travel for booking activities and accommodations in New Zealand.

Barry and Leigh Groves (USA)

This has been an exceptionally nice vacation. The trick was that our consultant (ms. Verity Paterson) carefully personalized the travel plan and gave us enough room to add or modify what we wanted. We feel that without the plan as prepared we would have missed many worthwhile activities. I highly recommend this service.It was a great value for money.

Mr Jiri Janata and Ms Miroslawa Josowicz (USA)

Hi Verity,

We had the best trip ever!!!!

Our guide, Terry was EXCELLENT! He was so knowledgeable and helpful—a perfect fit for us. We are still basking in the memories of your beautiful country!

Here are a couple of photos—but I took over 1,200, I need time to go through them.

Susan Lapham and John McKently - USA

Hi Suzie,

I'd like to give you some ideas I've gained from talking with friends here. They have no idea that one can have a company plan a trip as you did. They seem to think that the only two ways are to take a tour, or do it on your own. They have been surprised about this way of traveling. We had done this for our vacation to Costa Rica, so we knew. I'm not sure how to get the word out, but maybe you need to advertise this as another way to travel.

Thanks for everything. You helped make our 50th wedding anniversary even better.

Art & Helen Poland USA

Truly, our travel agent Chrissy was able to know exactly what kind of adventure we wanted and crafted the perfect itinerary for us. The process was fairly straightforward for booking and the instructions we were given were flawless and simple. We could not have chosen anyone better to help arrange our trip.

Fred & Zipora, Keren, Gilad Fefer (USA)

Hi Chrissy,

These are just a few of the photos of us enjoying New Zealand! Here is the Emerald Lakes on the Tongariro Crossing

Ken McClain and Maria Bolanos (USA)

We enjoyed three weeks in Middle Earth with our two girls. Thanks to First Light Travel we did not have to worry about a thing. Thanks to the professional organization of Judith we only had to enjoy every minute of our holiday. It was just perfect. We'll be back, that's for sure! 

Bram, Kathy and the girls - Holland

Hi Steve,

To start things off we had a fantastic time. You did a great job organising and it all flowed together nicely. Queenstown and Milford Sound all worked smoothly, hotels were perfect for our needs. The views from Queenstown hotel were excellent.

Mount Cook - Kayaking was very much enjoyed. Kaikoura motel was excellent, and dinner was perfect. Whale watching also successful. Waitomo hotel was fun and the spellbound caves were excellent. Auckland perfectly placed hotel. Hire car was perfect size for our needs and everything ran smoothly with picking and dropping off.

Many thanks again for your help

Andy Elliot - England

Hi Shelley, 

Now we are home. Long journey to be remembered! Once again, BIG THANK YOU! We filled out the survey form and will definitely recommend First Light to anyone willing to go to NZ. We were lucky with the weather except for one day when we had to cancel the horse rides. Great that all the other activities took place. Specially the helicopter flight and picnic at the peak! Fantastic!!! 

All the best,

Nikolay and Raisa Roslyakov