What an amazing experience and probably the major highlight of our short visit to this wonderful NZ region!! We climbed aboard and after a briefing were treated to a scrumptous lunch prepared for us by Tom in the bows of this incredible machine. Once lunch was done we set sail around the incredibly beautiful Bay of Islands and being part... More

Beware - the Sail NZ experience out of Paihia has switched from a comfortable, land-lubber friendly Catamaran to an ocean going, single hull yacht which is NOT equipped for land-lubbers and which DOES sail at angles that have one rail dipping in the ocean. We enjoyed our sail and - if the publicity materials had properly disclosed the trip -... More

We did the Explore NZ Combo - Dolphin Trip in the morning and transferred to Lion NZ for a sail in the afternoon. Was brilliant - particularly the sail. the skipper was superb - invited everyone to be hands-on but in a very NZ way. Would certainly recommend the whole trip. More

We had a great time on the cruise to the Hole in the Rock and at the end of the trip we got to view dolphins. But the cruise charged us $45 for all the photos taken in that 2hrs cruise and not sure what we will do with random pictures of people whom we do not even know. I... More

I noticed that noone had put a review up about this trip since 2008. Well my brother and I did the day trip back in March 2009 and its was great fun. Although the wind let us down for the first half of the morning the afternoon we got plent spped up. The Captain and Mate we realy friendly and... More

We visited Paihia in Oct 2008. We'd planned to stay 2 nights but hadn't booked any excursions / activities in advance. Then we came across "On the edge". Since it was the beginning of spring, (and rather cool for a seaside town), it still wasnt peak tourist season in Paihia. So when we called to book the tour, we were... More