Booking optional activities and dinners for partners
| Partner Ticket Options | Partner Ticket Pricing |
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| Saturday afternoon optional activities (includes lunch) | $160.00 (incl. GST) |
| Partner Friday night casual dinner Stratosphere, Skyline Rotorua (includes transfers) | $165.00 (incl. GST) |
| Partner Saturday night formal dinner Te Puia (includes transfers) | $190.00 (incl. GST) |
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Click here to book Canopy Tours - Zip-line for your partner | FULLY BOOKED - No longer available! Canopy Tours - Zip-line through native forestZip-line through the wonderful native trees of Mamaku Forest taking in an awesome mix of ecology and adventure. This zip-line adventure activity is the experience of a lifetime. It’s a magnificent environment where you visit a long forgotten ancient New Zealand forest just like the whole of New Zealand once was. But we have a very fun way of moving through it – a low impact mode of transport to get you high in the ancient canopy! Special requirements: Comfortable walking clothes and closed toe footwear. | |
Click here to book Mountain Biking for your partner | Mountain Biking - Whakarewarewa forest, guided cycling for all levels of experienceMountain bike through one of the best trail networks in the world. With over 130km of tracks to choose from, your guides will take you on the trails that are best suited to your ability. Join the only company that is accredited under the Adventure Activity Regulations as well as concessioned for both the Rotorua Lakes Council and DOC to guide mountain biking, Mountain Bike Rotorua. Special requirements: Shorts, t-shirt, light rain jacket and sneakers. Equipment provided: Helmet and bike. Grade Level 2-4 Grade 2 - Easy: Relaxed activity - No significant fitness required. No serious obstacles. Grade 3 - Medium Difficulty: Moderate level of fitness required (should be able to walk medium distances). Activities may take place on uneven terrain or have an element of easy adventure. Grade 4 - Difficult: Should be able to be active for longer periods of time. Activities will likely be adventurous and involve uneven terrain, heights and/or obstacles that require skilled maneuvering. | |
Click here to book White Water Rafting - Kaituna River for your partner | White Water Rafting - Kaituna River (Ability Level Grade 5)This tour takes on three waterfalls, including the highest commercially rafted waterfall in the world. You will be paddling through the pristine heart of the best rafting region in New Zealand – Okere, Rotorua. Set amongst the sub-tropical rainforest this spectacular 2.0 - 2.5 hour experience provides all the gear you need, initial training and around 50mins on the water. Enjoy a thrilling mix of dropping down three waterfalls, pushing through 14 rushing rapids and paddling through calm waters of recovery where you can look back in awe at what you have achieved. The Kaituna Waterfall Experience is suitable for nature lovers to adventurous first timers and total thrill seekers. The area is steeped in Māori history and you will learn about the history and caves used as the burial ground for Chief Tutea – hence the naming of the mighty waterfall, the Tutea Falls. Special requirements: Bathing costume, towel and warm clothes for afterwards. Equipment provided: Wetsuit, booties, fleece, jackets and safety gear. Grade 5 - Very Difficult - Much like Grade 4 except risks and consequences are higher. Should be able to be active for longer periods of time. Activities will likely be adventurous and involve uneven terrain, heights and/or obstacles that require skilled maneuvering. | |
Click here to book Monster Truck/Skeet Shooting/Go Karting for your partner | Monster Truck/Skeet Shooting/Go KartingOff Road NZ is located on a beautiful NZ native bush-clad property on the Mamaku Plateau, just 20 minutes north of Rotorua City. The rugged, formerly volcanic landscape offers diverse terrain for 4WD vehicles. Be thrilled by the Monster 4X4’s unique 4-wheel steering mechanism, which helps to power through New Zealand native bush, up and down near-vertical slopes tackling the ‘Widow Maker’ and the ‘Loggers Long Drop’. Challenge yourself with the more sedate clay bird shooting, then speed your way around the internationally recognised course at Off Road NZ with Raceline Karting's state-of-the-art karts that can hit 100km per hour on the 150m straight.
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Click here to book Redwoods treewalk and Geysers for your partner | Redwoods treewalk and GeysersRedwoods Treewalk is a 600-metre long, eco-tourism walk in the heart of Rotorua’s Redwood Forest. Consisting of a series of 23 suspension bridges, traversing 22 majestic Redwood trees that are more than 117-years-old. The height of the walkway ranges between 6 m and 20 m, including glass viewing panels allowing an elevated view of the forest below. This option replaces the Kiwi experience at Rainbow Springs which is unfortunately being refurbished in September 2018. | |
Click here to book this workshop with Keynote Caroline Adams Miller for your partner | Workshop on Goals & FlourishingOne of the most common misconceptions about goal-setting is that success drives well-being, even though research conclusively shows that people only succeed with their goals after they are flourishing first. In this workshop, Caroline Adams Miller will share some of the most important findings from Positive Psychology about what "wise interventions" are most likely to create well-being and how people can maximize their ability to flourish, including the identification and use of character strengths. Caroline will help participants understand how to use their own strengths effectively to succeed with their goals, including how the overuse and underuse of those same strengths can become weaknesses. Caroline will also unpack goal-setting theory to help participants understand why SMART goals might not actually be very smart, and how to create an effective plan of action that will include how to identify positive relationships, why one's environment can help or hurt goal pursuit, and how the creation of a resilient mindset can make a difference. | |
Click here to book the casual Friday dinner for your partner | Casual Dinner – Friday 21 September | |
Click here to book the formal Saturday dinner for your partner | Formal Dinner – Saturday 22 September |
