Backpacking NZ - Travel Further Off the Beaten Track

Flexible guided trips through New Zealand - getting you further off the beaten track with unique stops and activities

BACKPACKING NZ

About Us

Developing New Zealands' Backpacker Bus Service

Stray New Zealand has developed and fine-tuned our ‘Hop-On / Hop-Off’ bus service for backpackers (as opposed to a common bus tour) since 1989. Our bus based travel network accesses amazing local attractions – things that you would want – on and off the beaten track. Being tours for backpackers there are some key features that you can count on:

Best Driver Guides

All of our trips are guided by the sort of people who can help you find what you are looking for. They are on hand to provide sightseeing and commentary on things of interest, and generally help you find amazing things on and off the beaten track. You are free to use them as much or as little as you like

Explore the Real New Zealand

We get further off the beaten track to excellent places that you would otherwise have huge difficulty accessing and we always make sure that there is time to see and experience things along the way - we travel at the right pace so you don't have to break your journey just to get a good look around

Bring you the best - without any bias or affiliation

We only operate backpacker travel networks - we don't own hostels or activities so we aren't biased by anything other than what is best for you. Our trips are amazing value for money - not only do the travel and accommodation work out to be great value - you save money because you only pay for the extras. We can point you in the right direction at our break points to get the best deals on any other activities and attractions not already included.

Constantly updating

We have spent years listening to our customers and hunting out things that are likely to be of interest to you – and so we’ve made sure our routes link them together.

Our trips have been tested on animals - and other travellers (some who will be just like you) - we survey every customer and constantly tune our trips to make sure that they are as good as they possibly can be.

Simply Put: No other New Zealand bus travel gives you such a good mix of value for money, guidance, quality and flexibility

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STRAY STAFF

Our team

Have huge experience in running quality, award winning travel networks. They are experienced travellers themselves with 15 years in the game and are credited with being the inventors of ‘Backpacker Travel Networks’

Our guides

We actively recruit motivated, interesting, well-travelled young crew. We then give them what we think is the best training in the industry. We train them comprehensively over the routes to ensure that as well as providing informative guided walks they can be your local on hand to help you find everything from yellow eyed penguin on the Caitlin coast to a ski run in the Holy Cow Bar. Our guides are great – you don’t just have to take our work for it – listen to our customers, they are our highest rating feature

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Backpacking NZ - Travel Further Off the Beaten Track

Flexible guided trips through New Zealand - getting you further off the beaten track with unique stops and activities

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