Our Moeraki Boulders experience was epic.

We discovered that they are rather difficult to get to at high tide, and our efforts to avoid wading through a river involved wading through the mud on somebody's farm instead. This was soon followed by dodging sneaky waves as we ran along the beach trying to get the photo of a lifetime and stay dry. Jess was unsuccessful, as her Spiderman pose on the cliff face ended with her sinking straight into that same cliff face and extracting very muddy ankles as a result. If only we had known BEFOREHAND that there was a set of perfectly good wooden steps leading directly down to the Boulders from a nearby cafe.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in July 2009

How can we possible rate this experience?

Jess had an awesome time - definitely not an adrenaline rush, but loads of fun cruising through the sky over gorgeous Queenstown with a friendly instructor. She scores it an 8. Rose, on the other hand, nearly died. As we all reached the top of Coronet Peak the clouds were coming in thick and fast and the instructors knew we all had to hurry. Fortunately, Jess was able to take off almost straight away. Rose and her instructor, on the other hand, stayed on the peak for some time, wrestling with the pesky parachute which had become tangled after catching on the intrsuctor's camera pole. After much sliding down of slopes and wrestling with cords and wind, to no avail, the instructor turned around, observed the gathering clouds, and said "I'm not flying through that". Consequently, Rose was lumped with an enormous backpack, roughly the same size as her body, and told "The best thing you can do is to take this and walk. The lift closes in 10 minutes". Rose attempted to do this, but found it rather more difficult than she may otherwise have done, had she not been wearing Converse sneakers (she didn't know she was going to the snow that day!). After many minutes of struggling and gaining no ground at all as she alternately sunk to her knees in the snow or slipped over on the ice (or was pulled over by the weight of the pack), eventually the instructor was able to make it up to the lift to ask them to keep it open long enough for their descent. Finally, Rose was able to make it to the lift (once she had been relieved of the pack) as the clouds set in, wheezing and coughing from the cold and altitude, as one might expect after struggling to walk UP a black run (which is indesputably geared towards sending people DOWN as fast possible). There was silence on the chairlift as Rose and the instructor coasted down the mountain, relieved to live another day. Jess rates this experience highly, but Rose overrules. She has been traumatised.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in July 2009

Hmm...

Well we love chocolate and we've been pigging out ever since our tour BUT we would have liked to have learned more of the secrets of chocolate-making on the tour. Would have liked to get up closer to the process and seen in more detail as what we did see was very interesting. Also, wish they had been giving out Crunchie instead of PerkyNana. P.S. Loved the pop quizzes.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in July 2009

We had an AWESOME 2 days skiing and our package (from Alpine Expeditions) was great value.

Beautiful powder on the first day, and a gorgeous mountain. Great weather too - hurrah! Not too busy either. HOWEVER there was only one beginner run AND the signage was pretty poor so we got stuck on an icy mountainside sliding down on our butts. But apart from that it was ace :-D

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in July 2009