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Get A Different Perspective of Queenstown With Heli Tours

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 2:49PM

By Beckie Wright

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Specialising in helicopter flights around Queenstown, Milford Sound, Fiordland and Canterbury, Heli Tours provide you with fresh new experiences with a personal touch, showcasing the High Country environment of the South Island- alpine lakes, glaciers, untouched beaches and magnificent waterfalls. With Queenstown and the surrounding areas being so inundated now with tourists, some people are starting to examine the different experiences available, and different ways they can get around. Heli Tours are there to give a different perspective, away from the ‘madding crowds’.

 

Heli Tours have extensive Combo package options or can tailor-make a unique tour just for you. Combining scenic helicopter flights with iconic local activities such as heli–wine tours Heli Tours provides a unique New Zealand experience.

Heli Tours - the helicopter company with the ‘X FACTOR’.

 

On the Heli Tours Exclusive Heli Wine Flight, you’ll enjoy a scenic flight over the Gibbston Valley as you make your way from Queenstown towards Cromwell and Bannockburn, enjoying the beautiful scenery of the western and central areas of Central Otago and a bird’s eye view of many of the region’s wineries and vineyards, before landing at Mt Difficulty restaurant to enjoy a luxury lunch and award pairing wines.

 

Or you may wish to go on the Heli Tours Glacier, Rivers of Ice flight, flying to the West of Queenstown taking in spectacular views of the braided Rees and Dart Rivers, Mt Earnslaw and many magnificent Glaciers. These deep blue “Rivers of Ice” create an amazing photo opportunity; experience a Glacier landing before returning to Queenstown.

 

You can also enjoy a scenic flight from Heli Tours over Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu before landing at a selected helipad where you will be greeted by a staff member from Onsen Hot Pools. Enjoy a 1.5 hour private hot pool soak at Queenstown’s only private indoor/outdoor hot pools, high on the cliffs overlooking the Shotover River Canyon.

 

Heli Tours operate from the Queenstown Airport and are located at 1 Sir Henry Wigley Drive, which is obviously very convenient for all visitors arriving by plane, so to find out more about Heli Tours and their Queenstown activities please go to http://www.helitours.co.nz .