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Queenstown on Foot: An Audio Tour

By VoiceMap Audio Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is £4 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 45m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

Queenstown isn’t just New Zealand’s adventure capital. It’s a place where every bold experience, from bungy jumping to jet boating, grew from practical solutions to harsh terrain. On this self-guided audio tour, you’ll discover how a gold-rush camp transformed into a global destination, while still preserving the calm spaces that make intensity sustainable. The tour starts at the Bathhouse, a 1932 building that reflects Queenstown’s early ambitions as a health and wellness destination. You’ll walk along Queenstown Bay, where Māori travel routes and European gold-rush logistics shaped the same shoreline. You’ll make your way up to the hillside streets where Queenstown’s earliest residents lived, and find out how William Gilbert Rees drove thousands of sheep over mountains to establish this settlement. The tour ends at the Bathhouse Playground, where you began, having traced a full circle through Queenstown’s past and present.

Activity location

  • The Bathhouse
    • 38 Marine Parade
    • 9300, Queenstown, Otago Region, New Zealand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • The Bathhouse
    • 38 Marine Parade
    • 9300, Queenstown, Otago Region, New Zealand

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Queenstown on Foot: An Audio Tour in English
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 45 minutes1h 45m
    1h 45m
  • Opening hours: Fri 00:00-23:59
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
£3.77 x 1 Adult£3.77
Total
Price is £3.77

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
  • What's includedWhat's included
    App for Android and iOS
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Directions to the starting point so that when you’re in the right place, the tour will start
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Smartphone and headphones
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Transport
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food and drink
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Steamer Wharf (Pass by)

Stroll along this sweeping lakefront beach, where the steel-blue waters of Lake Wakatipu meet the heart of the town. This is where Maori travel routes and European gold-rush logistics once converged on the same shoreline, and where the lake's legendary rise and fall can still be felt today.

Steamer Wharf (Pass by)

Walk out along this historic wharf, where fine dining and boutique shops now occupy what were once working freight sheds. This is where the TSS Earnslaw, a 1912 steamship that carried sheep, supplies, and settlers around the lake, continues to dock to this day.

Queenstown Gardens (Pass by)

Explore this peaceful Victorian-era park, where exotic trees planted in the 1800s now shade parkruns, disc golf courses, and quiet memorials. It is the green heart of a town built on intensity, and one of the few places where Queenstown slows down.

Queenstown Market (Pass by)

Enjoy the lively atmosphere of this popular lakefront market, where local producers, artisans, and food vendors bring the community together. It reflects the same commercial energy that has driven this town since the gold-rush era, now channelled into everyday local life.

Queenstown Mall (Pass by)

Stroll through this bustling pedestrian precinct, the compact commercial core that grew from a tent city established during the 1860s gold rush. The surrounding streets still follow the original layout of Campbell's Township, the settlement that boldly reinvented itself as Queenstown.

Skyline Queenstown (Pass by)

Marvel at the gondola base station clinging to the hillside above the town, where engineered vertical access turned a sheer mountain face into one of Queenstown's most visited attractions. It is a vivid example of how this town has always found a way to make the impossible terrain work in its favour.

Fergburger (Pass by)

Pass this legendary Queenstown institution, whose queues stretch down the street at almost any hour of the day or night. What began as a simple burger joint has become one of the most talked-about food stops in New Zealand, as much a part of the Queenstown experience as the mountains themselves.

Cookie Time Cookie Bar Queenstown (Pass by)

Walk past this cheerful outpost of one of New Zealand's most beloved homegrown brands, a sweet reminder that not everything in this town is about adrenaline. It sits comfortably among the adventure operators and fine dining restaurants that define modern Queenstown's eclectic character.

Queenstown (Pass by)

Marvel at the full sweep of this compact but extraordinary town, framed by the Remarkables mountain range and the shimmering expanse of Lake Wakatipu. What began as a remote gold-rush outpost is now one of the most visited destinations on earth, drawing three million visitors a year to a town of just thirty thousand people.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    The Bathhouse
    • 38 Marine Parade
    • 9300, Queenstown, Otago Region, New Zealand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    The Bathhouse
    • 38 Marine Parade
    • 9300, Queenstown, Otago Region, New Zealand

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