Our New Zealand bus travel timetable will help you navigate your way around our comprehensive travel network. It shows pick-up days, pick-up points, and approximate pick-up times (remember that any pick-up point is a drop-off point too).
During summer most of our bus stops have daily pick-ups/drop-offs. In winter each location will have at least 2 departures per week. Contact our friendly Kiwi Experience crew for more information.
To see what days the bus departs each scheduled overnight stop view our timetables.
Once you've chosen your bus pass, it's important you create an Online Trip Planner account to manage your booking.
Everyone wants to travel with Kiwi Experience, especially in summer, so the sooner you book your buses the better! Seats are always subject to availability.
Please be at these pick-up points 15 minutes before the published departure time.
The bus will always stop at the Main Pick-up point, and other pick-up points by request (please phone us at least 24 hours prior to departure).
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Lylo, 54 Cook Street, Auckland Central | 7:15am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| BP Connect Dairy Flat | 7:35am |
| Warkworth, iSite, 1 Baxter Street | 8:00am |
| Whangarei (iSite) | 10:00am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Paihia Main Wharf | 7:15am |
| Includes pick up for Haka Lodge and Centabay |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Beachside Holiday Park | 7:15am |
| Waitangi Motor Camp | 7:15am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Paihia Main Wharf | 2:30pm |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| ‘Otaika’Shops Bus stop, opposite Liquorland Otaika | 3:30pm |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Lylo, 54 Cook Street, Auckland Central | 8:45am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Nesuto Stadium Hotel, 48 Beach Road, Auckland Central | 9:00am |
| Bombay - Subway 216 Mill Road | 10:00am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Hot Water Beach Holiday Park | 7:30am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Tairua | 8:15am |
| Paeroa | 9:00am |
| Morrinsville Plunket Shop | 11:00am |
| 125 Anderson St | |
| Te Awamutu I-Site 1 Gorst Avenue | 12:00pm |
| Otorohanga | 12:45pm |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Waitomo Homestead Cabins | 9:30am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Otorohanga, Public Toilet, Wahanui Street | 10:15am |
| Opposite Otorohanga Railway Station | |
| Cambridge - Carpark 16 Cook St | 10:30am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Rock Solid Backpackers | 9:30am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Rotorua I-Site 1167 Fenton Street | 9:30am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Lakefront Lodge | 8:15am |
| Kaimanawa Street - beside public toilets | |
| Based By The Lake | 8:30am |
| Pick up is outside Cobb n Co restaurant |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Turangi | 9:30am |
| Public Toilets Opp BP Station Ohuanga Rd | |
| Information Centre - Whakapapa | 11:00am |
| State highway 48 | |
| YHA National Park | 1:00pm |
| 4 Findlay Street | |
| Ohakune | 1:30pm |
| LKNZ Lodge Bus Stop, 1 Rata Street |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Haka House | 7:30am |
| Bus stop on Cambridge Terrace |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Levin Salisbury St | 9:30am |
| Bulls | 10:30am |
| Info Centre - Taihape | 11:45am |
| Waiouru 31 Main Road | 12:00pm |
| Turangi | 1:15pm |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Based By The Lake | 2:00pm |
| Bus stop 35 Tongariro Street outside Cobb n Co restaurant | |
| Lakefront Lodge | 2:00pm |
| Kaimanawa Street - beside public toilets |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Rock Solid Backpackers | 3:15pm |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Kaiteri Lodge | 11:30am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Motueka I-Site, 20 Wallace St | 11:45am |
| Bus Stop outside Lake Rotoiti School | 13:05pm |
| Murchison, Beechwoods Cafe, 32 Waller Street | 14:00pm |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Bazil's Hostel & Surf School | 9:30am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Pancake Rocks Cafe | 12:15pm |
| SH6 – (Main Road) near Beach Hostel Punakaiki | |
| Greymouth Info Centre/Train Station | 2:00pm |
| Hokitika Info Centre | 3:00pm |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Rainforest Retreat | 7:30am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Haast Village Public Toilets, Marks Road | 11:30am |
| Makaroa Tourist Centre | 1:00pm |
| Wanaka (i-Site) | 3:00pm |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Nomads Queenstown | 9:00am |
| You must reconfirm your pickup location from Queenstown to ensure we have your correct details. Includes pick up for Info and Track Centre, YHA Central, Downtown Backpackers, Last Resort, Southern Laughter |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Frankton Bus Shelter | 9:10am |
| You must reconfirm your pickup location from queenstown to ensure we have your correct details | |
| Cromwell – Lode Lane Bus Stop | 10:00am |
| You must reconfirm your pickup location from queenstown to ensure we have your correct details | |
| Omarama - Opp Caltex | 12:15pm |
| Twizel – Bus stop at the Info Centre | 12:30pm |
| You must reconfirm your pickup location from queenstown to ensure we have your correct details |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Lake Edge Holiday Park | 9:00am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Info Centre Fairlie | 9:45am |
| Geraldine opposite Subway | 10:00am |
| Info Centre Ashburton | 11:30am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Hotel Give, 12 Hereford Street, Christchurch Central | 7:30am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Cheviot Tea Rooms | 10:00am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Wellington to Picton | 7:15 am |
| Haka House |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Dusky Lodge | 9:15 am |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Encounter Kaikoura | 9:30 am |
| Blenheim - Railway Station | 11:15am |
| Picton Bus Shelter (Ferry Terminal) | 11:45am |
| Main Pick-up point: | |
| Nomads Queenstown | 6:30am |
| Frankton Bus Shelter, Kawarau Road | 6:35am |
| Alpine Centre, 2 Sandy Brown Road, Te Anau | 8:30am |
| Milford Return Pickups - Outside Milford Boat Terminal | 1:30pm |
| Other Pick-up points: | |
| Expected Arrival into Queenstown | 6:30pm |
| Expected drop off in Queenstown |
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