Ultimate Stargazing Experience - Lake Tekapo

The Short:

Our Ultimate Stargazing Experience is a 120-minute premium tour of the night sky. The tour can be personalised to involve a mix of naked-eye visual stargazing, learning about the brighter stars and important constellations, telescope observations and a free individual photograph under the stars. Enjoy the wonders of the night sky from the comfort of our premium moon chairs whilst snacking from a platter of nibbles and keeping warm with a hot drink. Indulge in our Ultimate Stargazing Experience!

Ticket options:

• Adult (16 years +) - $199

The Long:

Experience the captivating cosmos like never before on our Ultimate Stargazing tour, a 2-hour personalised stargazing experience with one of our expert guides. We use special astro-lasers for easy naked-eye viewing of important stars and constellations and a powerful 16” telescope for incredible views of amazing deep space and solar system objects. Your guide will also take photos of you under the stars (Weather Dependent). Within 24 hours, we will have uploaded your photos into a private Google Drive folder where you can download your photo and share it with friends and family. 

We cap our tours at 10 people which means that everyone will have plenty of time on the telescopes and opportunities to ask our guide questions. 

Our Ultimate Stargazing tour includes a platter of nibbles* to satisfy your appetite and a selection of delicious hot drinks to keep you warm under the stars. 

We will pick you up from your accommodation** and shuttle you to our Ultimate Stargazing site. All of our stargazing locations are super dark, with some of the lowest light pollution in Tekapo. We have the pleasure of being able to run our tours from within the gold-rated Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, some of the darkest skies on the entire planet.

Please note: Your credit card will be charged in NZD. We do not have children's prices for this tour as it is designed for adults, please get in touch with us if you have any questions about this.

For our cancellation policy please read our Terms & Conditions.

Our Stargazing Tour Includes:

• A personalised guided tour of the night sky

• Use of our 16” modern telescope

• Small group tours

• Use of our warm down jackets

• A platter of snacks and a selection of hot drinks

• Pick-up and drop-off from your accommodation within Lake Tekapo

• Use of comfortable moon chairs and cosy Merino wool blankets

• Little to no light pollution

• Vast 360° views of the dark skies of the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve 

• A free photo taken under the stars for you to share via a digital link.

*Please note: we can only cater snack platters provided we are given 48 hours notice before the tour. We can cater non-allergen, vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, and dairy-free and gluten-free platters.

**Pickups are only offered to accommodation locations within Lake Tekapo township