What an incredible day sightseeing in Wellington with Liz. We saw all the sights and had a fabulous commentary from Liz! Lunch was amazing at Cohene’s. The fish and pumpkin risotto and the beef cheeks were to die for - the best meal we have had so far in New Zealand. We learned so much from Liz about the history of Wellington and the surroundings. Don’t give this tour a miss and Liz is an absolute must!

this tour covered so many filming locations. Our tour guide / driver Stan was very funny and friendly!

We had a real problem getting off the ship. The tour guide/ bus driver waited about 30 mins for us. In the end they had to leave. When we finally got off the ship another guide called the boss. He came and picked us up and drove us to meet our tour. Such a nice man, and what great service. They all went out of their way to help us. The tour was fantastic. The tour guides had a lot of knowledge, he was also fun to be with. The tour was much more than we expected. A must for all Lord of the rings fans.

Stan went above and beyond, being a friendly chap and giving us every little fun detail about the stops and scenes from the movie!

The LofR tour was great even in the rain. Lester, our guide, was very knowledgeable and keen to answer any questions about New Zealand at all. Very glad I chose the full day tour to the various locations and the Weta Workshop tour was excellent. Highly recommend.

The visit to Weta Workshop and cave was just great - enthusiasm abounds. Could have easily spent two more hours there. The movie sites were a bit underwhelming, but the setting makes up for it. It would have been nice if the driver had more background information and commentary. And making the driver use a bunch of poster-size floppy pictures did not seem optimal. But overall great!

Although the weather is not good, we still enjoyed this, our tourguide is very nice. And its exciting and fun tour. Recommended to those who loved Lord of the Rings. After this tour we re watched the movie to check the scene settings.

Stan our tour guide was very informative and friendly - great experience would recommend highly for Lord of Rings fans

A great tour with Explor at Wellington. We were on a cruise and I had booked the tour directly and thought we needed to go into town to pick up the tour, this is because the cruise companies tell people it’s not possible for passengers to walk in the port area, that is NOT true as Explor can pick up at the ship and have a pick up point that we missed (our fault) No matter Richard the owner came into town,picked us up and gave us a tour anyway. A friendly guy who obviously loves his job and is great fun and likes a joke. His local knowledge is top notch. Definitely recommend Explor.Simon & Bev

We had the most amazing experience with Kevin from Xplor Tours. He was cordial, attentive, knowledgeable and patient. Wellington is just a gorgeous city, a lot to see, so it is important to have a tour operator that is able to properly manage time. We highly recommend Xplor Tours and Kevin when it comes to experiencing Wellington and its surrounding area.

Really great day driver was brilliant and very knowledgeable about LOTR Weta was great as well too many things I wanted to buy though Well worth it definitely book!

We did the half day tour of Wellington and had a great day with Peter our guide. I was a last minute booking and was pleased when I found out they had a spot for us. Our guide was very knowledgeable about Wellington and took us to all the sights we wanted to see. Wellington is a very pretty city which was hard to appreciate if you just stayed in town and didn’t venture out! Also we found out a lot about Wellington and NZ which we wouldn’t have known if we’d done our own travel. At the end of the tour Peter obliged our request to drop us off at the Te Papa Museum which he’d recommended during the tour. It was a great way to finish our day in Wellington. All in all a pleasure to deal with XPlor tours. .

We had an amazing morning on the half day LOTR tour, it was cold and drizzly (our favourite weather - felt like home!) but the tour bus was warm and the drives around Wellington were stunning. It was wonderful going on the Weta Cave tour and seeing the filming spots for the movies but it was also amazing to hear Lester's stories about native plants and Maori legends - it made the walks and views that much more immersive. We will definitely be visiting again to fit the full day in!

The tour was great. Lester was so wonderful as a tour guide! We saw iconic spots and heard really cool stories about the films.

I don't usually do guided tours... but I cannot recommend this company highly enough! Whilst wandering around Mount Victoria trying to find LOTR sites (much more difficult than you might think to pin down the exact locations!), I had the good fortune to stumble across an Xplor tour led by Stan - he was so friendly and helpful, and pointed me in the direction of their full tours as I wanted to explore LOTR sites outside of Wellington itself. They had no tours running the next day, but the company's owner Richard very kindly took time out of his schedule to take me on a private tour, which was outstanding - we saw Helm's Deep / Minas Tirith (that is, the quarry where they were filmed!), the Gardens of Isengard, Rivendell, part of the river Anduin where the Fellowship travel by boat - and for a small extra fee, we visited two additional sites (Faramir's dream, where he sees Boromir floating down the river, and where Aragorn is revived by his horse after falling from a cliff). Richard was a wonderful host and brought along pictures for the sites which really brought them to life, as well as telling me lots of anecdotes about filming and other tidbits about Wellington as we travelled - we had a genuinely great day out together, and as a massive LOTR fan, it's been one of the highlights of my time in New Zealand. As I said, I don't usually go for guided tours, preferring to explore by myself - but other than Rivendell, which is well signposted, I would have really struggled to find many of the other sites without a guide (Aragorn's cliff, for example, isn't signposted at all and is just down a random footpath behind someone's house!) So if you're keen to get the full Wellington LOTR experience, and want to see all the key filming sites, then I can't recommend Xplor tours highly enough!