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Walk into the Shire for real, round doors, real ale, zero green screen.
The 12-acre Hobbiton set is still standing in Matamata farmland, and you get 2.5 hours inside it, past Bag End, into a fully themed hobbit home, finishing with a free Southfarthing ale at the Green Dragon Inn.
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The coach rolls out of The Shire's Rest through working Waikato farmland, the Kaimai Ranges filling the windows, then the hedge parts and you're standing in the Shire. Twelve acres of hobbit holes built into the Alexander family farm, and none of it is CGI.
Your guide leads the full 2.5-hour loop: up the hill past Bag End's famous round door, inside the fully themed Bagshot Row hobbit home, with photo stops the whole way through. You finish where every good story does, at the Green Dragon Inn, complimentary Southfarthing brew in hand.
You don't need to know your Tooks from your Brandybucks to love this one. Film nerds get their pilgrimage; everyone else gets the strangest, prettiest farm tour in New Zealand. Small group, easy.
Bag End's round green door up close
Step inside a themed hobbit home
Free ale at the Green Dragon Inn
Coach views of the Kaimai Ranges
Photo stops across the whole set
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"Absolutely delightful journey through Hobbiton. Walking tour was perfectly paced for photo ops and sprinkled with interesting movie-making facts."
HMiller1970
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"The Hobbiton Tour experience was very enjoyable and interesting particularly with regards to the remote location and the incredible detail put into the creation of the internal fit out of the Bagshaw Row Hobbit homes."
Oliver G
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"Absolutely fantastic tour! We felt like we were in Hobbiton, and the surrounding scenery is breathtaking."
charismercer
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New Zealand
9 days · 8 nights
4.9 (575 · Trustpilot)
Auckland to Wellington
6 meals included
$1999 AUD
≈ $222/day
New Zealand
9 days · 8 nights
4.9 (575 · Trustpilot)
Christchurch to Queenstown
7 meals included
$1999 AUD
≈ $222/day
New Zealand
17 days · 16 nights
4.9 (575 · Trustpilot)
Auckland to Queenstown
13 meals included
$4399 AUD
≈ $259/day
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