Tekapo Highlights, local area experience

*** If booking within 24 hours of departure, please call us on 0800 806 880 or email sales@airsafaris.co.nz ***

Our helicopter flights are exclusive and personal flights for individuals or family groups of up to 5 or 6 passengers at a time. 

Have you ever wanted to experience the thrill of being in a helicopter but always thought it was to expensive? Well this is just the flight for you. Jump in and have your camera ready while we take you for a magic flight around Tekapo!

Highlights include:

-Seeing the turquoise blue water of beautiful Lake Tekapo and the local rivers that fed
into the lake.

-Flying around Lake Tekapo Village.

-Mt John Observatory.

-Glenmore & Godley Peaks High Country Sheep Stations.

-Lake Alexandrina with it’s fresh spring fed water contrasting starkly with glacial
fed Lake Tekapo.

-Ancient glacial deposits including massive “erractics” left behind as ice melted during
the last ice-age.

Departing Lake Tekapo only. 15 minutes duration - minimum numbers apply. We will work with individuals' schedules to combine groups where possible. The helicopter is able to carry a maximum of 5 or 6 passengers, subject to weight restrictions. The pilot will determine the suitability of passengers in regards to aircraft weight limits at the time of the flight, and offer alternatives if required. Bookings of larger groups are welcomed, and flown as individual flights. There is a maximum weight restriction of 120kg per person.  Passengers are not permitted to carry any loose items on board the helicopter.

Children are between the ages of 3 and 13 years old inclusive. Infants are between the ages of 0 and 2 years old, and travel free on an adults lap.