Endeavour Express Ltd
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Endeavour Express Ltd
Backpacker Water transport to the Queen Charlotte Track and Sounds Lodges
Take a trip to paradise and jump onboard the Endeavour Express, our fleet heads out daily taking hikers, mountain bikers to their destination. Friendly local staff providing advice on how to make the most of your time with us.
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South Island ▷ Marlborough ▷ Picton / Marlborough Sounds |
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Water Taxis
Cycling
Reviews
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5.0/5
A great little system that allows backpackers to walk the Queen Charlotte Track hassel free.
The boat cost $53 each and pick us up from Anakiwa on time. The captain also turned around on the way back to allow us to see dolphins. Awesome!
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5.0/5
Competitive price.
Very helpful and informative skipper (Julian), nice catamaran. Walked 10km of Queen Charlotte Track - wonderful area. Unplanned dolphin experience!
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3.5/5
Queen Charlotte sound boat trip with drop off at Ship Cove.
Pick-up was agreed at 2pm, company managed to get 1 hour late.
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3.5/5
Queen Charlotte Track transport by water taxi.
Good service and advice and the staff are O.K. Similar prices to other companies but with less choice of options.
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3.5/5
To and from Charlotte Track; day walk, good and less expensive, friendly staff, long way back due to a lot of other transports (backpackers and staff).
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3.0/5
Day walk from Ships Cove to Furneaux Lodge.
Not much information given & time allocated was less than advertised but water taxi waited 10mins for us.
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3.0/5
Didn't warn about bad conditions cause of heavy rain, they talked distances down, so we under-estimated the track.
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3.5/5
To and from Charlotte Track; day walk, good and less expensive, friendly staff, long way back due to a lot of other transports (backpackers and staff).
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5.0/5
Competitive price.
Very helpful and informative skipper (Julian), nice catamaran. Walked 10km of Queen Charlotte Track - wonderful area. Unplanned dolphin experience!
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3.5/5
Queen Charlotte Track transport by water taxi.
Good service and advice and the staff are O.K. Similar prices to other companies but with less choice of options.
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3.5/5
Queen Charlotte sound boat trip with drop off at Ship Cove.
Pick-up was agreed at 2pm, company managed to get 1 hour late.
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5.0/5
A great little system that allows backpackers to walk the Queen Charlotte Track hassel free.
The boat cost $53 each and pick us up from Anakiwa on time. The captain also turned around on the way back to allow us to see dolphins. Awesome!
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5.0/5
The company is a good choice if you only want to walk a couple of hours on the Queen Charlotte track, the staff is fantastic and we saw many dolphins!
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3.0/5
Didn't warn about bad conditions cause of heavy rain, they talked distances down, so we under-estimated the track.
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4.5/5
Fantastic we did ship cove to furneaux lodge and on the way we came across dolphins and also blue penguins guy driving boat was great even turned us round to see penguins.
cool well worth it
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4.5/5
Water taxi service operating at Queen Charlotte track.
Very friendly people & marvellous service.
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3.0/5
Day walk from Ships Cove to Furneaux Lodge.
Not much information given & time allocated was less than advertised but water taxi waited 10mins for us.
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3.0/5
Very expensive water taxi compared with Abel Tasman.
The Queen Charlotte Hill Top walk track didn't have great views with lots of bushwalking.
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2.5/5
Friendly, great trip but walking time too much short (you had to run the last part to be on time) - Queen Charlotte Track.
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