Crown Princess Arrives in New Zealand 🇳🇿 | Our Day in Tauranga & Mount Maunganui
After cruising across the South Pacific, we finally arrive in New Zealand for the very first time! 🇳🇿 In this travel vlog, we spend our final port day of the cruise exploring Tauranga and Mount Maunganui before Crown Princess heads to Auckland for our disembarkation. We start the day with breakfast onboard Crown Princess before heading ashore and discovering just how easy it is to explore Tauranga independently from the cruise port. After spotting a last-minute opportunity, we jump aboard a trike tour around Mount Maunganui — a fantastic and fun way to see some of the area's key sights. The tour cost us NZ$50 per person for around 25 minutes. We then walk into town, explore the shops and pick up a few souvenirs before heading to Mount Drury for some fantastic views. From there, we make our way to the beautiful Mount Maunganui beach and explore Moturiki Island, taking in the scenery and enjoying our first real taste of New Zealand. And after all that exploring, it was time for one of the most important parts of any day in New Zealand... fish and chips and a few beers! 🍺🐟🍟 We eventually head back to Crown Princess, where the reality of the cruise coming to an end kicks in. We pack our suitcases, get changed for our final evening, enjoy some cocktails and finish the night with a Silent Disco onboard. This was our first visit to New Zealand and our final port of call before arriving in Auckland. Come along and see what we discovered in Tauranga and Mount Maunganui! In this video: 🇳🇿 Our first visit to New Zealand 🚢 Crown Princess cruise 📍 Tauranga cruise port 📍 Mount Maunganui 🏍️ Trike tour 🏖️ Mount Maunganui Beach 🥾 Mount Drury 🌊 Moturiki Island 🛍️ Shopping & souvenirs 🐟 Fish & chips 🍺 Happy hour 🚢 Final night on Crown Princess 🍹 Cocktails & Silent Disco Have you visited Tauranga or Mount Maunganui? Let us know in the comments what you would recommend doing on a cruise day in New Zealand. 👍 If you enjoy cruise vlogs, travel guides and independent port exploration, please like the video and subscribe to Cooksexplore for more adventures. Life is better out there somewhere! 🌍 #Tauranga #MountMaunganui #NewZealand #CrownPrincess #CruiseVlog #NewZealandTravel #TaurangaCruise #CruiseTravel #PrincessCruises #TravelVlog Follow Us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cooksexplore?igsh=MTlxa3luZXZ1YmRwcQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr Please subscribe to see more content like this - https://youtube.com/@CooksExplore?sub_confirmation=1