Punakaiki Blow Holes & Pancake Rocks Scenic Tour: Experience World's Top 10 Coastal Drives

Tour with our local knowledgeable guides to one of the World’s Top 10 Coastal Scenic drives and visit the famous Punakaiki Blow Holes and Pancake Rocks. One of the regions key icons and a must do when visiting the South Island.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Pancake Rocks and Blowholes Walk - Punakaiki, the World famous Coast road is rated one of the top 10 Coastal drives in the World. Home to the Pancake Rocks, where the sea, wind and massive geological change have shaped the landscape creating fascinating stacked limestone rocks that the sea has eroded creating blowholes.
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What's Included
    • Admission ticket included
Location
Greymouth isite Visitor Information Centre
MacKay Street
At the Greymouth Railway Station building carpark outside the visitor centre, located near Speights Ale House and The Warehouse buildings.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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R4160wepaulc
Nov 29, 2025
Very informative tour - Thankyou Linda - for being so informative on this trip and making myself, travelling solo, feel so included in this tour with others in the tour van.
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Linda_f
Oct 21, 2025
Linda's passion for the land made our trip truly magical! - This was a Highlight of our New Zealand experience! Linda picked us up at the Train station after the Trans Alpine ride and we were driven to the Pancake rocks. Anyone can do that but NO ONE shares her love of the land, people, flora and rocks like Linda! We fell in love with drizzling, Greymouth! Loved the pancake rocks- so unique that they will be in our Christmas card - and then she took us for "tea" at a local hotel - overlooking the ocean! Linda brought our experience alive for us! Thank you Linda for sharing your passion!
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Mvzachar
Oct 16, 2025
Super tour experience! - A friendly and knowledgable tour guide helped us to appreciate this wonderful landscape! This tour is well worth the money.
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Jody_m
Sep 29, 2025
Our guide was amazing!... - Our guide was amazing! she was very informative and gave us lots of information about the area. The rock formation was amazing to see.
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Pauapatty
Sep 20, 2025
Well worth a walk - We have done this walk before, many years ago. More commercialized area now but still no cost to do the walkway, and is well fenced, pathways are well maintained. Never fails to amaze, the views are spectacular.
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Tx4traveling
Jun 29, 2025
Great tour and tour company! - What an amazing tour of an incredible place! Explore West Coast Tour and especially Linda for the wonderful tour today took excellent care of us, showing us beautiful scenery in Greymouth and on the way to Pancake Rocks. Linda fabulous and so knowledgeable of history and the local animals and plants - we learned a lot and had fun doing it. The van is comfortable and the half day tour is well planned and even better than the description. The tea stop was a fantastic treat to cap our terrific afternoon with Linda. I will use this company anytime I can and I strongly recommend them - Linda too.
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Heatherofern
May 17, 2025
The power of the sea - Absolutely loved this experience. We visited in low and high tide and the difference was breathtaking. I have always loved the sea and this was a wonderful way to experience it: the walk is mostly level with some staircases and every corner provides a different view of the rock pools or blow holes. Magical.
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Surendhren_m
May 3, 2025
Again we had a wonderful... - Again we had a wonderful experience and great place to visit. Our guide Linda was wonderful and very informative about each and every place. We had an amazing time
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Florencegee
Apr 16, 2025
Exceeded Expectations - Our friendly, knowledgable and informative Guide Linda adapted our tour on the day, to meet our interests. This included, among others, the "Paparoa Experience" within the Punangairi Visitor Centre, that provided an enlightening historical cultural context to our tour experience. While the Pancake Rocks were amazing, we enjoyed Linda's drawing our attention to other places, people, flora and fauna, eg the Nikau Palm grove. Thank you, a wonderful day.
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Marcel
Nov 11, 2025
Spectacularly beautiful and free! - Very nice and beautiful walk along wild sea. The circular walk takes about 30 minutes. It is free and ample parking. During the walk you will pass mighty vistas, wild sea and perhaps a dolphin. Also the special pancake rocks are worth Definitely recommended. Punakaki is in the middle of nowhere. A trip here takes hours. We passed it during our tour and we are glad we stopped here.
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From $75
up to 12 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).