A trip with a difference as we enjoy a week of music making together. We form a choir, learn songs, enjoy movement, yodelling, singing classes and lots of fun, and then present a finale concert together, all while drinking wine and eating great food in the Barossa Valley.
AUCKLAND PRISCILLA PARTY
21 - 25 September 2025
Ready for a party? Well, you are invited to a five day party in Auckland with Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the Civic, and 3 Operatunity parties: Let’s Party, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! and Feathers and Frills Cocktail Party, presented by Karl, Marian, Isaac and Grant on piano.
$3520 per person twin share
Single Room Supplement Add $850
Initial Deposit On Booking $1000
Final Balance Due: 23 June 2025
Days
4
Nights
Highlights
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, 3 other great shows, Operatunity office cocktail party, Matakana day tour, wine tasting, painting class and fun, Fun, FUN!
Group Size
44
Travellers
Meals
All Breakfasts
1 High Tea
3 Lunches
2 Dinners
Cocktail Party
Mobility
Gentle Tour
SPECIAL FEATURES
• We have put together a 5 day tour in Auckland with premium seats to one of the most feel-good shows of all
time: Priscilla Queen of the Desert. This tour is all about having fun, letting your hair down, enjoying a laugh and
some great music!
• Our party continues with 3 great Operatunity festivities: Let’s Party, with a chance to dance, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!, celebrating the great pop divas of all time and Feathers and Frills Cocktail Party, which is a chance to see the Operatunity office, play with some costumes, and enjoy some great singing as well as meet some of our staff.
• Other special features include wine tasting in the West Auckland wine region, a painting session to bring out your
inner Picasso, time to enjoy St Heliers, a quaint seaside suburb of Auckland, and a tour and High Tea at the iconic
Chelsea Sugar Factory.
• We enjoy a full day tour to Matakana which includes Matakana Botanicals, time to shop, lunch, dinner and the
Sculptureum.
• Come party with Karl Perigo, Marian Burns, Isaac Pawson and Grant Winterburn with some special guests,
including our office staff coming to join in the fun!
TRIP ITINERARY
Experience the Exceptional:
SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2025 (L, D)
Four Points by Sheraton Auckland (4 nights)
Lots of people think Auckland is a big busy city with too much
traffic. There is a lot to see in Auckland and we look forward
to showing you some of its beautiful places. Set around two
harbours and filled with parks, we take you on a waterfront drive,
out West to see vineyards, over the Harbour Bridge to the North
Shore with its views back to Auckland City, the Westhaven Marina
and Matakana, a charming village close to Auckland.
Highlights Include:
• We meet late morning and it’s off to Auckland’s waterfront with
lunch in St Heliers and time for a wander and shopping in this
quaint water-front village.
• Dinner this evening at the award winning restaurant Sails
overlooking the Auckland Harbour Bridge! Girls Just Wanna Have
Fun! is our first concert so pop on your glad rags and come and
enjoy as we celebrate the great pop divas of history including
Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand and Ella Fitzgerald to name
but a few! We welcome a few surprise guests in a fun, flamboyant
start to our fabulous tour!
MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2025 (B, L)
Highlights Include:
• We enjoy a lovely drive out west today for wine tasting at a
famous winery in one of Auckland’s most scenic and historic wine
regions.
• Lunch at the historic Settler’s Hall and then unleash the artist
within for an afternoon of ‘Paint N Chill’. Don’t worry if you have
never picked up a paint brush, this is all about fun, so just bring
your sense of humour. Guaranteed to be a crazy afternoon of
laughs, you even get to take your masterpiece home! You never
know, we might discover a Picasso amongst us!
• Free evening to enjoy dinner with friends, family or for your
own exploring – perhaps
TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2025 (B, HIGH TEA,
COCKTAIL PARTY)
Highlights Include:
• A fun visit to Chelsea Sugar Factory to witness the magic
behind their beloved products, with a tour, a chance to shop and
a sumptuous High Tea included at this iconic institution.
• We invite you to a special exclusive event as we give you a look
around our office, meet some of our wonderful staff, play with
the costumes, enjoy a concert with pre-show bubbles and light
dinner. Our Feathers and Frills Cocktail Party is definitely the time
to bring out the flamboyant and frolic with us all!
• We depart in plenty of time to reach the opulent Civic Theatre
for our trip highlight Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
• With a dazzling array of costumes, extraordinary head-dresses
and a hit parade of dance-floor favourites including It’s Raining
Men, I Say a little Prayer, Venus, I will Survive, Hot Stuff, Finally,
Boogie Wonderland, Go West, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, I Love
the Nightlife and many more, this wildly fresh and funny musical
is a journey to the heart of FABULOUS!
WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2025 (B, L, D)
Highlights Include:
• Leisurely start to the morning before our drive to Matakana with
free time in this cute Village for a wander around the shops and
galleries.
• Visit to Matakana Botanicals, famous for their beautiful beauty
products and lavender farm with a tour, light lunch and a chance
to buy gifts at wholesale prices.
• This afternoon we enjoy the Sculptureum consisting of three
sculpture-filled gardens and six art galleries. An experience
unlike any other awaits. Explore Sculptureum’s Galleries and
Gardens, where over 800 stunning works of art are spread across
accessible pathways.
• Our final fabulous, fun, and flamboyant finale awaits us this
evening with Let’s Party! All about great dance music, our band
joins us for some partying and playing this evening as we take a
nostalgic journey through the great dance tunes of the 50s, 60s
and 70s!
• After our fabulous final night, we make our way back to
Auckland to be tucked up filled with an amazing end to our tour.
THURSDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2025 (B)
We are transferred to the airport this morning to make our way
home taking with us some wonderful memories of our hilarious
trip together filled with laughs, good times, frocks, feathers and
fun!
This Trip Includes:
• 5 day tour of Auckland, staying at 4-star hotel, Four Points by Sheraton.
• 4 great music events: Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the Civic, and 3 Operatunity parties: Let’s Party, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! and Feathers and Frills Cocktail Party.
• A full day tour which includes wine tasting in the famous wine tasting region out of Auckland, lunch and a painting session with fully supplied equipment and a chance to take your masterpiece home.
• A full day tour to Matakana which includes Matakana Botanicals, Sculptureum, shopping and our finale party event with dinner.
• Numerous special flavours including tour of the Chelsea Sugar Factory with high tea, cocktail party at our office with a chance to meet our staff, and dinner at one of New Zealand’s finest award winning restaurants, Sails.
• All breakfasts, 3 lunches, 1 high tea, 1 cocktail party and 2 dinners included.
• All tours, transfers, tips, concerts, taxes, as listed in the itinerary are included.
PLEASE NOTE: As our travellers are coming from all over NZ, airfares are not included. If you require us to book your flights at an additional cost, please contact us.
Important Information
• All itinerary details are subject to change, but changes will be replaced with a comparable or better option.
• Initial & Second deposits are fully refundable up until final balance due date, minus an administration fee of up to $500 plus any non-recoverable costs.
• All monies are non-refundable at final balance due date. This becomes an insurance claim.
• Bank transfer payments incur no surcharge. Credit card payments incur surcharge of 1.5%.
• Travellers need to be independently mobile and fit to travel.
• Bookings will only be accepted with initial deposit & booking form.
• All travellers must obtain comprehensive travel insurance for international travel and insurance for domestic travel is recommended.
• Please refer to our terms and conditions on booking form.
Mobility - Gentle Tour
This trip is a gentle tour with limited walking and standing. We do require you to be able to get up on a coach with ease. This tour will suit people with a stick or possibly a walker however you need to be independent and require little assistance with your mobility needs.