Doubtful Sound Day Cruise, Overnight Cruise, Fiordland New Zealand.

Doubtful Sound Cruise Fiordland New Zealand.

Doubtful Sound New Zealand

Day-Cruise: Price
Overnight Navigator Cruise: Price

The cruise departure point is just 15 minutes walk from Beechwood Lodge.

The journey begins with a 40 minute boat trip across Lake Manapouri to the Visitor Centre at the West Arm of the lake.

Then by coach, 12 miles via Wilmot Pass to the cruise ship at Deep Cove.

Manapouri to Doubtful Sound. Visitor Center at the West Arm of Lake Manapouri where the transfer to coach occurs.

World Heritage Park: there is no public road into Doubtful Sound, this helps to preserve the remote wilderness of this unspoiled region. Fiordland marine life includes: little blue penguins, fur seals, dolphins.

Power station included in the day-cruise, option to visit the Hydro-electric Power Station: .Power Station.| Cruise Operator | Fiordland Penguins

Book a cruise: through Beechwood Lodge, we issue the tickets and add
the cost to your lodge bill, payable on check-out. 20% discount applies when booking day-cruises to both Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound.


Kayaking Doubtful Sound	Fiordland Crested Penguin

Overnight Cruise: if staying at Beechwood Lodge after your overnight cruise you may leave your bags in your rooms, no need to vacate the suite.

Small Cruise Operator:. Fiordland Ecology Holidays .private charter, research trips, scuba diving. Cruise trips from 1 to 6 days.

Bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound riding the wake. Cruise trips depart from Manapouri in Fiordland.

Doubtful Sound: extract from a book by, Viscount Cobham.

"There are just a few areas left in the world where no human has ever set foot. That one of them should be in a country so civilized, so advanced as New Zealand may seem incredible, unless one has visited the south-west corner of the S. Island.

Doubtful Sound is one of the south's best-kept secrets. Accessible only across Lake Manapouri and Wilmot Pass, Doubtful Sound is three times longer and 10 times larger than its more famous cousin Milford Sound.

Jagged razor backed mountains rear their heads into the sky. More than 200 days of rain a year ensure not a tree branch is left bare and brown, moss and epiphytes drape every nook. The forest is intensely green.

This is big country ... one day peaceful, a study in green and blue, the next melancholy and misty, with low cloud veiling the tops... an awesome place, with its granite precipices, its hanging valleys and its thundering cascades".