Open Road

3 months in Australia & New Zealand

Travel with: 5+ handpicked travel buddies
Stay in: Lavish or Simple spots
Come for: 3 months

Three months moving through Australia and New Zealand. Solo travelers who travel together—designed for people with time, curiosity, and zero interest in tours or packages.The Great Barrier Reef before it's gone. Rainforest older than the Amazon. Beaches where you'll swim alone in January while the UK freezes.

Endless daylight when the UK goes dark at 4pm. Wine regions that rival France but nobody's heard of them. Cities built around harbours, not highways. Mountains that look fake in photos but they're real. Roads so straight you'll see the curvature of the earth. Wildlife that will try to kill you (spiders, snakes, jellyfish) and wildlife that just wants photos (quokkas, penguins, kookaburras).

One day a week is planned together—sailing the Whitsundays, wine tasting in South Australia's Barossa Valley, hiking New Zealand's Fiordland tracks. The rest of the time you shape your own days and tell everyone about it later. Accommodation is characterful and well-chosen—beachside apartments, inner-city neighborhoods, places where you can actually do laundry and cook if you want to.

This trip works for you if

You want adventure travel through Australia and New Zealand beyond Sydney and Auckland, are happy on domestic flights as you are on coastal drives, find joy not boredom in small wine towns, and approach things like Australian heat or New Zealand's changeable weather with curiosity even if they're outside your everyday.Most people on this trip are over 50, done with work or taking a break from it, and treating this like the gap year they never had. Unlike rushed Australia/NZ tours that do both countries in three weeks, you'll spend weeks in places, not days.

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Itinerary

Cairns, Australia
Whitsundays, Australia
Byron Bay, Australia
Sydney, Australia

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Itinerary

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Cairns, Australia
Whitsundays, Australia
Byron Bay, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Adelaide, Australia
Perth, Australia
Auckland, New Zealand
Queenstown, New Zealand
From
£16,199

excluding flights

Was
£21,598

excluding flights

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Financial protection

Your money is held in a trust account managed by Protected Trust Services until your trip departs.

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How it works

Like living
Abroad

With months to play with, this will feel like living abroad – time to settle in, establish your rituals (from your favourite coffee spot to yoga class) and properly unpack.

Handpicked travel
buddies

6-12 people we select. Everyone 50+ and good craic. Explore what interests you, then join them for dinner to debrief afterwards. If you fancy.

Solo travel
freedom

You know what you like – this is very much your trip. We sort accommodation, travel days, and weekly time together for an adventure of sorts. Other than that, the time's your own.

24/7
backup

One of our people on WhatsApp for backup locally and to help with logistics – stays, travel days, whatever comes up. Otherwise, you're left to your own devices.

Sue and her friend at Machu Picchu

You deserve great travel buddies

So we’re thoughtful about who joins.

We're looking for: Optimistic. Curious. Easy with the unknown. People who go with the flow and say yes when it counts.

How it works:

- Step 1. Book a discovery call. A quick chat to see if it feels right.

- Step 2. Apply with £250 deposit. Refunded if it's not a fit.

- Step 3. Complete a short application. So we understand -your experience and expectations.

- Step 4. Get your place. You're officially in.

- Step 5. Join the WhatsApp group. Meet fellow Pioneers as departure approaches.