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Hell's Gate - The Hell's Gate Experience

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Spend a few hours exploring the wonders of New Zealand’s only geothermal mud spa and most active geothermal reserve at Hell’s Gate...

Spend a few hours exploring the wonders of New Zealand’s only geothermal mud spa and most active geothermal reserve at Hell’s Gate...

Highlights

  • Enjoy a guided or self-guided geothermal walk through Hell’s Gate
  • Get your feet dirty in the healing mud foot pool or try Māori carving
  • Experience the magical qualities of the nutrient rich mud pools at Hell’s Gate
  • Relax and rejuvenate yourself in the Sulphur Spas and cool plunge pool
  • Soak up stunning views over the amazing geothermal reserve

Take a guided or self-guided walk amongst native bush and clouds of steam, witnessing mud volcanoes and bubbling pools. Get your feet dirty in the healing mud foot pool or try your hand at Māori carving.

After your walk, open and clean your skin by lathering it in our unique mud, before exfoliating and cleansing with a soak in the sulphur spa. While you relax, take the opportunity to admire the geothermal reserve. It’s a Rotorua experience you’ll never forget.

Adult $99.00
Child $49.50 (5 - 15 years)
Family $249.00 (2 Adults + 4 Children)

What's included

  • Geothermal walk which takes between one and one and a half hours, as well as Māori carving. Then bathe in our world-famous mud baths and soak in the sulphur spas and cool plunge pool.

Duration

  • Allow approx 3 hours for the whole experience

Location

  • Hell’s Gate is located approximately 25 minutes from Rotorua City on SH30. Full driving instructions are provided on your booking confirmation email

Child Friendly

  • This experience welcomes families with children.

Notes

  • Infants 0 - 4 years go FREE.

  • Geothermal Walk: Complimentary guided tours run daily, please check the Hells Gate website for departure times. Alternatively, a self-guided map is provided.

    Courtesy Coach Departures: Hells Gate provides a complimentary shuttle pick-up and drop-off, available from within the Rotorua central area. Bookings are essential. Please see the Hells Gate website for the latest timetable and to contact the tour operator to arrange shuttle if required.

    If it is raining, bring your own jacket or purchase a disposable rain poncho at Hells Gate. The rain will only add to your experience; the reserve has a noticeable increase in activity and steam during the rain.

    You can bring your own swimsuits and towel, or swimsuits, shorts, and towels can be hired at reception for $5.00 per item. These items are commercially laundered after each use. Swimsuits are also available for sale, subject to availability.

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Priscilla from New Zealand wrote on 07 June 2021

Couple date

We loved the experience although would have been nice to have been told we would possibly be on a wait list for the mud spa .... quit embarrassing to walk in only to be told wait we have a wait list. Also found when I looked on the hells gate website the cost was the same as I paid on book me so I didn’t really get a discount by using the book me site. Womans change rooms are not very discreet from the public walking past of u are on that end of the benches in the change rooms very concerning for woman an children. No signage or info displayed explaining the benefits of the mud or sulphur around the pools to enhance ur experience of knowing what why how etc

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Purnima Kadarasen from New Zealand wrote on 27 April 2021

Must try experience in Rotorua

If you are in Rotorua for the first time, then definitely need to go to Hell's Gate to try their sulfuric acid pool, mud bath and guided tour. The price for this package is 100NZD which is a bit costly but Rotorua is a tourist town and therefore everything is hiked up price for tourist. Other than good experience that you should try for at least once.

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yvettec1 from New Zealand wrote on 17 April 2021

Great relaxing time

Recommend the mud bath, staff are awesome

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ericf2 from New Zealand wrote on 27 September 2021

Soothing

Excellent hospitality, welcoming experience 👍👏

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Lorryl from New Zealand wrote on 25 September 2021

Fabulous

A must do. Great service from our arrival to our departure.. An easy hours stroll around the geothermal topped of with a mud spa and thermal soak. Great facilities, modernized and applying covid practices. Thank you we had a lovely afternoon escape in our own back yard Only 20 minutes from home and 60 years to get here!

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