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Getting to The Portage Resort Hotel - Marlborough Sounds
Google mapAccess is easy for guests staying at the Portage Resort Hotel. The central location ensures the hotel is easily reached by road, water or air.
The Portage is just 15 minutes by boat from Picton or it is
1.25 hours by sealed road.
GPS loading data - Town – Picton; Road – Kenepuru Road; Rapid No - 2923
Around Picton
By boat:
From Picton: Cougar line: fast water taxi from Picton – phone: +64(0)3 573 7925
It’s $NZ38 -- per person, one way
Call the hotel about 'Specials' - water taxis specially organised for you - this can be a discounted rate for 4 or more people.
From Havelock: Up Kenepuru Sound to Portage Bay Marina
Water Taxi - 35 minutes
By car:
Queen Charlotte Drive 1.25 hours with the car
You can book the boat transfer through THE PORTAGE RESORT HOTEL just let us know how you would like to travel to us and will send you all the information you need!
By floatplane:
10 minutes from Picton or your can have a longer flight with a birds eye view of the Sounds then land on the water outside the hotel and taxi to the wharf or the beach..
It's
around $120 per person for this amazing experience
and we can book it for you.
Call Hotel Reservations on 0800 762 442 or +643 573 4309
How to get to Picton, Marlborough
By air:
Marlborough Airport, Blenheim
Frequent daily flights from all major New Zealand cities
30 minute flight from Wellington
30 minutes to Picton by shuttle bus
then approx 15 minutes from Picton by water taxi and The Portage bus
Koromiko Airport, Picton
Regular flights from Wellington by Sounds Air, phone +64(0)3 520 3080
15 minutes to Picton by shuttle bus
then approx 15 minutes from Picton by water taxi and The Portage bus
By sea:
Daily ferry and fast ferry service to and from Wellington
Interislander - 3 hours phone +64(0)4 498 3303
Bluebridge - 3 hours phone + 64 (0)4 471 6188
then approx 15 minutes from Picton by water taxi and The Portage bus
By road:
State Highway 6
Christchurch - 5.5 hours
Nelson - 2 hours
Blenheim - 1.5 hours
Picton - 1.25 hours
GPS loading data:
Town – Picton
Road – Kenepuru Road
Rapid No - 2923
The last 40-60 minutes of the trip is along winding scenic roads at low speed and giving spectacular views across the Sounds and the plants and trees of the area. The Portage is easily visible from the road.
Group Transfers
A number of boat and bus operators have special arrangements with The Portage to transfer guests for meetings and special events.
Quotations can be provided by email on request.
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