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Join Red Carpet Tours on a Middle-earth adventure and even dress as your favourite characters. Enjoy role playing at your favourite movie locations. Book Now!
Calling all Cosplayers
Make your Lord of the Rings dream a reality with us, the only authorized LOTR multi-day tour company in New Zealand!
Join us on a Middle-earth adventure and even dress as your favourite characters. Enjoy role playing at your favourite movie locations with other like-minded people.
Join us this winter (August – September) to experience fun, friendship, special guests and snow!
For our Australian friends come and experience a Middle-earth winter and even add some skiing to the end of your journey.
For our fellow Hobbits out there, you will get to meet Rossie Cotton and for our Dwarves out there you will get to meet Dori!
- Take some middle earth treasure home with you using your Red Carpet Tours Weta Cave discount!
- Test your archery skills out at Laketown and see and touch some props that were used in the films!
- Meet with our cloak maker and buy a special cloak of your own if you wish.
- Engage in diverse and unique extra optional activities especially picked out for our LOTR fans.
Make new friendships that will last a lifetime!
Our passionate guides are LOTR fans themselves!
Direct bookings get a welcome pack with a Red Carpet Tours beanie and fellowship leaf broach.
Book your very own Middle-earth Tour!
What people have said
There is a reason that this company is the premier in its field. I’ve been home for almost a week now and I’m still struggling to comprehend how incredible my experience with Red Carpet Tours was. This was hands down one of the best things I ever have, and likely ever will do in my...
Taylor K
Red Carpet Tours is a fabulous company - been with them 3 times. I agree with others posted here that it is the BEST way to see New Zealand, especially if you are a "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" fan - and even if you're not! From all the Magnificent New Zealand...
John N
My second tour through Middle Earth (New Zealand) was just as wonderful as the first, the locations you are taken to are just amazing. Best suited for people with interest in the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, you make so many friends throughout your journey that you become your own...
Lisa S
From first contact with the James family, and the Lord of the Rings-Red Carpet Tours, you are in the best of hands. You expect so much on the tour but you receive so much more. I came back from my first tour believing I'd never have a better, truly satisfying experience, and they could...
Barbara S
Everything about this tour was amazing! Our tour guide Julie is a true LOTR fan, and made sure everybody was looked after. The locations were well researched and meaningful. Even after the tour ended, Julie has kept in touch as we all went our separate ways and travelled home to various parts of...
Jody R
I went solo and am a bit of an introvert, but Julie and the rest of the tour members made this an unforgettable experience and made me feel right at home. This was number one on my bucket list and it exceeded my expectations across the board. If you're contemplating booking this tour, just...
Jordan M
This is the best and ONLY way for a LOtR/Hobbit fan to experience New Zealand. Julie and her team are fantastic, knowledgeable people who, you can tell, put so much time and effort into making sure your experience with them is an amazing one! You will not regret choosing them as your guides...
Stephanie B
With Julie James as our guide (Feb. 2018) on the 14 day tour... it was excellent! She always took every effort and opportunity to see to everyone's requests. The hotels we stayed in were wonderful. The meals were delicious. But the tour itself??? Awesome!!! We had big LOTR and the Hobbit...
Katherine C
Amazing and so well worth it! Days in a row of just being excited for something alone was something special to me but also meeting like-minded people who were so accepting and fun was fantastic! Julie James is a treasure - handles everything with grace and was just everything you want in a tour...
Tracy E
I don’t have enough good things to say about this incredible experience. Our guide Julie is so knowledgeable and fun about everything LOTR AND New Zealand in general! My husband and I went for our belated honeymoon and I would do it all again in a heartbeat. You’re fed like Hobbits...
Taylor & Nick L