- Albatross Tours
- All ages
- 1.5 hours
The ultimate tour – a 90 minute guided tour combining the Albatross Classic with the Fort Taiaroa to include the human history of Pukekura / Taiaroa Head.
The ultimate tour – a 90 minute guided tour combining the Albatross Classic with the Fort Taiaroa to include the human history of Pukekura / Taiaroa Head.
A 60 minute fully guided tour; short film, presentation on the albatross breeding cycle, short walk up the hill for viewing from our exclusive glassed observatory to view the albatross and any other wildlife.
13 – 28 April only! An express version of our standard albatross experience, designed for busy school holidays – only available in April! Fully guided – short intro, five minute film, 15 minutes viewing albatross from our glassed observatory.
A guided tour of underground Fort Taiaroa, built on the headland to counter the potential threat of a Russian invasion in the late 1880s and later used for training and defence during WWI and WWII.
Wish to learn more about the magnificent Dunedin Royals in your own bubble? Book our 60 minute fully Private Albatross Tour with a dedicated expert albatross guide.
Wish to learn more about the magnificent Dunedin Royals and Fort Taiaroa in your own bubble? Book our 90 minute fully Private Unique Taiaroa Tour with a dedicated expert albatross guide.
Drive yourself along the beautiful & scenic roads of the Otago Peninsula to combine a tour at the Royal Albatross Centre with a wildlife cruise aboard the Monarch to see Taiaroa Head from both land and sea.
A Triple Combo – see the world’s only mainland colony of Royal Albatross on a guided tour at the Albatross Centre, then join a wildlife cruise aboard the Monarch, and finish at The OPERA (formerly Penguin Place) with a guided tour to see the rare Yellow-Eyed Penguin.
Members join a free guided tour at the Royal Albatross Centre when accompanying a full paying guest – or if visiting by yourself, receive 40% off our guided tours.
Are you in Dunedin during the school holidays or Wild Dunedin Festival?
Embrace this years Wild Dunedin Festival theme ‘weather’ and create a drawing to show us how weather impacts our local Otago wildlife!
We would love to see how creative you can get – perhaps how a little penguin would deal with a huge storm way out at sea, or an albatross during a really hot day sitting on its nest.
Try to think about what kind of weather our wildlife might really enjoy – and what kind of weather wouldn’t be so good for them!
There are five age categories: 0-5 years, 6-8 years, 9-12 years, and 13+ (please indicate on your drawing which age category you are in). You can send us your entries via email, but ideally we would love for you to bring the original artwork to us here at the Royal Albatross Centre so we can display the winners – plus, entries brought to us will receive a postcard too.
Entries close on the last day of the Wild Dunedin Festival Sunday 28th April 2024. Winners will be announced Tuesday 30th April. Winners of each category will receive a prize and this will need to be picked up from the Royal Albatross Centre.
Watch Dunedin’s famous Royals from our exclusive viewing observatory. Have the chance to be awed by the majestic giant of the seas with a three-metre wingspan. Learn intimate insights and view the breeding cycle of the Northern Royal Albatross / toroa. Don’t miss your chance to visit the stars of New Zealand’s wildlife capital and encounter the magic of awesome albatross.
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The Royal Albatross Centre is operated by the Otago Peninsula Trust, New Zealand’s first private charitable conservation trust. A proportion of every ticket sold at the centre goes directly towards the fostering and protection of the Northern Royal Albatross.
Watch the famous 24-hour livestreaming Royal Cam for a sneak peek into the lives of the Royal Albatross – watch the famous pair nesting this season here