10 Most Family-Friendly Attractions in Wellington New Zealand

The places are briefly given below. Have it as guide tour for your safe and happy trip in New Zealand

Weta Cave is a special effect, costume, and props company. This Famous place is a hub for Weta Workshops. At this cave there are lot of attractions to click your photo or selfie; some are like the life-sized sculptures, mini-museum. Weta Workshop is a gateway to the incredible film making experiences in Wellington, New Zealand. Family visiting this place can take 45 minutes guided tours, which starts every half an hour and describes the process of making props and costumes. From Lord of the rings to avatar, Thor Ragnarok all the movies costume special effects and props are developed in this place. Weta Cave is 8km away from the city center, one can catch a bus or drive away to this place.

1 Weka St, Miramar, Wellington 6022, New Zealand

Monday – Sunday, 9:30 – 17:30,
Closed on Christmas Eve

Pocket Shooter: $28

Wellington Botanic Garden has a history of 150 years and recognized as a garden of national significance. Botanic Garden is a popular spot in Wellington New Zealand, which is located on the hills between Thorndon and Kelburn. This Garden is spread over 25 hectares of unique landscape, exotic forests, Colourful floral display. Without a miss all the family members have to visit Duck Pond, Begonia House, Lady Norwood Rose Garden, Treehouse which is bound to give relaxation to your family also, there is a children’s play area for your kids to jump upon each other and enjoy playing games although the day.

Also, this garden takes you through the garden sculptures. The sundial of Human involvement and stunning views of the city and harbor at the garden gives a family natural attraction to the garden. I understand your family trip may be inclusive of old aged people who cannot walk for long, there is a wheelchair services that can be used from designated places like Top of the cable car, Lady Norwood Rose Garden, Glenmore street main entrance but botanic garden is on the hilly region wheelchair is not available in all the places.

101 Glenmore St, Kelburn, Wellington 6012, New Zealand

All through the year, Sunrise to Sun Set

If your family bags some adventurous people, then this place in Wellington New Zealand is a must-visit place. Situated on the hills above the New Zealand Capital city and gives a breathtaking view from the Makara Peak. This is the largest trail network in the lower North island of Wellington and one of its kind for the people who like mountain biking. Makara Peak is 45 km flowing single track which takes you through steepest, narrowest, and gentle gradient roads, which is suitable for beginners and also an ideal place for family and kids. Makara Peak is accessible from various points of wellington city, and If you hire an MTB cycle then it might take you hardly 2-6 hours to reach the peak point depending on your endurance level. This beautiful trail takes you through 250 hectares of regenerating native greenery busy, and on the way, there is a 72 m swing bridge that gives you a jaw-dropping panoramic view of the Wellington harbor.

116/122 S Karori Road, Wellington 6012, New Zealand

Is it not fascinating to hear a world called zoo? This name gives joy to all the age groups to see endangered or historical animals.

One of the best attractions to this zoo in wellington New Zealand is tourists can have a close encounter with most of the animals. You will be accompanied by a zookeeper who works with the animals and know them better. So, they will introduce you to your encounter animals, and he can answer all the questions regarding the animals. Although this close encounter timing and price varies from animals to animals. No doubt, it is a rejuvenating experience for your family members and a must-visit place in wellington.

200 Daniell St, Newtown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand

Monday – Sunday, 9:30 – 17:00
Christmas Day Closed

Zoo Entry $27, 4 Close Encounter animals and zoo entry $129

If you are a science geek and your family loves to explore the sky, then Carter Observatory in Wellington New Zealand is a place for your needs. A place to discover the stories of southern skies in a space place state of art planetarium. In this place, one can experience the digital science that takes you on a virtual ride into our space and solar system and beyond it. Also, your family can have a pleasant experience of watching stars and planets on a historic Thomas Cooke telescope, but unfortunately not every day, only on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturdays as weather permits. Enter the gallery arena and discover the universe, origin, and big bang theory, creation of Maori star, and their relationship with the new year.

This Dome-shaped planetarium also hosts a range of planetarium movies that can be watched by all the ages. One of the best attractions at carter observatory is adapting a star, Yes. Don’t be confused, and this planetarium allows adopting a star and giving someone, you love the best gift that’s quite out of this world. And what not? You will be given a certificate dedicating a star to your loved ones. There is lot of reason for your family to cherish in this scientific Observatory so put this place into your traveling list and surprise your family.

40 Salamanca Rd, Kelburn, Wellington 6012, New Zealand

Tuesday & Friday, 16:00 – 23:00
Saturday, 10:00 – 23:00
Sunday, 10:00 – 17:30

Single - $14, Family - $45

Otari Wilton’s Bush is a place which is a combination of a botanical garden and the National Forest in Willington, New Zealand. This natural beauty and the forest reserve are situated in Willington, New Zealand. The places have almost 100 hectares of its native forest and 5 hectares of its beautiful plantation. It’s a great place to visit to have a calm nature and relax with fresh greenery. It is managed by the Wellington City council. The name Otari is described as “Maori” which is called the “Place of Snakes.”

Things to do in this place are Bird Hunting, Nature View, Different types of trees. and there are many ancient trees, which are older than 800 years and huge to see. There is a canopy as well which is of 75-metre-long, and 3 picnic spots to rest and enjoy, there are 2 barbeques and one picnic lawn, which can be booked only by the first come and first serve. There are almost more than 150 species of flowering plants. Coniferous forests and many more. For all the plant lovers you can borrow from the plantation. This place is a great watch for all the greenery lovers, and I suggest all the tourists visit this place in Willington New Zealand to have scenic beauty and pleasure to relax.

Monday to Saturday: 10:00AM to 5:00PM

Sundays and Holidays: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

While we have a look on all the other museums in wellington, how can we miss this most inspiring and the great gallery of art and also called the “Container of treasures” and here we go to know a brief about this museum, i.e. Museum of New Zealand also called as Te Papa Tongarewa. This museum is located in Wellington of New Zealand. And was launched in 1998. The museum consists of six floors of engaging, interactive displays, and also the great cultural treasures, art, 3D animation are the view gallery which can be the most inspiring to watch in the museum.

There are many exhibitions conducted in a year about the New Zealand geology, its natural environment diversity over the art and the culture of New Zealand, and about many authors. The Te papas were recently nominated and named as one of the lonely planet’s top 500 places to see on the earth. Don’t ever miss the museum as it gives the history of complete New Zealand and its art and culture. The great country to live in.

Monday to Sunday – 10 AM-6 PM

Festive days are holidays

Entry free.

The Cable car museum is the most popular museum located in wellington of New Zealand. It’s a house with the original winding car system, which has 2 floors. The most adventure way to travel from one place to another is through cable car, we have a cable car in every country where we visit, But I would suggest traveling here, This is really unique and very old technique and the design in which the wellington’s most iconic way which was developed to travel. This was launched from 1902 till 1978. And in this museum, you can also see variety of cable cars which was built during the ancient times to travel, I don’t think even the modern cable cars would have that grip and those designs, the great place to visit and watch the mechanism of cable car, would be this.

There were many types of cable cars, such as Grip car no 3, The relentless Red Rattler and many more. The beauty of the technology and the skill used to build this cable car and transport all the visitors and Wellingtonians from century is amazing and inspiring for modern technology. I would recommend to all the visitors to must watch this place to know about the transport system of the early ages and their skills.

Monday to Sunday – 10 AM – 5:00 PM

Holidays on festive days.

Entry free.

Who doesn’t love Tattoos, it’s a craze, fashion, passion, and people would love to have a tattoo on them? When we have one such museum, everybody would love to visit and check the various tattoos, which are kept as an art in the form of paintings, which makes it popular for all the visitors. The National Tattoo Museum is also called as MOKOMUSEUM. Stephen Maddock created this museum in 2001, which is in Wellington of New Zealand. Stephen was inspired by the Amsterdam tattoo museum and built this museum. This museum gives you more about tattoo history and century-old tattoos, which are displayed with beautiful paintings, sketches, oil painting, and many more. The ancient art of tattooing is also known as Ta Moko. Every unique design sketch of all the ancient Tattoo makers has been captured and displayed. We would find many tattoo shops as well besides this museum. All the tattoo lovers must visit this place to know how the early ages tattoos were, and you would get a beautiful idea on the things which were used before to design a tattoo. Wow, it's so great to see that all these are still preserved for us to view things that we are passionate about.

Monday to Thursday – 12:00 to 5 PM

Friday & Saturday – 12:00 to 8:00PM

The famous museum which is built in Wellington’s Iconic Reserve is the New Zealand Cricket Museum. This was built in 1987.This cricket museum is open always when there is a match been held near the Basin Reserve. The best thing about the museum is to know about the old cricketers, the trophies, Photographs and it also has all the cricketer’s autographs and their bats and balls which were used to play for the world cups. It’s such a pleasure to watch all these things in this beautiful cricket museum. The biggest trophies won by New Zealand for BLACKCAPS, and WHITE FERNS are the most precious things to see here. I will have to mention this for all the cricket lovers, they will be able to see the story of all their favorite cricketers about their achievements and how did they fall in to cricket and what has motivated them to come to cricket, so it would be the most lovable place for everybody from kids to youngsters, who would willing to know about their role models. Please do visit this museum along with family; this is more loving to all the cricketers and cricket lovers.

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Sundays and festival days are Holidays.

During the Cricket match time, its always open to checkin the museum.

It's free for all visitors to go to the museum.

Deciding to make a family trip is not just a chance. It’s a priority need in everyone’s lives; trust me, some of the best memories I have made are during traveling with my family. One should always get out of his work and make time to travel with his family to have relaxation, also its true that time spent with family helps you to create a strong bond, love and tightens your relationship with your family members. Planning a journey with your family at least once in a year is advisable to create a balance between professional life and personal life and other benefits of planning for a family trip would be favored to get a group discount for your travel,

Also, New Zealand is a place for tourism and 2^nd safest place in the world, so never hesitate to plan your travel to Wellington New Zealand and also my advice is never ever missing this place when you are visiting New Zealand.