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Bee Keeping Experience

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Learn all about the fascinating world of the honey bee with this incredible Bee Keeping Experience!

Learn all about the fascinating world of the honey bee with this incredible Bee Keeping Experience!

Highlights

  • Learn about bees including their lifecycle, why manuka honey is so amazing and the importance of bees to our global food chain.
  • Put on a full-length bee suit and join an experienced Bee Keeper to help open an active hive to observe its inner workings
  • Witness the different bees found in a hive and hopefully locate the Queen.

Interactive and exciting, our bee keeping experience is a must do!

We’ll start with an informative digital presentation before donning a full-length bee suit and joining an experienced Bee Keeper to open and work an active hive. You’ll get to witness the inner workings of these amazing colonies while learning about their secrets from your friendly and knowledgeable guide.

Suitable for anyone 6 years and over, our fun and easy experience requires no physical fitness and is great for families with children sized bee suits available.

Join us for this awesome Bee Keeping Experience, great for the whole family!

Adult $69.00
Child $59.00 (Under 15 years old)

What's included

  • Bee Suits & Gloves are provided.

Duration

  • Allow approximately 1 hour for the whole experience

Location

  • 26 Hansen Road
  • Frankton
  • Queenstown 9371

Child Friendly

  • This experience welcomes families with children.

Notes

  • Suitable for children over 6 years old, the child price is applicable for ages under 15 years.

    Please note, sturdy footwear and socks are required. We recommend wearing long pants and a long sleeve top, but these are not essential.

    This experience is weather dependent and runs with a minimum of 2x persons.

    We're unable open a working hive in cold weather as this can kill or severely damage a working Hive, so in bad weather well open up one of our Indoor live hives.

Authenticated Reviews & PhotosAll of our reviews are from people who have booked and paid for this activity thru Bookme

Authenticated Reviews & PhotosAll of our reviews are from people who have booked and paid for this activity thru Bookme

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EeLyn Su from Australia wrote on 05 April 2024

Amazing!

One of the highlights of our visit to Queenstown. Nick was very knowledgeable and made honey bee keeping and honey making such an interesting and educational session. Highly recommended and worth the buzzzzzzz!

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stephanieh11 from Canada wrote on 14 March 2023

Unique experience

Fantastic tour and unique experience. I loved learning all about honey and the bees. Nick has so much information and is a terrific guide sharing his knowledge in a conversational way where you don’t feel like you are just being lectured to. Absolutely loved it and would highly recommend. The cafe has a great atmosphere and there are regional and distinct honeys available for purchase that you won’t find in a grocery store.

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Natalia Moiseeva from Russia wrote on 28 January 2023

Wonderful tour

Very interesting experience and a lot of historical and amazing information. I had a wonderful time and after an opportunity to buy 100% natural honey or honeycombs. Very cozy cafe on the territory, it is possible to arrive early, drink coffee and enjoy the food before tour

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Melanie Powell from New Zealand wrote on 23 January 2023

Well worth it

Excellent fun and informative experience. Friendly staff , the most beautiful pure honey and great value Thanks😁

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Rebecca Ross from Australia wrote on 26 November 2022

Awesome tour

Thanks Nick for such an informative and fun tour at the Buzzstop. We both learnt so much about bees and honey in such a short space of time . Your shop is a real credit to you and we highly recommend this tour. Bec & Steve from Australia.

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