Travel in Style with Our VIP Packages
Join us aboard our special VIP WOW Train, coupled with tickets to the 2025 WOW Show, for a spectacular escape into the extraordinary World of WearableArt.
As an official sponsor of WOW, Great Journeys New Zealand is offering themed packages departing Auckland and Christchurch so you can experience the 2025 WOW Show in style. Combining the theatre of New Zealand's mesmerising scenery aboard the Northern Explorer or Coastal Pacific train with 'Gold' tickets to the WOW Show and accommodation in Wellington. Our packages will give you epic views over two of the greatest stages on Earth.
Experience a VIP style WOW welcome, a goodie bag for each passenger, plus morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea. Best of all, you will have the unique opportunity to see a few incredible works of wearable art up close so you can appreciate the astonishing detail and workmanship that goes into an award-winning wearable art design. An accompanying commentary will share with you interesting insights about each garment, including the inspiration behind the design, details about the designer, what the garment is made of, the garments' accolades etc.
Book your Auckland departure here.
Book your Christchurch departure here.
Image above: 2024 WOW Show: DREAM AWAKE, Aotearoa Section
Our line-up for 2025
VIP WOW Train departs both Auckland and Christchurch, World of WearableArt Show packages can be customised through our Travel Centre to add extra nights and inclusions.
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A Train Like No Other!
It was well worth taking the WOW Train. Lots of amazing scenery, incredible WOW garments, fabulous goody bag. Bucket list trip and would do it again! -WOW Train Passenger
Explore the Extraordinary
Step away from normality and join us on a journey like no other.
From the elegant and organic to the surreal and fantastic, our WOW packages will take you on an extraordinary journey. Across rolling meadows and soaring viaducts, through river valleys and beneath snow-capped mountains, your adventure begins with a stunning train journey through New Zealand's finest scenery.
In Wellington, your journey continues into the phenomenal World of WearableArt Show, where you'll go beyond your imagination, into a world of breathtaking creativity.
Our World of WearableArt packages provide an unforgettable experience. With travel, WOW Show tickets, and accommodation all taken care of, all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the show.
WOW Train – a sell out in 2024!
Our special WOW Train VIP Experience sold out for the past three years running, so get in quick for 2025!
This unique service will be full of all things WOW. You’ll be treated to a special VIP welcome, WOW garment appearances complete with commentary about the garment, a goodie bag for each passenger, plus lots more during your journey to Wellington.
Join us aboard our special Northern Explorer or Coastal Pacific WOW Train for a spectacular escape into the extraordinary World of WearableArt.
2024 WOW Show Highlights Reel
WOW is a world-renowned wearable art experience, where an annual design competition culminates in a spectacular show in Wellington each year.
The World of WearableArt (WOW) Show sees the stage come alive with incredible works of wearable art, dancers, aerialists, music, lights and AV.
It has best been described by some as part Cirque du Soleil, part Broadway play, and part avant-garde couture show – there is nothing else like it on earth.
WOW weaves together spectacular storytelling theatrics with lavish catwalk magic and hypnotic acrobatics. Thoughtfully composed music provides a gripping backbone as the show flows through a series of themed sections, with extraordinary works of wearable art taking centre stage.
It truly is one of the greatest journeys you will ever experience.