Kaiapoi isite Visitor Information Centre

26/07/2025

📣Fantastic News! 📣

🚌 Intercity are launching their new daily InterCity service between Christchurch, and Greymouth. We are excited!

📆 Starting from the 1st October 2025

👩👩‍🦳Come in and see Anna or Pauline for great ideas to the West Coast - we can put a wonderful package together with transport, accommodation, and tours.

https://visitwaimakariri.co.nz/home/isite/

23/07/2025

19/07/2025

🚆Great Journeys of NZ - 🚆Uptrain Downtrain - Mid-Winter Christmas 🎅🤶

A Mid-Winter Christmas High Tea & Theatre | July Departure

Dust off the Christmas Jumpers for this festive affair.

📆26th July 2025 | A Mid-Winter Christmas High Tea

Celebrate Christmas in July with a festive high tea experience aboard our scenic train to Timaru! Champagne, theatrical cheer, and delectable treats await. Join The Court Theatre's jesters as they uncover drama aboard with interactive theatre.

Details:

Christchurch to Timaru, Return
📍Departing Christchurch Railway Station at 10.15am, returning at 4.05pm
Enjoy 90 minutes to explore Timaru!
High tea & Champagne along the journey
The Court Theatre's 'Uptrain, Downtrain: Midwinter Merriment' theatre show
Price: $449 per person
Departing 26th July 2025

17/07/2025

📍Where: Mandeville Tavern, 99 Raven Quay, Kaiapoi

📆 When: Saturday 19 July 2025 7:00pm

Free Event

Old Skool are back at one of North Canterbury's best venues.

Come along for a night full of your favourite classic tunes.

03/07/2025

🌨❄️⛄️Blackwell's Winter Festival returns in 2025, inviting families to revel in the magic of the season!

📆When: Saturday 12th July 2pm - 7pm
📍Where: Blackwells Department Store Carpark, Kaiapoi

Victor Cagayat will once again dazzle audiences with his breathtaking ice sculpting, enchanting all from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in the car park of Blackwell's Department Store. We are thrilled to welcome back the Serendipity Circus from 3:00 to 7:00 PM, where Freya, Dan, Sam, Tyla, and their talented troupe will mesmerize you with their extraordinary skills.

An afternoon, and early evening entertainment for all. There will also be many of the popular food and craft stallholders, alongside some exciting new additions! As darkness falls, the ice sculptures will be illuminated, accompanied by the enchanting melodies of Santiago and his Latin guitar.

Join in-store during the Winter Festival for an irresistible Blackwell's bargains.

Bundle up and enjoy for this Free Event and support our community!

For more information on other upcoming local events, or special packages, pop in and see us for a calendar (143 Williams Street, Kaiapoi), or head to www.visitwaimakariri.co.nz/events

30/06/2025

👩‍🦱🧑‍SCHOOL HOLIDAYS are here 28 June - 13 July - Looking for an unforgettable day out these school holidays? Fantastic discounts for kids at the following:

🦒🐅🦏ORANA PARK - From 28 June to 13 July 2025, two children aged 5–15 years get FREE* entry with every paying adult, senior, or student. That means all the fun of a visit to Orana for less!

🚠CHRISTCHURCH GONDOLA – Our popular Kids Go Free offer at the Christchurch Gondola is back for another year, with up to three children free entering the attraction for free with a paying adult between 28 June – 13 July 2025! It’s a great opportunity to visit us for spectacular views, walking trails, the audio-visual Discovery Ride about the area’s history.

🚋CHRISTCHURCH TRAM - Kids Go Free offer to the Christchurch Tram for 2025! Up to three children can hop on the tramcars for free with a paying adult between 28 June – 13 July. Explore the city with an all-day pass and hop on and off at any of the 18 stops, including some family favourites (like Margaret Mahy Playground, the Art Gallery and Tūranga). It’s a great option for a family day out to explore what’s new in the city.

⛴🐬AKAROA NATURE CRUISE - Kids cruise for free in Akaroa in the June/July school holidays. View Hector’s dolphins, NZ fur seals, and more! . 2 free kids per full paying adult. Not valid with any other promotions.
Saturday 28 June – Sunday 13 Jul 2025

For more information on other upcoming local events, or special packages, pop in and see us for a calendar (143 Williams Street, Kaiapoi), or head to www.visitwaimakariri.co.nz/events

28/06/2025

July School Holidays are here!

HSPA presents a musical theatre production of Rapunzel. Complete with song, dance, acting, costumes, scenery and special effects. A show for the whole family.

Based on the Grimms Brothers tale, this stage musical tells the story of Rapunzel, the spirited young woman who was kidnapped from her parents by a witch and held captive in a tall tower. With the arrival of Prince Charming, Rapunzel escapes the witch only to end up on a mad caper through the forest in search of her Prince Charming. Along the way she encounters many well-known fairytale characters in a comic escapade filled with music and dance from across the genres.

This is a show for all ages, plenty of colour and magic for the kids as well as some humour for the parents!

🖲Where: Rangiora Town Hall

📆 When: Thurs 3 July – Sat 5 July 2 pm daily
Thurs 4 & Fri 4 July 7.30 pm

🎟 Buy your tickets: Available at Rangiora Townhall cinema online, or over the counter sales

23/06/2025

Looking for an excuse to eat more pies??? Try new pies??? Support local eateries???

Check out what's happening in our district in July.

This July, some of our incredible Waimakariri local makers and bakers will be featured on the very first MADE North Canterbury Pie Trail. A celebration of pies MADE in NORTH CANTERBURY!

A tasty new way to explore the region, one pie at a time. From award-winners to hidden local gems, you’ll want to explore every stop along the way.

🍽 EAT a pie from one of the stops,
📲 SHARE your thoughts as a post or reel,
🎁 and you’re in to WIN a YETI Soft Cooler prize pack!

💥 Think you’ve got what it takes to be this year’s Pie Hard?
👀 Stay tuned - the full trail will be revealed soon and how to enter.

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17/06/2025

What a beautiful day in Kaiapoi! Pop into the isite and grab a free street map or cycle map, and get out there and enjoy :-)

09/06/2025

📆 ⭐️ Matariki long weekend is approaching ⭐️ .... need help with planning a break away?

🙋‍♀️🙋 Come in and see us and we can help you with your planning, book your accommodation, activities, ferries, Intercity buses, trains and a whole lot more......

For more information on other upcoming local events, or special packages, pop in and see us for a calendar (143 Williams Street, Kaiapoi), or head to www.visitwaimakariri.co.nz/events

08/06/2025

A reminder that Kaiapoi isite sells (the card formerly known as KiwiCash) Penny Cards! Just $5.

Register your card online, top up with the amount of your choice and swipe your way to a range of services while you are travelling in NZ including Wifi, laundrys and cooking facilities. So convenient!

More details here 😀
https://go-penny.com/

05/06/2025

🙋‍♀️Dont miss out only two weeks left ......................

👀Look at the View - Rangiora Players latest show from 7 - 21 June. Shows Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun. All tickets $25 per person

This play is just the everyday tale of a couple of couples, one of whom has left their lovely, rented flat they really liked, with a garden, and not one but two toilets, for a fourth-floor apartment in a lovely location, the right end of town. And the rent on this is cheap, almost unbelievably cheap. If it was not everything they wanted, it was certainly everything that Max wanted.

All is going well until Fiona, Max’s wife, confides to her friend Stella that she found a “burner” phone, taped to the bottom of a drawer. This discovery naturally puts a whole series of doubts upon her marriage, and her friends, and her friends’ relationships, and the accusations start to fly. But that is just the everyday folk stuff, that could happen in any marriage. Soon the “too good to be true” becomes, well, too good to be true.

The production runs until Saturday 21st June, with matinees on the 14th and 21st, at the Rangiora Players Little Theatre.

🎟Book tickets online at Rangiora Players, or here at Kaiapoi isite Visitor Centre - Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5pm.