After four months of 'Level 3 Covid Lockdown' non-residents and tourists were once again welcome to travel to Waiheke Island from 15 December 2021.

Auckland harbour's most-visited island had been closed to visitors between mid-August and mid-December 2021 due to Covid restrictions. During that period only island residents were able to ferry back and forth to the mainland.

But now, Waiheke Island is open again to all.

One of Waiheke's most popular and most-loved attractions is SegWai guided Segway Tours. SegWai has been a consistently top-rated business at TripAdvisor and similar rating sites for the past 7 years.

Just before Christmas, SegWai completed their first corporate entertainment booking in many months, where they provided Segway-centric activities on-site at a popular vineyard. Afterwards, SegWai owner Andrew Lanyon said "The corporate event went really well and everyone had a ball."

Guided tours for families, couples and individuals can be booked at the SegWai website with a choice of routes and durations.

Recently, Segway New Zealand visited SegWai to help undertake maintenance and upgrades on SegWai's fleet of seven Segway x2 XE model Personal Transporters.

The weather was great, and we worked on the machines outdoors, in a beautiful spot under the shade of native trees with the summer sun in the sky above.

The Segway x2 SE model features large tyres that provide great comfort and grip. They're more than capable of safely navigating a wide variety of terrain, from roadways and clay tracks, across grass and through mud, over rocks, through sand and - yes - snow. Guests on SegWai's tours get to experience all of those many types of terrain as they explore Waiheke Island (except, of course, for snow).