Eden Park Tour

About

Eden Park is New Zealand's largest stadium and the tour takes you into the parts of it nobody sees on a match day. You get onto the turf, into the changing rooms and up through the stands, with guides who carry a considerable amount of history about what has happened there, including the 2011 Rugby World Cup final. It's a better experience for people who have watched matches there than for those who haven't, though the scale of an empty stadium does its own work. Tours run to a schedule and are limited by what else is happening at the ground, so booking ahead is essential and dates can move around fixtures. About ninety minutes. Largely under cover but not entirely, so dress for the day. Easy to reach from Kingsland, which has plenty of places to eat afterwards.