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Getting to Hillcrest

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 25 km
  • Wellington → Hillcrest
    500 km · quickest by air, 4h 48m · NZ$190–290
  • Christchurch → Hillcrest
    771 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · NZ$230–350
  • Queenstown → Hillcrest
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hillcrest

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hillcrest. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundLocal transport options include bus, train, ferry, shuttle, taxi, and car rental.
  • Get aroundAT also has a mobile app that can be used to find the time of the next bus, ferry or train or to find the quickest way to get to your destination using public transport.
  • Get aroundYou will find free bus, train and ferry schedules there – which is handy since the frequency of some services is low and sometimes irregular.
  • Get aroundThe AT HOP card is a prepay smart card for travel on bus, train and ferry services that costs $5 and is available from a number of retrailers and major stations around the city.
  • Get aroundThere is a $50 weekly fare cap on trains, buses and inner harbour ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Auckland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,047 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,419 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,434 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,184 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,340 km

If you know how people move in Hillcrest – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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Hillcrest is 7 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.