MURPHY BUSES
Established in 1976

New Zealand Charter Coach and Bus Services
Providing quality coaches for hire to enhance your specialised group tour of New Zealand. Pick ups can be arranged from any city throughout the country.

"Photos of places we visit"

THE COMPANY

THE FLEET

"Photos of places we visit"

Bubbling Geothermal Mud, Rotorua

Lakeland Queen - Lake Rotorua, Rotorua

White Water Rafing, Kaituna River - River Rats, Rotorua

Murphy Buses was established by Ngaire and Ian Murphy with a fleet of 4 buses  Through the 70's and 80's the company continued to grow, securing major contracts for special interest groups, large charter groups and school runs.
Today, the Murphy Buses Group provides an efficient and quality coach operation, not only in greater Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula, but New Zealand wide.  We specialise in such trips as Garden Tours, Farming Tours, Tours with Technical Visits, Educational/School Trips, Sporting Groups and trips to Concerts/Shows, to name just a few.
The Murphy Buses fleet currently consists of 105 vehicles, ranging from 22 seaters to 52 seaters.  The fleet carries out a variety of transportation including domestic and overseas tour groups as well as school runs and service runs.  Murphy Buses has continued it's programme of improvement, maintenance and where necessary replacement of the fleet, which is ongoing.
Our quality tour fleet vehicles within the fleet, have comfortable coach seats, full air conditioning and ample luggage space.  They range from 4 Star Plus to 3 Star vehicles.

Sunset-Wakatipu

Glenorchy-Wharf

Sailing

Rotorua
 Thermal  wonderland of New Zealand

Q BASE NZ QUALITY MANAGEMENT


OUR STAFF

Queenstown 
New Zealand's Playground

Pohutu Geyser, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua

White Island - NZ Helicopters, Rotorua

Lake Okareka and Lake Tarawera, Rotorua

Murphy Buses is proud of the quality management systems it has in place. In 1997, Murphy Buses was audited and certified by Q-Base New Zealand, a division of Telarc, and was awarded Q-Base status after complying with the requirements of the Q-Base Code. Much of Murphy Buses success, is due to the involvement and commitment of the staff and the complete focus on customer satisfaction. 

The number and variety of staff employed by Murphy Buses now stands at 100. This includes drivers and management. Our Tour/Charter Coach Drivers who look after our domestic and overseas tour groups, are extremely efficient and well trained, looking after many groups. If a group does not have a tour guide, our drivers can give a full commentary as well as dealing with hotels and sightseeing attractions.

Queenstown-by-Night

Kea native parrot to New Zealand

Shotover jet on the shotover river

To obtain a no obligation quotation on chartering a coach, send us an email and we will send you our proposal as soon as possible.

To make a booking inquiry, tell us your name and Company Name ( if applicable), full contact details ( email address and phone number if possible ), the dates of travel, departure and completion points with times Number of people and full details of your itinerary ( places to be visited etc )      

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All emails and inquiries between our customers and Murphy Buses are treated as confidential. Your email address will not be on sold or given to a third party.  

MURPHY BUSES LTD
Offices in Auckland and Thames
Inquiries to:

Postal Address:
 PO Box 251
Thames
New Zealand

Physical Address:
407 Mackay St
Thames
New Zealand
Telephone                 +64 7 868 6265
Fax                            +64 7 868 6745
Email:    info@murphybuses.co.nz