Beetopia NZ Ltd

Wonderful place to visit when you’re around and about in Omaha. The lovely owner showed us around, shared some interesting facts about bees and the place and let us try some of the honey. The owner informed us that she also does tours for groups of kids - preschool and above, where they get an opportunity to learn about the life of bees and honey making. 100% recommend.

I recently attended a beginners Beekeeping Course with Grass at Beetopia. Its the perfect location to learn all you want to know about honey bees! I was very impressed with the amount of information that was shared at both the indoor and outdoor venues, and the practical session was extremely well managed. I highly recommend this course! Or just visit the Honey Tasting Shed and enjoy all the informative displays, different honey samples, and a wide variety of bee'autiful related products for sale. A truly remarkable, sensory experience.

What a great experience! We had a super introduction with Grass, which then took us to the beehives and explained everything in detail! We could - of course in full protective gear - open the beehives ourselves and look for the queen which we found!. Thereafter, we had a honey tasting with a lot of explanation. We enjoyed the 90 minutes with our „bee-queen“ Grass and recommend Beetopia to everyone from near or far!

It was a fantastic experience for a day trip to Matakana. We randomly searched on Google Maps and got onto this honey location by chance, and the staff was very kind and knowledgeable.  We were able to taste many varieties of honey and learn about the queen bee without being forced to purchase any products.

This is an amazing place - not only for the honey, candles and bees wax creations but for the story on the walls, the tasting and the place for children to touch and learn. A must visit if you are in the area.

I am all abuzz about my awesome experience at Beetopia! It was about 1½ hours up from Auckland to drive to Matakana, and the unpredictable weather was typical NZ springtime … but Grass our bee educator was patient and flexible with us so we could enjoy a sunny relaxed experience. She is passionate about bees, very knowledgeable, uand makes learning about bees and honey so interesting and delicious! I loved getting into an authentic bee suit, wandering her beautiful garden and inspecting her busy hives. Grass was happy to answer all my questions, and pointed out the queen bee and the communication dances of the worker bees in the frames. The Beetopia shop offers a large range of local honey flavors, and Grass also creates beautiful crafts from the beeswax of her hives. So glad we came!!

Such a great day today visiting Beetopia with the kids. The sensory table is wonderful, they loved being able to touch everything on it! And the honey tasting was divine. Grass is very passionate about teaching and sharing her knowledge of bees with kids and adults alike. Beautiful set up and wonderful products, great in time for Xmas.

We had a wonderful experience at Beatopia. We did the half hour, educational experience and were entertained and learned more than we thought was possible about bees. We came away from the experience with a deep respect for bees, the owners outlook on bees, and with some fabulous honey. I highly recommend this for families, as well as singles and couples. This experience is something everyone would enjoy.

If you're lucky enough to be able to spend some time in Beetopia and meet the lovely owner, you will be in for an amazing experience. You are greeted with the warm and delicate smells of delicious beeswax. The host's knowledge of bees, beekeeping, and honey was truly awesome; she gave us such an insight into the amazingly complex lives of bees from their biology and physiology to their society and their complex behaviour. She helped us understand the importance of advocating for bee life, not only the honey bees but also our local native bees which are so often overlooked. We had the pleasure of enjoying a delicious honey tasting of some rare and unique honeys with distinctive flavours. This was really an enlightening and fun experience. I highly recommend it this was truly a massive highlight of my time visiting Matakana

Very informative visit, presented with passion by our host. Enjoyed the quiz and honey tasting.