Thanks for your review and sorry that you did not enjoy the experience. If you are not a LOTR or Hobbit movie fan then this destination is not for you, though in almost 20 years of taking cruise passengers to Hobbiton i would think that 99% of them have the complete opposite view to yours. The size of the group tours at Hobbiton is set by Hobbiton, not us at Cruise Tours Tauranga. Sometimes our own groups travel onto the movie set in our own coaches when we have booked a "group" tour [minimum numbers of 25 required] and if we have smaller groups, 6 to 20 people on our tour then they all join the Hobbiton Coach at the set and go in groups of 44. Interested visitors like to take photos and this does take time, but regardless of that the tour will always last 2 hours with the last 20 minutes being spend at the Green Dragon pub. The walking tour therefore takes about 90 minutes, but is not long in distance. As to the charges, the entry fee to Hobbiton is $89 and we charged you [if you booked directly with us] $179 NZ per person. If you booked with an agent you may have paid a heap more. If you had book the tour through the cruise ship the cost would have been well over $300 NZ pp. I think you just ended up booking a tour that was not suitable for your interest. Regards Ian