AAT Kings - Contrasts of Australia Itinerary

 
1

 Welcome to Melbourne!

Welcome to Melbourne! On arrival you will be transferred to your hotel. This evening join your Travel Director for a welcome reception and dinner at the South Wharf riverside pub, The General Assembly. It's a great opportunity to get to know everyone in a unique setting. 

Included Meals: Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Melbourne - 2 Nights 

Melbourne
Crowne Plaza Hotel Melbourne is located on Spencer Street on the fringe of the CBD. Just a short stroll to Crown Casino, Docklands and South Wharf, Crowne Plaza Melbourne is a Southbank hotel ideally situated on the bank of the Yarra River.
Crowne Plaza Hotel Melbourne

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Melbourne's Famous Hidden Laneways

Join your Travel Director for a city sights tour that includes a private walk through Melbourne's famous hidden laneways. You'll discover the city's eclectic little lanes, arcades, café society and fascinating street art. There's time afterwards to explore the city on your own, enjoy an optional experience or simply relax and watch the world go by.

Included Meals: Breakfast

Laneways

3

Fly to Cairns & Crocodile Adventure

This morning you will be transferred to Melbourne Airport for your flight to Cairns, Queensland. On arrival join a private wildlife journey at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures. Enjoy a boat cruise and encounter koalas, wallabies, birds, crocodiles and more! This evening is free for your to choose from the numerous restaurants that Cairns has to offer.

Included Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Cairns - 3 Nights 

Crocodile Adventure
Accommodation:
The Hilton Cairns hotel boasts a unique tropical setting, enjoying spectacular scenery surrounded by lush gardens. The hotel offers bright accommodation with spacious bathrooms and private balconies with stunning waterfront views of Trinity Inlet, the Cairns Esplanade and blue-green mountains beyond
Hilton Cairns

4

Great Barrier Reef Cruise & Snorkel

Get ready for an experience of a lifetime - board a high speed catamaran and cruise out to the Great Barrier Reef. You can snorkel and view this natural living wonder up close (equipment provided) or stay dry and explore the stunning reef from the comfort of a semi-submersible craft, just one metre underwater. Enjoy a tropical buffet lunch before you return to Cairns.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Great Barrier Reef

5

Cairns at Leisure

Today is a free day to do as you choose.

A great option is the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway to Kuranda, be amazed as you travel over and through World Heritage rainforest, explore quaint Kuranda village and later board the Kuranda Scenic Rail for this historic rail journey.

If you’d prefer to spend the day relaxing by your hotel pool or sitting back at a local café you can do that too!

In the evening rejoin your travelling companions for a Be My Guest dining experience at Tjapukai Cultural Park. Hear dreamtime stories, witness a high impact dance performance and enjoy dinner with your local host to the sounds of the didgeridoo.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Be My Guest Dinner

Daintree

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Cairns to Sydney in time for a Dinner Cruise

This morning you'll fly to Sydney!

On arrival there's time to relax at your hotel or explore this exciting city before boarding a Magistic Dinner Cruise. Enjoy a contemporary two course a la carte meal and the mesmerising views of Sydney at night. You'll pass magnificent waterfront homes, beaches and parklands and all the main harbour attractions including the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.

Included Meals: Breakfast - Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Sydney - 3 Nights

Sydney
As one of Australia's largest hotel, we are a self-rated 4.5 star hotel with 648 rooms including 17 suites, we have what matters most to you like stylish rooms and a comfortable bed. Located in Sydney's Central Business District and overlooking the spectacular Darling Harbour, you'll be surrounded by all of Sydney's major entertainment and shopping districts including Pitt Street Mall and Queen Victoria Building with The Rocks, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House just a 15 minute walk away!
Hyatt Regency Darling Harbour

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Highlights of Sydney

Discover the highlights of beautiful Sydney with a driving city tour. 
If there was ever a place that slipped from the pages of a fairy-tale, Wendy’s Secret Garden at Lavender Bay is it. Overlooking Sydney Harbour, this pocket of floral paradise is explained by a local volunteer – did you know this was once unused wasteland? Your visit provides a contribution to the ongoing maintenance of the enchanting garden. 
Explore Sydney’s inner west and enjoy a lunch with the locals at the pub. Then drive through Newtown to Batch Brewery where you will take part in a masterclass and learn how they combine creatively inspired limited release batches with sustainable practices. 

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Bondi Beach

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Sydney Free Time

The day is yours to explore at your leisure or book one of our optional activities. 
Dinner tonight is beside Sydney Harbour. Because can you ever get enough?  

If you’ve always wanted to climb Sydney Harbour Bridge, today could be your chance on a thrilling ‘Bridgeclimb’. This evening, join your Travel Director and fellow travellers for a farewell dinner on the harbourfront.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

3 Sisters

9

Farewell from Sydney

Bid farewell to your fellow traveller when your holiday comes to an end after breakfast.

Included Meals: Breakfast

Koala

Tour Inclusions

Itinerary Variations – the provider strives to improve trip itineraries. If improvements can be made, or if circumstances beyond their control make changes necessary, the provider reserves the right to vary itineraries and to make substitutions. 

Highlights

  • Local Connection

Fall in love with Sydney’s Wendy’s Secret Garden; a volunteer horticulturalist revealing secret nooks in this floral wonderland. 

  • Insider Knowledge

Meet the team behind a hip Sydney craft brewery, with a masterclass on making beer that represents the community. 

  • Cultural Immersion

Melbourne’s laneways are a work of art, with street murals, hidden bars, boutiques, and cafés. We’ll show you where to look. 

  • Sustainable Footprints

Cairns is the gateway to World Heritage listed rainforest. Ensure its protection by helping plant trees with our Rainforest Restoration project. 

  • Wildlife & Nature

It doesn’t matter how many times you splash about in the Coral Sea, the Great Barrier Reef never fails to impress. There are too many world records being broken here to mention.

What’s included

  • Specialist team of two highly experienced Travel Director and Driver Guide
  • 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Great Barrier Reef, Sydney Opera House

Dining 

  • 3 Dinners with Wine
  • 8 Full Breakfasts
  • 1 Lunch
  • 1 Farewell Dinner

Fitness Requirements

  • Low level of fitness required

Flight Information

Required Internal Flights: are to be purchased in order to fulfill the itinerary and are NOT included in the land content price

  •  Day 1 - Flights to arrive prior to 12.00 noon into Melbourne Airport
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What Michelle says about this tour: A great 9 day trip which covers off Sydney, Cairns and Melbourne. Perfect for lovers of stunning harbour side cities, tropical beaches and urban cool.
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