9 Night GREAT AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE
- Duration: 10 Days (approx.)
- Location: New South Wales
- Product code: 9GAT
Our Private 10 day tour travels across the most impressive & unforgettable locations of Australia. For the entire duration of the tour, from greeting you on arrival at Sydney airport, to bidding you farewell in Melbourne, you will be accompanied by one of our guides fluent in your language. You won't need to worry about a thing on this immersive luxury experience of Australia we travel in the utmost comfort & style with Australia's best guides taking care of your every need!
Relax and be enchanted by the beaches & clear blue waters of Sydney harbour, the red sands of Uluru & the scenery of the stunning Great Ocean Road. Enjoy & be enthralled by bustling streets, dinners looking out over big city lights & the vast empty expanses of the red centre where you'll dine whilst gazing upon the Milky Way & it's billion bright stars.
Rest assured you'll be exhilarated by the best of luxury Australia that you encounter on this unforgettable 10 day experience of life as it should be. This experience is ideal for families, groups of friends & couples looking for a honeymoon experience of Australia. No matter whether you are booking for a group of 12 adults, or 1 Adult traveling with 3 children (or any other combination of people) we will tailor the whole experience to be perfect for you!
NOTE: Groups of 12 people maximum.
Bookings within 60 days of arrival will be subject to price on application.
ITINERARY
DAY 1 ARRIVAL- SYDNEY WALKING TOUR & OPERA HOUSE TOUR
Lunch & Dinner
You will either be met in the morning at the airport by your guide and transferred to your hotel in a private vehicle, or for those already in sensational Sydney, you will meet your guide & group at the hotel lobby for your Welcome lunch. After we take a short walking tour of the City before enjoying a Private Tour of the Sydney Opera House. Dinner and welcome drinks will be in the hotel restaurant tonight.
DAY 2 SYDNEY CITY & BEACHES TOUR
Breakfast, Lunch
Sydney is full of incredibly beautiful ‘must see’ sights and landmarks that are scattered across this immense harbour city. On this tour you will see them all. Nestled below the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the area known as ‘The Rocks’ is the birthplace of European settlement in Australia. We visit the stunning Royal Botanic gardens with the superb views of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, pass by the Naval base of Wooloomooloo and the party area of Kings Cross before delving into further into the exclusive Eastern Suburbs (home to the cities rich and famous) & reaching the South Head at Watson's Bay.
Onto Bondi, without a doubt Sydney’s and Australia’s most famous beach. Bondi is a lively neighbourhood centred around the famous beach. Enjoy some free time to grab a coffee or take a quick swim (sea water temperature raises up to 26 degrees Celsius in Febuary & March) or walk along the shore feeling the sand between your toes as the water rushes over your feet. Stopping for a walk & a photo at Darling harbour, we cross to the North side of the Harbour and go to see the beauty of Middle Harbour & the Northern Beaches. Elegant homes perched on hillsides over-look yachts moored out front. A little slice of paradise, home to picturesque lagoons and many of Sydney’s most beautiful & popular beaches, the area deserves a whole day unto itself to truly see it all. We will see Narrabeen, Collaroy, Dee Why & Freshwater (birthplace of Australian surfing), the ever popular Manly and enjoy a restaurant lunch. From the North Head at Manly we take in the remarkable view of the Harbour. See the cliffs of the South Head and the entrance from the Pacific Ocean known as the ‘Gap’ with the city skyline off in the distance. Tonight, dinner is at your leisure, maybe at one of the great places you've discovered today.
DAY 3 FREE MORNING & SYDNEY HARBOUR LUXURY BOAT CRUISE
Breakfast
The day starts with a free morning. You have time for optional activities such as an incredible scenic flight or the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb. At midday the group will meet in the hotel lobby for you departure to your private luxury boat cruise of Sydney Harbour. Lunch will be served onboard & there are ensuite bedrooms for anyone needing a siesta. Tonight, dinner is at your leisure.
Optionals:
- Sydney Harbour scenic flight
- Sydney Harbour Bridgeclimb
DAY 4 BLUE MOUNTAINS
Full Board
Only 90 minutes from Sydney, the scenery of the Blue Mountains is truly magnificent. See canyons, valleys, huge vertical sandstone cliffs and any number of beautiful waterfalls trickling slowly over ancient eroded escarpments. The Blue Mountains is an Australian tourist Mecca & with that in mind we keep one step ahead of the crowd. We take you away from the crowds in our small tour vehicles to see places other companies cannot access. We give you the very best private tour so you can truly appreciate the Blue Mountains in all their splendor. See some of Australia’s plethora of unique flora and fauna and to get an understanding of Australia outside of the Concrete Jungle.Tonight we have a private transfers to & from one of Sydney's premier restaurants.
DAY 5 FLY SYDNEY – ULURU. ULURU TOUR & SUNSET CANAPES
Full Board
After a relaxed breakfast we take our flight to Uluru in the Red Centre, the very heart of Australia. We enjoy lunch at our hotel then take an afternoon tour of the majestic Uluru, the gigantic red monolith inside the world heritage Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park. Finishing our day with canapes & a beverage as we watch the sunset on the ancient rock before returning to the hotel and enjoying a gourmet dinner at the Arnguli Grill & Restaurant.
DAY 6 KATA-TJUTA TOUR & FREE AFTERNOON
Breakfast & lunch
This morning we go back into the park on our customised tour to get up close with the other equally stunning ancient formation inside the national park- Kata-Tjuta, the 36 enormous domes known to the Anangu people as 'the Many Heads' (Kata-Tjuta). We lunch together, then you have some free time to take the opportunity to relax by the pool, or take a helicopter flight, and maybe book a dinner on a sand dune under the billion stars of the Milky Way.
Optionals:
- Scenic Flights
- Sounds of Silence dinner
DAY 7 FLY ULURU - MELBOURNE. EUREKA 89th FLOOR DINNER
Full Board
Start the day with a relaxed breakfast before taking our flight to magnificent Melbourne, Australia's capital of culture & fashion. This afternoon you will have a few hours to relax before tonight's dinner in the acclaimed Eureka 89 restaurant up the top of the famous Sky Tower over looking Melbourne's city centre and the Yarra River.
DAY 8 MELBOURNE CITY TOUR & FREE AFTERNOON
Breakfast & Lunch
This morning we take a half day tour of Melbourne before we lunching together at our hotel. Free afternoon to discover more of Melbourne & have dinner this evening at your leisure.
Optional activity tonight: we can go together to see an AFL football game at the largest stadium in Australia seating over 100,000 people.
DAY 9 GREAT OCEAN ROAD SCENIC FLIGHT & FREE AFTERNOON
Full Board
Today we take our private scenic flight in our chartered plane as we take in some of the most dramatic coastline anywhere on Earth. Known for very good reason as the Shipwreck Coast, among many fascinating spectacles to behold, today you’ll be witness to the magical 12 Apostles, towering rock stacks that rise up majestically out of the wild Southern Ocean. Upon return to the hotel we lunch together before a free afternoon & meeting tonight for our farewell dinner.
DAY 10 DEPARTURE FROM MELBOURNE
Breakfast
After breakfast & 9 night's together it is sadly day number 10- departure day. We transfer to the airport and say our farewells.
PACKAGE INCLUSIONS:
- Services of an Experienced Australian Tour Director fluent in your language who’ll escort the group during the entire extent of the tour
- Personal greeting by Tour Director at Airport upon arrival
- Private Vehicle Airport Transfers
- Orientation meeting & drinks on first night
- Small group of maximum 12 persons
- Luxury accommodations
- Breakfast included every day
- Transport in Luxury vehicles
- Exclusive Private Tours
- Gourmet Lunches & Dinners in select restaurants
- National Park Entries
- Sydney Walking Tour (short)
- Private Sydney Opera House Tour (in your language)
- Full Day Sydney Luxury Tour
- Luxury Boat Cruise on Sydney Harbour
- Full Day Blue Mountains Luxury Tour
- Half Day Uluru with Sunset Tour
- Half Day Kata-Tjuta tour
- Half Day Melbourne Luxury Tour
- Great Ocean Road private scenic flight
PACKAGE EXCLUSIONS:
Some Domestic & all International flights
Some meals
Telephone calls
All items of a personal nature
Travel insurance
Gratuities