11 Day Cities of Australia Itinerary

Welcome to Perth! You will be transfered to your hotel - settle in to your comfortable accommodation and relax in Australia's sunniest capital city.

Explore Australia's Sunniest City

With soft sandy beaches, epic skyscrapers, huge green parks and a thriving street art scene, Perth is a fascinating town to explore. It's home to one of the biggest city parks in the world – Kings Park & Botanic Garden – right in the heart of town. This is a great place to get your bearings with sweeping views of the Swan and Canning rivers.

Fun Facts About Perth

• Perth is the most isolated city in the world: its closest city is Adelaide, over 2,200 km (1367 miles) away!
• It’s also home to the highest number of self-made millionaires in the world
• Perth is the only city in the world where an aircraft can land in the middle of town.

Accommodation: Perth - 3 Nights

You have a free day to explore Perth any way you wish. This city has some awesome attractions to please travellers young and old. Keep kids of all ages entertained at Adventure World, a combination theme park/water park for fun in the sun. Barrel down the Kraken together, an enormous water slide which twists and turns right to the bottom. The Abyss, voted Australia’s best rollercoaster, is guaranteed to get your hearts pumping.

Perth Zoo specialises in rare, endangered species that will bring out the passion for animals in any child.

A 30 minute ferry ride from the city, Rottnest Island has sandy beaches, coral reefs and smiling Quokkas to meet. These cat-sized native creatures are known as the happiest animals in the world!

The Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum will have your kids mesmerised. They will love the galleries of relics from ships that have been wrecked along the WA coastline.

Known as one of Australia’s finest wine regions, the Margaret River area is blessed with natural beauty. You'll experience this Western Australian gem on a full day coach tour today.

Margaret River Day Tour

There's much to admire in Margaret River, and you'll see all the highlights on this fantastic Day Tour. Stroll down the 1.8km Busselton Jetty, the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere. Take a guided tour through the vast chambers of Mammoth Cave and marvel at the amazing rock formations. Visit the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, where the Southern and Indian Oceans meet.

No visit to the Margaret River would be complete without sampling the local delicacies! As well as a wine tasting, you'll indulge in a lunch at the Margaret River Brewery to feast on local produce and complimentary beer tastings for the grown ups.

Crowned "The World's Most Liveable City" for seven years in a row, friendly Melbourne is the next stop on our city tour of Australia. A whopping 3,400km from Perth, it's amazing that you can fly so far and still be in the same country!

Get to know Melbourne

This compact, diverse metropolis is begging to be explored after settling into your comfortable accommodation. There are hidden charms around every corner, beautiful Botanic Gardens and chic city squares where you can soak up the atmosphere to your heart's content.

Fun Facts about Melbourne

• Melbourne has more restaurants and cafes per head than any other city in the world!
• Melbourne's famous tramway system is the largest outside Europe and the fourth largest in the world.
• Five of the six tallest buildings in Australia can be found in Melbourne - the tallest is the Eureka Tower at 297 meters (975 ft).

Accommodation: Melbourne - 4 Nights

Melbourne’s arcades and laneways hide many treasures. Today's Hidden Secrets Lanes and Arcades walking tour is the ideal way to discover the inner heart of Melbourne.

Wandering through Melbourne’s signature lanes and arcades with your guide, you'll visit the quirkiest cafes, independent designers, street art, architecture, with historical tales of Melbourne along the way.
 This is a tour with a few added indulgences. A walk in the city is not complete without a wonderful drink stop, at a local chocolate salon.

See many of Melbourne's amazing local businesses and return to those you like best, make a day of it in Marvellous Melbourne

A full day for you to enjoy the city at your leisure. Here are some of our favourite things to do in Melbourne:

• Hop on the iconic vintage City Circle Tram for a ride around Melbourne's most famous streets.
• Take a tram to St Kilda beach's historic esplanade and drop in to Acland St's irresistible cake shops.
• Hire bikes, grab a picnic and cycle along the banks of the scenic Yarra River.
• Get a bird’s eye view of the city from the southern hemisphere’s highest viewing platform at Eureka Tower.
• Enjoy a bite to eat at Queen Victoria Market - it's the largest market in the Southern Hemisphere.
• Choose from a dizzying array of restaurants & eateries — you're in Australia's foodie capital!

Discover amazing coastal scenery, adventure and wildlife on a full day coach tour along the famous Great Ocean Road.

Great Ocean Road - One of the World's Greatest Drives

Experience and enjoy the breathtaking Great Ocean Road: every twist and turn exposes you to stretches of broad, uninterrupted beaches, dramatic coastlines and the lush rainforest of the Otway Ranges. This remarkable scenery provides an amazing backdrop for a day that will be etched in your memory forever. Visit Australia’s oldest surviving lighthouse at Apollo Bay, enjoy a typical Aussie BBQ lunch, take a rainforest walk in the Otway Ranges and see the world famous limestone rock stacks — the 12 Apostles – at the western end of the Great Ocean Road.

There are plenty of opportunities to see the native wildlife in its natural habitat including koalas and a variety of Australian birdlife.
 

Fly to Sydney, the oldest and grandest of Australia's big cities. Blessed with a glorious natural harbour, golden beaches, and a blissful climate, this incredible metropolis must be seen to be believed.

Settle in to Sydney with a stroll along Circular Quay. With the Sydney Harbour Bridge at one end and the white sails of the Opera House at the other, is there any more iconic view in the world?

Fun Facts about Sydney

• The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the widest long-span bridge and tallest steel arch bridge in the world.
• When the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built, the chosen paint colour was grey because it was the only colour available in a large enough quantity.
• Sydney has the deepest natural harbour in the world with 504,000 megalitres (264,172 U.S. gallons) of water.
  
  Accommodation: Sydney - 3 Nights

To help you tick everything off your Sydney bucket list today, we've included a hop-on-hop-off Ferry Pass including free entry to Taronga Zoo (the zoo has its own ferry stop!)

See Sydney by Ferry

Sydney's ferries are an easy way to travel around, and any ferry trip is worth it for the views alone. Hop On Hop Off rocket ferries departs Sydney's main tourist precincts for a 60 to 90-minute cruise around the harbour with 11 famous stopovers along the way. These include the beach town of Manly, pretty Watsons Bay, Luna Park theme park and bustling Darling Harbour.

Taronga Zoo

Taronga Zoo's stunning location on the shores of Sydney Harbour offers outstanding scenic views for visitors (and the animals too!). It's packed with exotic creatures and interactive experiences for all the family.

Wondering what to do at the zoo? Animal Encounters sessions let you feed fish to a penguin, snap selfies with koalas, or be mobbed by meerkats during their daily feed. Take the Nura Diya Aboriginal Discovery Tour to learn about the connection between Australia’s animals and Aboriginal Dreamtime. Or try the Wild Ropes adventure, where you can navigate suspension bridges, climbing walls, flying foxes and more against epic views of Sydney Harbour.

When you're done, jump on the zoo's Sky Safari cable car to get back to the entrance, soaring over the heads of elephants and monkeys below!

Today's Blue Mountains Deluxe Day Tour is a journey into the heart of a unique World Heritage Region.

Blue Mountains Guided Day Tour

Your journey to the Blue Mountains takes you through picturesque villages to spectacular views and waterfalls. Stop for morning tea at Calmsley Hill, a working farm which is also home to Kangaroos, Emus, Wombats and Koalas. Continue on to a scenic lookout point where you will learn all about the unique trees of the Australian forest, and find out the cause of the blue haze which gives the region its name.

Take lunch at the Hydro Majestic Hotel with magnificent valley views before you, then spend the afternoon visiting a selection of stunning Blue Mountains lookouts. The view from Govett’s Leap is one of the most famous in Australia: the magnificent waterfall drops a whopping 180m to the base of the cliff.

The last stop is the delightful Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens to admire the sweeping views and enjoy a glass of sparkling wine or orange juice before travelling back to your hotel.

Say farewell to Sydney today as you board your onward flight, taking with you the magical memories of a truly exceptional Australian experience. We know you will enjoy your 11 Day Cities of Australia Family Tour and we hope you will return soon to discover even more highlights of this incredible continent.