Enjoying a meal on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant is guaranteed to be a highlight of your visit to Melbourne. The Colonial Tramcar Restaurant is one of Melbourne's star attractions, offering a sightseeing tour with a difference and two essential Melbourne experiences taking a tram ride and eating great food.
You'll glide through the city streets and on to South Melbourne, St Kilda, Prahran and Malvern aboard the Melbourne Colonial Tramcar Restaurant, your privacy assured with one-way windows. Melbourne's tramcar restaurant-on-wheels is painted a distinctive glossy burgundy and is especially fitted out in velvet and brass like the luxurious Pullman-style European trains of the past.
You'll be welcomed aboard your 1927 Melbourne tram restaurant by a smiling maitre d' and be served by a friendly, professional team of silver-service waiters. Choose from a four-course lunch aboard Melbourne's tramcar restaurant, an early three-course dinner or a more leisurely five-course dinner later in the evening. Delicious meals featuring fresh local produce are prepared onboard the tram, and a wide choice of alcoholic beverages is available from the fully stocked bar.
Melbourne's Colonial Tramcar Restaurant has all the modern conveniences you'd expect to find in a first-class restaurant. It is air-conditioned, heated and fitted with piped music to make your Colonial Tramcar Restaurant experience truly memorable.
Due to the popularity of this activity, availability changes on a daily basis. The booking request will not be guaranteed until you receive a confirmation voucher via email. Please advise any alternative travel dates at time of booking, so that we may request all available dates to maximize your chance of a confirmed booking.
Join a full-day Yarra Valley wine tour and visit three of the region's best known wineries: Yering Station, Rochford Winery and Domaine Chandon. Over lunch and a series of wine tastings, see why the Yarra Valley is one of Australia's most picturesque wine regions on your Yarra Valley wine tour, the perfect day trip from Melbourne.
You'll stop for cellar door wine tastings at Yering Station and Rochford Winery on the Yarra Valley wine tour from Melbourne. Your helpful guide will share tips on how to taste and enjoy the wines you'll be sampling. Stay on at Rochford Winery for lunch and choose your accompanying glass of wine at the cellar door.
Lunch is followed by wine tastings at the rustic Yering Farm cellar door. The afternoon highlight is a private tour of the award-winning Domaine Chandon winery, known for its fine sparkling wines and stunning scenery. You'll enjoy a glass of wine at Domaine Chandon with a light tasting nibbles.
Winner Best of Wine Tourism Awards 2007.
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You will then be transported to the launch site where you may help with the launch, or stand back and take pictures. In the early morning light you will drift by the array of parks and gardens and as the city comes to life you'll look down on some of the city's iconic venues including the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Park and Albert Park racetrack. Your flight will last for approximately one hour. After the final landing and packing the balloon away, head back to your hotel so you can enjoy the rest of the day in Melbourne on land.
Where you will Fly:
Depends on the winds and you may fly over the CBD, which is laid out in a large rectangular grid like pattern on the northern banks of the Yarra River. Or you may head over the inner suburbs, parks and gardens to discover why Victoria is labeled the Garden State.
Greet the morning sun as you take flight over the Yarra Valley and its vineyards on a hot air balloon flight. You'll fly for approximately one hour before completing this memorable experience with an optional sumptuous champagne breakfast at Rochford Wines.
Just 50 minutes from the Melbourne CBD lies the lush hillsides of the Yarra Valley. A place of diverse and rich history stretching back to the first settlers, The Yarra Valley is home to 90 vineyards and 35 wineries, many of which hold a reputation for creating world-class wines. Yarra Valley is also renowned as being one of Victoria's largest tourist destinations.
Let the breeze usher you along the corridors of grape vines and over the Yarra River as you take in the breathtaking views of mountains that surround the valley. You'll have the option to pre-book breakfast buffet which includes a choice of fruit, yogurt, cereal, muesli and a hot breakfast of bacon, eggs, hash browns, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, toast, tea and coffee, orange juice and Chandon champagne!
PLEASE NOTE: Many areas of the Yarra Valley were unaffected by the recent Victorian bushfires. The Sunrise Breakfast Balloon Flight over the Yarra Valley is running as normal and flies over areas that were predominately unaffected. This tour continues to offer spectacular scenery showcasing the Yarra Valley's lush natural landscapes. We are urging you not to avoid the Yarra Valley, but to continue visiting this amazing region to offer support for the communities of the Yarra Valley.
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World-famous Port Campbell National Park is the next stop on your Great Ocean Road small group tour, with its iconic array of offshore rock formations known as the Twelve Apostles. Here you have the option of taking a helicopter ride to see the magnificent coastline from the air.
The Great Ocean Road small group eco tour continues along the Shipwreck Coast to Loch Ard Gorge, site of many shipwrecks. The gorge is named for the Loch Ard which went down in 1878, sparing just two lives. Your final destination on your Great Ocean Road tour is London Bridge. Your return journey includes a stop for dinner and stunning views of the lights of Melbourne as you cross the West Gate Bridge at the end of your long day tour.
This unique small group tour operator is a member of Eco Tourism Australia and provides expert guided Great Ocean Road and Phillip Island tours.
Winner of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Victorian Tourism Award - Significant Tour and Transport Operator.
Highly Commended, 2005 Australian Tourism Awards - Tour&Transport Operator
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Your six-course, multicultural dinner is prepared onboard the Spirit of Melbourne by expert chefs, and matched with premium Australian wines. Service onboard is personalized, expert and friendly, and the ambiance is luxurious and romantic. Drinks to accompany your Spirit of Melbourne dinner cruise include red and white wines, sparkling wine, beers and spirits, plus a choice of port, cognac or liqueur.
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The little penguins provide a wonderful spectacle as they break free of the surf and waddle home across the sand at dusk at Phillip Island. Phillip Island is home to an astounding array of wildlife, including koalas, Australia's largest fur seal colony and, of course, the little penguins.
Take a Great Ocean Road day trip and experience one of the world's great coastal drives. There'll be plenty of photo opportunities along the way on your full-day Great Ocean Road tour from Melbourne. You'll snap wild coastal scenery and pristine beaches bordering the winding Great Ocean Road, peaceful beach townships, majestic rainforest and the rugged Shipwreck Coast.
Your Great Ocean Road tour begins with panoramic views as you leave Melbourne from the West Gate Bridge. You'll soon be on the coast, passing world-famous Bells Beach, host of the World Surfing Championships, and dropping into the seaside holiday resort of Lorne.
Your tour of the Great Ocean Road passes under towering limestone cliffs and along sweeping beaches all the way to the Twelve Apostles rising abruptly from the sea. Here you'll have the option of taking a helicopter flight over the dramatic Shipwreck Coast. There are more photo opportunities here from the various coastal viewing platforms and your expert tour guide will share the tragic legends of the Shipwreck Coast.
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Australia's most renowned steam train, Puffing Billy, winds its way through lush ferns and towering timbers. Victoria's wine region unfolds beyond the mountains, offering great wine and cuisine. Nestled in the foothills is Healesville Sanctuary where you can stroll amongst koalas, kangaroos, platypus, kookaburras, dingoes and more.
Your tour includes the following highlights:
Travel through the scenic Yarra Valley and ride the Puffing Billy steam train on a big day trip from Melbourne. The Yarra Valley wine tour takes you through Melbourne to the scenic Dandenong Ranges, with spectacular views of Melbourne's skyline en route. After your ride on Puffing Billy, Australia's oldest steam train, you'll travel in comfort through the beautiful Yarra Valley to visit the region's premium wineries.
Your atmospheric ride on the restored Puffing Billy steam train takes you through the lush mountain ash rainforests and fern gullies of Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges. You'll pass picturesque mountain villages along the way and stop to feed the colorful native parrots, rosellas and cockatoos.
The Yarra Valley wine tour continues through the fertile Yarra Valley to enjoy a spit-roast lunch at Fergusson Winery. You'll sample a selection of local wines at Coldstream Hills cellar door then travel to acclaimed Domaine Chandon, known for its award-winning sparkling wines. After your informative wine-making tour of Domaine Chandon, sample wines matched to local cheeses on the patio with beautiful Yarra Valley views.
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