Friday, June 17, 2011

4G Melbourne Trip

Day 1 (Sat)
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Take taxi from Tullamarine Melbourne Airport to apartment $58
Check-in - Darling Tower South Yarra Apartment ($125 per night, free upgrade to 30 Murphy Street Apartment)
Brunch - Sri Drivanie, South Yarra Square, Toorak Road
Toorak Road
Chapel Street
Prahran Market
Fitzroy Street
St Kilda
Acland Street
Monarch Cake Shop
Dinner - Grill'd Burger
Luna Park
St Kilda Pier, The Esplanade – Penguin
Shi Shiang's Birthday Celebration

Day 2 (Sun)
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Flinders Street Station
Federation Square
Arts Centre hand made market Sun 10-5pm
City Tourist Shuttle Bus (FREE) – start at Arts Centre, get down at - Collins Street
Lunch - Cafe Andiamo, Degraves Street
Royal Botanical Garden
King's Domain
The Shrine of Remembrance
Crown Casino - Fireballs/Gas Brigades
Southgate
Dinner - Vietnamese Rice noodle, Pho Bo Ga Mekong Vietnam, Swanton Street
QV Woolworths Supermarket

* join 2 days local tour ($226 per person include 1% credit card charges) book online thru http://www.cheapaztravel.com/
* cheaper local tour can visit and get directly at http://www.halftixmelbourne.com/

Day 3 (Mon) – join local tour
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Breakfast take away
Great Ocean Road tour
Stop and look for kagaroos in the wild
Bells Beach (surfing beach)
Appollo Bay (morning tea and biscuits), birds and parrots in the wild
Maits Rest Rainforest Walk
Cape Otway Lightstation and Aussie BBQ sausage lunch
Stop and look for koalas in the wild
12 Apostles
Loch Ard Gorge
London Bridge

Dinner - Belvga Fish and Chippery, Toorak Road
Reena's surprise birthday celebration

Day 4 (Tue) – join local tour
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Meet at Federation Square
Ballarat
Ballarat Wild Life Park ($12)
Sovereign Hill (Gold mine)

Dinner - Your Thai Rice and Noodle Bar, Swanston Street

Day 5 (Wed) – Philip Island – rent car driving
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9:30am - online booking and collect Toyota Corrola at Herzt, Punt Road, South Yarra
(2 day rental include full coverage insurance, GPS, tax $200)
Take-away breakfast
Drive 1.5 hours to Philip Island
Lunch: Gulliver's Wine Bar & Eatery, Cowes
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Daily Farm Activities:
1.00pm Wagon Rides
2:10pm Cow Milking
2.30pm Blacksmith Demonstration
3.00pm Working Dogs
3.15pm Sheep Shearing

Nobbies Seal Rocks and the Blow hole
5:30pm - Penguin Parade show at dusk
Drive 2 hours to Rye, Mornington Peninsula
Take-away dinner - Paul Louey Chinese Restorant
Self-check in Beach Holiday Apartment ($150 per night)

Day 6 (Thu) – Mornington Peninsula – rent car driving
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Peninsula Hot Springs
Brunch - Buckley's Chance, Sorrento
Vineyard - Morning Sun, Tuck's Ridge (Shoreham Road, Red Hill South)
Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens, Shoreham
Cold Rock Icreamery, Frankston
Frankston Waterfront
Drive 1.5 hours back to Melbourne CBD
Docklands
Dinner - Saganaki Greek Cuisine & Grill Restaurant, Docklands
Refill full tank petrol at 7-Eleven - 35.44 liters $47.10
Check-in Space Hotel, Russell Street ($122 per night)

Last Day (Fri) – Melbourne City Business District (CBD)
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Space Hotel tour
Queens Victoria Market
Royal Exhibition Building
St Patrick's Cathedral
Waffle On, Degraves Street
Lunch - Il Tempo Restaurant, Degraves Street (Italian & Mediterranean)
Eureka Skydeck 88
Block Arcade, Haigh’s Chocolate
Royal Arcade, Koko Black
Myer
Dinner: MoVida Aqui and Terraza, Bourke St (Spanish)
Chinatown

6:30am - Take taxi from Space Hotel to Tullamarine Melbourne Airport $66.40

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