Start at Mentone’s bathing boxes on Port Phillip Bay and drive south. By the time you reach Portsea’s back beach on the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, you’ve crossed six local government areas, sampled two cultures of beach, eaten your way through one of Australia’s most concentrated food precincts, passed through a pair of the […]
The Free Tram Zone is Melbourne’s best-known commuter perk and its most expensive tourist trap, often in the same trip. Ride a tram around the CBD or Docklands and pay nothing. Stay seated for one stop too many and an inspector can write you a $305 infringement before your coffee goes cold. The zone is […]
Three local government areas, 77 square kilometres, and more than 337,000 people sharing the dense, walkable core of Australia’s most famously liveable city. Melbourne’s Inner Metro Region is where Victorian bluestone laneways, a UNESCO-listed exhibition hall, bayside piers, and the Southern Hemisphere’s largest tram network stitch together into a single neighbourhood. The region spans the […]
Melbourne sprawls. Across roughly 9,900 square kilometres and more than five million people, the city fans out from a tight laneway core into bayside enclaves, creative inner-north strips, leafy eastern foothills, growth-corridor estates, and a semi-rural peninsula. To make sense of it, the Victorian Government’s Plan Melbourne 2017–2050 carves the metropolitan area into six planning […]
Melbourne’s most underrated visitor asset doesn’t run on the tram tracks or hide inside a laneway. It’s the regional train network, and as of 2026 it’s cheaper, faster, and easier to use than most locals realise. The 2023 fare reform quietly collapsed the cost of a day in Bendigo to the same daily cap as […]
Melbourne’s train network is continually evolving with the Metro Tunnel opened for full service on 1 February, carving a 9km underground corridor beneath Swanston Street and handing the city five brand-new stations: Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac. The Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines now skip the City Loop entirely and run through […]
Melbourne has one of the most extensive public transport networks in the Southern Hemisphere, and once you know how it works, it becomes one of the best ways to see the city. Trams criss-cross the CBD and inner suburbs at no cost within the Free Tram Zone. Trains push out to the suburbs and connect […]