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Your Jetstar flight just landed at Avalon. You open maps, type in your Melbourne hotel, and the number that comes back is not the one you were expecting: 55 kilometres. Not 5. Not 15. Fifty-five. Welcome to the great Avalon surprise. The airport officially branded “Melbourne Avalon” sits out past Werribee, closer to Geelong than […]

$5.70 versus $24.90. That is the only number most travellers need to know about Bus 901. It is Melbourne Airport’s cheapest public transfer, it runs seven days a week, and almost nobody tells arriving visitors it exists. This is the honest 2026 guide: what it costs, how long it actually takes, where the bus stop […]

The Honest Answer The City Circle Tram is a free, 55-minute loop around the fringe of Melbourne’s CBD on restored wooden trams built between 1923 and 1956. It is the only heritage tram route in regular passenger service in Australia, and it costs you nothing. It is also slow, unairconditioned, inaccessible to wheelchairs and prams, […]

All four of the New Zealand routes Melburnians used to fly, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown, are back running direct in 2026, and Melbourne Airport now has more trans-Tasman choice than it did before the pandemic, not less. Qatar Airways is even joining the Auckland run from December. Here’s the honest, current breakdown of getting […]

Mount Hotham has the reputation as Victoria’s more advanced, more exposed resort, the terrain and the drive both have a bit more edge to them than Buller or Falls Creek. Dinner Plain, just down the road, gives you a quieter, more village-like alternative base if the mountain itself feels too full-on. The 2026 season closed […]

Geelong is an easy hour from Melbourne by car or train, and the gateway to the Bellarine Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road. But the ferry is currently suspended until early September, and the Geelong train line has had a properly difficult 2026. Here’s the honest, current guide.