Melbourne City

[28 - 29 April 2010]

Finally I was able to visit Melbourne by planning everything in budget!!! Thanks to Jetstar. The journey to Melbourne was extremely tiring due to long hours sitting in the aeroplane without any FREE entertainment or FREE drink. Luckily we brought tiny netbook on board which can entertain us for about 4 hours. No direct flight from Singapore to Melbourne during my visit. ="= We had to transfer via Darwin.

Reached Melbourne airport around 12pm (Melbourne time). We spent AUD 26 (round trip) on skybus. By taking skybus, it will transfer us to Southern Cross station. From there, we can take FREE mini bus to our hotel. Do find more information in this website.

We choose not to wait for mini bus. It takes about 10 mins walk from Southern Cross station to our hotel. The weather was cold with little rain. Prayed for tomorrow will be better weather.

We booked for 5 nights at Travelodge Docklands. We booked it with promotion price due to newly open since Feb 2010. The environment is clean and neat but the location is a bit far from attractions.

We headed to Franklin Street to rent car after checked in hotel. Without spending any dollars in transportation, we can travel in Melbourne city.

First by taking FREE circle tram No 35.

Second by taking FREE tourist shuttle bus.

Last but not least, by F-O-O-T.... :P

We had late lunch at Mimo cafe. Ordered a really big portion of Fish & chips and burger.

After recharge ourselves, we headed to visitor information center. Remember grab a FREE Melbourne map and some discount coupons that attached in brochure.

St. Pauls Cathedral

Federation Square

Old Flinders station

Next we walked to Yarra River and Crown Casino.

We went back hotel early due to cold weather. We have to rest early tonight because tomorrow would be very fun. Yes! We are going for a road trip along Great Ocean Road! ^_^