Need Advices on Melbourne

[louisoh]

HI guys...

I'll be gg to melbourne on 21 July for 1 week... staying at Somerset on elizabeth (Ascott)...
As it's my first time there.. appreciate if veterans can advice me on :

1) where are the muz go places
2) wat to look out for

I know of Great Ocean road, philip island, mt buller... i sld be going on a day tours for these.. as i tink cabs r damn ex there... The thing is the time required to go these places are at least 1 day each.. thus, i already wasted 3 days !... damnz...

[Seagull]

Current season will be quite cold. So do bring along yr winter clothings.
Victoria Market is another place to pop by.

[scyeige]

spend money on chapel street :D

take a train to boxhill (suburb) and eat great vietnamese beef noodles (pho). :drool:

take tram to st. kilda's beach... but now not so much to see as it's winter...

go philip island to see penguins and dolphins (dunno if they will be around at this time)

[Karihoka]

Being winter... it'll be super cold!!! Well... if u like old buildings just go walk around melbourne uni lolx

[swiftwing]

I just went there to visit my friend awhile back in May.
Philip Island was kind of a disappointment, too touristy. The penguin show also abit overhyped and summore cannot take pics :(. One word of advice if you are watching the evening show is to dress appropriately. Its really really cold. The wind was really strong and i almost froze. Frankly speaking if you are short on time Philip Island can skip.

Are you going alone or in a group and can you drive?
Great Ocean Road is not fun if you cannot drive and frankly speaking 1 day is not enough. Me and friends did a 3D2N loop of Great Ocean Road and Grampians and found it still abit rushed. The main nice thing about driving yourself is that you see anything nice you can just pull over. :)

Melbourne city itself actually i also not too sure got what to do as we didn't spend much time there, the Melbourne Natural History Museum is nice.

1 week not very enough i feel. If can i want to do the entire coastal road drive from Melbourne to eh....i forgot whats the city in that direction, Adelaide i think. I drove from Sydney to Canberra and it was tons of fun.

[Gollum]

HI guys...

I'll be gg to melbourne on 21 July for 1 week... staying at Somerset on elizabeth (Ascott)...
As it's my first time there.. appreciate if veterans can advice me on :

1) where are the muz go places
2) wat to look out for

I know of Great Ocean road, philip island, mt buller... i sld be going on a day tours for these.. as i tink cabs r damn ex there... The thing is the time required to go these places are at least 1 day each.. thus, i already wasted 3 days !... damnz...



use the guilded tours for phillip island and great ocean route. If you take a cab for these 2 places, it will probably cost more than ur air fare there :D

dun think u will have time for mt. buller.

check out toorak nite life, chapel street if u going shopping. carlton st (forgot the exact name) for a stretch of italian resturants. crown casion :P etc

[Me109]

If I was in Mel.. I'd go up to the snowy mountains and go snowboarding.. bring the powder!!

[thong]

i went there in 2001.you can go to victoria market,the great ocean road,old melbourne gaol.be sure to look out for the twelve apostles and the gold mining places.those are real eye openers