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Despite living in Brisbane for 2 years now (Can't quite believe it!) we have never done a lot of travel in Australia as whenever we have time off work we go home to Scotland to see our kids.
Now we have 2 out of three kids here for 6 weeks so we have decided to have a weekend in Sydney. It will be myself, hubby Graeme and two boys Peter 17 and Rory 12.
I can't take time off work at the moment as work is busy so for our first trip we are just doing a weekend.
We have a Hotel booked. It took me ages to land on a Hotel as we like to have space and normally book an apartment but the apartments are downtown and we wanted to be right at the iconic harbour. Eventually i found a good deal staying at the Sydney Harbour Marriott which made 2 rooms affordable,
We leave Friday, Graeme and the boys flying at lunchtime with luggage to get settled and set up. Myself catching up after work.
Sounds like a great location for the hotel. And nice you'll get a chance to see a bit more of Australia. Harder to accomplish in such a big country/small continent!
Be sure to climb the harbour bridge (don't do the twilight tour as your photos at the top will just have a black background). Also a walking tour of "The Rocks" will be awesome if you want to hear about the eerie ghosts. An audio tour of the opera house is a lovely way to spend the afternoon. If you have time to head to Western Sydney (Penrith area) you could spend some time in the man made rapids and kayak around or cable ski or aqua golf or dine at any of the eateries at Panther's Club...Wet'n'wild is at Prospect and a good day out if weather is hot. Visit the largest private animal sanctuary at Featherdale Wildlife Farm at Blacktown (it's pretty inexpensive and a great way to get photos holding koalas, snakes or feeding wallabies and goats). Luna Park is an iconic on the harbour fun park - not a theme park but good old fashioned fun day out. Across the harbour you could visit the Taronga Zoo for a more commercial animal visit (more costly). A day out at Manly is fun in the sun with lots of water activities, shopping, food and entertainment on offer.
Apologies that you didn't ask for opinions but there is so much to do there...hope you don't run into my MiL.
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Be sure to climb the harbour bridge (don't do the twilight tour as your photos at the top will just have a black background). Also a walking tour of "The Rocks" will be awesome if you want to hear about the eerie ghosts. An audio tour of the opera house is a lovely way to spend the afternoon. If you have time to head to Western Sydney (Penrith area) you could spend some time in the man made rapids and kayak around or cable ski or aqua golf or dine at any of the eateries at Panther's Club...Wet'n'wild is at Prospect and a good day out if weather is hot. Visit the largest private animal sanctuary at Featherdale Wildlife Farm at Blacktown (it's pretty inexpensive and a great way to get photos holding koalas, snakes or feeding wallabies and goats). Luna Park is an iconic on the harbour fun park - not a theme park but good old fashioned fun day out. Across the harbour you could visit the Taronga Zoo for a more commercial animal visit (more costly). A day out at Manly is fun in the sun with lots of water activities, shopping, food and entertainment on offer.
Apologies that you didn't ask for opinions but there is so much to do there...hope you don't run into my MiL.
Lol. You did note I said a weekend in Sydney
Thanks for the advice we are trying about 10% of your list this time. I'm hesitating between Manly or Luna park.
Do you know it costs $300 per person to climb the bridge
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Sounds like a nice weekend getaway and looking forward to more plans and as the trip unfolds in a TR! I did the bridge climb and was back in 2001. I don't think it was $300 or even half that. I was on a group tour, so we probably got a break on the price. We had a group of about 25 and probably about 6 of us or so did this. It was a lot of fun and well worth it, especially for the views!
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I was curious about this and the price and it ranged from $158 to 363 depending on the time of day and day of the week. Not inexpensive anytime and someof us could never do it. I am scared of heights and barely make it up the St. Louis Arch.
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