Thanks all....I think there is close to a guidebook of advice, guidance and tips here..gonna digest and think through some more, some really decent feedback all really appreciated 🙂
Really surprised at the "Sydney is just a city, you could be anywhere" remarks..... I can only think that those people perhaps didn't see the best of it? There is a well-worn Circular Quay/Darling Harbour tourist trail that is tourist central - perhaps they didn't stray from there? If you leave Sydney feeling like that - you're not doing it right.
As I said, do let me know how many days you are going to be here and I'm happy to do you an itinerary.
as to the
those people perhaps didn’t see the best of it
i lived there six months. Living in Glebe, working in the office at the RBG. Had a NYE there, Xmas on Bondi. All of that. If anything doing that is possibly more likely to make it 'just another city'.
But when the local pub (Toxteh Hotel) offers 'Ladies' Nights' with a free glass of fizz with a strawberry in it, you realise culture hasn't (hadn't - twenty years ago remember) hit yet...
Hi @batfink - Probably going to be in Sydney for 5 days in total, I have distant memories from early 90s of Sydney, and really enjoyed it then, i'm sure things have moved on, so an itinerary for this length of time would be great. Cheers
Sydney for 3-4 days is plenty. Bridge walk as early as possible due to the heat. Trip to the blue mountains, day at Bondi etc & that's it for teens. Uluru we did in one night...flew in, sunset at the Olgas, sunrise at Uluru, & away again. There's not much else for a teen TBH. Then head north. If you do Cairns, look up Reef Teach to get set up for a day snorkelling the outer reef. Atherton Tablelands on the cable car thing. Gold Coast was crap, sorry, but it was. Sunshine Coast made the trip for us. I'd have happily stayed there. But out of season the place was dead. 🙂 Brisbane was my favourite place, lovely place but they get scorching summers.
We went in July, near perfect heat levels everywhere, apart from Uluru...bloody freezing.
And when we go back we will be doing three legs. The leg from Dubai - Sydney was just unbearably long. Did Singapore-Dubai on the return leg & was much better.
LHR-HKG-SYD is my choice. Cathay are ace, HKG is super efficient, and it breaks it in to two 'reasonable' length flights.
Of the ones I've done
Man - Abu Dhabi - Syd/Melb is OK, it's 14hrs from the Arab states whoever you use
Same but via Singapore - swaps the long leg to the UK side but Changi is a nice airport to hang out in
Singapore airlines work well for me
Regional departures are much better than LHR unless your in London
If your connecting internally Qantas/Emirates work together (not sure if BA is still in there)
Virgin/Singapore/Etihad
Avoid Tiger internal flights - aspiring to by Ryanair and probably avoid Jetstar - aspirations of being Easyjet but just cheap qantas
But set up FF accounts for all of you and set family pooling to send all the points to your account and you might get something out of it.
If your connecting internally Qantas/Emirates work together (not sure if BA is still in there)
Qantas still link up with OneWorld, so BA, Cathay, etc.
Good point about Changi. It's great. Still prefer CX, myself though.
No problem GK74 - will get something typed-up and send it across! Will assume you are not here over Christmas/NY or anything.
