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Melbourne & the Great Ocean Road at Mercure

From $1099pp SAVE UP TO $225
Find a different highlight around every corner

Package Includes:

  • 5 nights Mercure Hotel accommodation
  • Full Buffet Breakfasts each morning
  • 2x Two Course Dinners at the Hotel Restaurant
  • Great Ocean Road Adventure with Lunch
  • Choice of Puffing Billy & Wineries or Puffing Billy & Wildlife
    (both with lunch provided)
  • Best of Melbourne Tour with Tramcar Dinner
  • Dinner at the Sumptuous Santé at the Crown Casino

The Southbank promenade along the Yarra River is one of Melbourne’s most popular
dining precincts, with its riverside setting and fantastic views of the city skyline.

You could spend a month in Melbourne and still not do it all, let alone a week!


Melbourne is arguably the sporting, shopping, dining and entertainment capital of Australia.

Couple that with stunning old and new architecture, magnifi cent parks & gardens and a genuine vibrancy and it’s obvious why Melbourne is such a visited city. Plus there are so many wonderful attractions within easy reach of the city.


This package is the ideal way to see the city and surrounds. Stay at a great location just a short tram ride to the city centre. You will be intrigued by Melbourne’s abundance of cafes, bars, clubs, galleries and boutiques, many to be found in the labyrinth of laneways and arcades.

 

Dine at the Mercure Hotel’s Lime Cafe and also along the banks of the Yarra River at the Santé International Buffet Restaurant. Start each day with a delicious buffet breakfast at your hotel.

 

Enjoy a majestic drive along the Great Ocean Road, one of three tours included in your package. Discover the breath-taking coastline of south-west Victoria as you travel one of the world's most scenic roads. Plus, you can add on extra tours such as the amazing Fairy Penguins, the classic
Riverboat town of Echuca, the picturesque Mornington Peninsula, the grand Grampians or factory outlet shopping, at special prices available only with the package.


Come and see marvellous Melbourne for yourself ...

 

A stay in the City Centre

 


 

The Mercure Hotel Melbourne provides comfortable accommodation in Melbourne's CBD. This Melbourne hotel has a range of accommodation rooms, providing standard and superior rooms. Some rooms also have balconies providing sweeping views of Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens.
All accommodation rooms have the Mercure ‘Mmmm’ beds and pillows (extra pillows and cushions for a comfortable nights rest), mini bar, fridge, pay per view movies, a desk with broadband internet access and all the standard amenities consistent with the Mercure brand of hotels.
Located at 13 Spring Street in the South Eastern part of the main city block and closest to the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Rod Laver Arena, Vodafone Arena and Olympic Park.
The free city circle tram stops right at the front door.

 


Your room features air conditioning, fridge, coffee/tea making facilities, iron/ ironing board, colour television and ensuite bathroom.

 

Standard Rooms
• 1 Queen Bed
OR
• 2 Single Beds
OR
• 2 Double Beds
Superior Rooms
• 1 Queen Bed or 2 Double Beds

 

3 Dinners

 

 

There are two dinners included at the Lime Café. Both of these two course dinners are prepared by the Hotel’s executive chef who brings flair and creativity to the menu featuring a fi ne selection of a la carte dishes, all lovingly prepared from the best ingredients available.
The Lime Café at Mercure Hotel is located on the ground fl oor of the hotel, and has vast bay windows overlooking Spring Street and Treasury Gardens. Lime Café and Bar offers breakfast and dinner in stylish surroundings.
Daily buffet breakfasts are also included in this package.
The third dinner in the package invites you to overlook the Yarra River whilst dining at the Santé International Buffet Restaurant at Melbourne’s acclaimed Crown Casino. This sumptuous restaurant features Carvery, Mediterranean, Asian, Salads and an array of tempting Desserts to suit most every imaginable taste.

 

3 Tours

Best of Melbourne Tour (352)

 

 

Gray Line’s Best of Melbourne Tour is a showcase of Melbourne’s charm. A scenic cruise on the Yarra River, a comprehensive look at Melbourne’s highlights and a visit to the beautiful Blue Dandenongs National Park. Finish off the tour with a three course dinner (including beverages) on board the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant, an unforgettable dining experience in the 1927 tram car as it cruises Melbourne’s streets.

 

Includes: River Cruise, Bush Billy Tea, 3 Course Dinner aboard Tramcar, Tour Pick-up & return to Hotel.

The Great Ocean Road Adventure Tour with Lunch (396L)

 

 

The power and majesty of nature reigns supreme in this awe-inspiring coast. The 12 Apostles huge stone monoliths, Island Arch, Razorback and the precipitous coastline’s spectacular views never fail to impress. See the remains of ‘London Bridge’ which crashed into the sea only recently after millions of years.
Visit famous Bells Beach and picturesque Apollo Bay, tour through Lorne & Otway National Park’s rainforest. Wander around Loch Ard Gorge. Enjoy a one course set menu lunch at the Apollo Bay Hotel as part of this tour.

 

Includes: National Park fees, Bush Billy Tea, on-coach video, Lunch, Tour Pick-up & return to your Hotel.


Choose 1 of the following Tours

Puffing Billy with Australian Wildlife Tour (399)

 

 

Ride on Australia’s most notable narrow gauge railway through the spectacular Blue Dandenong Ranges. Tour through the richness of the Yarra Valley - a pastoral experience of farms and vineyards, haystacks and wine grapes. Visit Healesville Sanctuary cradled in the forested foothills of the Great Divide, and surround yourself with Australian wildlife.

 

Includes: Train ride, entrance to Healesville Sanctuary, Bush Billy Tea, Wine Tasting, Lunch, Tour Pick-up & return to Hotel.

 

Puffing Billy with Yarra Valley Wineries

 


 

Tour (355) - A tour designed for those with an appreciation of fi ne Australian wines. From the charm of the Blue Dandenongs and Puffi ng Billy, tour to the picturesque Yarra Valley wine growing region where you will have ample opportunities to sample Australian wines.


Includes: Train ride, Bush Billy Tea, Wine Tasting, Lunch, Tour Pick-up & return to Hotel

 

Additional tours & attractions at discounted prices


Extra tours & attractions only available at these discounted prices if booked in conjunction with your Holiday Special Package. ALL PRICES SHOWN ARE PER PERSON.

 

Evening Penguin Express (374)
Price: $98

A great evening tour that takes you directly to The Penguin Parade. En-route experience panoramic views of French Island passing through San Remo fi shing village to Phillip Island - home for one of the largest colonies of Little Penguins.

 

Includes: Penguin Parade, Tour Pick-up & return to Hotel.

Full Day Grampians (375)

Price: $124

Mountain Grandeur Experience spectacular lookouts on mountain escarpments, fascinating rock formations, streams and plunging waterfalls on this day of mountain top adventure.

 

Includes: Tour Pick-up & return to Hotel.

 

 

Full Day Echuca (383)

Price:$119

 

 

Home of the Riverboats Take a guided tour of the historic Port of Echuca. Relive the fantastic Riverboat era following the route of the overland cattle drovers and tour historic Bendigo including vintage Talking Tram Tour.

 

Includes: Tour of Bendigo Talking Tram,
Paddlewheeler cruise, Port of Echuca Tour, on-coach video, Tour Pick-up and return.

 

Shopping Spree Tour

Price: $65


 

Be escorted in comfort to Melbourne’s best Factories and Warehouses for a variety of goods where the savings are enormous.

 

Includes: Shopping, two course lunch, Tour Pick-up and return to Wellington Parade.

Pricing Table


Prices Per Person Valid to 1 April 2009

Room Type

Package Price Per Person

Extra Nights Per Person

 

Single

Twin

Single

Twin

Standard

$ 1,599

$ 1,099

$ 185

$ 102

Superior

$ 1,699

$ 1,149

$ 205

$ 112

 

Travel to Melbourne is not included

All prices are AUD, inclusive of GST

Excludes airfares & tour operator fuel surcharges

Prices Valid to 1 April 2009

Prices are per person, please enquire for child prices and extra persons