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The Melbourne City Tourist Shuttle is a brand new FREE bus service, stopping at key tourist attractions and destinations in and around the City of Melbourne. Onboard you can view the city in comfort, while listening to an informative commentary about the ctiy’s attractions, and browse the various brochures available. You can hop on and hop off at any of the 13 stops.
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Melbourne’s bus network is reasonably good, servicing the same routes as trams, as well as destinations overlooked by trains or trams. The only downside with buses is that they tend to take longer, often getting bunched up in traffic during peak periods.
While it’s best to pre-purchase your ticket before travelling, a limited range of tickets may also be purchased onboard from the driver. For bus information, timetables and fares, visit Metlink.
Probably the most useful service for travellers is the NightRider. The after midnight bus service travels from the city to …
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Melbourne’s trams and light rail service give the city a distinctive character and provide a scenic way to explore the city and inner suburbs like Richmond, St Kilda and South Yarra. Travelling along most of Melbourne’s major thoroughfares, trams run down the centre of the road, stopping at every CBD intersection and then every two or three blocks once in the suburbs.
Services run regularly from 5am until midnight Monday to Saturday and from 7am to 11pm Sundays. On weekends and public holidays, services are reduced. Many tram services link up …
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Taxis in Melbourne
Melbourne taxis are numerous and easy to spot – they are all uniformly yellow. As well, drivers must always wear a neat uniform and have an identity card on show at all times.
Hailing a cab
Cabs often wait in designated ranks that are clearly signposted at central locations like major hotels in the CBD, or busy spots such as Flinders Street Station. You can also hail a taxi in the street – if the rooftop light is illuminated, it means the taxi is available for hire – or book …
Getting to Australia, Transportation »
Once you arrive at the Melbourne Airport you’ll want to get to a comfortable place to rest for a while. You will have been traveling for more than 24 hours and are probably quite tired.
Here are maps of the airport should you want to find your way around:
Printable Maps
The Melbourne Airport maps are also provided as Adobe PDFs for you to download.
Windows IE users right-click (Mac users click-and-hold) on link then select ‘Save Target As’ or ‘Save Link As’ from the menu. Choose a location to save the PDF; then …