Originally Posted by
pgh234
So how does this itinerary sound instead..
Sydney, Blue Mountains, and Canberra (??)
Then fly to MEL from either SYD or CBR (if you think it is worth it). Then from MEL we do the Great Ocean Road as well as Phillip Island for the Penguins (the wife said that was mandatory. haha)
That itinerary with the extra flight would actually be a similar price to the whole one way car rental. I feel you all may think that is a better use of time (of which we only have 10 days).
BTW cold does not bother us since we are from the NE US. However, we certainly are not planning on laying on the beach.
That sounds like a pretty good plan.
I'd omit Canberra given only ten days. It has a well-deserved reputation for being boring. Its attractions are mostly of the museum variety, but if you live within a day's drive of the Smithsonian then there's nothing in Canberra that's going to impress you. (Also, the museum and art gallery in Melbourne are vastly superior to their Canberra equivalents anyway.) Parliament House itself is pretty interesting if you're Australian but probably isn't if you're not. Apart from that... uhh, there's a lake and some trees.