City Sights Private Tour - Melbourne

From $599 AUD

Come with us and explore one of the world’s most culturally diverse, creative and beautiful cities on our Melbourne City Tour.

Discover beautiful buildings and hear wonderful origin stories about ‘Marvellous Melbourne,’ Australia’s fastest growing city that was originally built on wealth from Victoria’s goldfields in the 1850s.

Your Melbourne City Tour will help you get to know a vibrant and diverse city that hums with a creative, sophisticated energy making it one of the world’s most liveable cities.

You can book a half day Private City Tour or a full day Private City Tour

With us, you won’t be walking all over town. We will drive you in comfort to see all the highlights of this wonderful city on our Melbourne City Tour.

Melbourne has one of the largest metropolitan areas of any city in the world. So many of the attractions you will most want to see are actually spread very far apart.

But you can relax. We offer smaller private tours in our fleet of modern, comfortable mini-buses, including a VIP option, that can take you wherever you want to go.

Explore inner city neighbourhoods that let you experience Melbourne’s history, architecture, gardens and places that only the locals know, and where the big coach tours can’t take you.

A tour individually created by you, for you

On our private Melbourne City Tours, you can personally tailor your own itinerary from any of the attractions listed below. With a minimum 4 hours and a maximum 8 hours, you and up to 11 friends or family members can see what you want to see in our wonderful city. For more than 12 people please contact the office.

From the Brighton Bathing Boxes in the South, the legendary Melbourne Cricket Ground in the East, the Italian flavour of Lygon St in the North and the historic seaport of Williamstown in the West, there is much to see in our Melbourne City Sights Tour.

Melbourne showcases a delightful blend of art, music, sport, food, gardens, and of course, is the coffee capital of Australia. The gold rush poured vast wealth into our city, giving rise to the name Marvellous Melbourne.

The beautifully preserved buildings of the gold rush era and Victorian age boom years, sit proudly alongside more contemporary designs like Federation Square.

See the sights that make Melbourne - Australia’s sporting capital

No city in Australia loves sport more than Melbourne.

Every year, this world-renowned Olympic city draws over 1 million tennis fans to the Australian Open – one of only 4 Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments in the world. And nearly 500,000 F1 motor racing fans gather to watch the Australian Grand Prix at the Albert Park Lake Street circuit. (You can do a lap of the circuit with us in the bus if you like!)

On our Melbourne City Tour, you can visit the birthplace of Australian Rules footy at Yarra Park. Here is where, every week in winter, over 100,000 passionate football fans watch this uniquely Aussie game in the Coliseum-like atmosphere of the MCG, the nation’s biggest sports stadium.

Then in summer the MCG becomes its true name as the Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts cricket games featuring Australia vs England, India, New Zealand, etc, including the historic Boxing Day test – the biggest cricket event in the nation every year.

Horse Racing fans don’t get left out either. Because the Flemington Racecourse becomes the epicentre of international thoroughbred racing with the Melbourne Cup held on the first Tuesday in November – the legendary “race that stops a nation”!

Discover the culinary delights of multicultural Melbourne

Melbournians have welcomed people from all over the world since the Goldrush of the 1850s. The post-WWII migrant boom means Melbourne has the largest Greek and Italian populations of any city outside Europe. Vietnamese refugees flooded into the city in the 1970s, bring their unique culture.

What this means is Melbourne has many ethnic ‘eat streets’ featuring, restaurants, cafes, bars, and character-filled pubs from a diverse range of cultures.

On our Melbourne City Tour you can discover:

· the oldest Chinatown outside of Asia

· the city’s Greek Precinct

· the ‘Little Italy’ of Lygon St

· and historic Jewish bakeries on St Kilda’s Acland Street.

On this private tour of Melbourne, you’ll explore the city’s history and culture. Plus see landmarks and stunning views along the Yarra, as the river winds down to Port Phillip Bay with its many beaches. Enjoy the stunning city skyline from the Shrine of Remembrance, picture perfect cameos at the Brighton Bathing Boxes or views across the Bay from the historic Williamstown seaport.

Highlights can include:

Federation Square and Flinders St railway station
Chinatown and the ‘Paris end’ of Collins St
Melbourne Town Hall, State Parliament, the Windsor Hotel and Goldrush era buildings in Spring St
St Pauls Cathedral and St Patricks Cathedral
Royal Exhibition Buildings and Melbourne Museum
Fitzroy Gardens and Cooks Cottage
Inner city neighbourhoods in Fitzroy, Carlton and South Melbourne with unique shopping strips, historic pubs and cafes
Treasury Building and the underground Gold Vaults

The 1956 Olympic sports precinct, Australian Sports Museum, Melbourne Cricket Ground and Melbourne Park (Australian Open)
Yarra River secrets including Victorian era boathouses, gardens, boulevards and picnic spots
Royal Botanic Gardens and the Shrine of Remembrance
Driving the Albert Park Lake F1 Grand Prix track
St Kilda foreshore, Acland Street, Luna Park and the Palais Theatre
Port Melbourne Beach, Station Pier and the Brighton Bathing Boxes
Victoria Market or South Melbourne Market