We arrived at Melbourne Airport at 6.25am on Monday 17 March. After stopping for breakfast at Hungry Jacks we started looking for a taxi. After dragging our cases up and down the front of the airport for 10 minutes looking for the area where taxis picked up we asked and found we'd emerged on the wrong level after going upstairs for breakfast. Taxis only dropped people off on this level they didn't pick up.
We went downstairs to the correct level and got a taxi to St Kilda and our hotel The Albert Park Manor.
A lovely hotel, the owners were very helpful and friendly. If I am ever in Melbourne again I would definitely stay at the Albert Park Manor. Trams and buses stop just outside to take you to the city and St Kilda beach. Next door to the hotel is a McDonalds and most of our meals on the first couple of days came from there.
My room is pictured below.
At Glen Iris we crossed the road and got the tram to Flinders Street Station.
When we finally arrived we had a brief walk round the city and then jumped on the free tourist tram.
Soon the heat and the jet lag caught up with my sister and the kids and we had to return to the hotel. While they slept I headed off to St Kilda beach.
We arrived at Melbourne Airport at 6.25am on Monday 17 March. After stopping for breakfast at Hungry Jacks we started looking for a taxi. After dragging our cases up and down the front of the airport for 10 minutes looking for the area where taxis picked up we asked and found we'd emerged on the wrong level after going upstairs for breakfast. Taxis only dropped people off on this level they didn't pick up.
A lovely hotel, the owners were very helpful and friendly. If I am ever in Melbourne again I would definitely stay at the Albert Park Manor. Trams and buses stop just outside to take you to the city and St Kilda beach. Next door to the hotel is a McDonalds and most of our meals on the first couple of days came from there.
