Fast Facts
Duration: 2-3 hours
Price Guide: $0
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Shopping on Chapel Street - South Yarra
When it comes to shopping, Chapel Street is one of Melbourne’s best known areas. If you’re fed up of high street shops and looking for something a little bit different, this street is second to none when it comes to variety. For everyone [...]

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Fast Facts
Duration: 1-2 hours
Price Guide: $0-$unlimited, depending on how much shopping you do!
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Shopping on Swan Street and Bridge Road
If you’d like to see the Gleadall St Market in action (the final stop on this tour) you’ll need to time your tour for a Saturday morning as the market finishes at 1pm each Saturday.

Starting the [...]

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Fast Facts
Duration: 1-2 hours
Price Guide: $0
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The Royal Botanic Gardens - Melbourne
This amazing 38 hectare garden is said to be one of the world’s finest botanic gardens - boasting over 10,000 species of plants (many endangered) and an array of wildlife, it’s not hard to see why. Directions to the gardens are surprisingly sparse, but [...]

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Duration: 1-2 hours
Price Guide: $0-$unlimited, depending on how much shopping you do!
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Queen Victoria Market - Melbourne
Sunday: 9am-4pm (limited stalls only)

Starting the tour
Catch a train to Melbourne Central Station.
Section 1:
Directions:
Follow the signs to the Elizabeth Street exit of the station and turn right when you exit so you’re facing north up Elizabeth St. Walk, [...]

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Fast Facts
Duration: More than 3 hours
Price Guide: $0-29
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Melbourne City Baths, Indoor Climbing Centre and State Library of Victoria
Prices were correct at the time of publication.

Starting the tour
Catch a train or a tram to Melbourne Central (on the city loop). All train lines, except Sandringham and Williamstown, have loop services. Any of the Swanston Street [...]

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Fast Facts
Duration: 2-3 hours
Price Guide: $0
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Shopping in central Melbourne
Look up as you walk along. While most of the street-level architecture is given over to shops and cafes, above them are some of Melbourne’s fine original buildings, but you’ll only spot their beauty by looking past the shopfronts.

Starting the tour
Start this tour from Flinders Street [...]

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Fast Facts
Duration: More than 3 hours
Price Guide: $0
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Upstairs and downstairs: Melbourne Shopping
Melbourne is all about the hidden and the tucked away. It’s a city defined by its laneways and the secrets they contain. In the Melbourne Upstairs and Downstairs series of tours I’ll give you a little insider’s peek into some of this city’s [...]

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Duration: More than 3 hours
Price Guide: $0
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Upstairs and downstairs: Melbourne Galleries
Don’t try doing this tour on a Sunday, Monday or Tuesday. At least one of the galleries will be shut. And kicking off at 9am is not advised either, gallery owners like to sleep in.

Starting the tour
Start at Flinders Street Station.
Section 1:
Directions:
If you’ve [...]

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Fast Facts
Duration: More than 3 hours
Price Guide: depends on how much you eat
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Upstairs and downstairs: Melbourne Eating
This is not so much a tour as it is a collection of places in Melbourne that are good to eat at and slightly off the beaten track.
Most of these places are a bit more expensive than your [...]

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Fast Facts
Duration: More than 3 hours
Price Guide: depends on how much you drink
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Upstairs and downstairs: Melbourne Bars
This is not so much a tour as it is a collection of places in Melbourne that are good to drink at and slightly off the beaten track. Most of these places are a bit more expensive than [...]

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