How to Spend a Weekend in the Heart of Sydney on a Budget
Head to aperitivo hour to sip $5 negronis and create your own pub (or brewery) crawl through the city.
Spend a few nights in a leafy treehouse, a beautifully restored truck perched right on the bay or even a mountaintop cabin with views for days.
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You’ll be ordering like a local in no time.
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Accommodations where both you and your pet can sit and stay all around Victoria.
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The new 14-storey hotel is home to a Med-inspired restaurant, Portuguese diner and late-night basement bar.
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For a small island, Singapore sure packs a punch.
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From helicopter wine tours to luxury hotel stays, there are plenty of ways to live the high life in Brisbane.
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There's a reason we love travelling so much.
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Memphis is a veritable playground for music fans. It's not only the home of blues and soul music but also the birthplace of rock 'n' roll.
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Head north for an eco-friendly escape that doesn't skimp on luxury.
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Get out of town — literally — and do your weekend differently.
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Australia's island state boasts the perfect conditions for producing top-quality, flavour-filled produce — and an exceptionally talented roll call of passionate people doing spectacular things with it.
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"While I love a scenic road trip with good company as much as the next person, this road trip truly rivalled almost every journey I can recall."
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Proceed with an empty stomach, an open mind and a readiness to build a more meaningful relationship with what’s on your plate.
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Meet the passionate advocates and entrepreneurs who deal in flavours of the wild and tastes of terroir with the finest produce the earth and sea can offer.
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The South Australian island's wineries, beaches, oyster farms and accommodation are as beautiful as ever.
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Watch baby turtles hatch, swim at the Southern Great Barrier Reef, then sample award-winning local gin and rum.
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Stay at a country estate, taste locally produced wine and whisky, peruse a whole heap of art and feast at a hatted restaurant — all in just one weekend.
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Spend a few days wrapped in nature, natural mineral springs and a blanket of good food and wine.
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Just an hour out of Melbourne, the Peninsula provides the perfect combo of coastal parks, prime produce and pinot noir.
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Accommodations where both you and your pet can sit and stay all around Victoria.
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Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the best hotels in Melbourne will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas and pillow menus await.
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502 Albert Street, East Melbourne
This new Melbourne hotel houses a 20-metre lap pool, gym, all-day diner and cocktail bar, and 137 rooms.
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Whether you fancy relaxing in a private Japanese bathhouse, a rustic metal tub perched on a farm's timber deck, or a spa-bath in a mountain cave — we've got you covered.
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Choose from seaside glamping spots, campsites in the mountains and tents scattered about countryside farms full of roaming sheep.
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All these luxury Victorian glamping experiences are under two hours away from the Melbourne CBD — so you can easily have your weekend wilderness adventure and goose-feather down quilt, too.
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