Practical Example of planning a Great Ocean Road Trip
This started on December 20th with a request from Arun in Hong Kong for accommodation at Wattle Court Retreat for two nights on 28th of December.
Christmas, New Year and all of January is High Season. You can read the whole e-mail exchange, needless to say Wattle Court was not available. We pointed Arun at Find a room on the Great Ocean Road.
A telephone conversation followed and we responded to Arun with a three night four day itinerary.
- “Day one is a short drive from Melbourne airport to Queenscliff - a quaint holiday village on the Bellarine Peninsula.
- Day two is about 300 km to Warrnambool, but as you will be coming back you could do the Great Ocean Road in each direction, on the way down think of Lunch in Apollo Bay, then the Apostles and on to Warrnambool.
- Day three - take a trip to Port Fairy, Tower Hill if there is time and the Warrnambool waterfront is interesting in it’s own right.
- Day four, your return to Melbourne for New Year’s eve, focus on the Great Ocean Road between Apollo Bay and Torquay, if you can fit it in lunch at Chris’ Beacon Point Restaurant. It will be a long but great start to New Year’s Eve.”
By December 22nd Arun had confirmed bookings in Queenscliff and near Port Campbell.Debriefing after the trip Arun confirmed that:-
- “…we enjoyed the great nature experience of this beautiful area, the only distraction was a big traffic jam before we got into Torquay, as there was no escape route ;
- Booking - after your guidance - was convenient
- The properties had been fine, except the difficulty to get them during the high season”
We invite your questions and will do what we can to ensure that your experience lives up to your expectation.
And remember - weekends, even off season are often fully booked two weeks or longer in advance.
