Our experience getting from Melbourne to Sydney on Jetstar (Avalon Airport)
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- We were told that Avalon airport was a shed and didn't have Wifi. Here's what we actually experienced. We also share a couple of budget hacks for full time travel.
Stick around until the end for my embarrassing talk.
Before we left Melbourne, we got to quickly check out some of the large National Gallery of Victoria - a free museum!
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Melbourne, Australia // 1 YEAR World Trip // DAY 245 // March 3, 2018 // Country #49
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4 YEARS since you visited us in Melbourne town. we still remember your kindness. hope you are having the best of life and health. we miss you come visit us again. God bless you both. from your cousins down under.
"hotel" also has 2 connotations here. Pub/Bar with accommodation and upmarket hotel. I suppose with Mardi Gras on you definitely weren't getting anything in Sydney CBD and surrounds for less than $200 a night.
$200 a night during Mardi Gras would be the biggest bargain ever!
A little tip for all you guys wishing to travel to Aus, don’t ask Google. They have no idea. Just add an Aussie on Facebook and ask them prior.
TY for visiting Australia, people like you are the best Aussie ambassadors.
07:25..As a Melbournian, Evelyn is still nearest to the experience of a bush airport at this stage. Yet I remember flying out of Stansted Airport In England and it too was a small regional "tin shed" airport, but I suspect that if you come back to Avalon in another 20 years you will be impressed how much It will change.
you guys should be our Ambassadors for tourists coming down under!...really great video !! come back and migrate here!!!lol
🤣 glad you are enjoying our videos 🤩
Thanks for sharing you guys! We really hope to go to Australia. It's one of the top places on our bucket list. That museum was so nice and cute with all the interactive art. We love that stuff! Side note: Love all the flashbacks. Need to visit Scotland too! NO A/C is the worst!
exploreaswego yay! Glad you enjoyed the video 😁 yes, Australia is awesome!
Loving your videos. Your edits are super fun and vibrant and show a lot of personality.
A fun fact for you... up until COVID-19 changed everything, the Sydney to Melbourne route was the world’s second busiest route for passengers and planes. To put the route into perspective, the top 2 routes in the US combined are still less than SYD-MEL. Over 9.3 million people fly between the capitals each year whereas the US’s number 1 (world’s 29th) is LAX-JFK which is under 4 million. It’s also the reason that it was one of the first routes in the world to go completely automated check-in (i.e. NFC tags and no staff check in) when Qantas pioneered a lot of the tech over 10 years ago. Jetstar of course is a Qantas low cost offshoot, and saves costs by using a much more manual process. But the price you got was great for the distance.
Thanks! Glad you found us and can enjoy our videos for when we traveled in 2018 :) I didn’t realize it was the most traveled route 😳 that’s so great!
An interesting choice for your first stop in Sydney. Usually it is the Rocks or Manly or ,,, but ... different.
Melbourne is a great city. Glad you enjoyed yourselves. Avalon Airport looks like a nice spot, Tullamarine is (was) such a busy airport. Hopefully they get busy again soon, so we can all travel again. Stay safe.
Yes, there will be a surge in airport travel once it’s safe to! 😊 are you from Melbourne? 🇳🇿
Glad you enjoyed Melbourne, but seriously u got coffee at starbucks in Melbourne, a city that has the best coffee in the world!
I know. Any Melbournian wouldn’t be caught dead at Starbucks
Melbourne is the h Coffee capital of the world
I’ve been to Colorado Springs. My friend lives there. I’m glad you liked Melbourne, it’s one of my favourite cities on the planet.
Cool! We love Colorado ⛰ Yeah Melbourne was awesome to visit 👏
@@HappyHoppe But you had hideous 7/11 coffee and never sampled a proper Melbourne coffee. I was upset!
Wow I can't believe you stayed there , that's a local pub , mmm very unusual place to stay , it's the suburbs, you are so far out of the city , oh well. I hope you had a good time ,
😬 🙊 yeah, it was an unusual place to stay - wouldn’t highly recommend it 🤣But it was affordable and right along the metro line - 45 minutes to city center. I guess that’s what booking the day of gets you during a holiday 🤷♀️
@@HappyHoppe I lived there all my childhood. When I heard where you were I thought oh no , how long did you stay there , ? I guess I will have to wait till the next post ,
gordo 1 just 2 nights 😊
@@HappyHoppe HAHAHAHA there are reeeallly nice proper hotels in Sydney but they are VERY expensive. I've never known anyone who's stayed in the centre of the city, I guess we don't have to when we live here anyway.
@@jakegargiulo5101 Vulcan Hotel. Spotless. Family run. Lovely old building. Not exxie. In Ultimo, close to Spice Alley.
You came to Sydney and stayed in Panania, Haha. Mardi Gras weekend so i guess city or surrounds accom would of been near impossible but Crikey how do you end up in Panania??
I'm enjoying your videos.
😂 it was along the metro line 🤷♀️ glad you’re enjoying our videos 😊
thinking same thing, of all places you picked Panania, wow would of certainly been an experience, and opposite direction from airport to Sydney city
Pubs like Panania Hotel are basically drinking holes that have accommodation if you are desperate!
Thanks for sharing and keeping us entertained during the pandemic. Surprised to hear you say that coffee would help with bowel movements. Had trouble with my bowels when I was younger, and the doc told me that caffeine would bind me up, making it harder to go. So little to no pop, coffee, or any other sources of caffeine for me. Hoping that tip helps with future travel.
Glad you are enjoying the videos! Yeah I’m not a doctor 🤷♀️ personal experience was when I would drink coffee (after not having it often), I would need to poop within the next few hours.
But the problem is we were relying on coffee too much when traveling 🤦♀️ and probably not drinking enough water!
I currently am not drinking coffee and my bowel movements have been more regular 💩 sorry if that’s TMI 😂 🤣
A little bit of history for you - Avalon airport was formerly part of the Government Aircraft Factories. It was used for fianl assembly and test flying of planes such as the Nomad and the F/A18A.
Free Museums and Art Galleries in Australia typically put on the best activities on during school holidays for the kids. In Brisbane we also have the Science Centre at SouthBank, awesome challenges, experiments and activities, could easily spend a whole day there. Did you see it when you were here? 😊
Just discovered and luv your Vlog. Nice, adventurous, positive travelers - perfect! As a 55 yo American, visiting Australia is number one on my bucket list...
Yay! Glad you are enjoying our vlogs! You can always use the playlists to watch the whole 1 year trip in order or pick your favorite countries to watch :)
I'm curious if $50/day included traveling expenses like train and air fares?
Phildy65 Air fares? No air fares in Aus are cheap, all are around $100 at minimum with no checked luggage. Each city has different prices for their public transport. Melbourne has no train from the main airport (Tullamarine) to the CBD, you get the red SkyBus to Melbourne Central Southern Cross train station. But in Sydney the train line goes underground at the Domestic and International terminals but the price is higher ($20 AUD one way in or out) as the Airport line is privately owned independent of Sydney Trains which is Government owned.
@@lmaree200886 A lot of the outrageous price for teh Sydney airport line is for getting on and off at the terminal buildings. The train has to pay the Airport a lot for using the airport station platforms. If you stay on the train and go on to other stops on the line, ones that have nothing to do with the airport - it's a lot cheaper.
@@afpwebworksI was born in and I have lived in Sydney for over 30 years! I think I know what I'm talking about!
Airport Link Company actually owns the amount of track between four stations and the stations/platforms themselves (Green Square, Mascot, Domestic and International terminals) not much more of the building is owned past the entry/exits. Two stations on the Airport tunnel line are owned by the NSW Government (Central and Wolli Creek). And you're not paying to enter the buildings above, you're paying to USE THE STATIONS only! It's kinda ridiculous and of course the passengers bare the high price to enter the station! Yes, you can just sit on the train to loop the Airport line for as long as you want but you have 2 hours to do so or your Opal card will book you the full adult fare from the last station you tapped on from!
I lived in Sydney while that whole tunnel and Wolli Creek station itself was being built before the 2000 Olympics! Wolli Creek station and majority of the suburb itself never existed as it was swamp lands with a creek bed running to the ocean.
I feel like I need to cancel my social life for a week, in favour of binge watching your channel from the start. Sounds good to me! 😊😂
😂 🤣 or watch it online with a friend 😁😍🌍❤️
Hi I'm from Goldcoast Australia Queensland use must come to Goldcoast next time it's kinda south of Brisbane this was a great video I liked it have a great day 😄
We went to the Gold Coast and Brisbane after New Zealand and loved it ❤️
I work at that museum. You must have visited around 2 years ago. That exhibition was the Biennial. You can imagine how many people would get caught in the strings every day.
😂 oh my goodness! That’s funny! Yes, we were there March 2018 - still editing daily videos from our 1 year world trip 😊🌍❤️
i always stayed in backpacker hotel which was cheaper and had cheap meals and parties with a lot of interesting people.
"They have Target"? Of course we have Target the company started in Geelong Australia.
I didn’t know that 🤩 that’s awesome!
I thought it started in Minneapolis, Minnesota! Close to where my husband grew up!
@@HappyHoppe Target Australia and Target America are two *different* companies with the same name and same logo.
@@HappyHoppe the Target companies in Australia and the US are not the same thing. The US one started in Minnesota (and still HQ'd there as you point out), roughly 20 years before the Australian one. I think it's a coincidence :shrug:
But is not their kind of Target... Americans target is like ours, plus groceries (think of a Coles and Target combined).
At the NGV you were actually meant to put leaves on the flowing water wall at the front and they stick
Great video guys, now you know why Melbourne is nicer than Sydney!
Parks, easy transport and for the same cost of a average pub room in Outer Sydney, you get an apartment right in the centre of the City of Melbourne!
😂 we really did like Melbourne 😊
Yeah you guys make up for it with your $15+ hipster coffee. That apparently you need so much to stand melbourne that you can't respect covid restrictions. On yah champ.
@@shawnoladd I didn't know Covid was a competition. How odd.
Yeahhhh Sydney!
Haha our airport isn't that fancy though, it's true. Oh and trains are NOT that expensive, it only costs that much if you are travelling FROM one of the airport stations because they are privately owned by the Sydney Airport Corporation. A normal train trip to and from anywhere in the Sydney Metro Area will be anywhere from $3 to $8 depending on the distance or time of day.
Edit as I'm watching: Ayyyye, Wolli Creek! I was just at that station today. I go past it al the time, woooo. It's so cool seeing my every-day places in a TH-cam video hahaha. Makes it so much more interesting and fun to watch!
Oh wow I always see the Panania Hotel from the station when I stop there. A lot of small places here are called "Hotel" are actually just like a bar or pub. Don't know why, it's so weird.
Glad you are enjoying our videos :)
Hi guys.. where do u stay in Melbourne? And from which are that you get the skybus?
Probably wouldn’t ever go to Panania, it’s kinda urban remote.
Air Asia flies to Kuala Lumpur out of Avalon airport also
Lol I’m a Melbourner and can’t say I’ve ever been to Avalon but for those prices I’d totally make the trek out there!
Yeah, it was worth the trek! We used flights.google.com to search surrounding airports for the best price :)
Melbourner?...Melbournian surely
@@terencemccarthy8615 Melburnian actually.
@@swansbear ..yes I stand corrected!
If you guys had more time in Australia, like months on end.... you could have hired an RV or mini-traveller (house on wheels), and that sorts your home and transport and you couldve driven and seen Australia from a driver-round perspective. x
That would’ve been fun!
Good call , not going on the airport train at the Sydney Airport. It's far too expensive.
I went to Avalon 2 weeks ago it tiny
Great video. As a Melbourne resident, could you pronounce my city as "Melb bun" (as one quick word). Hope you enjoyed Aussie & Melboune Victoria in particular..
Thanks! 😂 yes, I was later corrected and say it properly in the first time meeting kangaroo video :)
@@HappyHoppe please don’t pronounce Melbourne like how Australians do. Aussies say it that way because they have an Australian accent. You guys don’t, so saying Mel-bin(or Mel bun like that guy said) would sound just like an awkward attempt at an Australian accent. Mel-burn (not Mel-born like how you’re saying) is the correct American pronunciation of it.
The cheapest way to Tullamarine Airport is to catch a Craigieburn train to Broadmeadows then the 901 to Terminal 4. That is all covered by your Myki Card, so would be $4.40. The Skybus is fast, but its a rip-off for regular travellers.
In Sydney DON'T catch the Airport Train. It is a privatised cash-cow. Catch the 400 bus from outside the International terminal & from outside Terminal 3 (Qantas) on the Domestic side in the direction of Bondi Junction. In about 10 minutes it will get to Mascot Suburban Station where you can simply catch the train into town without the surcharge. If the 400 bus says Rockdale you can take that too & change to go into the city. Payment can be with your credit or debit cards, so you don't need to buy Opal Cards.
Hope this helps people. Don't get ripped off!
Thanks for all the helpful tips :)
U must have been talking to the locals . Panania is no where near the centre of town. Some might say it is a quarter of the way to Melbourne😂
Panania ! ha . thaught youd be more on the reviews . . . glad you enjoy australia
They’re in the sticks. What the hell?
I live close to hunter valley wine country side 🥰🍷 been to Melbourne once,don't like business..only travel to outback of Australia 😊 love nature then city😉 are you guys going to visit brunei 😁
Rina pearson we didn’t make it to the outback- maybe next time 😊 what’s your favorite outdoor place?
And no, we didn’t go to Brunei. Always more to explore 😊
I love uluru and Alice spring,I've been many places in the outback, hot water spring (Dalhousie spring),thinking of going to Darwin, can't do it this year,maybe next year.love all you guys videos, there's lots of love and adventure. Trying different things and learned different cultures..yous make me smile🙂 keep it up
We went to "coober pedy " the opals small town,some of the people living underground, because the weather there kind of very hot in summer. It's was fun.
This country is 98% outback, or the bush, with just a few cities hugging the coast. Blows my mind when people only visit the cities, which are more or less carbon copies of eachother and could be anywhere with another accent. We have incredible natural diversity here, from the Gondwana like west coast of Tasmania, to the Great Dividing Range high country of Vic, SA and NSW, to the iron red earth of WA and NT, with Uluru, Kata Tjuta, and the remote mystical Bungle Bungles, WA, the wetlands of Kakadu the rainforests of the far north of Qld, the time capsule that is Kangaroo Island, SA. Then there is the wilder, remoter Ningaloo Reef of WA. So much uniqueness to see that is not the glass and steel every modern city on Earth. If you come here please,please, please at very least choose one experience that is not city based.
National Gallery of Victoria is an Art Gallery, it is not the State Museum.
I went to Avalon 2 weeks ago it has wifi
Public transportation is cheap, it's privatised transportation that is expensive. The airport trains/busses in most cities are privatised, hence the huge expense.
Why did u go to panania???
The reason for the airport expense is straightforward. All transport is government owned/run (with some private operators competing). The airport line was a private venture built prior to Olympics and priced according for a profit. No competition and private run means happy shareholders rather than happy customers :(
But it is very fast! From airport to city in 13 minutes is hard to replicate in many other large cities.
Massive kudos for heading out into the suburbs too. Although Panania is a very interesting find that shows ingenuity.
Yeah, good price hotel along the tram line - wouldn’t recommend it, but if worked for a night 🤷♀️🤪
@@HappyHoppe at least it's not too far an exchange from the airport. Sydney's train is quite large, so it seems like the research did pay off. Your stay in Leichhardt (where you climbed out window) is a much nicer area. It's one of the Italian areas of Sydney (albeit significantly smaller than Melbourne's) and quite close to the light rail.
Thank you again for your awesome insights. It's very refreshing to see cities I know well through fresh eyes. Hopefully you one day make it to Western Australia and the NT some time into the future. They're the untouched places of Australia.
Not quite correct. Four stations on the Airport line are privately run. Only the two Airport stations charge the airport access fee. When it was built (for the 2000 Olympics), there was a deal with a private company to provide a part of the funding (about $200m) in return for income from operating the stations. Under that deal the state government actually takes 85% of those fees, so it's not quite the 'private gouging' most people think. The government gets full ownership of those stations back in 2030.
The trains themselves are NSW Government. The fee is still cheap compared to parking fees at the airport (and anywhere in the centre of the city). So much so that (for one day return business trips) I use free rail station parking (Revesby, not far from Panania) and catch the train to the Airport as the cheapest option. One advantage of the airport access fee is that it stops kids with nothing to do using the airport as if it's a shopping mall, but even a $5 surcharge would do that.
If you're in a group, using an Uber or cab would often be cheaper. Lots of locals from suburbs use pick-up mini-bus services to the airport. There is also the 400 bus which runs about every 20 to 30 minutes. It's a Government Service from Burwood to Bondi Junction (most suburban areas of Sydney are served by privately run buses, subsidised by government, but they look much the same and all use Opal Cards). It stops at Mascot train station (outside the airport) and lots of backpackers use it to dodge the airport access fee.
Panania? Why?
you went to starbucks !!!! and melbourne has a thousand better coffee shops.
Sydney airport is on a private rail loop and is more expensive than the rest of the network. Panania? thats not in the cbd its a suburban pub not a hotel, weird place to stay for overseas visitors
Why on earth Panania?
The airport train ,,, is a private enterprise. That's why it's expensive. Same in Brisbane.
Your staying in a pub.
That's a pub,, a drinking gambling establishment firstly.
Yes, we had no idea when we booked it online what it was 😲🤷♀️ once we were upstairs it was clean and quiet 😅 wouldn’t highly recommend the place, but location to the metro and price was good 😁
AirAsia come this year
First night in Sydney and your staying at Panania Pub, are you nuts. You would have been better staying at Ibis or one of the hostels in the city, if you were trying to save money. I was born in the next suburb and it is one of the skankiest parts of Sydney. I was trying to think of the equivalent in Colorado Springs and it does not have one, maybe a 1 star hotel at Deerfield Hills.
😂 yeah, we just didn't know! 🤪
Sydney accommodation -$$$
Well done guys to not get ripped off by that over priced train from the Sydney Airport. We Sydneysiders HATE it.
Even with the train ride, it was way cheaper to fly to Sydney from that airport
Ietstar and bonza and AirAsia come from there
Glad you enjoyed visiting Australia.
We prefer people to pronounce Melbourne "Mell-Burn"
Nah I'd say it's more Mel-bn
Alest it not summer , you will struggle to sleep in 30 degree at midnight with no air conditioner
It's actually Melbourne Art Gallery, not museum...
Panania??? How the hell did you end up in Panania?????? Someone gave you a weird steer there ...
Probably nothing else available since there was Mardi gras
Pear Juice honey, solve a that backed up problem very quickly.
Good to know 😂 I’ve never heard of that!
It has wifi
Panania? Like visiting New York but staying in Ohio. So sorry you ended up in a Sports Bar in Ohio during Mardi Gras. I shouldn't laugh, but...
We call Jetstar "Crapstar" because it's a discount airline and you get what you pay for - which isn't much 😂
When you travel for a year on a budget, you appreciate budget airlines :) very thankful for those options!
the WIFI in Australia is a embarrassment
😂 thankfully we were able to manage!
Er.....................................Panania?
Oh No! Panania! Not a good introduction to Sydney.
Everyone who lives in Sydney: Panania? *pulls out Google Maps*. Oh, it's out past Punchbowl. Right. Middle of nowhere. You could probably get cheaper and better accommodation closer in the city, depending on timing. During Mardi Gras is not the time to get cheap accommodation in the city.
Also, 'Mardi Gras' in Sydney is not what you'd think of in the US: it's the Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Buying crisps at the airport ?!? you rich bastards.
should have bought the koala key ring and passed on the crisps.
Be careful when saying Mardi Gras is not your scene. Best you research and understand what the Sydney Mardi Gras is actually about.
why be careful if it's not?
They didn't give the event the full name. it's the "Gay and Lesbian Mardis Gras". You dont strike me as a couple that would see the Mardis Gras as your kind of scene.
Mardi Gras not your scene. You defo' missed out on an epic event.
she whinges a lot its annoying