The Best Way to Travel Sydney in One Day

If people asked me, “Have you been all around Sydney?” then my answer is yes, I have. How can? In one day? two days? YES!! I also never thought I could. How? Keep reading.

In my Australia’s trip this year, I had no itinerary plan to go to Sydney, but yeah, plan changed and I went to Sydney for three days including my arrival and departure day back to Melbourne. I arrived in the early morning of day one, spent one whole day in day two, back to Melbourne on day three. Despite having short times, I have many places to visit. In this sort of situation I have to use my “secret”, well it wasn’t as a real secret. In my times when I’m in a hurry but wanted to go to many places, I always use the city tour bus. This time, Big Bus Sydney is the Answer. I would not recommend this if you stay further than me, but in my case, taking this bus is way better than taking the public transport.

I figured the cost spent when taking public transport like the buses and trains, it took me a lot of times to even thinking about it because I did not know the location I was going to. That was when I saw this sign of BIG BUS SYDNEY! There were a couple of times when I went to Busan, South Korea, for 1 night, and tried to catch up everything in those short times, taking the city bus would be better, fastest and cheaper.

Okay! If you don’t want to look like a tourist, that’s fine, but my purpose was I needed to catch up many places in short times, then I couldn’t think any other way than this.

What you can do with the Big Bus Sydney

I took the 24-hour or day ticket. The good thing about this was it counts according to the number of hours rather than the day, example from the afternoon you start to tomorrow afternoon. First point.

It’s a hop-on-hop-off bus. Yeah, you are right about that! The passenger could hop-on and hop-off anywhere by paying once through routes. Second point.

It included 33 stops around the city and 2 kinds of tours/buses. All places I wanted to go are covered in those 33 stops. Never better. Third point.

Free Wi-Fi onboard. For me who works everywhere, it’s a plus, yes, of course, I did not open my laptop when I’m boarding this bus, but that fourth good point.

Similar to other countries alike, a tour bus is pretty expensive if you only go to either single or more places. Again, it is all about what is your priority, your time, and your travel management.

Places cover by Big Bus Sydney

Big Bus Sydney is covering 33 stops that separated in 2 kinds of tour buses. The City tour and the Bondi tour, each of them starts from 08.30 AM and end around 19.00 PM.

The City tour covers these stops; From Circular Quay ➡ Sydney Tower / Westfield Sydney ➡ Australian Museum ➡ William St. ➡Kings Cross ➡ El Alamein Fountain ➡ Woolloomooloo Bay ➡ Sydney Opera House  ➡ Botanical Gardens ➡ State Library ➡ Hyde Park ➡ Central Station ➡ Power House Museum ➡ Sydney Fish Market ➡ The Star ➡ Maritime Museum ➡ International Convention Centre ➡ Chinese Gardens / Chinatown ➡ Sea Life Sydney Aquarium ➡ King St Wharf ➡ Barangaroo ➡ Sydney Harbour Bridge ➡ The Rock

If you have more time, you can try to extend your trip to the Bondi tour.

The Bondi tour covers these stops; From Central Station ➡ Town Hall ➡ Australian Museum ➡ William St. ➡ Paddington Town Hall ➡ Centennial Parklands ➡ Bondi Beach ➡ North Bondi  ➡ Rose Bay ➡ Double Bay

The frequency takes every 15-20 minutes as the tour duration lasts about 90 minutes, allowing you to hop on and hop off as free as you like. When you are boarding, you are served with free wifi to stay update or just drop your Big Bus experience to the social networking site. You could benefit one earphone out of plenty to enjoy an entertaining and informative digital commentary that is available in 8 different languages on all buses.

So if you plan to go to Sydney and want to try the Big Bus, don’t forget to book online, you might save 10% when you book online.

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Happy Traveling.