VIVID SYDNEY 2023 – A Light Show to WOW you
Sydney’s VIVID Light Extravaganza
Payment
20% at time of Booking, balance 30 days prior to tour date
Package Includes:
Door to Door transportAirfares
Novotel Hotel Accommodation 4+ stars in Darling Harbour
Lunch x 2 (L)
Dinners x 3 (D)
All Breakfasts (B)
Tour highlights as listed
Highlights:
- VIVID Premium Harbour Dinner Cruise
- Full Day Trip to Blue Mountains
- Jamison Valley
- Three Sisters
- The Skyway Cable Car
- Steepest railway in the world
- Katoomba Falls
- Featherdale Wildlife Park
- Paramatta River Cruise
- 2 Day Pass – Hop On Hop Off Bus
- Circular Quay
- Darling Harbour
- Plus much more
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Sydney – A vibrant city with the most beautiful harbour in the world. Then add VIVID to this city & harbour and it has the WOW factor. Vivid Light transforms the urban environment into a kaleidoscopic wonderland.
In 2023, Vivid Sydney’ is going to be bigger, better and brighter than ever before – Everybody is really excited . It will have on offer the amazing Light Walk, which is a massive 8.5km adventure. Covering the following areas.
Circular Quay, The Rocks, Barangaroo, Darling Harbour, Darling Square, Darling Quarter, The Goods Line and Central Station.
Come & see the city anew with 57 light attractions, including 26 international works and the largest installation to date, The Last Ocean by American artist Jen Lewin.
Lights will also take over Taronga Zoo with Wild Lights and The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney with Lightscape, the world-famous spellbinding 2.1km experience arriving to Sydney for the very first time.
Lights- will also go underground. For the first time ever Sydney has opened up its old underground disused rail tunnel network. A key piece of Sydney’s history is about to be unlocked for this year’s Vivid festival. Underneath Wynyard station in a one-of-a-kind exhibition – a real surprise feature will unfold.
There is also going to be VIVID food – delighting your taste buds everywhere you go and VIVID entertainment for everybody to enjoy.
Let us take you on this magical experience, flights are all booked, accommodation is in Darling Harbour, harbour cruise dining is booked plus more attractions to entertain you for a few days and nights.
There is even opportunity to go to the Theatre Royal Sydney to attend “Tina” – the Tina Turner Musical Event.
We will collect you all and head to Auckland. Depart Auckland on Air New Zealand flight direct to Sydney. We will be met on arrival and transferred to our accommodation. Staying at Novotel Sydney, Darling Harbour. Executive Rooms with Harbour Views and full breakfast daily.
Central location, easy walking to everywhere, access to buses, trains, light rail and ferries. Amazing views and three fabulous in-house restaurants. (4 nights).
Overnight at Novotel Sydney – Darling Harbour – Executive Rooms with harbour Views ( next 4 x nights)
This morning you have time to go sightseeing and / or shopping. Your Two day Hop on Hop off Bus PASS will take you exploring anywhere & everywhere around Sydney & beyond. Maybe inner Sydney today – 23 stops & outer Sydney on Saturday.
Inner City Red Route –
Circular Quay / Sydney Tower / The Rocks / Hyde Park Barracks / St Mary’s Cathedral / Sydney Jewish Museum / Kings Cross / El Alamein Fountain / Woolloomooloo Bay / Sydney Opera House / Botanical Gardens / State Library / Central Station / Powerhouse Museum / Maritime Museum / Chinese Gardens & Chinatown / Sea Life / Barangaroo / Sydney Harbor Bridge / Luna Park / to name a few.
Alternatively, Bondi outer city route may be your choice today – The Blue Route – 11 stops.
Including – Central Station / Town Hall / Queen Victoria Building / Australian Museum / Paddington Markets & Town Hall / Centennial Park / Bondi Beach / North Bondi / Rose Bay / Double Bay / St Marys Cathedral to name a few.
Choice is yours, but you need to be back early as tonight we have a boat cruise around Sydney Harbour to take in the spectacular Vivid Lights Display and enjoy a wonderful dinner.
This premium Vivid Sydney dining experience embodies everything that makes the city so special. Quality Australian food, in a premium, yet relaxed setting. All set against the spectacular backdrop of Harbour Vivid Lights. An outstanding Vivid Dinner Cruise with expansive windows throughout the vessel offering superb views no matter where you are seated.
Your night-time harbour cruise provides front-row views of Sydney’s illuminated landmarks including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia – a cruise is a great and relaxing way to enjoy the lights – and the dinner is yummy too!
Overnight at Novotel Sydney – Darling Harbour
Enjoy a day trip to the Blue Mountains, best known for their soaring sandstone ridges and charming mountain towns.
Starting with an early morning pick-up, the tour will then set off westward to spend as much time possible in the Blue Mountains, traveling through high mountain ranges and into the very heart of the region. Taking in a selection of unique lookout points surrounding Jamison Valley, you’ll be able to marvel at the vast, jaw-dropping valley views and at the beauty of the Three Sisters and listen to informative commentary from local Blue Mountain guides.
A Scenic World pass included in this tour, permits access to three, amazing sightseeing rides and a guided boardwalk journey through the rainforest!
Discover stunning views of the World Heritage-Listed Blue Mountains from The Skyway, see Katoomba Falls and ride on the steepest railway in the world. The 510 metre Scenic Cableway journey gently descends into the Jamison Valley and returns to the top of the escarpment.
The fully enclosed cabin is a unique vantage point for viewing iconic rock formations including Three Sisters, Orphan Rock and Mt Solitary. Passing closely by sheer sandstone cliffs, it showcases the renowned geology and geomorphology of this World Heritage region.
Enjoy a freshly prepared lunch at a historic mountain hotel before heading to a final viewpoint for some more photo opportunities.
The next stop on the tour will get you up close and personal with some of Australia’s most famous animals such as koalas, wombats, kangaroos, emus and many more at Featherdale Wildlife Park.
Your tour will end with a ferry ride up the Parramatta River that leads into famous Sydney Harbour. The perfect way to capture an incredible day out.
Dinner is at your leisure – you may want to order room service if you are too tired to eat out.
Overnight at Novotel Sydney – Darling Harbour
Free Morning today – sleep late after a big day out yesterday – then climb back onboard your Hop on / Hop Off bus and continue to explore. Ride the opposite route to which you did on Thursday – or maybe catch the ferry out to Manly and relax at the beach for the day.
An opportunity is available – for anybody who wishes to go to the afternoon matinee performance – of ‘Tina the Musical’. (optional extra – but we will pre purchase your tickets in advance if you opt to do this)
This evening, we dine inhouse together – then if you wish, take a late-night stroll around Circular Quay or the Opera House – taking in the city lights one more time.
Overnight at Novotel Sydney – Darling Harbour
After breakfast, we depart the hotel and transfer out to Sydney Airport. Depart Sydney on Air New Zealand flight NZ104 at 11.55am, arrive Auckland at 5.05pm.
Then we return you home after being WoW’ d – like only Sydney can.
If you have any questions please phone us on 07 572 4118
