Melbourne City and Phillip Island Secrets Private Tour

This is more than just a Melbourne private tour! Even more that just our Melbourne City secrets tour. This is the ultimate combination of amazing locations in and around Melbourne city with an unforgettable journey to the wildlife paradise of Phillip island, all performed in a terrific one day tour with our professional tour guide!
This private tour in Melbourne is your unique chance to get to know this surprising city in half a day and be amazed by its history and secrets and then spend the second half of the day away from the busy streets and concrete jungle and get close to the nature!
You will enjoy your first half of the day discovering the beauty of Melbourne and getting to know the best locations and views it has to offer! This part of the tours will be eye-opening even to the locals who have lived in Melbourne for a while, as it is a wise saying that the locals normally know their cities much worse than the travellers.
Our tour guide will show you the most stunning and even surprising views of the city (depending on the time of the day). Walk through the gates of the old city jail, see where Ned Kelly was hung, learn the story about the “888” monument. Then drive around the old part of the city with the oldest 5 star hotel in Australia and the first Australian parliament, see UNESCO heritage listed biulding. Then walk through the famous Melbourne alleys in the heart of the city, skim through the oldest “western” Chinatown, relish the popular local graffiti, roam through the market with our tour guide, who will tell you things about this place that will surprise you. Stop for a delicious coffee or tea at a small popular beachside cafe where only locals normally stop by (or you can even grab a quick but tasty lunch here!). Feed black swans by the scenic lake where F1 cars roar every year, enjoy the view of Melbourne’s skyscrapers sticking out in the skyline and discover some unusual secret places around Melbourne only known to local oldtimers.
After the exhilirating city tour, you will break out from the grips of the city and head towards the wild nature at Phillip island, which is only just about 1.5 hours drive from central Melbourne. But before you reach the famous island, we will usher you into one of the best seafood cafes in Australia you will ever visit. This is one of our best kept tour secrets! Located right on the beach by the seaside, this local cafe is not just our secret, but a local secret, where locals come for the freshest locally caught fish and seafood served in a rustic but delicious way. Enjoy some lunch* here at the beautiful spot by the ocean and taste local shark or blue grenadier, fresh cold oysters or mouth watering calamari, scallops or shrimps cooked for you on the spot. Fresh is the only word here!

After deliriously tasty lunch, we’ll cross the bridge and start exploring the secrets of the Phillip island, driving to best nature spots. We will show you lots of wild birdlife here including Cape Barren geese, large pelicans, black swans, parrots and many others. We will show you unusual cold climate mangroves growing only in one spot of this island. You will enjoy looking for and finding real wild animals just meters away from you, walk over ancient sand dunes and along the ocean waves to secret beach caves, see wild penguins in their burrows close by, visit a secret lake with wild birds, get to stand on the very tip of the island looking out towards Antarctica with Southern Ocean’s waves smashing into rocks beneath you! The climax of this tour will be the visit to the Penguin parade show, where hundreds of little penguins run out of the cold ocean waters and march to their little homes right by your side! This is the best place in the world to see these little penguins in the wild!
However, unlike most bus tours and other private tour groups, we do not just send you there to find your place to see the penguins! Our tour guide will actually walk with you to the best spot and show you where to stand and wait for the little penguins to walk past you at an arm’s length, so that you can see them much better than most other people! You will even be able to hear penguins walk, stomping their small feet on the ground! Depending on the season, the numbers of these penguins vary, but we’ll make sure you get to see the most of them and we’ll show you several locations to enjoy their view of penguins scrambling out of the water, climbing over the rocks and finally making way to their burrows, sometime stopping on the way to take a rest and even have a fight among themselves. And certainly you will learn amazing facts about these amazing creatures from our tour guide!
This will be an unforgettable wildlife experience for you not just because of the unique penguins at the unique location, but also due to the unique style of the private tour you will be on with us! Our tour guide will be taking photos of you at different stunning locations so that you can enjoy these memories with your friends and family for many years to come!