Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park, 550 Tyabb-Tooradin Rd, Pearcedale, Victoria 3912 Australia
See Australia’s unique wildlife
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: The Nobbies, 1320 Ventnor Rd, Summerlands, Phillip Island, Victoria 3922 Australia
watch
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Phillip Island Nature Parks - Penguin Parade, 1019 Ventnor Rd, Summerlands, Phillip Island, Victoria 3922 Australia
The new visitor centre provides more information about the Little Penguins, souvenir shop and cafe. Here you will see the penguin parade. Times vary depending on season between 90 minutes and two hours.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Mercure Melbourne Southbank, 9 Riverside Quay, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia
Traveler pickup is offered
We will message you pick up time from specific hotels.
*** Please note this is the time when we depart that hotel, you need to be there at least 5 minutes before that time ***
8 hours(approx.)
Returns to original departure point
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
Children 3 and under not catered for. Booster seat available for children 4 to 7 available.
Tour not normally suitable for cruise ship passengers. Tour starts between 1 and 2 pm depending on time of year from city centre and finishes between 8:30 PM and 11:45 PM. It is your responsibility to check you can make it on time to avoid missing out on tour and cancellation fees.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 11 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : ZiJunJason_Y
We had a fabulous day trip with Travis. They do city hotel pick ups at around 1pm. First stop is the moonlight sanctuary where you can get up close and personal with a. Koala (extra fee) and feed wallabies, kangaroos and pottaroos. Park is small but let's you get up close with Australian fauna including spotted quolls, kookaburras etc. Tour makes a short stop at the nobbies before the penguin parade. Make sure you book the pro tickets as you get to see thousands of penguins come onshore from sunset. A memorable experience as you get to see the penguins up close from the board walk. Well worth the visit.
Special shoutout to Travis for being a great tour guide throughout the day with useful tips and boundless enthusiasm. He has also an in-depth knowledge of the animals and tour.
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Posted On : 2024-05-13
Posted By : NorthStar13284966740
The tour was so fun. We had an amazing tour guide Travis. He was so knowledgeable and he made sure that we had the best experience. He gave amazing advice what to do in Melbourne the next day.
In the Moonlit Sanctuary we saw so many animals. The koalas were stunning and I hade the chance to see a womat for the first time in my life.
The coast line we went to see was breathtaking. Will deffenity go back.
The penguin parade was a once in a life time experinence. Everyone has to see this sight at least once in their life.
I recommend to do this tour, you get to see a lot and the experince is so much better because it's a small group.
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Posted On : 2024-05-04
Posted By : Adventure36225437552
The tour takes you to the amazing and quiet Moonlit Sanctuary, where you can feed wallabies and see koalas, kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, dingos, emus, local birds, etc. Then you get to see spectacular views of the coast and finally the penguin parade, which is incredible but true. The guide Travis is super knowledgeable, kind, and knows a lot about nature and animals. Highly recommended tour and guide.
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Posted On : 2024-04-22
Posted By : Marjorie_M
Seeing the penguins, and learning so much from Travis. We learnt lots of new facts and saw lots of wildlife.
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Posted On : 2024-04-10
Posted By : Bipin_M
Seeing peguins coming out night and noise they make and finding their family and also driving through and seeing kangaroos
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Posted On : 2024-04-09
Posted By : Jeffrey_O
Great tour. We all very much enjoyed the visit to Phillip Island as well as stopping at the conservation center to see the wallabies and koalas. Everything was well organized and smooth. Our guide was excellent!
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Posted On : 2024-04-06
Posted By : Clare_P
i love my tour guide, his name is Allan, he is so funny and gives so much information about the places where we go. I definitely recommend my friends if they go on the day tour in Melbourne or anywhere else in Aussie.
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Posted On : 2024-04-04
Posted By : JohnD_P
Fred our guide made this a three star (almost 4!) experience, without him it might have barely made two stars. He was a wealth of information and interesting and funny stoies; and he went out of his way to make our near midnight drop off convenient.
The animal exhibit was hot and dusty, with most of the animals laying torpid in the shade. We did get to feed a few wallabies and briefly catch the Tasmanian devil when he came out of his log for a drink of water. We saw more and closer wildlife as we drove around the Penguin peninsula - though that was only wallabies and geese.
Though we bought the "plus" Penguin viewing experience, every seat was NOT a "good seat". The viewing area was crowded and only those who suffered the hard board seating an hour early could see well (those on the very front). Not that that made much of a difference as only about 100 penguins passed that location on this night. In all, the rangers reported around 220 for both viewing areas, FAR SHORT of the hundreds to thousands many reviews gush over.
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Posted On : 2024-03-31
Posted By : Thomas_B
Good day touring Philips Island and Moonlit Sanctuary. It was a busy day, as it was Easter Friday. Unfortunately, it was not the best season for seeing the Pequin Parade, as there was fewer sequins the normal.
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Posted On : 2024-03-31
Posted By : Zoe_F
Although the numbers were low it was worth seeing the penguin parade as the waddle up the beach to their burrows.
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Posted On : 2024-03-30
