Canberra Transportation Tips by ATXtraveler

'Mode': TO
Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: Canberra is by design a little isolated from the rest of the world in terms of air travel. Whether by design or not, it is not a publically international airport, meaning there are not flights landing here from the US or mainland Asia.

Connections to Canberra can be made through Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane to most other countries. Internal Australian flights travel throughout most of the country however.

The airport is basic and utiliatarian, but then again when in Canberra, you probably are not going to be staying for a long layover, so there is not much to it by design.

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Website: http://www.canberraairport.com.au/index_fla

'Mode': TO,AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: It is always good to know about a connection you may have in a city you are travelling in the future. One of our own VTers, Bungalow Bill (bungalow_bill49504) is a proud taxi driver in Canberra. He will be able to show you the sites, and get you where you need to go in a timely matter.

I met Stephen in Melbourne at the "Big" Australian meet last year, and he was a very engaging and conversational chap. I always promote business to people I consider friends, so please contact him when planning a trip to Canberra.

For Privacy sake, I will not publish his personal numbers, but contact him through VT!

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'Mode': TO
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: In our case for this trip, we were living in Melbourne at the time. We regularly checked the schedules for Qantas red-tail specials, and we could never find one that suited our schedule, so we decided to just drive instead. This also was more economic, as we could stop along the way and also enjoy the Victorian countryside a bit. Canberra is roughly 650km from Melbourne, and 300 or so from Sydney. It took us a solid 8-9 hours of driving, however the whole trip took almost the entire day, because we stopped in a lot of little towns on the way home.

If you have a car in Australia, do consider driving to Canberra!

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