2021/07 Gold Coast Outback Spectacular Seniors Coach Tour
join us on a Holiday senior Coach tour of Gold Coast & The Outback Spectacular
… we have re-scheduled this tour … click here for our Wangaratta Coach Tour
Tour Highlights:
Australian Pumpkin Seed Company; Highlights of Historic Beechworth; Beechworth Courthouse Re-enactment; Kate’s Cottage – Ned Kelly Museum & Kelly Homestead; Benalla Migrant Camp Photograph Exhibition; Benalla Golf Club Lunch; Brown Brothers Vineyard Milawa; Byramine Homestead; MV Paradise Queen Luncheon Cruise; Wangaratta Historical Society Museum; Rollonin Cafe Lunch & much more!
6 days / 5 nights … with Mary and Brian
Tour Departs: Thursday 30 December – Monday 03 January 2021
Gold Coast holiday-coach-tour … click here to download brochureDay 1. Thu 1 April: Home – Wangaratta
Dinner
This morning we pick you up from home and begin our drive to Wangaratta. We enjoy several comfort stops and arrive into Wangaratta for check-in to our accommodation for the next four nights. Dinner tonight is in
the motel restaurant.
Overnight Wangaratta: Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway
Day 2. Fri 2 April: Myrtleford – Beechworth
Breakfast & Dinner
This morning we visit the Australian Pumpkin Seed Company for an insight into the pumpkin seed industry. We enjoy an audio visual, taste test pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed oil and more followed by morning tea. We travel across to Beechworth and meet our guide at the Visitor Information Centre to take in the highlights of the historic Beechworth precinct. After our tour we stop by the deliciously renowned Beechworth Bakery for a chance to purchase lunch. After lunch we visit the historic Courthouse for a
costumed trial re-enactment based on actual court transcripts. We will get to play the role of judge, juror, lawyers and even Ned Kelly himself whose appearances included his committal hearing for the murders of Constables Lonigan and Scanlon. This afternoon we return to our accommodation for a rest before dinner. Overnight Wangaratta: Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway
Day 3. Sat 3 April: Glenrowan – Benalla – Milawa
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today we make our way down to Glenrowan to visit Kate’s Cottage. As we step through the back of Kate’s Cottage we enter the Ned Kelly Museum and a replica homestead of the Kelly family for a self-guided tour followed by morning tea at a nearby cafe. We follow the interpretive display through the museum which leads to the authentic replica of the Kelly Homestead and Blacksmith Shed. Continue into Benalla to visit the Benalla Migrant Camp Photographic Exhibition, in operation for 18 years between 1949 and 1967, the camp is an integral part of post World War 2 migration to Australia. The site housed about 60,000 European and non-British migrants during its operation. After our tour we visit the Benalla Golf Club for lunch and this afternoon visit the Brown Brothers Vineyard in Milawa for an afternoon of tastings. Later we return to our accommodation, dinner tonight is in the motel restaurant. Overnight Wangaratta: Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway
join us on a Holiday senior Coach tour of Gold Coast & The Outback Spectacular
… we have re-scheduled this tour … click here for our Wangaratta Coach Tour
Tour Highlights:
Australian Pumpkin Seed Company; Highlights of Historic Beechworth; Beechworth Courthouse Re-enactment; Kate’s Cottage – Ned Kelly Museum & Kelly Homestead; Benalla Migrant Camp Photograph Exhibition; Benalla Golf Club Lunch; Brown Brothers Vineyard Milawa; Byramine Homestead; MV Paradise Queen Luncheon Cruise; Wangaratta Historical Society Museum; Rollonin Cafe Lunch & much more!
6 days / 5 nights … with Mary and Brian
Tour Departs: Thursday 30 December – Monday 03 January 2021
Gold Coast holiday-coach-tour … click here to download brochureDay 1. Thu 1 April: Home – Wangaratta
Dinner
This morning we pick you up from home and begin our drive to Wangaratta. We enjoy several comfort stops and arrive into Wangaratta for check-in to our accommodation for the next four nights. Dinner tonight is in
the motel restaurant.
Overnight Wangaratta: Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway
Day 2. Fri 2 April: Myrtleford – Beechworth
Breakfast & Dinner
This morning we visit the Australian Pumpkin Seed Company for an insight into the pumpkin seed industry. We enjoy an audio visual, taste test pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed oil and more followed by morning tea. We travel across to Beechworth and meet our guide at the Visitor Information Centre to take in the highlights of the historic Beechworth precinct. After our tour we stop by the deliciously renowned Beechworth Bakery for a chance to purchase lunch. After lunch we visit the historic Courthouse for a
costumed trial re-enactment based on actual court transcripts. We will get to play the role of judge, juror, lawyers and even Ned Kelly himself whose appearances included his committal hearing for the murders of Constables Lonigan and Scanlon. This afternoon we return to our accommodation for a rest before dinner. Overnight Wangaratta: Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway
Day 3. Sat 3 April: Glenrowan – Benalla – Milawa
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Today we make our way down to Glenrowan to visit Kate’s Cottage. As we step through the back of Kate’s Cottage we enter the Ned Kelly Museum and a replica homestead of the Kelly family for a self-guided tour followed by morning tea at a nearby cafe. We follow the interpretive display through the museum which leads to the authentic replica of the Kelly Homestead and Blacksmith Shed. Continue into Benalla to visit the Benalla Migrant Camp Photographic Exhibition, in operation for 18 years between 1949 and 1967, the camp is an integral part of post World War 2 migration to Australia. The site housed about 60,000 European and non-British migrants during its operation. After our tour we visit the Benalla Golf Club for lunch and this afternoon visit the Brown Brothers Vineyard in Milawa for an afternoon of tastings. Later we return to our accommodation, dinner tonight is in the motel restaurant. Overnight Wangaratta: Quality Hotel Wangaratta Gateway