Welcome to the Summer 2024 Newsletter of Brendan’s Australian Tours.
I hope this Brendan’s Australian Tours newsletter finds you well, and may I please wish you a happy and healthy 2024. On this newsletter I have noted selection of my 2024 tour itineraries for your interest.
Very importantly I intend to personally service the needs of my travellers as I have in the past, which will include the home pick up and return for all tours. offer, and many more.
The itineraries on the Tours & Prices page detail all the planned 2024 tours including Kangaroo Island, beautiful Bright in Victoria’s high country and a chance to ease yourself into all that Tasmania has to offer, and many more.
Brendan’s Australian Tours for 2024 has included an absolute favourite with a 25-day tour to Canada and Alaska. Prospective travellers can be assured no amount of planning, or expense has been spared with the contents of this tour, and everything is 5-star. Experience the Rocky Mountaineer for a truly moving train journey. The train tour includes the Gold Leaf Service where we travel in a two-level glass domed carriage, with full windows allowing us to experience part of the beautiful Rockies by rail.
Included with this tour, on the cruise ship our accommodation features the fashionable Veranda Staterooms, with their floor to ceiling glass windows for uninterrupted views, a private balcony, private bathroom. It really is 5-star cruising with 5-star views.
Sailing and witnessing the splendour of the remarkable Inside Passage. Visiting Juneau capital of Alaska and USA’s most scenic state, with the immense Juneau Icefields right at its back door. Historic and beautiful Skagway is a feature. The World Heritage site Glacier Bay National Park certainly is real highlight with its ever-changing glacial landscape. Glacier Bay has more actively calving tidewater glaciers than any other place in the world.
Beautiful and historic Norfolk Island with its distinctive society, characterized by neighbourliness, and self-help, is always a popular choice for our travellers and our 10-day tour is planned for the 16th of May 2024.
For 2024, I have a 17-day New Zealand Discovery tour discovering the remarkable beauty of this country from top to toe staying in hand-picked accommodation, New Zealand with its magnificent landscapes and coastline, with lush rolling hills. Cities like Auckland, Wellington, and the alpine visas Queenstown and cruising Milford Sound are included.
The tours that incorporate, Alice Springs, Darwin, the Kimberley, Broome, and the Southwest Coast of Australia are tours that take in the very best there is to see “up the centre, across the top, and down the west”. I can discuss with you the numerous shorter options for travellers to leave or join a tour depending on what they wish to see.
Splendid and stunning Singapore says it all on July 1st 2024, we depart for amazing Singapore, 5-star luxury accommodation, Changi District, Orchid Gardens, Singapore Zoo, marvellous shopping, National Museum of Singapore & Gardens by the Bay. This tour is a wonderful experience.
Broken Hill, or 'The Silver City' is a mining town on the edge of the desert at the central-western edge of New South Wales. Perhaps the most memorable feature of Broken Hill is that it is only a few minutes from the desert no matter which direction you travel. It is a city surrounded by red soils, grey scrub, impossible flatness, and intensely blue skies that make the world seem larger and more dramatic. On this tour we visit Lightning Ridge world renown for black opal that has been found in the area. Surprisingly, the town has many attractions apart from opals and opal mining. Then White Cliffs is not to be missed with its wonderful Bill O'Reilly Oval, with not a blade of grass; the unusual underground accommodation; and the amazing night skies.
Taking advantage of the best of the Queensland warm winter, and missing cold Victoria, Brendan’s Australian Tours offers a selection of tours that make the best of the Queensland climate. With some tours including Cape York, Birdsville, the edge of Lake Eyre, Longreach and the Flinders Ranges.
Our 9 day tour in mid November to the Sapphire Coast travels via Lakes Entrance and Gippsland Lakes, the lakes being the biggest and most beautiful expanse of inland waterways in the southern hemisphere, before continuing via Mallacoota and Batemans Bay before reaching the aquamarine waters of the Sapphire Coast. Included with the tour is a tour of our National Capital Canberra.
The October tour to Canberra includes all the favourite attractions of our National Capital, Australian War Memorial, Parliament House, Lake Burley Griffin Cruise, National Arboretum, the world in miniature Cockington Green and the Royal Australian Mint.
If I am able to assist you with any information regarding the enclosed tours or to make a booking, please contact me. I certainly am available each day over the Xmas / New Year period should you require clarification, information or to make a booking on any of the enclosed tours. I would be very pleased to see you on tour in 2024.
Brendan
December 2023