Please present the printed voucher at the beginning of the tour.
Please make sure to show up on time. Being late might prevent you from taking part in the tour
How to find out if your flight is proceeding:
Each passenger MUST follow the steps below to receive the flight information from 18.00 the night prior to their flight. At this time, the details below will be confirmed:
If the flight is proceeding or not based on weather conditions
Hotel pickup times (If applicable)
Exact meeting time
Download the guest experience APP by searching Global Ballooning Australia, enter the Flight Code to receive flight update notifications via their mobile.
Details provided on the supplier flight confirmation.
OR
Check the Melbourne Check-In Page (English & Chinese). Read the update. Click here
OR
Call 0488 686 555 to listen to a voicemail.
Pre-Flight Info
On arrival at the meeting point passengers will be required to:
Notify our team of their arrival
Complete a waiver and medical information form
Board our buses and transfer to the launch site where they may help with the launch, or stand back and take pictures
Join a short safety and instruction briefing at the launch site
After we complete our pre-flight routine, we will float up and away for a spectacular one-hour hot air balloon flight.
Please note the exact time and flight direction will vary depending on weather conditions. The flight will either be over the city or around the surrounds of the city. We cannot guarantee a flight directly over the city due to the change of wind direction.
Post-Flight
After we land, passengers can assist our staff to pack up the balloon before boarding our buses and returning to the initial meeting place (this is not compulsory, so passengers should tell staff if they do not wish to help).
After the balloon is packed away, we head back to Pullman on the Park hotel for a sparkling buffet breakfast (optional).
The Melbourne transfer service is one-way only, so guests will need to make their own way back to their hotel from the Pullman Hotel. There are train, tram and taxi services available at the front of the Pullman on the Park. Alternatively, it is a 20 min walk back to the centre of the CBD.
Winery Tour
Includes:
After the balloon flight, GBA will provide a transfer to meet the wine tour at St Paul's Cathedral
Full day wine tour to 4 premium Yarra Valley wineries
All tastings and lunch
Transfers between the wineries
Designated, informative wine tour guide
Return transfer to Melbourne City drop-off points (no later than 18.00)
NOTE: If your balloon flight is cancelled due to inclement weather, your winery tour will PROCEED as scheduled.
On the morning of the wine tour you MUST ring the Australian Winery Tour Co. (AWTC) office on 1800 996 414 from 08.00 to confirm which pick up point you will be using. You will have to make your own way to 1 of the 4 x AWTC pick up points in Melbourne (as below), or to the Yarra Valley meeting point at Punt Road Wines: 10 St Hubert’s Road, Coldstream. Passengers are required to make own arrangements to meet the service at Punt Road Wines in the event of balloon flight cancellation. AWTC are unable to provide door to door hotel pickup or drop off within the Yarra Valley or Melbourne CBD. You will be picked up & dropped off at a central location within Melbourne CBD before/after the winery tour ends.
09.20 Seven Eleven - Corner Flinders St & Spencer St, City (wait at front)
09.30 St Paul’s Cathedral - Corner Flinders St & Swanston St, City (wait at front)
09.35 Her Majesty's Theatre - Corner cnr Lt Bourke and Exhibition St, City (wait at front)
09.40 97 Franklin St, City (wait at front)
For a full itinerary - please click here
Journey with our member of the ICA (Irish Citizen Army) as he tells you about the devastating effects of the 1913 Lockout such as seeing children dying of starvation in the tenements. Learn how he and countless others were left jobless, oppressed and craving social change, especially after Ireland suffered the violence of its first Bloody Sunday. Listen, as he does, to James Connolly and the social leaders who promised change and a brighter future if they followed them into battle for it.
Meet our member of the Cumann na mBan (the women’s faction of the Irish Volunteers) who was so moved by Padraig Pearse’s graveside speech at the funeral of the famous Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 she signed up the following day. Discover the key and dangerous roles these women, numbering nearly a quarter of those who rose that week, played in the battles that Easter. In the reading of the 1916 Proclamation of Independence and in their own words hear how they were fighting not only for the emancipation of Ireland but for a better future for Irish women.
On the 1916 Rise of the Rebels Tour you will travel with our two rebels as they take you through the action all over the city during Easter week. See and hear about the sites where it all happened, some you may know and some whose histories have been less explored until now. From one of The Abbey Theatre’s leading actors, Sean Connolly, leading the first charge and firing the first shots of the Rising; resulting in the first casualty at City Hall as the rebels tried to take Dublin Castle. To Richmond Barracks where all the captured rebels plus many who were falsely accused of being so were imprisoned before the executions in Kilmainham. In-between discover where the fiercest battles were fought including The Four Courts and South Dublin Union. Hear the testimonies of the brave and brazen, such as the handful of men who took on the might of a battalion around Mount Street, and the women who dodged bullets to deliver messages all over the city. Then there are the stories of the trenches and strange amnesties in the gunfire torn St. Stephens Green and the dangerous women who patrolled its gates.
Come with us to the GPO, The General Post Office, which acted as the headquarters for the rebels during the week of The 1916 Easter Rising. It was outside here that Padraig Pearse read out The Proclamation of Independence and decreed a free and equal Ireland for all. Inside Pearse along with 4 of the other signatories of the Proclamation, James Connolly, Tom Clarke, Sean MacDiarmada and Joseph Plunkett orchestrated the insurrection as bullets rained down upon the building. See the bullet holes that are still visible scars on the GPO today. At the end of the week they tunnelled their way through the homes on neighbouring Moore Street to escape the burning GPO as shells from the gunship Helga blasted them and the flames around them raged so hot the glass inside was melting. Follow the path of the doomed revolutionaries as they ran the gauntlet under heavy machine gun fire to Moore Street and visit the site of one of The Rising’s most tragic deaths, that of The O’Rahilly. It was here around Moore Street where The O’Rahilly penned his last goodbyes to his wife and hiding inside its beleaguered walls the remaining rebels decided to surrender.
The 1916 Rise of Rebels Bus Tour will show you the heart of the rebellion using the actual words and testimonies of the men and women who fought for Irish Independence in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Hop-On Hop-Off Unlimited Tickets Valid for 24 Hours of Sightseeing
Tour at Your Own Pace - Enjoy unlimited hop-on hop-off privileges! Spend as much time as you desire at each stop.
Live Guide Narration - Local Tour Guides on each bus offer colorful entertaining historic commentary..
Every 30 Minutes! Buses Visit each Stop! - Stay as long as YOU like at each location. You can always catch the next bus!
7 Days a Week - 09:30 - 17:30 - Continuous Loop tour so YOU can decide what time your tour begins and ends. Tour Loop is 2 hours.
Restaurant and Attraction Deals along the Way - Hop-Off and present your ticket to receive deals and discounts at various attractions, restaurants, and gift shops all along the route!
Cemetery Walking Tour - Self guided tour of Lafayette Cemetery #1 included for all.
Stops:
1 Jackson Square
2 French Market
3 Esplanade
4 Tremé
5 Basin St. Station
6 Canal Street
7 Riverfront at Harrah's Casino
8 CBD (Central Business District)
9 Louisiana Superdome & Hyatt Regency
10 WWII Museum
11 Magazine Street
12 Garden District on Magazine Street (Lafayette Cemetery Self-Guided Walking Tour)
13 Magazine Street
14 St. Charles Avenue
15 St. Charles Avenue
16 Mardi Gras World
17 Arts District
18 Harrah's Casino
La sala de proyección de l'Hemisfèric tiene tres sistemas separados que proyectan hacia una pantalla cóncava de novecientos metros cuadrados. Estos sistemas son: cine en gran formato IMAX Dome, imagen digital en 3D y proyecciones digitales en la cúpula completa, con frecuencia sobre temas de astronomía. Ponte cómodo y déjate transportar a una nueva dimensión. Todos estos elementos le han valido el sobrenombre de ''el ojo de la sabiduría'' y el planetario.
El Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe muestra una serie de fascinantes exposiciones dedicadas a varios temas, entre ellos el cambio climático y el ADN humano. También dispone de una zona para niños donde se exhiben datos interesantes sobre los hábitats naturales, la contaminación y el espacio exterior. La sección ''Magia química'' es algo que no te puedes perder, y si te interesan los grandes científicos encontrarás un piso entero dedicado a su obra. Los amantes del deporte también pueden pasarse por la sección dedicada al club de fútbol más famoso de la ciudad, el Valencia CF, y la exhibición de los superhéroes de Marvel atrae a jóvenes y adultos por igual. Durante el verano, del 17 de julio al 31 de agosto, hay espectáculos especiales por la noche desde las 20:00 horas hasta la medianoche.
