Magical Mystery Tour 2015
Squire_Pug
Melbourne, AustraliaRegistered User regular
Melbourne, AustraliaRegistered User regular
So....
This doesn't seem to have sprung up as yet, and people do seem to be doing a few things (I have a trivia night and Pinny Pal meetup already booked...)
So I am going to attempt to Organise the incredibly awesome 2015 Magical Mystery Tour to welcome our international/interstate/interdimensional/really shy guests!
If you are traveling to Melbourne, and have not visited the WORLDS MOST LIVABLE CITY before, and want to pre-meet some amazing PAX peoples before the crowd descends, then do we have a deal for you!
So the idea will be to meetup Wednesday at around 10AM, walk the alleys of Melbourne to Queen Vic Market for a market style DIY lunch, and then head to a Tourist destination selected by attendees on the day from a selection such as:
-Eureka 88 Tower
-Melbourne Zoo
-The Melbourne Failed Tourist Wheel
-Botanical Gardens and ANZAC Shrine
-Pop Culture shops like Minotaur
-ACMI
-A combination of the above
On Day 2 (Thursday) given how much abuse our amazing guests intend to take, we can do a field trip to Healesville to pat an actual Kangaroo, or down to Williamstown to drink beers by the Bay, or across to Werribee to visit our Open Plains Zoo, or hit up the State Galleries/Museums depending on how cultured you are feeling.
Day 2 would start around the same time and finish by about 3pm so people can rest up for PAX.
This can run with as few as 2-3 people, and as many as I can manage not to lose crossing the street outside Flinders Street Station.
Please leave names in the post below for interested people and what days you want to attend. If you REALLY want to see a particular attraction then leave it in the post and I will do my darn best to accommodate everyone I can.
Next week I will post my email and personal mobile so people can contact me when trying to locate me at the meetup points. I will respond to PM's if you want to stay super shy.
PAX people are our people, and this is an awesome chance to break the ice and see an amazing city of culture and attractions to befuddle the mind!
This doesn't seem to have sprung up as yet, and people do seem to be doing a few things (I have a trivia night and Pinny Pal meetup already booked...)
So I am going to attempt to Organise the incredibly awesome 2015 Magical Mystery Tour to welcome our international/interstate/interdimensional/really shy guests!
If you are traveling to Melbourne, and have not visited the WORLDS MOST LIVABLE CITY before, and want to pre-meet some amazing PAX peoples before the crowd descends, then do we have a deal for you!
So the idea will be to meetup Wednesday at around 10AM, walk the alleys of Melbourne to Queen Vic Market for a market style DIY lunch, and then head to a Tourist destination selected by attendees on the day from a selection such as:
-Eureka 88 Tower
-Melbourne Zoo
-The Melbourne Failed Tourist Wheel
-Botanical Gardens and ANZAC Shrine
-Pop Culture shops like Minotaur
-ACMI
-A combination of the above
On Day 2 (Thursday) given how much abuse our amazing guests intend to take, we can do a field trip to Healesville to pat an actual Kangaroo, or down to Williamstown to drink beers by the Bay, or across to Werribee to visit our Open Plains Zoo, or hit up the State Galleries/Museums depending on how cultured you are feeling.
Day 2 would start around the same time and finish by about 3pm so people can rest up for PAX.
This can run with as few as 2-3 people, and as many as I can manage not to lose crossing the street outside Flinders Street Station.
Please leave names in the post below for interested people and what days you want to attend. If you REALLY want to see a particular attraction then leave it in the post and I will do my darn best to accommodate everyone I can.
Next week I will post my email and personal mobile so people can contact me when trying to locate me at the meetup points. I will respond to PM's if you want to stay super shy.
PAX people are our people, and this is an awesome chance to break the ice and see an amazing city of culture and attractions to befuddle the mind!
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I'll be there for whatever is happening, happy to go with any combination, however would skip the Eureka as we did it last year.
https://pinnypals.com/pals/flashe
Wednesday afternoon can be lanes and pop culture, ACMI, even Healesville if an international guest really wants to pet a kangaroo. Though that is along drive, but I will be organising cars.
Thursday maybe thinking of doing a boat trip either on the Yarra or ferry across the bay to Williamstown for lunch/drinks by the bay.
Depending on weather we may go via st kilda beach and get our feet wet, but I don't think we will be bothering with the whole swimming thing given logistics. This can be either on the Wednesday (take the light rail to Luna Park) or Thursday.
State any preferences and I will do my best to fit it in.
After lunch a different ramble through the CBD, possibly via a rattler of a tram, to swing by MCEC to ogle the PAX site from the outside and orientate our guests, then to Southbank for a ferry ride on the Yarra, and ending at the ACMI Screen Worlds exhibition.
Please try and get a Myki card in advance, though we can organise one on the spot if need be.
Thursday's schedule will be either the Healesville, Melbourne Zoo, ferry across the bay to Williamstown, other to be decided Wednesday afternoon. Plan will be to meet at Flinders St steps again circa 9:30am. Possible amazing french crepe breakfast in flinders lane from 8:30am.
For those wanting assurance, or real person contact, please PM me and I'll send you my mobile number, or skype details.
https://pinnypals.com/pals/flashe
Currently planning on heading to Lygon St area and doing lunch then gelato bar.
Nothing much else changes, just less walking!
Apologies everyone!
We managed to do a decent slab of the CBD of melbourne, including coffee, alley rambling, pop culture and comic book stores, notable buildings, some legit artistic culture at the state library, and then a lazy lunch on Lygon St, and gelato and cake at Brunettis. We then caught one of Melbournes famous trams to the ACMI and visited the Screen Worlds exhibition.
Day 2 after a lunch discussion is going to be a trip to the Healesville Sanctuary. It is a decent drive on the very outskirts of Melbourne but offers the best chance to pat/feed/be savaged by a Kangaroo and get close to Koala and other Australian wildlife.
I am arranging a fleet of private vehicles to drive there, so we spend the least amount of time travelling. But I do need hard numbers TONIGHT!
Tickets are about $30, and there are particular up close animal experiences you can pay for on top of that. Transport should be free, but you will need money for lunch, or can bring your own.
Plan is to meet at 8am for breakfast , or 9am for car pool pickup.
Breakfast will be at an amazing French creperie in Flinders Lane known as Roule Gallette at 241 Flinders Lane, then to a 9am meet up at Flinders St station. 9:15 we will get into cars at the Fed square car park and make the roughly one hour trip to Healesville. 10:30-1:30 at Healesville, and then back to city drop off by 2:30pm-ish.
This will allow people to make roll call/pass pickups, and generally rest up for PAX.
So I need RSVP for a trip to the kangaroos over the next 6 hours. If you need more info, please PM me ASAP.
https://pinnypals.com/pals/flashe
Heading to bed now, and up early tomorrow, so feel free to post and I will try and work magic if need be on short notice.
https://pinnypals.com/pals/flashe