Andersons Tours · Katoomba & the Jamison Valley
Andersons Tours packs the big three of a Blue Mountains day into one: Scenic World's rides and rainforest walk, the Three Sisters, then Featherdale or Sydney Zoo and a Parramatta River ferry back to Circular Quay. Pick it if you want everything sorted, with lunch on the main option and no more than 20 people on the coach.
This is the full package. A WiFi mini coach collects you from one of four central Sydney points: 255 Pitt Street, 98 Harrington Street, 150 Day Street or PARKROYAL Darling Harbour. In the mountains the day starts at Scenic World, where the listing promises early entry and a guided visit with the Railway, Skyway, Cableway and a rainforest walk. Scenic World is a private, family-run attraction, open since 1945, not part of the national park, and its tickets are folded into this tour.
From there it is lookouts: the Three Sisters, the Megalong Valley and the Jamison Valley, about 30 minutes each, plus an hour for lunch. The main option has a sit-down restaurant lunch with vegan, vegetarian, halal and gluten-free choices. On the way home the coach stops for an hour at Featherdale Wildlife Park or Sydney Zoo, both in western Sydney, then you take a river ferry along the Parramatta River to Wharf 4 at Circular Quay, around 5 p.m.
Read the options before you book. The same listing sells a cheaper version, Scenic World, Zoo and Cruise, that drops the lunch (an upgrade is offered) and goes to Sydney Zoo, not Featherdale. That is what the asterisk in the listing's title means. With six stops in about ten hours, each lookout gets around half an hour, so this is a sampler, not a walking day. If you want to spend that time on tracks, the waterfall walk tour is the better fit.
One of four central Sydney pickup points. Your time comes with the booking; the listing does not publish it.
Guided entry with the Scenic Railway, Skyway and Cableway, plus a walk on the rainforest boardwalk.
Around 30 minutes at Echo Point for the Three Sisters, and about 30 minutes over the Megalong Valley.
A sit-down restaurant lunch on the main option. The cheaper Zoo and Cruise option leaves lunch to you.
A last valley lookout, the coach down the mountains, and about an hour at Featherdale or Sydney Zoo.
A Parramatta River ferry into the harbour, ending at Wharf 4, Circular Quay.
★★★★★Joan was the perfect guide for this trip and made sure we saw the best and had the best time in the blue mountains!
★★★★★One of the best experiences in Sydney! Kat the tour guide was amazing and so informative.
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On the main option, yes: a sit-down restaurant lunch with vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free choices. The cheaper Scenic World, Zoo and Cruise option drops lunch, with an upgrade offered, and visits Sydney Zoo instead of giving you the Featherdale choice.
At Wharf 4, Circular Quay, at around 5 p.m., after a ferry along the Parramatta River. There is no drop-off at your hotel.
No. Featherdale is at Doonside and Sydney Zoo at Bungarribee, both in western Sydney. The tour visits one of them on the way back.
The itinerary gives about an hour, with a guided visit, the three rides and the rainforest walk. If you want unlimited rides at your own pace, the Scenic World Unlimited Discovery Pass on its own gives you the whole day.
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Scenic World's three rides and rainforest walk, the Three Sisters, Featherdale or Sydney Zoo and a river ferry back to Circular Quay.
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