The Daily Public Group Tour

• 08:40am

  Driver arrives @ 74 Spring street, East Melbourne. Across the road from Hotel Windsor
  

• 08:40am - 08:50am

  Get everyone in the bus and introduce ourselves and the day. Get the Spotify playlist started!

• 08:55am

  at latest DEPART

• 10am

  Wine and cider tasting @ YERING FARM WINES (Occasionally replaced with SOUMAH WINES)

• 11am

  Wine tasting + Cheese platters @TOKAR ESTATE
  (Occasionally replaced with HELENS HILL)

• 12:00pm

  Lunch at your expense @ either
  –ST HUBERTS ESTATE/QUARTERS OR
  –DOMAINE CHANDON 
  (We will take you to either one and split the group if need be)

• 01:40pm

  Gin and tonic paddles/Drink of choice @ FOUR PILLARS GIN
  (with choice of PAYTEN AND JONES for a quality wine tasting or WATTS RIVER BREWERY for a beer tasting)

• 02:45pm

  YARRA VALLEY CHOCOLATERIE AND ICE CREAMERY (with choice of YARRAWOOD ESTATE instead if you want to keep drinking at your own expense)

• 03:50pm

  Depart

• 05:00pm - 05:15pm

  Arrive back at 74 Spring street, East Melbourne. Across the road from Hotel Windsor. Have a drink across the road with your new friends!

  

• Tastings included at 4 venues
• Cheese platter at Tokar Estate
• A Collabartive Spotify playlist for the day
• Stop at restaurant for you to buy lunch
• Airconditioned bus
• Water on board
• Ability to bring food and drink on bus
• Fun, charismatic,social and knowledgeable guides
• An emphasise to try to get everyone connecting
• A cooler/esky for drinks purchased
• Occasionally, complimentary boxed wine to go around for a bit of a laugh

• Lunch itself
• Drinks/tastings at lunch venue
• Drinks @ Final optional venue, Yarrawood Estate
• Boring, older ‘fact and figures’ tour guiding
• Ability to go to Yarra Yerring,Yarra Valley Diary, Rob Dolan or Mt Mary

The easiest and most foolproof way is to put in google maps ‘HOTEL WINDSOR, EAST MELBOURNE’. Once here you simply walk across the road. If you just near the ADAM LINDSAY GORDON statue, where there is a bus bay where our buses can park. This is technically 74 SPRING STREET, EAST MELBOURNE’. This is essentially PARLIAMENT TRAIN STATION. Below is a photo of it

There is a cafe here called Cafe Excello, where you can get a coffee before hand.

How to get there (Public Transport/Uber)

Trams: Any tram within CBD/Downtown area going in an East direction will get you to Spring Street. Literally any tram, no matter the number. They are all free for everyone.

Train: Any train doing the ‘city loop’ will go to ‘Parliament Station’. This is exactly where our pick up spot is.

Uber/Taxi: I would suggest putting in either the address ’74 Spring Street, East Melbourne’ OR ‘Hotel Windsor’, or ‘Parliament station’ as your destination. These are all the same essentially. Please allow an extra 20 minutes for Ubers to cancel on you a few times and to come to you in peak hour traffic.

DO NOT PUT INTO MAPS ’74 SPRING STREET EAST, PORT MELBOURNE’. This is a common mistake people make.

We use a bus that has 24 seats, however most days we purposefully do not full it up completely to ensure we still have that ‘small group intimate’ vibe. We often have anywhere from 10-20 people. When we are very busy, we often run multiple buses and communicate to you via text about which one you’d prefer to be on. Normally this means you’ll have a choice of a larger bus of 20 ppl, or a smaller van of 11-13 ppl.
You should however book and expect that you’ll be on our mini-bus with 20 people roughly.

We will almost always use our 2017 Mitsubishi Rosa with 24 passenger seats. We occasionally use our 2018 Toyota Coaster with 21 passenger seats.

If in a smaller vehicle, we use a range of Toyota Commuters (2005-2020) with 11-13 seats.

All of these vehicles are well air conditioned, heated, accredited and meticulously taken care of.
     

We do not have space for wheelchairs, prams, luggage or anything except just people!

On a case by case basis, we can potentially pick you up from a spot that means we don’t need to detour. If your out somewhere in the eastern suburbs, we tell you to meet us at 101 Maroondah Highway, Croydon AKA ‘Croydon Mcdonalds’ at 9:20am.

If in Lilydale/Yarra Valley, then 161 Main Street, Lillydale, AKA ‘BWS LILLYDALE’ at 9:35am.

We do not pick up from hotels or Airbnbs.

If you are staying at an airbnb/hotel within the Yarra Valley, you will need to meet us at the first winery, Yering Farm Wines, at 10am. Please contact us about any of these as a potential pick up spot.

We do not issue any refunds for ANY reason if your cancellation comes within 24 hours of the tour start (8:45am).
Although we empathise all sorts of things that can happen out of your control (sickness, family emergency, flights cancelled, Ubers late, trains not working), we cannot refund due to the seat essentially going to waste when someone else would have paid for it.
I guess that’s what travel insurance is for, if you’re on vacation.

We issue full refunds if the cancellation happens before 24 hours of the tour starting for any reason.

To keep it simple, we just need enough time to rebook you seat that you are cancelling and often 24 hours is not enough time, so we will not refund for ANY reason.
If you are going to be late on the day, we would recommend getting a taxi to the first venue to save yourself the money!
If you are cancelling, we do not allow any ‘rescheudling’ to another date for free. You will need to rebook the seat again for the new date at full price. That is where we can apply a small discount out of good will.