The Great Southern Touring Route - Melbourne Roundtrip

Surfer suburbs, sea stacks and sandstone monoliths – welcome to Victoria.

There can’t be many road trips in Australia that are quite as legendary as the Great Ocean Road. Driving from Melbourne lets you escape into the seaside suburbs where sand dunes and surfable swells lead into the beech, blackwood and eucalyptus forests of the Otways. Apollo Bay and Port Fairy provide perfect places to stay for the night in between easy-going distances and the time eroded sea stacks of the Twelve Apostles. From here you’ll ascend into the sandstone escarpments and river valleys of the Grampians. Where better to spend a couple of evenings under the stars before returning to Melbourne via Ballarat. This is how to travel without the stress, safe in the knowledge that hotels and routes have been tried and tested. Freedom, flexibility and peace of mind – who’s up for a road trip?