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Join O’Shannessy’s for a
holiday you’ll never forget!
Prices include: All meals (including morning teas and most
lunches) quality ensuite motel and resort accommodation, all
entry fees to interest venues and cruises, travel by O’Shannessy’s
new 5-star coaches equipped with 2 doors, seat-belts and
rest-room. Patrons are not expected to handle luggage. All
prices are per person twin share and include GST. All coach
tours hostess escorted. Prices include Flights where applicable.
WINNER Australian Achievers Awards for Excellence in Customer Service.
Repeat Clientele and Group Discounts apply
Kangaroo Island and the
Coorong
Oct 5 – 12, 2013 • 8 Days, $2,495
Nov 23 – 30, 2013 • 8 Days, $2,495
Highlights: Mt Gambier, Goolwa, Victor Harbor, Penneshaw
and American River, Cliffords Honey Farm - Kangaroo Island,
Marron Farm Tour, Island Pure Sheep Dairy - Kangaroo
Island, Seal Bay Tour, Flinders Chase National Park, Admiral’s
Arch and Remarkable Rocks, Emu Bay Lavender Farm, Cape
Willoughby Lighthouse Tour, Strathalbyn, Historic Mannum
on the Murray River, The Grampians National Park, Multiple
Night Stays: 3 nights at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island,
Cruise: Luncheon Cruise on the Coorong.
New Zealand
North and South Islands
Oct 22 – Nov 9, 2013 • 19 Days, $6,445
Bright Spring Festival
Oct 24 – 28, 2013 • 5 Days, $1,445
Highlights: Mansfield, Tawonga Gap Lookout,
Dartmouth Dam, Dartmouth Tavern, Beechworth, The
Burke Museum, Historic Courthouse, Yackandandah,
Open Gardens in Bright, Red Stag Deer Farm.
Jacaranda Festival –
Grafton NSW
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2013 • 7 Days, $2,795
Highlights; Coolangatta / Tweed Heads, Grafton - locally
guided tour, Museum of Interesting Things!, Tucabia
- Squatters Rest Private Museum, Yamba Lighthouse,
Angourie and Maclean, Tullymorgan - Glen Ian Ostrich &
Emu Farm, Iluka - Wombah Coffee Plantation, Schaeffer
House – Grafton, MV Richmond Princess cruise on
Richmond River, Thursday Plantation - Tea Tree Oil, Ballina
Maritime Museum, Jacaranda Festival - Grafton NSW.
Murray Princess
Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2013 • 7 Days, $2,795
The famous ‘Murray Princess Cruise’ for four nights
on the Mighty Murray River from the historic riverport
of Mannum to Blanchetown. Highlights include a visit
to a vineyard and wine-tasting at the cellar door, visit a
typical Australian farm and woolshed, enjoy an Aussie
barbecue beside the river, visit a wildlife shelter and
an Aboriginal reserve, which is one of Australia’s
most significant archaeological sites. We visit the
Grampians National Park and enjoy a night in Horsham
before the cruise and travel via Robe and Beachport to
Mount Gambier for our last night away.
Sydney Blue Mountains
Nov 1 – 9, 2013 • 9 Days, $2,945
Highlights: Sydney, Benalla, Humes Cooma Cottage
– Yass, Dinner at the Star City Casino, Sydney
Aquarium, Vaucluse House, Katoomba, Mt Tomah
Botanical Gardens, All Rides at Scenic World , The
Three Sisters, Jenolan Caves, Small Arms Factory
Museum, Japanese Gardens, P.O.W. Breakout site -
Cowra. Cruises - Hawkesbury River, Sydney Harbour
Dinner Cruise, Parramatta River - Ferry Cruise.
Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas
Nov 6 – 15, 2013 • 10 Days, $2,875
Highlights: Mildura, Burra, Clare, Yorke Peninsula,
Ardrossan Museum, Gulf St Vincent, Minlaton, Harry
Butler Memorial, Moonta Railway Station, Port Pirie,
Eyre Peninsula, Port Augusta, Whyalla, Port Lincoln,
Whalers Way, Boston Bay Cruise - Tuna Farm, Coffin
Bay, Elliston - Great Ocean View, Southern Flinders
Ranges, Adelaide, Coorong Nat Park, Kingston South
East, Mt Gambier, Blue Lake & Umpherston Cave.
Snowy Mountains
Nov 7 – 12, 2013 • 6 Days, $1,995
Highlights: Benalla, Beechworth - locally guided tour,
Albury, Murray No 1 - Power Station, Travel the Alpine Way,
Mt Kosciusko National Park, Thredbo - ride on chairlift, Lake
Eucumbene, Charlottes Pass, Cooma, Adaminaby, The Big
Trout, Cabramurra - Australia’s highest town, Tumut Valley
Violets, Tumut Broom Factory, Boggy Creek, Gundagai.
Norfolk Island
Nov 14 – 22, 2013 • 9 Days, $4,945
Highlights: · Wonderland By Night, Mutiny on the
Bounty Show, Christian’s 4WD Tour, Progressive
Dinner, Island Culture Tour, Farm & Industry Tour,
Sunset, Cliff Top Island Fish Fry, Convict Settlement
Tour, Glass Bottom Boat Cruise, Culla & Co. Carriage
Ride, Sound and Light Show, Night as a Convict ·
Cyclorama Experience - 360o panoramic painting.
Tassie All Over
Nov 19 – 29, 2013 • 11 Days, $3,645
Highlights: Sheffield Town of Murals, Mersey Bluff &
Devonport, Burnie, Penguin, Ulverstone, Table Cape,
Stanley, The Nut, Cradle Mountain & Dove Lake,
World Heritage Gordon River Cruise, Queenstown ,
Tarraleah Gorge - Nelson Waterfalls, “The Wall in The
Wilderness”, Derwent Valley & New Norfolk, Tahune
State Forest Airwalk - Huon Valley, Historic Battery Point
& Constitution Dock - Hobart, Salamanca Markets,
Views from Mt. Wellington (weather permitting), Wrest
Point Casino, Eaglehawk Neck, Devils Kitchen, Port
Arthur, , Tamar Valley, Weldborough Pass, Spiky Bridge,
Freycinet Nat Park, Bicheno, East Coast Nature World.
Murray River Run
Echuca to Mildura
Dec 1 – 9, 2013 • 9 Days, $3,975
Highlights: Heathcote, Echuca, Torrumbarry Weir,
Barham, Pental Island Pumping Station, Murray Downs
Station, Swan Hill, Tyntyndyer Homestead, Tooleybuc,
Robinvale Bridge, Euston, Mildura, Mallee Cliffs, Donald.
Carols in the Caves
Dec 12 – 17, 2013 • 6 Days, $1,945
Highlights: Wagga Wagga, Cowra - Japanese Gardens,
Bathurst - Sheep & Cattle Drome, Leura - Blue
Mountains, Govetts Leap Lookout, Bygone Beauty’s,
Echo Point - Three Sisters, Scenic World - Scenic
Cableway & Scenic Railway, Jenolan Caves - Grand
Arch Cave, Carols in the Caves, Lithgow - Eskbank
House, Hoskins Memorial Church, Secret Creek Cafe
& Wildlife Sanctuary, Oberon, Goulburn, Gundagai,
Holbrook - HMAS Otway - Submarine Museum.
Christmas Adelaide
Includes trip on the Overland
Dec 21 – 27, 2013 • 7 Days, $2,395
Highlights: Erskine House – Lorne, Port
Campbell National Park - Twelve Apostles,
Warrnambool, Penola, Blessed Mary MacKillop
Interpretative Centre, Tour of Adelaide,
Montefiore Hill, Adelaide Zoo - Giant Pandas,
Hahndorf -“The Cedars” - Hans Heysen studio,
Glenelg, Coorong Luncheon Cruise, The
Overland Train.
Christmas Murray Princess
Dec 22 – 31, 2013 • 10 Days, $4,045
Highlights: Daylesford, Ballarat, Ararat, Lake
Alexandra, 8 Day PS Murray Princess Cruise,
Barossa Valley, The Coorong, Kingston S.E., Robe,
Beachport, Mount Gambier, Western District of
Victoria, Camperdown.
New Year Murray Princess
Dec 29, 2013 – Jan 4, 2014 • 7 Days, $2,795
Highlights: Grampians, Stawell, Mannum, Murray
Princess, Blanchetown, Salters Station Winery,
New Year Celebrations on the Murray Princess,
Swan Reach, Sunnydale – Woodshed Show and
Native Wildlife Shelter, Ngaut Ngaut Aboriginal
Reserve, Younghusband Peninsula, Beachport,
Mt Gambier, Western District of Victoria,
Camperdown.
EARLY BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR
BOTH THE ABOVE MURRAY PRINCESS
TOURS. AS WE ARE ONLY HOLDING A
LIMITED NUMBER OF CABINS UNTIL
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013.
New Year Adelaide
Includes trip on the Overland
Dec 28, 2013 - Jan 3, 2014 • 7 Days, $2,395
Highlights: The Overland Train ride, Adelaide
sightseeing, Giant Panda’s – Adelaide Zoo,
High Tea at Stamford Grand – Glenelg,
Barossa Valley, Angaston Park Fruits, Chateau
Barossa, Hahndorf – The Cedars – Hans
Heyson’s Studio, New Year Celebrations in
the Ballroom at the Stamford Plaza, Spirit
of the Coorong Cruise, Warnambool, Port
Campbell National Park – Twelve Apostles,
Erskine House – Lorne.
2014 Tours
Elvis Festival in Parkes NSW
Jan 9 – 14, 2014 • 6 Days, $1,765
Highlights: Wangaratta, Albury/Wodonga,
Wagga Wagga, Junee, Young, Allambie Cherry
& Plum Orchard, Parkes, Elvis Tribute Artists,
Elvis Festival - The King’s Castle, Elvis
Central, Elvis Art Exhibition, Gospel Concert,
CSIRO Radio Telescope, Bathurst, Cowra, The
Crisp Galleries – Yass, Milawa Cheese Co,
Benalla.
Opera in the Alps
Jan 16 – 19, 2014 • 4 Days, $1,295
Featuring – Anthony Warlow
Highlights: Mount Bogong, Red Stag Deer Farm,
Beechworth, Bright, Yackandandah, Lake Mulwala
Cruise - Paradise Queen, Yarrawonga and Mulwala,
Wangaratta, Alpine Valley Winery, Opera in the Alps
- (A Reserve Seating) Anthony Warlow, Julie Lea
Goodwin and Guy Noble, EV Olives, Milawa, Milawa
- Cheese Factory, Benalla Rose Garden.
Tassie Summer Escape
Feb 9 – 18, 2014 • 10 Days, $3,495
Highlights: Devonport, Deloraine, Woolmers,
Launceston, Tamar Valley, Seahorse World, George
Town, St Helens, Bay of Fires, East Coast Nature
World - Tasmanian Devils, Bicheno, Freycinet
Nat Park, Swansea, Hobart, Salmon Ponds - New
Norfolk, Russell Falls, Bruny Island - Adventure
Bay, The Neck, Bligh Museum, Richmond, Royal
Botanical Garden, Heritage Highway - Oatlands,
Ross, Ashgrove Farm Cheese Centre.
Gippsland Lakes Tour
Feb 21 – 26, 2014 • 6 Days, TBA
Crookwell Potato Festival
Feb 26 – Mar 3, 2014 • 6 Days, TBA
Antarctica Sightseeing Flight
Feb 14, 2014
Contact our Office for further details.
Begonia Festival &
the Grampians
Mar 8 -12, 2014 • 5 Days, TBA
King Island Adventure
Mar 17 – 20, 2014 • 4 Days, TBA
Flinders Island Adventure
Mar 26 – 30, 2014 • 5 Days, TBA
SNEAK PEAK 2014
OVERSEAS TOURS
Chelsea Flower Show
English Country Gardens, Dubai & Paris •19 Days, May
Spectacular Singapore
• 10 Days, Sept/Oct
USA – West Coast
Includes Grand Canyon & stopovers in Hawaii
both ways • 23 Days, October
Free Chauffeured Home
Pick-up and Return
All suburbs of Greater Melbourne, Ballarat,
Geelong, the Bellarine & Mornington
Peninsulas, Bendigo & some areas of
Gippsland, including Warragul.
free
call
For enquiries or bookings call
Chris O’Shannessy and the team on
1800 354 352
Visit us on the web at www.oshannessys.com.au
O’Shannessy’s Sorrento Travel Pty Ltd trading as
2121 Point Nepean Rd, Rye, Victoria 3941
Licensed Travel Agent No 31335