02 Nov 2024
I cannot recommend this tour. We met at a local restaurant and had a lobster taco, while it was delicious the lobster had been flown in from the US frozen. A short walk took us to a local bakery where one sausage roll was divided between 3 of us, a piece of gluten free chocolate cake was purchased as one person was Celiac and this was divided between the 4 of us on the tour. The third stop was at a delicious gelato shop and thankfully we each got our own small tub. The tour continued along the route described in the advert and we stopped for a drink at The Lord Nelson where each person could choose their beer and were given a half pint, thankfully there was no quibble when I asked for a glass of wine as I don't drink beer. A short walk around The Rocks and a stop for our guide to purchase some macarons and we headed to the Thai restaurant where the guide ordered 2 dishes for us to share. Whilst having suffered from being carried in the guides bag for a bit the rather bashed macarons tasted delicious.
There was very little information imparted about the history of the areas we walked through or Australia in general and while our guide seems like a nice person she was not particularly engaging and was so softly spoken that it was difficult to hear her.
We had treated my niece to this tour and found it embarrassing as it was not even close to the hype and we would have had a better afternoon if we had done our own thing.