Single ticket $79, two tickets $158. Compared to what you actually get, it feels a bit steep. The popular night-session rides and haunted houses had decent queues, some attractions stop taking queues after 9pm, so if you want to hit everything you need to time it carefully. Haunted houses don’t need a separate ticket, you […]
Metro Tunnel Passport Challenge – Stamping All Five Melbourne Stations
Collecting stamps at the new Metro stations was so much fun! A classmate’s mum shared the Metro Tunnel Passport Challenge, and I went straight out with my kid to try it. I missed the badge pick-up in January because I was overseas, so this time I got to explore the new stations and collect stamps […]
SEA LIFE Melbourne Animal Crossing Review – Stamp Rally, Isabelle Meet and Greet and What’s Included
SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium has teamed up with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and as an Animal Crossing player there was no way I was missing it! This isn’t just a few character standees dotted around, the whole aquarium has Animal Crossing hiding in it, from the decorations to the music. Everywhere you walk the game’s […]
Bendigo Tulip Festival – What’s Free, What’s Ticketed, What to Expect
We went to Bendigo on the Sunday! Missed the whole thing last year and still annoyed about it so many months later, so this year we just picked a day and went, no real plan beyond get on the train. 11:02 V/Line from Southern Cross, direct, about two hours. Runs roughly hourly but check the […]
Tesselaar Tulip Festival 2026 Review
Went to Tesselaar on the Sunday, day two of this year’s festival. My cousin texted the night before saying tickets were 30% off and that everyone was getting a free return pass, so we just went, no real plan. Long rows of green with maybe a third of it flowering. Patches of colour here and […]
Luna Dark at Luna Park Melbourne – What Halloween Night Is Actually Like
We went into Luna Dark with fairly low expectations. Work ran late, nobody had a costume sorted, and the plan was really just “get to St Kilda before the queue gets silly.” A few smudges of face paint later we were somewhere between a zombie and a very tired parent, and it turned out that […]
Poetry Goes No Further Than Language at Buxton Contemporary
You know it’s a slow Melbourne day when you can walk to the supermarket in your pyjama pants and not run into a single person you know. That was the plan for this particular afternoon — nothing more ambitious than milk and bread — until a friend messaged about a small exhibition she’d seen on […]
NGV Children’s Play: Ragnar Kjartansson
I just saw the information for the NGV’s latest kids’ exhibit, and honestly, it appears to be an event worth attending. It has officially made it on our list of activities we must do to do with the kids for the latter half of the year. This time, the exhibit is created by Ragnar Kjartansson, […]
Melbourne Water Lantern Festival at Queens Park
Best Melbourne Night Festival and Winter Event at Queens Park Melbourne Water Lantern Festival is one of those events where you can slowly spend an entire afternoon in the park until sunset. The park itself is free to enter, but if you want to participate in the lantern release, you need to purchase the lantern […]
Melbourne Museum Rome Exhibition 2026 – Empire, Power, People Experience and Guide
Melbourne Museum’s ROME: Empire, Power, People exhibition is already open. This exhibition, whether in artifact level, scale, or curation, is top-level presentation of Roman culture in Australia! The exhibition fully presents the history of the Roman Empire after Caesar, from rise to fall. It brings together 180 pieces from Italy’s two top museums, Roman National […]