The first time you came to Melbourne, you probably landed here by plane. There is a lot of knowledge about airports. How many airports do you want to know in Melbourne? How is the airport connected to the city? Do you have any information about the duty free store? Then how to return the tourist tax rebate? Look at this Melbourne Airport playbook.
Melbourne's main civil aviation airports are divided into two: the international airport is called Melbourne Airport (Melbourne Tullamarine Airport, also known as Tulamalin Airport), and the domestic small airport is called Avalon Airport (Avalon Airport). The first time you come to Melbourne, you may ask: what is the difference between the two airports? What are the facilities in the airport? What is the situation at the duty free shop? What are the modes of transport between the two airports and the hotels in the urban area?
Don't worry, then let me live in Melbourne nearly 15 years old cat Ben to lead you to find out what it is!
Melbourne Airport
Let's start with Melbourne International Airport-Melbourne Airport.
Melbourne Airport, the main civil aviation airport in Murben, Victoria, Australia, is located in Tarama Forest, 23 kilometers northwest of Melbourne's central business district, so it is also known as Tara Marin International Airport (Tullamarine International Airport). Melbourne Airport is the only international airport in Melbourne, second only to Sydney International Airport, Australia's second busiest passenger and first busiest freight airport.
Melbourne's largest and most important airport is served by 27 international airlines. The airport is about 22 kilometers from the city and up to 25 minutes by car. Travel peaks in summer (between November and January), especially around Christmas. If you are planning a summer trip, book your ticket in advance.
Melbourne airport location and distance to downtown by pictures from Google Maps
Melbourne Airport Terminal
There are four terminals at Melbourne airport
- Terminal 1 (Terminal 1)-domestic flights-Qantas (Qantas)
- Terminal 2 (Terminal 2)-all international flights
- Terminal 3 (Terminal 3)-domestic flights-Virgin Australia (Virgin Blue)
- Terminal 4 (Terminal 4)-domestic cheap flights-Qantas Jetstar (Jetstar), (Tiger)
Tips：
If the first stop of the Australian trip is Melbourne, there is no doubt that the arrival from China will be Melbourne Airport Terminal 2!
Melbourne airport duty free store
From brand-name bags to cosmetics, from tobacco and alcohol to specialty foods, you can find duty-free items at Melbourne airport duty-free stores.
F1RST duty free store as an official brand, product advantages mainly in electronic products, alcohol and cosmetics. In particular, part of the 2 bottles of wine package is very cost-effective oh! Official website link
JR/Watch Co. The advantages of the products are mainly on all kinds of duty-free lists. Official website link
Australian Way's product advantages are mainly in a variety of local handmade souvenirs, including kangaroo and sheep leather products. Official website link
Australian Produce Store's product advantages are mainly in health products and healthy foods, including royal jelly, vitamins and nuts.
Sunglass Hut is a famous fashion sunglasses retailer in Australia. Official website link
TRS Airport rebate Guid
When you spend a total of 300 Australian dollars in the same store during your trip to Melbourne, you can apply for a tax rebate for TRS (Tourist Refund Scheme) visitors. So when shopping, you can explain to the merchant that you want a tax rebate, ask them to issue a tax rebate invoice according to the requirements of TRS, and please ask the merchant to write down your address name on the invoice, etc. In other words, as long as you have a statement with the merchant to do a TRS tax rebate, the merchant will issue the ticket as required.
There are two important points that must be noted:
- Invoices obtained 60 days before departure are not subject to tax rebate
- If the invoice value exceeds A $1000, you need to ask the merchant to indicate your name and home address
Method 1: airport counter tax rebate
TRS tax rebate queue by pictures from the network
TRS tax rebate is located behind the exit formalities counter, will not miss oh. When making tax rebates, please place non-liquid health products in your hand luggage as required, and show you at the TRS counter your purchase and need of tax rebate items for inspection by an official in TRS's office. Then leave a credit card message, about 10 or so jobs will later pay for your card.
Tips：
The only time to pay attention, because the person who handles the tax rebate is not! Constant! So be sure to go to the airport in advance to make sure you have enough time in line and tax rebate.
Method 2: pre-filling the tax refund form on the Internet
To simplify the tax rebate steps, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Department has introduced an online advance tax rebate option. The only official tax rebate website is: http://trs.border.gov.au/ please note: on-line pre-tax rebate does not mean you can not go to the TRS counter oh.
Tips：
Most goverment sites in Australia end with gov.au. So please make sure the URL is correct before entering your personal information. Remember! Fire, theft, telecommunications fraud, honey!
First, please use your computer to log in to http://trs.border.gov.au
The first step in the bottom left corner of the page box in the hook, the lower left corner will jump out of the "Next."
The second step is to fill out the passport issuing country, passport number; check if you are an Australian resident, fill in the exit date, and press "Next".
Step 3 (part I) fill in up to 10 invoices and press "Add Invoice" to jump out of the invoice entry interface.
Step 3 (part II) find the company's ABN number, invoice date, and select a more matching classification of all items and the price of items (including several items in GST),) to be filled out on the invoice. Complete by pressing "Save This Invoice".
The fifth step is to return to GST, there are three ways to apply online, credit cards, Australian bank accounts, cheques, the fastest and most direct way is the credit card, about a week to get the money.
The last step to this step will show the previous contents to the tourists for final confirmation, after confirmation, check the space in the lower left corner, press "Generate Claim Code" on the right, and a QR Code. will appear. Take the QR Code screenshot down with the passport, tax rebate items, credit cards to the TRS counter to complete the tax rebate oh.
After customs to the TRS counter, there are two queuing routes, please take the QR code this one, TRS staff as long as the system generated by the QR scan, check the tax rebate items and then swipe the credit card to complete the tax rebate oh. Compared to method one, this method is much simpler and faster than on-the-spot inspection and input of information by counter staff.
Tips：
[what is GST]
GST is a tax levied by goverment, Australia. For 10% of the price of goods, that is, domestic value added tax (VAT), as long as almost any goods and services purchased on Australian land will be levied GST. [GST how to calculate] the total price of (gst inclusive) products containing GST divided by 11! In this way, before the TRS tax rebate, you can know how much money can be returned.
Method 3: pre-fill in tax refund form using official APP
First in APP Store search TRS this APP, download and installation to enter the interface.
Fill in personal travel information such as passport / identity / departure date.
Fill in invoice information that requires tax rebate. You can fill out 10 at most.
Choose the way of refund, it is recommended to choose credit card rebate
After arriving at the tax rebate counter, select "Present My Claim", hand over to the staff can handle the tax rebate.
Using this method needs to be the same as mode 2, select the QR Code channel oh.
Melbourne airport traffic to and from the urban area
There are a number of options we can choose from Melbourne airport to downtown transportation: car rental, SKYBUS airport bus, taxi, public transport and so on.
Rental car self-driving
If you have booked a rental car in advance of departure, you can pick up the car directly at the airport to downtown Melbourne. There are six rental car companies that can pick up cars at the airport, namely, Avis,Budget,Europcar,Hertz,Thrifty and Redspot.. The counters of these companies can be found in the arrival hall of the airport. You can directly show your confirmation order, Chinese driver's license with more than one year's driving age, official certified driver's license translation and credit card to go through the formalities.
Tips：
Make sure you do it before you pick up the car! Thin! Check! Charlie!
Cooperate with the staff to register all existing injuries and scratches on the body to avoid unnecessary disputes when returning the car.
Melbourne car rental company logo
The easiest way to drive yourself from Melbourne Airport to downtown Melbourne is to use the toll road-CityLink Toll, Melbourne Turnpike without a cash kiosk. So if you need to use a toll road, it is recommended that you buy a 24-hour valid PASS, on Citylink's official website for $17.29 (91.64 yuan) before or three days after the trip. Exit from the airport's airport departure drive, follow M2 straight ahead, follow the signs at the exit of Flemington Road, and then follow Flemington Road to take Elizabeth Street to Melbourne's downtown area.?
Citylink charges high-speed by pictures from the Internet
Airport Bus
The SKYBUS Airport bus is the exclusive means of transport for Melbourne Airport to and from the urban area, operating 24 hours a day for 365 days a year, usually every 15 minutes and 10 minutes during peak hours. It is available from Melbourne Airport in about 25 minutes. Because of its fast convenience and economic benefits and popular by the general public. Unlike other pick-up companies, the SKYBUS airport bus has no baggage limit and does not charge extra for the number of luggage it carries.
Melbourne airport bus map by pictures from the internet
There are three boarding points at Melbourne Airport. If you take Tiger Australia to Terminal 4, you will be able to take a bus at the gate of the Terminal. If you are on an international flight, there will be two options upon arrival, one at the boarding point at the gate of Terminal 3, and the other at the gate of Terminal 1 (as shown above). The distance between the two and the international arrival hall is about 20 meters. Personal advice to take the entrance to Terminal 3, because this is the departure station seat options will be more, but also easy to "grab" the second floor of the double-decker bus "super view seat". If the ticket has been purchased in advance, there is no need to spend extra time in line to buy tickets, you can directly scan the waiting area to get on the bus. In the rush hour when many flights arrive at the ticket office long queues with e-tickets past the dry staring line of people to go directly to the bus is still very refreshing!
One-way tickets for adults are $19, $38 for a round trip, and $9 for 16-year-olds. If a return ticket is purchased, it can be used again on any day within the six-month validity period of the date of purchase.
Skybus from Melbourne Airport or Avalon Airport to the downtown South Cross Station (Southern Cross Station), from there can be transferred to the free access minibus to the downtown hotel. Get off the bus once, but it's much faster than a bus to take guests to each hotel.
Free urban hotel shuttle at Southern Cross Station
After getting off at the Southern Cross Railway Station, you can see the downtown hotel feeder counter. After telling the staff the hotel at the counter, wait a moment at the starting point to leave for the hotel.
Map of Southern Cross Star Station in Melbourne City
Connecting car counter by pictures from the Internet
As Melbourne's official airport traffic, SkyBus, has opened a lot of new routes in recent years in order to bring more convenience to you.
These include Dockland, the condominium-filled port area from Melbourne airport, and Southbank, the southern part of Melbourne, which is popular with Melbourne locals and tourists at the St Kilda Beach, beach of Saint Kitts and Northern and many beaches in the southern part of the city.
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If you are staying in downtown Melbourne, it is recommended that you take the main route of the SkyBus Airport bus, Melbourne Airport to the Urban area, which is a 24-hour round-trip route between the city and the airport every 10 to 15 minutes. After arriving at the city's terminal, South Cross, you can transfer to the hotel with the free SkyBus urban shuttle as mentioned above.
Tips：
Free urban shuttle can reach virtually all 4-star and above hotels in the city. Of course, if you're staying at a residential or budget backpack hotel, you can get on and get off at the nearest parking hotel.
If you are staying in an apartment or airbnb in the port area or on the south bank, you can choose the following route. Five up / down stations are Harbour Esplanade in Port Dockland and Whiteman Street (on the South Bank of Southbank near the Crown Casino and), City Road (Eureka 88th floor viewing platform at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre) and Queen City Road (Bridge Station).
There are four SkyBus disembarkation points on St. Kitts Beach, Barkly Street Buckley Street, Carlisle Street Carrisher Street, Novotel St. Kilda Novot Hotel and Fitzroy Street. Visitors staying here can board and alight directly from these platforms to and from airports and beaches. Compared to any other mode of transportation, the airport bus's Saint Kitts route is the cheapest way to get to Saint Kitts's beach.
Tips：
If you need to take Melbourne Airport to and from the South Coast, Port area and Saint Kitts Beach, please pay attention to the operating time oh ~ if you are outside the operating time, you can consider taking the main line SkyBus,. From the airport or the Southern Cross star is 24-hour operation!
taxi
The common Melbourne taxis are roughly divided into three categories: the ordinary (standard taxi), the (Station Wagon taxi), and the minibus, the (Maxi taxi). With the exception of the minibus, which requires a 50% service charge on the basis of the original price, the average and off-duty models are priced at the same price.
Taxi by pictures come from the Internet
Two people from Melbourne Airport can travel to the city by ordinary taxi, if four or so can choose to take the off-duty model, the large trunk can store luggage. But if there is too much luggage, or more than five people, you have to take a minibus taxi.
The cost is about $65-$85 for regular and off-duty models from Melbourne Airport to downtown hotels, and roughly $90 to $125 if you take a minibus.
mass transit
Public transport?
Yes! Public transportation!
Melbourne Public Transport by Images from the Internet
This is the most economical but also the most time-consuming, if you want to exchange time for money, it may not be possible to try this way. But only Melbourne airport. And the premise is must have the MYKI traffic card to be able to ride.
First, take the bus stop 901 at Melbourne Airport, then get off at the nearest Broadmeadows station and change to bus train (Train), for about an hour to the Southern Cross or Flinders Station in downtown Melbourne.
901 bus at Melbourne airport by pictures from the internet
Bus train Broadmeadows station by pictures from the Internet
Avalon airport
After introducing Melbourne Airport, let's take a look at the Avalon Airport used by Jetstar on some domestic flights.
Avalon Airport appearance by Images from the Internet
Avalon Airport is located between Melbourne and (Geelong), the second largest city in Virginia. 55 kilometer (s) from the heart of Melbourne, Avalon Airport is the main airport of Jetstar, a subsidiary of Qantas economy Airlines (Lian Airlines).
Tips：
Avalon Airport also hosts the Australian International Air Show (Australian International Airshow) every year! Attract a lot of tourists from other Australian cities. If you are interested, you can learn more about it!
Location of Avalon airport and distance to downtown by images from Google Maps
Airport facilities introduction
Avalon Airport has only two halls, divided into departure Hall (Departure) and arrival Hall (Arrival).
As there are no international flights, there is no problem of entry and exit. Of course, there are no tax-free stores and tax rebates.
Avalon airport departure and arrival hall by photo source from airport website
Tips：
When booking domestic flights in Australia, it may be possible to use this airport if you choose a JetStar budget flight! The airport would be a good choice if the day's itinerary was a (Great Ocean Road) drive on Ocean Road, but it would be a little far from downtown Melbourne.
Avalon airport traffic to and from urban areas
There are many options for transportation from Avalon airport to the city, including rental car, SKYBUS airport bus, taxi and so on.
Rental car self-driving
Rent a car at Avalon Airport by pictures from the Internet
Free M1 is available from Avalon Airport to downtown Melbourne. Follow M1 straight past the famous West Gate Bridge (Westgate Bridge) at Melbourne's South Coast exit and then into the city. If you decide to go to Ocean Road first, you can also use Free M1 to drive towards Gilang.
Airport Bus
SKYBUS Airport bus by Photo from the Internet
As the fastest-growing official airport bus company in recent years, SKYBUS Airport bus is now expanding to Avalon Airport. SKYBUS also offers lower prices while maintaining its good service. It is about 50 minutes from Avalon Airport to downtown Melbourne. Slightly different from the Melbourne airport bus, the downtown shuttle to and from Avalon airport leaves at a monthly flight time. Take Chestnut, for example, when Xiaoming arrives in Melbourne at 8:35 on Jetstar Flight JQ603, the corresponding departure time shows 9: 00 a.m.
Airport bus Avalon Airport departure schedule by pictures from the Internet
Map of Avalon Airport by from the Internet
There is only one boarding point at Avalon Airport, exit the departure hall, turn left and walk about 20 meters to the waiting area. Based on the above, the airport bus at Avalon Airport leaves by flight, so one! Yes! Yes! Lift! Front! Buy! Buy! E-ticket lest there will be too many people in line to buy tickets and miss the bus.
Avalon airport waiting area by pictures from the internet
One-way fare for adults is $22 and a round trip is $44. If a return ticket is purchased, it can be used again on any day within the six-month validity period of the date of purchase.
Skybus runs directly from Melbourne Airport or Avalon Airport to the Southern Cross Railway Station in the urban area and then takes a free minibus to the downtown hotel. The specific way has been explained in detail, so it is no longer repeated here.
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SkyBus from Avalon Airport also has two routes, oh, a regular route to downtown Melbourne and a route to Geelong, Melbourne's second-largest city. As mentioned above, both routes are 24-hour operation corresponding to your flight number.
If you want to start a deep ocean road drive, you can take this ride directly to Gilang. Take a walk on the beautiful beach in Gilang, explore brightly colored seaside wood carvings, take a comfortable night off at least 30-40% cheaper than the city, and start your ocean road trip directly after a night of comfortable rest at the same star-rated hotel in the city of Gilang!
Jilang seaside wood carving
taxi
1-2 people from Avalon Airport to the city can take a regular taxi, if about 4 people can choose to take a off-duty model, large trunk can store luggage. But if there is too much luggage, or more than five people, you have to take a minibus taxi.
The average fare for regular and off-duty models from Melbourne airport to downtown hotels is about $95 (500 yuan), and if you take a minibus, it's almost between $140 and 150 (about 800 yuan). Therefore, it is strongly recommended to take the airport bus would be more economical.
epilogue
Thank you for your patience in reading this sharing.
This provides a good reference for your Melbourne trip from Melbourne airport to urban traffic, airport duty free shop distribution and tax rebate for visitors. Have a good time in Melbourne if you're going on a trip.
By Joe Oceania Travel @ Mafengwo
