Extended Tours for Seniors

Hello Fellow Travellers . We hope you are all Safe and Well

We have been busy working on our 2024 tours schedule which is attached below.

We still have vacancies for tours in the 1st half of 2024.

Our Phone Number for contact is Adam’s Mobile : 0414 665 747 or by Email: bookings@taylormadetours.com.au.

Detailed Itineraries & Booking Forms for the 2024 tours listed below are available now. If interested in any of these tours please ring Adam’s mobile or email for more details.

If you have an email address please advise us so we can update our Newsletter file. 

We are open to suggestions for new destinations. Please let us know & we will try and make it happen!

TAYLOR MADE TOURS  2024 SCHEDULE

 

VICTORIA NORTH WEST MALLEE SILO ART TRAIL TOUR

Start date: April 21, 2024

End date: April 27, 2024

$2,695   7 DAYS

SUNDAY 21ST APRIL 2024

Fly to & from Sydney to Melbourne.. We have 2 nights in the Grampians, 1 night in Swan Hill, 2 nights in Echuca & 1 night in Melbourne. We will visit Grain Art Silos & Water Tank Art Silos in Rupanyup, Sheep Hills, Brim, & Rosebery. Visit to “Pioneer Village” in Swan Hill. We will have a cruise on the Murray in Echuca. Travel to Melbourne for our overnight stay. We leave next day for our return flight back home. 

BALLARAT, BENDIGO, VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS and THE MURRAY RIVER

Start date: April 28, 2024

End date: May 4, 2024

$2,895   7 DAYS

SUNDAY 28TH APRIL 2024

We fly to Melbourne & meet our coach for our overnight in Nagambie. Tour Visits include Goulburn River BBQ Lunch Cruise & Tahbilk Winery in Nagambie, We then have 2 nights in Ballarat, visit Ballarat’s Sovereign Hill & The “Sound & Light Show”, City tour, Botanical Gardens, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Bendigo Talking Tram Tour & Bendigo Pottery, then 2 nights in Echuca with a Echuca Wharf Tour & “Paddlesteamer” Cruise on the Murray then an overnight in Gundagai. We coach back into Sydney arriving mid afternoon. 

QUEENSLAND CENTRAL OUTBACK TOUR

Start date: May 9, 2024

End date: May 16, 2024

$3,695    8 DAYS

WEDNESDAY 9TH MAY 2024

Includes Return flights Sydney to Longreach. We have 3 nights in Longreach, 2 nights in Quilpie, and overnight in Charleville & Blackall. Visits will include Longreach – Stockman’s Hall of Fame, Qantas Foundation Museum, Thomson River Sunset & Dinner Cruise. Quilpie- Eromanga Dinosaur History Museum & Boulder Opal Shops. Charleville-Cosmos Centre & The Steiger Vortex Gun. Blackall-Wool Scour Tour. Barcaldine & Ilfracombe-“Great Machinery Mile Museum”, Tree of Knowledge & The Heritage Workers Centre.

QUEENSLAND CENTRAL OUTBACK TOUR *****(SOLD OUT)

Start date: May 16, 2024

End date: May 23, 2024

$3,695   8 DAYS

WEDNESDAY 16TH MAY 2024

Includes Return flights Sydney to Longreach. We have 3 nights in Longreach, 2 nights in Quilpie, and overnight in Charleville & Blackall. Visits will include Longreach – Stockman’s Hall of Fame, Qantas Foundation Museum, Thomson River Sunset & Dinner Cruise. Quilpie- Eromanga Dinosaur History Museum & Boulder Opal Shops. Charleville-Cosmos Centre & The Steiger Vortex Gun. Blackall-Wool Scour Tour. Barcaldine & Ilfracombe-“Great Machinery Mile Museum”, Tree of Knowledge & The Heritage Workers Centre.

QUEENSLAND, STH AUST and NSW CORNER COUNTRY OUTBACK TOUR*****(SOLD OUT)

Start date: June 22, 2024

End date: July 2, 2024

$3,595   11 DAYS

SUNDAY 16TH JUNE 2024

If you ever wanted to see the outback at its best, then this tour has it all.  We coach through NSW, Queensland & part of South Australia outback visiting Nyngan, Bourke, Cunnamulla, Charlieville, Noccundra, 2 nights in Innamincka, Quilpie, and a night at Tibooburra. Visit Ray Station (part of the Durack & Tully families) and Eromanga Dinosaur History Museum & Boulder Opal Shops.  Travel down the Old Strzelecki Track to Cameron’s Corner & then onto Tibooburra. We tour down the Silver City Highway for 2 nights in Mildura. Across the Hay Plains & the Riverina for an overnight stay in Wagga before returning home.

CAPE YORK, TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS, CAIRNS and PORT DOUGLAS*****(LIMITED NUMBERS)

Start date: July 13, 2024

End date: July 20, 2024

$4,295   8 DAYS     

SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2024

Fly Sydney to Cairns for overnight accommodation & then fly to Horn Island for a tour & then overnight, cruise Torres Strait to Cape York for 2 nights at Loyalty Beach Lodge in New Mapoon, tour of Somerset ruins, walk to the tip of Australia, tour of Bamaga & Seisia communities. A tour of historic Thursday Island, 2 nights on Horn Island, 2 nights in Port Douglas at the Oaks Resort, including Daintree River Cruise, Mossman Gorge, Rainforest Habitat & Daintree Village. We then fly home from Cairns.

NSW NORTH WEST SILO ART TRAIL

Start date: October 13, 2024

End date: October 19, 2024

$1,895   6 DAYS

SUNDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2024

Depart Sydney by coach for the New England Highway. We have 1 night in Gunnedah,2 nights Coonabarabran & 2 nights in Mudgee. A visit to the Pilliga Forest Discovery Centre in Barradine. We will visit Grain Art Silos & Water Tank Art in Gunnedah, Coonable, Gulargambone, Dunedoo & Portland. A stop at Pilliga Pottery for demonstrations on pottery making followed by afternoon Devonshire Tea. We will visit Gooree Park Horse Stud in Mudgee for a guided tour of the property, wine tasting & BBQ lunch.

NORFOLK ISLAND

Start date: November 6, 2024

End date: November 13, 2024

$3,645   8 DAYS

WEDNESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2024

Staying at the South Pacific Resort for 7 nights with the pace of life lovely & relaxed. The resort is right in town for duty free shopping. There is something happening most days with plenty of themes to enjoy. Experience an Island Progressive Dinner where we visit 4 local homes. Dress up as a Convict & revel in the gala dinner night. Enjoy a seafood dinner night. Cruise Emily Bay on a Glass Bottom Boat & enjoy an Island Fish Fry overlooking one of the spectacular bays, enjoy a tour through Colleen McCullough’s home,visit the historical penal settlement at Kingscliff,  plus much more. 

KING ISLAND, YARRA RANGES & MORNINGTON PENINSULA

Start date: November 24, 2024

End date: November 30, 2024

$3,895   7 DAYS

SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2024

Fly to King Island via Melbourne. Staying 3 nights on King Island to experience and enjoy its natural beauty and produce. Learn about King Island’s infamous maritime history, visit the kelp factory, cheese tasting and experience a delicious Crayfish lunch with wine. Tour then takes us to Melbourne for 3 nights, staying in town, close to famous Lygon Street,  before touring the Yarra Ranges via The Black Spur, including a visit to Bruno’s Art and Sculpture garden in Marysville, Next day we tour the scenic Mornington Peninsula, via Hastings, Cape Schanck, Portsea and soak up the village atmosphere of Sorrento. Tour finishes with a farewell dinner at a restaurant in Lygon street before flying back to Sydney the next day at noon.

All Tours includes Air Fares where applicable, Accommodation, All Attractions and Most Meals as per Itinerary. All tours are escorted by Adam Taylor.