Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Shoulder(Feb-Mar)
»
Quieter time with many more accommodation vacancies.
»
Late-summer weather can be particularly hot.
Low Season(Apr-Nov)
»
Milder weather; often decent rainfall during second low season of September to November.
»
July to September is peak whale-watching season off Warrnambool.
»
Ski-resort high season from June to August.
Websites
Lonely Planet
(
www.lonelyplanet.com/melbourne
) Destination information, hotel bookings, traveller forum and more.
Visit Victoria
(
www.visitvictoria.com
)
Official state tourism site.
Parks Victoria
(
www.parkweb.vic.gov.au
) Profiles Victoria's national parks with details on accommodation.
Broadsheet
(
www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne
)
Finger-on-the-pulse site devoted to getting the best out of Melbourne.
The Age
(
www.theage.com.au
) Local news and reviews.
Bureau of Meteorology
(
www.bom.gov.au/weather/vic
)
Guidance for the weather, which can change at a moment's no-
tice.
Important Numbers
Callers to Australia need to drop the first '0' in a mobile-phone number and the '0' of Victoria's
03 area code.
Country code
61
International access code
00
Police, fire & ambulance
000
Parks Victoria
13 19 63
Exchange Rates
Canada
C$1
A$1.02
Europe
€1
A$1.53
Japan
¥100
A$1.08
