Albany Tours
Things To Do Albany, Albany, Western Australia
Albany Tours is the best way to get around without navigating or checking on opening times! We pride ourselves on giving you memorable experiences in Albany, Denmark, Mount Barker and Bremer Bay on the majestic south coast of Western Australia.
We offer a variety of day-and-half day, fully-guided tours around Albany and to Denmark, Mount Barker and Bremer Bay. These tours depart Wed-Sun and take you to the ‘must see’ locations and include the natural, historic and food and wine icons of the region. Be exhilarated by the Orca off the coast of Bremer Bay, experience the pounding ocean at the Gap and Natural Bridge in the Torndirrup National Park or views to the southern horizon at the Granite Skywalk in the Porongurup National Park. Visit historic storehouses of the National Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Centre and Albany’s Historic Whaling Station. Taste the delights of food and wine in the unique cool climate zones of Denmark and Mount Barker. Walk the main street of Albany and get an ‘insider’s perspective’.
With local expertise, energy and integrity, our friendly, courteous and passionate team strive to ensure that you, our guest, is well looked after and has an Instagram-able and review-worthy experience. “We’ll show you more!”
Deals
Bottle of wine to $22 with each booking
Add a bottle of wine at lunch on one of our tasting tours. Get an extra experience of Great Southern Wine in Denmark or Mt Barker.
Valid from: 7 Oct 2024 to 31 Dec 2024 Redeem from: 7 Oct 2024 to 30 Jun 2025
- With each order for a Tasting Delicious Denmark or a Mt Barker Grape Escape full day tasting tour, guest receive a bottle of wine at lunch.
- Book a tasting tour product and we'll add a bottle of wine at lunch. Use the promocode DREAMCOLLECTIVE and enjoy!
- #WADreamSale
Bonus booklet 'Landmarks & Laneways' historical notes on city buildings and artworks.
Historic Albany revealed in deep dive into the ANZAC and whaling stories. Add a memento ‘Landmarks & Laneways’ booklet that records details of the buildings and artworks in the city.
Valid from: 7 Oct 2024 to 31 Dec 2024 Redeem from: 7 Oct 2024 to 30 Jun 2025
- Bonus booklet 'Laneways & Landmarks' of Albany with each booking of either Albany History & Highlights half day tour or a Albany's Whaling Story half day tour.
- One 'Landmarks & Laneways' booklet per booking on either the Albany History & Highlights or Albany's Whaling Story half day tours. Use the promocode DREAMCOLLECTIVE and enjoy!
- #WADreamSale
Services
From $180 to $199
Highlights include tasting handcrafted cheese and award-winning wines, mead, cider and enjoying a long table lunch in a picturesque boutique winery sampling fine food. Enjoy tastings of cheese, chocolate, condiments, ice cream – the best of food and wine in Denmark Western Australia.
This is more than just a food and wine tour! Take in the cathedral of towering karri trees as you travel through lush bushland to hidden venues.
Flavour sensations are explored at Duckett’s Mill where an array of cheeses, cured meats, condiments is presented in a mouth-watery shared platter lunch. Wines are available for tasting and purchase. Traditional cider making is explained at Denmark Heritage Cider. The work of bees is savoured Bartholemews Meadery, where you’ll have dessert of ice cream. Then visit a chocolatere to take home a treat with which to reminisce.
Busy Blue Bus Tours chooses venues where you will get the best tasting experiences in the region and step up to the tasting bench ahead of others.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Public ToiletFrom $133 to $147
This tour is for those wanting to learn more of Albany’s role in the ANZAC story. The tour includes morning tea/coffee and scones, jam and cream. Courtesy pickup from locations within 10kms CBD.
The history of Albany and the Great Southern is revealed in stories as you start the tour at the Albany Visitor Centre and travel along Marine Drive with a view to King George Sound.
At the National ANZAC Centre the interactive displays will take you on an intimate journey of a participant of the war. Travel the Avenue of Honour, that leads to the Memorial of the Desert Mounted Corps. Padre White trod a path to this peak at dawn to remember the fallen. Take in the view that the departing ANZAC Troops had before they sailed onwards to war; for some of them, the last vision of homeland. See Breaksea Island and learn of the construction of the lighthouse and its connection to the ANZAC narrative are revealed.
Journeying into the city centre, along the way we drive past the oldest farm in Western Australia and visit one of the earliest homes in Australia at Patrick Taylor Cottage.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Public ToiletFrom $152 to $169
The Granite Skywalk Porongurups tour is for those who like the outdoors and have moderate fitness for walking and climbing. The highlights of this tour are the new Granite Skywalk and scenic drive through the Porongurups and delicious lunch at a Plantagenet Winery.
Discover the spectacular scenery and bountiful produce of the Porongurups and Mount Barker regions. Castle Rock is a 4.2-kilometre return walk that requires moderate fitness. To reach the spectacular views at the summit requires a final short scramble over granite rocks and a climb in an enclosed ladder to the Granite Skywalk. From there, your guide will show you spectacular views and entertain you with intriguing stories of the area, from the traditional Noongar owners to the European settlers. You’ll learn why the area produces award-winning wines and local produce and sample the best of both.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Public ToiletFrom $133 to $147
Understand Albany’s whaling history and its connection with Australia’s national story.
The tour begins at the Albany Visitor Centre with a journey around Princess Royal Harbour, King George Sound, the Southern Ocean and beyond. Albany’s role as the last station in operation in Australia’s whaling story comes to life at Albany’s Historic Whaling Station. You haven’t seen Albany until you’ve visited the Historic Whaling Station – the only experience like it in the world!
Highlights include a scenic drive through the Torndirrup National Park to view Albany’s amazing pristine marine environment and coastline, a private tour through Albany’s Historic Whaling Station and a visit to Stony Hill Lookout for a panoramic 360-degree view.
The tour provides a reflection on the significance of whale hunting in the past and recognition of the value of whale watching today.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Public ToiletFrom $180 to $199
Taste outstanding wines from award-winning wineries of the Mount Barker sub-region of the Great Southern. The grapes are grown in a cool climate and nestled next door to National Parks. Meander the back roads and meet the owners at the cellar door. An authentic experience of wine growing in diverse soil types and climates that contribute to exceptional Rieslings. The Busy Blue Bus tour guide will take care of the skipper duties whilst you take pleasure in tastings from five cellar doors. Share a luscious lunch platter of local produce.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Public ToiletFrom $104 to $115
Experience the wonder of the outdoors in the great expanses and granite rocks of the Torndirrup National Park.
Your tour begins curving around Princess Royal Harbour with a view to King George Sound and the Southern Ocean beyond. Be delighted by the floral displays of the native vegetation in the National Park. Enjoy the pristine marine environment of the southern Australian coastline seen in magnificent splendour on the journey through the Torndirrup National Park.
Take in the vista of the powerful ocean as it heaves itself against the granite walls and feel the exhilarating force at the Gap. Simply breathtaking.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Public Toilet$511
Experience this amazing gathering of marine creatures in the remote Southern Ocean. A unique wonder! View Australia’s largest collection of marine creatures including killer whales, feeding together at Bremer Canyon from January to April every year.
Journey from Albany Western Australia to the marina at Bremer Bay to board the boat for the journey of a life time. View Orcas as they nurture their young and feed in the nutrient dense waters rising from the Bremer Canyon, deep in the ocean.
Relax and sit back as you reflect at the end of a full day on the water, whilst you’re delivered safely back to Albany. An educational and truly exhilarating experience!
Disabled Access
Carpark Non Smoking$60
Just arrived? Want to get the best out of your time in Albany? Get an insider’s view of the events, food and wine, attractions, icons; topped up with fun facts.
Stop wandering around on the internet. Get your eyes up and out on the street as you stretch your legs after your journey down the highway to Albany WA. Google’s excellent, but a friendly local is better at knowing how to get to all the fun stuff you’re interested in. In just 90 minutes you can hear an insider’s view of Albany with up-to-date knowledge.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Pet Friendly - Enquire Public Toilet