Albany Tours

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

From $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

From $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

From $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

From $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

From $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

$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

$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.

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