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Enjoying your travel in Sydney can even be more fulfilling and satisfying if you knew you had saved a few dollars from the goods or services you would have normally paid more expensively. You don’t have to go to scummy and dirty places to be able to get cheaper things. Be simply smart in knowing the places from where you can get discounted vouchers, attractions where you may be eligible for discounts and time that you have to be there to claim the products or services cheaply. So, here are down-to-earth tips for you that you may bear in mind on your next visit to Sydney Australia. Prices expressed in here are in Australian dollar.
In the movies. Anywhere within metropolitan Sydney, movie houses have special rates every Tuesday. Instead of paying the normal adult price of $13.50, come on a Tuesday and you will only pay $8.50. On other days, by showing your student ID card, you will only pay $10.50. Another way of scooping that savings offer by the prominent cinema companies is by buying vouchers in bulk. For 5, pay only $45.00 instead of $67.50. Buy 10 and you will only pay $90.00 instead of $135.00.
In the trains and buses. If you are going as a family, you will only have to pay for the first child. The rest of your children are free whether you have one or 11 more. They have a day pass called day rover you can use to travel unrestrictedly around Sydney with connections to trains, buses and ferry services for the whole day valid until 4am the following day. The cost for an adult day rover pass is $22.00 only but if you buy it after 9am, the peak end of the peak hours, it will only be $17.60.
For frequent travelers, city rail offers cheaper ticket options such as weekly passes giving you at least 10% discount overall. In some occasions, city rail, buses and ferries tie up with some attractions giving the passengers cheaper packages combining the return fare and the entrance fee in the same ticket. And example of this conjunction the Taronga Zoo pass; in one ticket, you can a cheaper pass that includes your ferry ride to the location plus your entrance fee to the zoo.
When you are in Sydney, you can contact Sydney trains, buses and ferries on 131 500. Student ID card are not sufficient to obtain student discounts from the city rail; you meant to have accompanied student concession card obtainable from your respective Australian schools or universities.
Tip. Tipping is not expected in Australia, although it is said that your generosity is appreciated. So if you haven’t got that much penny to impress the restaurant owner or your friends, you are not obliged to jingle coins into the tipping box.
The ‘Book of Discounts’. When you get to Sydney, make a chance to pick up the Sydney Official Guide from the Sydney visitors’ centre at the Rocks near Circular Quay Train Station. This book is free and loaded with discount vouchers from various attractions. For example, 15% off at the Sydney Aquarium, 20% off at the Powerhouse Museum, 20% off to the Sydney Tower, 15% of at the Fox Studios Backlot Tour, etc. The book is also full of information about other company’s on-going specials and packages. Produced by the NSW tourism about twice a year, it is maybe available at the International airport tourist booth. You may contact the Sydney Visitor’s Centre at 106 George Street, the Rocks, phone 9255 1788. The centre is open from 9am to 6pm.
Drink your coins down. Many prominent pubs in Sydney offer happy hour to their patrons by offering about 15% or more off their spirits and alcoholic beverages. Usually offered between 5pm to 8pm weekdays, happy hour inundates pubs with fun loving Sydneysiders. The Arizona in Sydney’s Pitt Street is one of the popular places people congregate for happy hour drinks.
Nice and Cheap Baked Dinner. You will just be so sick of McDonald’s and KFC’s and you will be thinking of dining at restaurants to fill your hunger for home baked dinner. Restaurants can be expensive for such purpose. Unless you have enough cash, you better off going to RSL clubs located in just about every central suburb in Australia. Lamb or Beef roast dinner for about $6.00 cannot be beaten by restaurants’ $18-dollar deal. Simply turn up at the door and tell the concierge staff that you are a visitor and with your presentable clothes, you will be going in your merry way to the cafeteria of the club. Please bear in mind, though, that slippers and sleeveless shirts are not allowed in the premises.
Cheaper Calls to home. Hotels and accommodation houses certainly do not offer cheaper call rates to their customers. One option is to use street phones. However, to get the cheapest rate is to contact a few Sydney-based telephone companies that compete against the giant phone companies. For example: IDXTEL – 13.2 cents to the US. Their phone number is 1300 13 87 88. Companies such as this require you to buy a debit card from the newsstands, make a local call, and using your pin from the card, you will be connected to your home country. Your card is debited as you speak. The rate is applicable 24 a day, seven days a week. Other cheaper telecommunication companies in the competitive market are: World Exchange phone 1300651499, Apple phone 1300650338, Oztel phone 1300130118, One Tel phone 1300300370, and Digiplus phone 1300361441.
Free Internet Use. Public libraries in Sydney offer free Internet access. Although they do not want you to use it for email or chat purposes, you can browse the net for research and for information intentions for many hours for $0 dollars. In the CBD, the nearest library is the NSW State Library, phone 9273 1414.
This simple guide hopes to have given you a good start in look out for those saving tips for your future holiday in this wonderful city down-under.
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