For the vast majority of people visiting Melbourne, the airport is the first thing you'll experience once on Australian soil. As airports go, it's perfectly fine. It's not the best airport in the world to hang out in, but neither is it a hole.
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Advantages: Nice and small to pass through Disadvantages: Insanely strict customs officials.
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Arriving at Melbourne Airport is very easy. Offloading is quick and you're soon in the terminal. There are not very many gates which means that you're never more than a 5 minute walk from immigration. Before you get to immigration there is a Duty-Free shop selling perfume, alcohol and cigarettes. Make sure to check how much your allowance is before buying up big. There are also toilets and drinking fountains. There are also bins to dispose ... ...Overall, Melbourne airport is perfectly adequate. The staff can be rude sometimes, but not always; it's the luck of the draw. There's not really enough to do if you've got a massive layover there: I once had to wait 4 hours and nearly died of boredom, but for regular travellers it's perfectly fine. Happy Travelling! ...
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08.03.2007
Melbourne Airport Review ofMelbourne Airport, Australia (MEL)by
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Advantages: small, but clean and nice Disadvantages: only slight disadvantage is travel into the city
I arrived at Melbourne airport to the domestic terminal from an internal flight. No problems coming through, easy and fast most like every other austrlian airport,
clean, tidy and no hassle which is good.
The skybus is a good system to run into the centre of melbourne. The service is regular, clean and quite inexpensie which is good. Normally there is a representitive in the terminal if you want any information about the service or wish to buy ... ...service from the centre of melbourne is next to the the melbourne train station, near the docklands stadium. A good fairly short trip back to the airport to round of a good time !!
Due to the fact that I was staying outside of the city centre it meant i had to catch a cab which charged quite a bit !! ...
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