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for Sydney Harbour Bridge

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  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    natalierees

    5 Stars Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge 23/12/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fantstic views, sense of real achievement

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Quite pricy, need to book

    One of the biggest tourist attractions in Sydney is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There it stands at the Quay Side all majestic and quite frankly massive. You can walk over the bridge as a pedestrian to get to the other side of the harbour. However why would you want to do that when you could climb the bridge!!!!!!! I am not frightened of heights (I mean I have done a parachute jump for gods sake) but even to me this looked quite daunting. Its 136 metres above sea level and is one of the largest bridges in the world. There is a company called Bridge Climb that have based themselves there and ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jaygami1986

    5 Stars The Sydney Harbour Bridge Review with images 01/11/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Read Opp

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Read Opp

    My next review is on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which is perhaps one of the most iconic monuments in Sydney, if not the whole of Australia. The Bridge is the main thing that stands out when you first arrive in Sydney, its like their gateway into and out of the City, and with its sheer size, its something that people should take the time to look at up close and personal. History: The bridge has a long history, original plans to create the bridge started in the late 1890’s however construction didn’t actually start until the mid 1920’s. The bridge’s total length is a mammoth 1149 metres (3,770 ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    indiecater

    4 Stars A Beaming Structure 15/10/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Eiffel remoulded.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The price for the Bridge Climb is exorbitant.

    In many ways the Sydney Harbour Bridge is more imposing than that more famous landmark the Opera House. Heresy scream the purists but as you arrive at Sydney Harbour it is hard to verbalise the spectacle that is the thousands of tonnes of steel climbing into the clouds. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is now in its 70th year but remains a wonderful example of innovative engineering. Spanning Sydney Harbour at its narrowest point, the Bridge connects the Central Business District to the cities North Shore. The Bridge is wide enough to accommodate four lanes of traffic as well as a railway line and ... more
  • 64 of 64 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Looby5

    5 Stars Climb the Bridge, I dare you! 12/05/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Stunning Views

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not cheap

    As many of you may know, I live in the beautiful harbour side city of Sydney, resplendent with its Opera House, magnificent city skyline and of course The Sydney Harbour Bridge or ‘The old coat hanger’ as it’s sometimes known. I used to live on the North Shore of Sydney and drove over the bridge every day, occasionally looking up and seeing some grey lumps on the side which on second glance appeared to be people. I was well aware of the ‘Bridge Climb’, an organised ascent of the bridge where you are strapped on to the bridge via a wire and led by a trained group leader. You climb up to the ... more
  • 45 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 becky_tredget

    Member since 11/06/2006

    Reviews written: 12

    5 Stars The Most Breathtaking Experience Of Your Life. 20/03/2007

    Advantages Advantages A Breathtaking and Inspiring Lifetime Experience.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don't attempt if you have a fear of heights or a heart problem.

    After deciding to take a gap year after my Alevels i decided on travelling around Australia not only since it was the furthest from my parents but i had heard of people having the most amazing experiences of their life there. After two months of being in Australia with my Aussie partner, we finally made it to Sydney. The only thing i could think of doing first was climbing the most iconic bridge in the world that i could see from my room window towering over the city. We rang up the Sydney Harbour Bridge booking hotline from our hotel and found the service fantastic until we heard the price at ... more
  • 30 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    manimal

    5 Stars Not a bridge too far. Review with images 31/03/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Excellent views, nice easy climb.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Could book on a day with bad weather.

    On the way to Manchester airport, my taxi driver asked where we were flying to. I told him we were going to Sydney and his first response was to tell me to try the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb. After arriving in Sydney I asked my girlfriend Lucy when we are going to book it. She wasn't keen but I argued with her that it was something we would probably never get to do again. After about 3 days she finally agreed. We made our way down to The Rocks district of Sydney which is across the harbour from the opera house and where the booking offices for Bridgeclimb are situated. We booked in person ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    pookster

    5 Stars Bridgeclimb - The Climb of your life 25/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages The View

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The cost (£40 approx)

    Bridgeclimb is the latest 'must do' in Sydney. It is billed as 'the climb of your life' a claim that is not far wrong. Ever since the bridge has been open pedestrians have been able to walk across the pedestrian footpath from one side of the bridge to the other. However, within the last couple of years a company has been set up to allow people to climb over the top of the arch of the bridge. You start the climb at the HQ in Cumberland street, at the base of the bridge. There, after watching a video presentation you are breath tested (really!) before being given a grey suit to wear over your ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 stephiepoo3388

    Member since 06/06/2005

    Reviews written: 5

    5 Stars Sydney BridgeClimb - Climb of your life! 06/04/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Climb of a lifetime! Amazing view!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Additional prices for photos

    WOW! How to discribe the Sydney harbour bridge climb... on my visit to australia in february, me and my australian partner decided to visit the city and see some sights, we had read about it online a few months before and decided thats what we really wanted to do... especially me, since I set my eyes on it I knew thats all I wanted to do while I was in Australia even if I didnt do anything else. A week before we decied to go on the bridge climb we went on the website, booked up a climb for the last climb of the day so that it would start getting dark on our descent, "click click" the booking ... more
  • 28 of 31 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    redhotfeet

    5 Stars A must for a trip to Sydney Review with images 22/09/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You can see for miles!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don't look down! Pricy but a must

    It's something everyone talks about doing when they go to Sydney. But your still not sure whether or not to take the final plunge, pay the money and do it are you?! I did it on my second trip to Sydney as initially my brother was under ten and couldn't participate so we decided to wait until he was old enough on a return trip to complete it. A definite once in a life time experience which is why it is such a top tourist attraction. *****Scared of heights?***** Having eight lanes of traffic beneath you is pretty daunting. I'm not scared of heights but my knee did start to go on the decent a ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    fuzzycats27

    5 Stars Vertigo sufferers need not apply!! 04/11/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fantastic views and great experience

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Having to reserve a place

    My bridgeclimb experience will live with me forever. If must be one of the few things that when you see on telly back in the UK you point and shout "Look, I climbed over that!". When you meet someone who has climbed it aswell you feel part of a small family who have experienced something wonderful. The "climb Experience" that I took had to be booked a day in advanced because of the amount of people who wish to do it. This is understandable and I suppose it is so they can limit the amount of people and stop them from just turning up. The experience costs $165 per adult (that is in the day) and ... more
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