Great Ocean Road: Getting there & around

Interstate visitors coming from Adelaide, Brisbane or Sydney can fly into Avalon airport, 22km (13.6mi) from Geelong, with Jetstar (tel: 131538; www.jetstar.com.au) and take the door-to-door Avalon Airport Shuttle (tel: 5278 8788; www.avalonairportshuttle.com.au) along the Great Ocean Road as far as Lorne. V/Line (tel: 136 196; www.vline.vic.gov.au) trains from Melbourne's Southern Cross on Spencer Station travel to Geelong and connect with V/Line buses that regularly cruise the Great Ocean Road as far as Apollo Bay, via Torquay, Anglesea and Lorne. On Fridays (and Mondays during the Christmas holidays), a V/Line bus continues around the coast from Apollo Bay to Port Campbell and Warrnambool.

The best way to see the Great Ocean Road is by car. If you require other options, Wayward Bus (tel: 1300 653 510; www.waywardbus.com.au) follows the southwest coast to South Australia as part of its Melbourne to Adelaide trip; you can do stopovers too. McHarry's Bus Lines (tel: 5223 2111; www.mcharrys.com.au) has frequent bus services from Geelong to Torquay.