1. Introduction Australia
Australia (Australia) is a unique country in the world, the island occupied a whole continent with 7 .7 million km2 area lying south of the equator between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. For visitors, Australia is a beautiful country, culturally diverse and numerous attractive natural landscapes, famous structures like jetties Harbour, the Opera House, the majestic Blue Mountains Mountain, Mountain Three Sisters rock legend. . . Accompanying program Australian tour, guests will visit the port city of Sydney sunny with beautiful beaches; Melbourne - center energetic dynamic of Australia; Brisbane - Queensland capital, a city of peace brilliant sun. . .
2. Immigration procedures
- Please bring your original passport to immigration procedures at the airport.
- For customers who are foreigners: bring Customs declarations were in Vietnam 1st, carrying a visa to leave, because the need for entry when returning to Vietnam.
- You are present at the international terminal, check in counters at Noi Bai airport before 02h departure for international flights.
- Customs Regulations Australia
+ Goods brought in less than $ 300 are exempt. You retain the purchase invoice and buy at duty free shops in airports.
+ Electronic goods when bought in Vietnam are subject to tax from 50% - 70% + 10% VAT
+ Checked baggage must not exceed 20kg / person for the whole trip and on. If the weight exceeds the freight must pay an additional fee prescribed by aviation.
+ The fresh foods or canned, fruit, eggs, meat, plants, seeds, animal skins and furs are prohibited when entering Australia.
+ Guests should not carry to carry all kinds of clothing or feather hats, or woven bamboo, palm slice ... all will be confiscated from the airport. If the attempt to conceal, likely will be the local authorities of imprisonment when undetected.
- Note when entering Australia
+ Except for New Zealand citizens to Australia by New Zealand passport, and all foreigners who arrive in Australia are required to have a visa or electronic travel identification (ETA) to be able to enter and remain in Australia. The longest duration (including the extension period) for permission to stay in Australia of a tourist is one year. Guests not saved Australia beyond the period indicated in the visa. The visa can renew by the agency or the Office of Immigration Multicultural Australian made. This must be done one month before the visa is no longer valid.
+ After the presentation of a passport and immigration card in Australia, travelers must carry luggage to the inspection area. To Australia, visitors should not bring the kind of clothes, hats or feather woven bamboo, palm strabismus. . . All of them will be confiscated from the airport. If the attempt to conceal, likely will be the local authorities of imprisonment when undetected. At the airport in Australia, if visitors do not have luggage must declare to customs, then go through the green gate; Luggage also need to declare the crossing red gate.
3. Weather - Climate
- Nearly a third of Australia lies in the tropical region. The rest have a temperate climate. The area has the coldest climate is located in the southeast of the mainland and Tasmania.
+ Summer from December to February.
+ Fall from March to May.
+ Winter is from June to August.
+ Spring from September to November.
- In summer temperatures can reach 40 ° C, but in winter it sometimes to 0 ° C. The intensity of sunlight in Australia is highly recommended that travelers should bring hats and sunscreen.
4. Luggage
- Each customer is free of charge + 7 kg hand luggage and checked baggage (depending on airlines).
- Currency maximum number allowed to bring you not declare to customs: USD 5 .000.
- For items worth over 300 USD (camera, large camera ...) the members should declare to the Customs.
- Do not carry sharp objects such metal cutlery, forks and spoons; explosives, weapons and other prohibited materials. Avoid buying in Vietnam similar goods or violent toys for children.
- All liquids such as shampoo, cosmetics, liquids, sharp objects cutlery ... must be packed carefully and put in checked baggage, not the notebook when going through security inspection machine at the airport.
- Do not carry confidential documents and materials Country, internal document circulation of state agencies.
- Members should bring appropriate clothing for the weather.
- Due to the high price of money laundry, members should bring presses, soap. Bring personal items: medicines, shavers,, combs, hair dryers ... (if necessary)
- Australia using an alternating voltage 240-250V, 50 cycle, three-pin power connector. If there is demand for machinery charging device, you should bring forward drive connector (adapter). You may need more if local electrical equipment transformers using other voltages with voltage in Australia.
- The members should choose low shoes, sandals when sightseeing.
- When to visit the Palace, churches, pagodas serious outfit: no slippers, women do not wear short skirts over knee, shirtless next door. . .
- Baggage sent planes should be locked and the name on the suitcase.
- All the necessary personal baggage to at least apply for baggage.
- You absolutely do not receive or send other people's luggage Union.
5. Currencies - Shopping
- Vietnam Money can not change in Australia. Guests should bring US dollars (USD) or the Australian dollar (AUD).
- When shopping in Australia, the majority of users AUD, some duty free shops can pay in dollars, but a lower rate.
- You can change money at the counters CURRENCY EXCHANGE in airports, supermarkets or hotels. Travelers are advised to change money in Vietnam will be more valuable.
- 01 The Australian dollar (AUD) = 22 .000 VND (reference rate).
- When shopping at the store or the mall, the members should pay the price and selected carefully, to avoid misleading the guides.
- TVs from 21 inches or more when purchased in Vietnam taxed 120%.
- US dollar carry backup (last 1995 series).
- When shopping should carry a personal computer.
- You can shop at the supermarket quality assurance, sold under the listing price, not price.
- In Melbourne and Sydney with famous markets such as Victoria Market Market (Melbourne), Paddington Market (Sydney). There is also the famous downtown: Brunwick St, Fitzroy (Melbourne), Oxford St, Paddington (Sydney), Ann Sts Brunwick intersection, Fortitude Valley (Brisbane) and Oxford St, Leederville (Perth).
- Art or Aboriginal artefacts are great souvenirs. Besides, the seeds of local species are also considered meaningful gift.
- The Australian fashion collections are popular: Collette Diningan, Ty & Melita, Morrissey, Sass & Bide, Tsubi and Akira Isogawa. Want suit looks cleaner, visitors can try waterproof cloaks DrizaBone, Akubra hat, moleskin pants and Blundstone boots.
- Some of the souvenirs: stuffed kangaroo addition, tourists often enjoy the antique toy products: boomerang (a wooden weapon, curved like a crescent, as an instrument of Australian Aborigines in ancient times, used to fight, hunt the small animals), didgerodoo (a wooden instrument similar to the flute and has carved, decorative drawings). The shops in Melbourne brings you a wide choice of products from wood.
- Note your bags walking down the street. Just bring a little cash and the necessary documents that you can use. The other important papers in a safe, you should send the hotel.
- Week in Australia usually work from Monday to Friday. Working time 00 hours starting from 9 to 17 hours and 30 minutes. In Sydney, Perth and Darwin on Thursday and in Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart and Canberra on Friday with shops open late (until 21 hours).
6. Hotel
- Hotel 3 star standard International, normally 02 people / room (if single rooms 3-bed hotel transplantation).
- At the hotel have all the different equipment. Upon check-in, you note that the test, if damaged or missing must immediately notify the tour guide said, if not the check you have to compensate for damaged or missing items that you did not cause.
- You free payment of costs incurred for hotel check-in procedure in the following cases:
+ Use of food and drinks available in the hotel refrigerator.
+ Call out outside the hotel.
+ Using TV channels are not available.
7. Phone
- When called on Vietnam You dial:
0084 + area code + number to call - fixed number (eg call number 04 .37472283 tap into: .4 .37472283 0084)
0084 + number to call - mobile number (eg call number 0913 xxxxxx xxxxxx click into 0084 .913).
- Code of Australia Telephone: +0061
- Prepaid phone cards are also used in public telephone system, visitors can buy at the reseller with many different prices.
8. Eating
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel.
- Food in Australia diversity, abundance. The European and Asian dishes are so visitors easily select items. In Melbourne and Sydney has restaurants Vietnam.
9. Culture
- Do not enter the Australian people without permission. If you want to, it must inform.
- Gift launched landlord usually wine or chocolate.
- Do not arbitrarily touch the children in the street without the permission of her parents.
- Do not speak loudly in public places such as restaurants, trains, ...
10. Sightseeing
- Tours can change the order schedule to fit programs, weather and health both teams, this will be notified to the members of the delegation at the end of each day.
- During overseas travel will not have time to take a nap at the hotel. Journey takes place from morning, lunch at tourist attractions, new hotel night. On the other hand travel itinerary has been streamlined so you should arrange personal affairs so as not to affect the whole group.
- The members comply with the request of the delegation about time concentration as notified. Union is not responsible for the delay of our guests.
- As to any places yet to follow the guidance of the people leading the delegation. If you need separate delegation for personal reasons, you must notify the head of the delegation, who led the delegation or their predecessors said.
- During the tour itinerary, when you tired and can not get it to the union necessarily inform and chief instructor. You should not arbitrarily sit back to wait mission turns out for the majority of the sights are in one door and out the other door shooting.
- When you do get lost delegation should stand in place to guide and chief finding delegation. Do not go looking for teams for very large sites should be as easy to communicate.
- The members note that not smoking and littering in public places.
- When members want to go out of the hotel alone and took in the memory card of the hotel to an emergency room also has information about the hotel you are staying.
11. Means
- Due to geographical distance between administrative centers in Australia is quite remote so visitors often move from one place to another by plane.
- And in some cities such as Melbourne: there are 3 types of vehicles: trains, trams (tram) and bus. Shuttle most convenient because it is capable of transporting a large passenger volume and scope of activities to be extended to areas away from the city center.
- Besides the usual electric vehicles, in Melbourne there are electric cars go around the city (City Circle Tram) Free for active travelers from 10 am to 6 pm each day, each separated trip 10 minutes and walk around the city center within 40 minutes. Buses have some night online service for passengers going out on weekends. So, if you return to the hotel late after 12 pm, you shall not worry. This bus service runs from midnight to dawn. The bus comes at 12 hours and 30 minutes from the Square night city Swantons road (between Station Road and Flinders Streets Collins) and each trip an hour apart.
- In Melbourne Metcard only one type of ticket - used for all kinds of public transport. Metcard sold in vending machines from anywhere in the city. Ticketing system only tickets for zone 1 and 2. Fares of each region is different. So before you buy, check the location where you will come to select appropriate types of tickets.
12. Security
- The hotel is not responsible for the items, valuables, money for the hotel room without posts in front.
- For passports, important documents, cash and personal property valued at suggestions the members always take with you, not for the hotel room in case of theft.
- Notify instructors when the incident occurred.
13. Some other information note
- You absolutely do not tell jokes related to sensitive security and aviation safety in public areas frames especially on planes and at airports.
- All changes and comments on the tour are informed, the exchange with the director to discuss and reach a consensus as had been agreed by both teams. Any changes not included in the program must self-payment.
- Strictly abide by Doan times given.
- Go play outside the program should not go alone (probably thanks to HDV or transport consultancy).
- The foreign service you do not use are not refunded for any services that have been paid in advance.
