Car Rental Melbourne Melbourne is the cultural capital of Australia and is layered with worldly charms and tradition. Visitors have described it as "…cosmopolitan, suburban, cultivated, football crazy, conservative and a haven for the avant-garde." How could you ignore a place like this?
 Inner-city Melbourne has much to offer a rental car tourist. You can visit Federation Square , a new city block that combines social, cultural and commercial activities. Also see NGV: Australian Art which houses the world's largest collection of Australian art, Federation Pub, a 21st century Aussie pub, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Melbourne is also very much the home of Art Deco and you can spend many days visiting those splendid monuments of a much loved bygone era.
Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens showcase landscaped gardens with thousands of plants from across Australia. The 35-hectare site is the only one of it's kind in Australia.
The self-proclaimed home of sport in Australia, the Melbourne Cricket Ground , plays host to international cricket matches, Aussie Rules Football games and athletic competitions. The stadium is open for guided tours and visitors can drop in on the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, Olympic Museum and the Australian Gallery of Sport.
A favourite place to visit when out touring in your rental car is the Dandenong Ranges National Park . One hour's drive from the busy city centre of Melbourne , this unique forest offers beauty and tranquillity with spectacular views of Victorian landscape. A must-see along the way is the William Ricketts Sanctuary - home to mystical sculptures half hidden among ferns along the pathways. It is a place for quiet reflection, without rushing to a schedule. Hire a car and visit this part of the world on your own terms.
 Melbourne is of course the home of good wine, boasting some 220 local wineries, so for those that like a tipple a wine tour never quite runs out. For the young at heart and sophisticates alike St Kilda's has become quite the "chic suburb"! St Kilda boasts a lovely beach, many eating places, a permanent fair and the charming Palais Theatre.
With the unfettered freedom to travel that a rental car provides you can travel the famous Great Ocean Road . The Great Ocean Road is approximately 280klms in length beginning near Torquay and terminating near Warrnambool . One of Australia's most popular tourist drives the Great Ocean Road is renowned for its rugged coastline and spectacular scenery including the famous 12 Apostles; twelve huge sandstone rocks rising from the sea. There is something for everyone along the Great Ocean Road from world championship surfing beaches to quite safe bays, mountain scenery, rain forests, waterfalls and quaint holiday, fishing and resort towns.
Renting a car or hiring a Campervan from ABC Integra Car Rental is without doubt the only way to see and experience all that Melbourne and Victoria as a state has to offer. If you choose the latter form of transport you're also assured that convenient clean and comfortable accommodation is always on hand, with the advantage that you can socialize with others in a Camping-Caravan site or just find that special secluded spot under the star spangled canopy and take in the beauty of the Southern Cross.
Freedom, freedom to go where and when you please; start in Melbourne , leave your rental car in Cairns or any other destination covered by ABC Integra Car Rental , it don't get much easier than that !!!
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