Geelong Tours

01/01/2025

We’re back in the office with regular hours from today 🥳

We’re all feeling very excited for a big year ahead and cant wait to take those tour bookings!

Remember you can contact us via:

📧: [email protected]

☎️: 5278 9699

Or simply inbox this page ✌️.

24/12/2024

CHRISTMAS OFFICE HOURS 🎄

We hope your all getting excited now! The big day has almost arrived and we'll still be here to help right through the festive season with some adjusted office hours as follows:

Today: Open 9AM to 5PM

Tomorrow (Christmas Day): Closed

26th of December (Boxing Day): Closed

27th of December: Open 9AM to 12PM

28th of December: Closed as usual for the weekend

29th of December: Closed as usual for the weekend

30th of December: Open 9AM to 12PM

31st of December: Open 9AM to 12PM

1st of January (New Years Day): Closed

2nd of January: We reopen as normal for a big 2025!

All tour bookings within this period will proceed as normal and outside of office hours please send through any enquiries via email to [email protected]. If the matter can wait until our next business day we look forward to chatting with you then but if not please rest assured as these emails are regularly monitored outside of hours and one of our great customer service team will be in touch with you as soon as possible.

P.S One more big thank you to Jane Kempe who painted this commemorative art piece for us to celebrate the company reaching its 60th year of operation!

23/12/2024

There’s nothing better than our beautiful waterfront at this time of year 👌

Especially with the iconic floating Christmas tree now lit up for the festive season 🎄.

We can’t wait to show more overseas and interstate visitors around in 2025 🎉.

19/12/2024

TIM'S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS LETTER 🎄

As 2024 comes to a close, it gives me great pride to say that we’re about to officially conclude our 60th year of operations.

One of the reasons I enjoy writing this letter is it gives me a chance to take a step away from all the craziness of running what is a very complicated and hands - on business with a lot of moving parts (both literal and metaphorical!) and reflect on all of the highs and lows of the year.

We have just surpassed our booking numbers for 2023 across chauffeur drive, charter bus, and self-storage with the ongoing strong demand for our range of services being hugely encouraging and something I must thank the people of Geelong for!
I would also like to personally thank our office administrator, Taylor today. It’s a little scary to think that we were both in our early 20s when we started working together and while she’s fortunately still got a few more months of her 20s left to go I have just hit the big 30!

She has always been a real quiet achiever and ably handles what can be a very stressful and demanding role while always showing grace and patience to myself, our drivers, and our customers and for that she deserves a lot of praise and appreciation.

Rick also continues to do an exceptional job as our maintenance supervisor and is a constant source of wise advice to me on all things mechanical along with bringing an infectiously positive attitude towards everything he does with us.

Our transport service would not be possible without the efforts of our drivers who assist with everything from airport transfers to weddings and winery tours and will still be providing a great level of service around the clock throughout the festive season.

On a more personal note, we did also have some sad times this year, with the most significant of those being the loss of my grandfather John who passed away at the ripe old age of 88 after a long and determined struggle to hold back father time finally came to an end.

John played a very significant yet “behind the scenes” role in our company in the early years of my father’s management which is something that he never sought any credit for.

I would say that I appreciate more than most people just how much of a difference a supportive pat on the back from an older person can make when you feel like you’re trying your best but the chips are still down. John was somebody who I always felt like genuinely believed in me even if that faith was often a little blind, biased and not always based on any particular positive evidence! So, I’ll always be grateful to him for that.

In something of a full circle moment one door closed just as another was opening and my wife Caitlin and I were thrilled to learn earlier in the year that we were to become an uncle and aunty for the first time. Just last week (the 10th of December) we welcomed little Myles into the world.

I can’t quite find the words to describe how special it was for us to meet Myles, and although he’s probably still a little young to become an avid subscriber to the Murrell HQ social media platforms and email newsletter (give him a couple more months 😂) I would still like to give him a shout out from uncle Tim and aunty Caitlin who already love him very much.

I hope that you all have a fantastic festive season with your loved ones and will say one more huge thank you to everyone who supported us in 2024.

We’ll still be here to help right through the holiday period and will put up a post with our adjusted Christmas office hours in the next couple of days!

Tim Murrell
Managing Director
Murrell Group of Companies (proud owner of Geelong Tours)

10/12/2024

We’re so thrilled to be welcoming “The Silver Muse” into Geelong on the 21st of January 2025!

This beautiful cruise ship has a maximum capacity of 691 and will be sailing all the way from the USA 🇺🇸

We’re also proud to say that we’ve all ready received bookings from three seperate groups of US tourists (from Ohio, South Carolina and Arizona!) and have been telling them all about what our town has to offer.

We’re ready to show some Aussie hospitality ✌️.

12/11/2024

Geelong has a serious case of co**se plant fever!!

Those of our followers who don’t live locally may not be aware that we’ve just experienced a once in 10 year event with the bloom of our co**se plant residing in the botanical gardens.

The big moment finally happened yesterday and lines to see our foul smelling tourist attraction reached up to 3 hours long last night 👀.

We wonder what will have changed in our city the next time the flower blooms in 2034? 🤔

05/11/2024

Welcome to our town 🤝

It would be our pleasure to show you around and there aren’t many better places to start than the beautiful Geelong waterfront 😊.

02/11/2024

We're finally ready to launch our new website!

The first few months of running Geelong Tours have seen us focus on building a solid platform to grow from as we continue to test and learn and see what works best for our customers!

Take a look at our latest packages on the new site and let us know what you think in the comments below 🔥.

Our tour guides take pride in bringing their passion and love of the region to life, taking you, our customer, to places you may not necessarily find by yourself and giving you experiences that you will remember forever.

21/10/2024

Our Saturday cultural tour!

We were very lucky to host a group of indigenous students from Western Australia who took a tour of historically significant sites in our region.

We’d like to thank the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-Operative that advised us in putting this day together 🚌.

17/10/2024

For centuries between June and September female Southern Right whales visit Warnambool to calve 🐳

What a truly beautiful spot along The Great Ocean Road 🏄‍♂️

15/10/2024

A visit to the picturesque Port Fairy today!

The last destination in Victoria’s infamous ship wreck coast 🌊

12/10/2024

Sadia was hosting her beautiful family visiting her all the way from India 🇮🇳

She wanted to give them a great Australian experience and worked with us to plan a day trip down the Great Ocean Road 🌊.

What a perfect day to visit the Cape Otway lighthouse on our way to the Twelve Apostles ✌️.

11/10/2024

Step out of one of our comfortable mini buses and into some of the most beautiful wine country you’ve ever seen 👀.

We’re so lucky to have top notch wineries right on our door step whether that be in the Bellarine, Moorabool valley or Surfcoast 🚌.

04/10/2024

Lying beneath these beautiful waves is Victoria’s second largest marine park 🦀

A wide variety of sea creatures call this park their home including Port Jackson Sharks and Southern Rock Lobsters which seek shelter in the limestone crevices!

20/09/2024

A hidden gem just minutes from the Twelve Apostles 💎

Gorge Chocolates is an absolute must visit offering both chocolate alpacas and real ones!

They’ve also got an onsite cafe and gift shop with all the Alpaca related products you could possibly need 🦙

13/09/2024

The Gibson Steps were first carved into the cliffs by local settler Hugh Gibson who used them regularly to access the beautiful beach area offering views across to the Twelve Apostles!

Hugh also had a connection with the infamous Loch Ard ship wreck that we posted about earlier this week! The two survivors (Tom Pearce and Eva Carmichael) recovered at his home stead after being discovered.

11/09/2024

Our Monday Phillip Island Tour!

This was a lovely full day trip that included:

Pelican feeding at Sam Remo 🐦

Ice cream and coffee thanks to the in house cafe at Caldermeade Farm 🍦 ☕️

A visit to the Nobbies 🏝️

What a beautiful part of Victoria ✌️.

10/09/2024

THE SHIPWRECK COAST 🌊

From the twelve apostles onward lies a bit of a lesser known gem…. One of the most perilous coastlines in Australia!

Loch Ard Gorge is famously where the only two teenage survivors of the Loch Ard (which crashed into Mutton Bird Island) dragged themselves to safety and were rescued in 1878