Want to store cruise luggage while touring Australia

[Eppe4]

We are flying to Sydney next April for a 29 day cruise on the Diamond Princess. We will have a lot of luggage with us and were wondering has anyone stored their luggage in Sydney while flying out to the other areas of Australia. All suggestions appreciated.

[Globaliser]

I assume that you're starting your cruise in Sydney, so you're going off to other places first and then coming back?

 

Are you staying in Sydney first before you start flying off to other parts? If so, the easiest thing may be to try to negotiate storage facilities with your hotel.

 

Otherwise, there are storage facilities at the airport. The Sydney airport page for Terminal 1 (the international terminal) is most explicit, but there is also a facility at Terminal 2.

 

There may be a facility at Terminal 3 (the terminal for most Qantas domestic flights), but the Sydney airport website says nothing about that terminal, presumably on the basis that it's exclusively used by Qantas - and the Qantas website is irritatingly silent about it. And I haven't been to T3 since this question first came up a few weeks ago. However, T2 is only a couple of minutes' walk from T3, at worst.

[Eppe4]

Globaliser, Thank You so much for your response. Our thoughts were to fly to Sydney, store our luggage and continue on to Cairns the same day. We'll then go to Alice Springs and the Outback and return to Sydney for about 3 days. It will be much easier to backpack to all of the other places and leave our luggage safely behind. Again, my sincere thanks.

[MrCalculus]

We are flying to Sydney next April for a 29 day cruise on the Diamond Princess. We will have a lot of luggage with us and were wondering has anyone stored their luggage in Sydney while flying out to the other areas of Australia. All suggestions appreciated.

 

We are taking this same cruise with the same plans before the cruise. E-mail us if you would like to exchange ideas and finds. See profile.

[BCHappyGal]

You will really enjoy your trip -

 

The Great Barrier Reef is awesome and a 1 day excursion out to the reef was just too short.

 

In Ayers Rock I would not recommend the "Sounds of Silence Dinner" expensive and the food quality was very poor - serivce was excellent - and you are too far away from Ayers Rock to enjoy the sunset over the rock.

 

We really enjoyed melbourne and if you look up the Melbourne's city web site and go to visitors you can actually book a free walking tour of the city.