Trips To Sydney is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Edinburgh, Dubai and Cairo.
What this site is trying to be
Most writing about Sydney is the Opera House, the Bridge and Bondi in that order, and stops there.
This site is as interested in the fact that the Manly ferry costs an ordinary capped fare and covers the same water as a harbour cruise costing many times more; that the Pylon Lookout gives you most of the BridgeClimb view for a tenth of the price; and that rip currents kill more people in Australia than sharks, snakes and bushfires combined, and that the flags are not decorative.
It also tries to give Aboriginal Sydney the space it warrants rather than a paragraph — see The Gadigal, and what happened here.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Sydney changes: the Metro’s city section opened in August 2024, the Fish Market has been moving to a new building in stages, and fare caps and the airport access fee are adjusted periodically. Treat anything quoted here as an indication and check at source.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Harbour Bridge entry sets out plainly what BridgeClimb costs against the free walkway, and why the Blue Mountains entry recommends the train over a coach tour.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — a fare, a closure, a ferry timetable — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].