Cellar Doors Without the Driving
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A tasting day only works if nobody in the group has to drive home. The operators on this page take wine-tour bookings with a chauffeur behind the wheel, and every one of them collects from Newcastle City & Harbour, Merewether & The Junction, Western Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. What you're really choosing is the vehicle, and that depends on how many are coming.
Bigger groups go by bus. Big Daddy Party Bus has buses for 15, 25, 35 or 45 people and a 24-seat mini bus with seatbelts, and every six-hour hire includes the driver, fuel and GST, from $1,200. CMC Party Buses runs three themed buses taking up to 35 each, with BYO drinks for over-18s and ice buckets supplied.
Smaller parties can travel in more style. Arrive First Class, based in Cardiff, lists winery days among its bookings and runs a pearl-white super-stretch H2 Hummer for 11 and Chrysler 300C limousines seating 10 in the back. H2 Hunter Hummers seats 15 in its H2 Super Stretch, with a bar, screens and colour-changing lighting, from $550 per hour.
Sizing the ride for the group:
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Party buses from Big Daddy Party Bus and CMC Party Buses carry up to 45 and 35, while Arrive First Class and H2 Hunter Hummers run chauffeured stretch Hummers for 11 and 15, plus Chrysler 300C limousines from Arrive First Class.
Big Daddy Party Bus starts from $1,200 for a six-hour hire, with the driver, fuel and GST included. H2 Hunter Hummers starts from $550 per hour.
Big Daddy Party Bus keeps BYO drinks cold in iced chillers, and CMC Party Buses allows BYO for over-18s with ice buckets supplied. H2 Hunter Hummers has a bar on board.
Yes. All four operators list Lake Macquarie as well as Newcastle City & Harbour, Merewether & The Junction and Western Newcastle.
For 11 to 15 people it works well. Arrive First Class's pearl-white H2 seats 11 and lists winery days, and H2 Hunter Hummers seats 15 with a bar and screens.
