Thei city is not accessable now re the Pope visit. So where can I take an 11 & 12 yrs old now?

Question

We wanted to walk the Bridge, go to Pancakes at the Rocks visit the Opera House ect. We live in western Sydney...help please! They are both active and love to run, plus read and explore. We have been looking forward to this for ages!

Answer 1

the botanical gardens would be a good place...as well as Wonderland or Koala Zoo

Answer 2

catch a train down south to jervis bay, go for a dolphin watch cruise

Answer 3

Disguise yourselves as catholics and go and watch the atheists being arrested.

Answer 4

maybe it's a great time to consider visiting Vatican City?

Answer 5

Cinema

Shopping centre

McDonalds

Local park

Go for a drive to a beach on the north side

Go to Palm Beach where Home and Away is filmed

Answer 6

Your best bet is to go to canberra. Roughly a 3 hour trip by car or less than an hour by plane though there is loads to do there. There are really great places to eat, places to visit (questacon, canberra tower), and its just a beautiful city in general. For lunch you can let your kids loose and run around on the green grass surrounding the river, if they have not dropped dead tired by then.

Stay there at least 2 days if possible, though if you go for one day, obviously leave early and leave late, your kids will be fast asleep on way home :-).

Canberra is your best bet, it is worth the drive down. If you really cant be bothered go to the blue mountains, im sure thats a close trip for you. Else you could try wollongong.

Hope that really helps :-)

Answer 7

Is it completely inaccessible? Bugger I wanted to go into the city this weekend.

If you have access to a car, how about driving up North and visiting the Australian Reptile Park, which is located at Somersby on Sydney's Central Coast.

http://www.reptilepark.com.au/

It is really good, I love it and I don’t even have kids. Loads of space to run around in, loads of animals to see and even touch.

Otherwise, how about a trip to the Blue Mountains – maybe the Three Sisters, Cable Car and Scenic Train.

The train is meant to one of the steepest inclines in the world – scares the s**t out of me but kids seem to love it. You could all then have lunch at a nice deli or café in Katoomba or Leura.

I found this “Top Things to do in Sydney” website the other day, it may come in use for you too. Goes from Top 5 to Top 140:

http://www.sydney100.com/sydney60.htm

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Answer 8

if you live in western sydney, why cant you do this another time, this  a one off holiday downunder for the pope to do this, plz dont be greedy, seriously, cant you go futher west to blue mountains or something for the day, im sure there are 101 things you could find to do with the kids in a day. knowing sydney, it will probably rain, so book a movie in advance