Australian Open Travel 2025. Travel/planning tips?

[RyanRF]

Planning to go to Australian Open 2025. Looks like tickets are released for regular sale tomorrow night. Planning to go for two days to watch 4th round matches.

• Any tips on what to buy? Day vs night session? Rod Laver vs other courts? Good seats vs watching practice courts and wandering?
• Any recommendations for other stuff to do in Melbourne?
• Recommendations for other places in Australia to check out?

 

[Youngheart]

If you can extend the time of your trip, get out of the flatlands! Head to New Zealand, rent a car or camper,
and drive through the mountain countryside. Cornet Peak was (or still is) a a place of July practice
for different European national ski racing teams. Still nice to travel around in January, and lakes for fishing.
------ So Be It ------

 

[MaxTennis]

Planning on going in 2026! Would love some insights then

 

[urbantorque]

any tips on tennis clubs for lessons or camps in Melbourne while travelling there for AO 2025?

 

[d-quik]

Planning to go to Australian Open 2025. Looks like tickets are released for regular sale tomorrow night. Planning to go for two days to watch 4th round matches.

• Any tips on what to buy? Day vs night session? Rod Laver vs other courts? Good seats vs watching practice courts and wandering?
• Any recommendations for other stuff to do in Melbourne?
• Recommendations for other places in Australia to check out?

Did you end up going?

 

[RyanRF]

Did you end up going?

Yep. Great trip.

A little bad luck with the matches we saw. Sinner vs Giron was a blowout and Alcaraz vs Draper was retirement after one set. But the womens matches were cool and just being there was a big check on our bucket list.

We stayed in a nice Melbourne hotel that was walking distance from the venue. Bumped into a few players there:

• When we were checking in, we saw Shapovolov sitting down in the lobby chatting with his team.
• Lots of times seeing official AO cars waiting infront of the hotel. Saw Taylor Townsend in one.
• We got in the elevator once and it was just us with Jasmine Paolini. We gave her a smile and a nod. Thought about saying "good luck today" but decided against it. Good thing too because right afterwards I checked her draw and saw she had just lost the day before.
• In the coffee shop next door we saw a woman who was with her teenage daughter wearing tennis gear and a bag. They both were wearing offical looking AO badges. I thought maybe the girl was playing in the junior tournament, so we said hi and I asked. The woman replied "Oh actually it's my other daughter that has a match tonight... She's on Rod Laver against Iga." Turns out we we talking to Eva Lys's mom. This time I hit them with a great big "Good luck today!"

 

[d-quik]

Thought about saying "good luck today" but decided against it. Good thing too because right afterwards I checked her draw and saw she had just lost the day before.

Haha stuff like this is something introverts like me never need to think about. Thanks for sharing this piece of real-life, mundane, but honest experience: a reality of simple day-to-day life.

 

[Youngheart]

Do they really like "shrimp-on-the-barbe" down there?

 

[RyanRF]

Do they really like "shrimp-on-the-barbe" down there?

err i have no idea...
But relating to your older post, after Melbourne we flew to New Zealand and did a few days there. Amazing stuff everywhere. Highly recommended.