Travel Review: Luxury Family Vacation to Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Cairns, Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Daintree Rainforest

We did mostly private tours which were fantastic, and I'd recommend those over the group tours, which, except for Great Barrier Reef, were a disappointment. Karen, however, was so great because after a disasterous group tour in the Blue Mountains, she went above and beyond to try to get us a refund and then changed out a couple other group tours to private from the US while we were in Australia. The only other tour that could have been better was the Yarrow Valley Wine tour where our tourguide was obviously bored w/ her job. That was a small group tour too. I realize that the small group tours you spend more time on a bus or van than you do at a destination. If you're active and like to explore, it's worth the money to do private. At Blue Mountain, we had no more than 10 minutes to expore the waterfall and we wanted to do the hike through the falls like other visitors were doing but couldn't because we had to be back on the bus.