Melbourne's 180-hour birthday party!
Join the party with a range of free and special offers from city retailers, pubs, cafés, restaurants and attractions.
In the 180 hours to Melbourne Day, grab your gift — a Melbourne Day special to get you celebrating.
Participating venues
Arts Centre Melbourne
100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Offer: 18% off all guided tours for 180 hours! Use PROMO Code: 180 when booking.
- Theatres and Exhibition Tour: Monday, 24 August, to Saturday, 29 August, at 11am
- Sunday Backstage Tour: Sunday, 30 August, at 11am
- Phantoms of the Theatre Ghost Tour: Friday, 28 August, 10.30pm, 11pm and 11.30pm to midnight
All tours are $20 ($16.40 with discount)
Theatres and Exhibition Tour: 1 hour and includes Coffee and Opera Cake
Sunday Backstage Tour: 1.5 hours
Phantoms of the Theatre Ghost Tour: 45 mins and includes a buy-1-get-1-free drink in Curve Bar.
Cafenatics
At Cafenatics outlets across the city, see your nearest location
Offer: A small coffee and a muffin for just $5!
Available from 8am to 10am, from 24 to 28 August.
New, great offer! Eureka Skydeck 88
88 Riverside Quay, Southbank
Offer: 20% off admission at Eureka Skydeck and Edge Experience.
Simply print and present this voucher (PDF) on arrival to receive 20% off admission and The Edge Experience at the Southern Hemisphere’s Highest Viewing Platform Eureka Skydeck.
Offer is only valid between 28 – 30 August 2015 and can only be redeemed onsite.
The offer is only valid on Edge Experience when purchased with admission tickets. Edge Experience may not be available due to weather conditions. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotions.
Download and print this voucher now (PDF)!
Hidden Secrets Tours
Offer: 50% off Golden Mile walks on 30 August (use when booking code: MELBDAY180).
Offer: 10% off any tour booked before 31 August (use when booking code: MELBDAYfriends).
Discover tradition, mystery, curiosities and wonder on a revealing, special "early Melbourne" guided walking tour of the hidden city.
For bookings, more information visit HiddenSecretTours.com/Melbourne-Day
Melbourne Central free tours
Corner of LaTrobe and Swanston streets, Melbourne
Offer: Free Unlocked Tours, 2pm & 3pm, 30 August
Celebrate Melbourne Day and go behind the scenes of one of Melbourne's most iconic buildings, Melbourne Central, with local historian and Melbourne Precincts author Dale Campisi, right.
Dale has learned all there is to know about Melbourne Central's past and will lead you around hidden nooks, rarely-seen vantage points and secret rooftops, as well as sharing some intriguing tales of days gone by in this busy corner of Melbourne’s CBD.
Reserve your spot here. Places limited, don't miss out!
Offer: Free Walk To Art Tours, 2pm & 3pm, 30 August
Did you know the ‘labour’ mural on the station level of Melbourne Central is one of Victoria’s largest public artworks?
Or that Hamish Munro’s inflatable sculpture ‘Filling the Mould’, right, is designed to inflate according to the number of people inside the centre at any time?
Join our 'Walk to Art' tour guide Bernadette Alibrando, right, as she shares fascinating insights and information on the murals, sculptures, installations and street art pieces that call Melbourne Central home.
Reserve your spot here. Places are limited, don't miss out!
Priscilla Jones Cafe @ gasworks
Available from Saturday, 22 August to Sunday, 30 August — Melbourne Day!
The Quarter Cafe
27 - 31 Degraves Street, Melbourne
Offer: Oysters and Booze Special Menu, to celebrate Melbourne's connection with seafood and drink, the fuel that powered the early settlers.
Each day Quarter Cafe's chefs will skilfully prepare locally sourced fresh oysters, pairing them with alcoholic beverages at happy hour prices.
The menu was inspired by the hoarde of oyster shells found during 2010 excavations at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton. The western car park was redeveloped to reinstate a German-inspired garden from the time of the World Exhibition in 1880 — unearthing a mountain of oyster shells.
From 22 August to midnight, 30 August.
The Melbourne Shop by Lumbi
The Melbourne Shop by Lumbi - Fitzroy, 338 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
The Melbourne Shop by Lumbi - CBD, Shop 2, 8 Driver Lane, Melbourne
Offer: A FREE special-monogrammed, limited-edition pencil case — made in Melbourne! — when you spend $60 or more.
Featuring a stylish illustration of landmark Flinders St Station, these pencil cases are a must-have souvenir of Melbourne's 180th anniversary. Not to be repeated for another 180 years!
Get yours now!
One per customer.
Melbourne Star Observation Wheel
101 Waterfront Way, Docklands
Offer: $18* single flight tickets for adults and children from 10am to 3pm.
Experience the Melbourne Star during the 180 hour celebration, 24 – 30 August, 2015 and purchase single flight adult and children's tickets for just $18pp from 10am to 3pm. Simply mention the “Melbourne Day Special” when purchasing your tickets at the Ticket Booth.
* $18 tickets for adult, concession and child single flights. Tickets must be purchased and flights taken between 10am – 3pm, Mon 24 – Sun 30 August.
The offer is valid for adult, concession/senior and child single flights only and does not apply to any other ticket types.
The offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other special or promo.
Offer is valid for onsite sales only. All other Melbourne Star Terms and Conditions apply.
Old Melbourne Gaol
377 Russell St, Melbourne
Offer: 25 per cent discount on all general admission tickets on 30 August, from 9.30am to 5pm.
Journey back to the 1800s when you visit one of the city’s oldest surviving justice precincts, a National Trust property. Come see where bushranger Ned Kelly was imprisoned and take part in an arresting experience.
See the execution area and Ned Kelly's death mask!
Perkup Cafe and Burger Bar
12 Degraves Street, city
Offer: Buy breakfast and get free coffee (bottomless cup)!
Polly Woodside tall ship
21 South Wharf Promenade, South Wharf
Offer: 25 per cent discount on all general admission tickets on 30 August, from 10am to 4pm (last entry at 3.15pm).
Moored permanently as a central drawcard of South Wharf, this majestic 1885 tall ship lets you discover Australia's rich maritime history.
A National Trust property, the three-masted, iron-hulled barque Polly Woodside is a much-loved Melbourne icon.
Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium
Tickets courtesy of Transdev buses
Cnr King & Flinders streets, Melbourne
Offer: Two-for-one entry vouchers to the aquarium for Transdev bus customers on Melbourne Day. 
Available as long as they last from Transdev's three locations: Lonsdale Street Interchange, Doncaster Park & Ride, and the Queensbridge Interchange.
