By air: Sydney (Kingsford Smith) International Airport is a significant international airport and a major transport hub for Qantas. It claims to be the world’s oldest continually operated commercial airport. As you would expect, there are routes serving Sydney from around the world, most significantly North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

There are three terminals, Terminal two for domestic only and Terminal three for Qantas only, although they also operate with other international carriers from Terminal one. The most significant airlines operating here include Air Canada, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, United Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic Airways.

By car: roads in New South Wales and Australia are generally of a high standard and so car rental is an option here. Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne are within a reasonable driving distance of Sydney, but usually people would drive the journeys over two days.

Melbourne is 540 miles from Sydney, Brisbane 586 and Adelaide close to 900. From the north, drivers enter Sydney from the Pacific Highway, from the south on the Princes highways and M5 and from the west on the Great Western Highway.

By train: Australia has a reasonably good and efficient rail service and Sydney is easily accessible by train. All major trains travel to Sydney’s Central Station, south of the city centre. Long distance rail services are operated by Country Link and they provide daily services to Sydney from Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and many other destinations in New South Wales.

Travelling time to Brisbane and Melbourne is around 12 hours. There are two trains daily (morning and evening) between Melbourne and Sydney and one evening train between Brisbane and Sydney. There are a number of daily services to other regional cities, such As Newcastle, Goulbourn, and Lithgow.

CountryLink trains are modern and comfortable with excellent facilities, modelled on the French TGV. Sydney’s Central Station is situated in a large old building, and has the usual range of cafes and restaurants, information services and newsagents.

By boat: international boat transport to Sydney is limited; however P&O and Cunard do both include Sydney on their itineraries for cruises from Europe, Hong Kong, and the USA.