A private Perth Hills day trip from Perth uses your own vehicle and chauffeur for the day rather than a coach seat — 14 km and about 15 min of driving each way, with the departure time, stops and itinerary set by your group. It is quoted as an as-directed booking rather than a fixed one-way fare; the straight one-way transfer to the same point is $66.
The Perth Hills start where the coastal plain runs into the Darling Scarp, about half an hour from the airport, and they contain a surprising amount for that distance: the Bickley and Carmel valleys' small cellar doors, Mundaring Weir and its pipeline history, John Forrest National Park's waterfalls, and a line of lookouts that put the whole city and the Indian Ocean in one frame.
It is the shortest tour PerthRide runs and the one people underestimate. The distances between stops are small but the roads are steep, winding and dark after sunset — which is exactly the profile where a driver stops being a luxury, especially on a day that includes cellar doors.
A straight one-way transfer to Kalamunda & Perth Hills is $66 fixed. A full day with the car and driver held for your group is quoted separately.
A cluster of small cellar doors and a cidery in a valley twenty minutes from Kalamunda — the antithesis of a large commercial wine region.
The dam that feeds the Goldfields pipeline, with the pumping-station museum below it and the Kep Track running past.
Waterfalls after winter rain, the old railway tunnel and a tavern in the middle of the bush.
The view west from the escarpment takes in the entire metropolitan area and the ocean behind it — best in the last hour of light.
Kalamunda sits about 32 kilometres and half an hour from Perth Airport, with Mundaring a similar distance further north along the scarp. Everything on a Hills day is inside an hour of the city, which makes it the easiest tour to fit around a flight.
The Bickley and Carmel cellar doors are the most common reason for a Hills booking — an as-directed afternoon with the vehicle and driver held for your group, so nobody has to nominate a designated driver on roads that are steep and unlit after dark.
John Forrest National Park's waterfalls and railway tunnel, the Mundaring Weir walk trails and the Kalamunda History Village all work well with children, and the driving between them is short enough to avoid the usual complaints.
18 km · Full day
Hand-feed kangaroos in the morning, work the cellar doors in the afternoon — twenty-five minutes from the airport.
53 km · Half day or full day
Little penguins, sea lions and a marine reserve, a five-minute ferry off Rockingham.
60 km · Half day
Koalas, a limestone cave and a resident kangaroo mob, an hour up the freeway.
One fixed quote, confirmed in writing before you commit — airport, FIFO, event night or the long run south.
Fixed price, confirmed up front
No meter · no surge · GST included