Tullamarine is situated right next to the Melbourne Airport and only 22 kms from the Melbourne CBD. The Melbourne Airport is the busiest airport serving Melbourne with most of the passenger flights arriving and departing from it.
The Melbourne Airport has a wide variety of duty free shops and food outlets, is curfew-free and operates 24 hours a day, although there are very few plane flights between 1 am and 5 am, except for freight aircraft.
Apart from the numerous taxis available the Skybus shuttle service is the main transport link between the Melbourne Airport and the Melbourne CBD. It takes approximately 25 minutes to reach the city centre and drops passengers off and picks them up from the Southern Cross Station. From the Southern Cross Station airport passengers can access V/Line regional trains, Melbourne suburban trains and trams or simply walk to the Melbourne CBD, Docklands or Southbank precincts.
The surrounding airport suburb of Tullamarine features a range of hotel accommodation options (all of which have free transfers to and from the Melbourne Airport), numerous restaurants and a variety of commercial and light industry businesses.
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