ACMI, the museum of screen culture at Fed Square, has free entry and is open daily from 10am to 5pm, with some ticketed events. It sits opposite Flinders Street Station within Melbourne’s Free Tram Zone, so most trains and trams reach it, and a car park at Fed Square charges $18 for the first hour on weekdays at the drive-up rate.
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is open every day of the year with free entry, and you can reach it by train to Anzac Station or by the tram to Stop 19 Shrine of Remembrance / St Kilda Road, which is a 650-metre walk from Observatory Gate. The gardens are about two kilometres from the city centre, according to Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Parking at Queen Victoria Market is free from 6am to 9am on Market days, then costs $8 for the first two hours and $4 for each additional hour, up to a $40 daily maximum for five or more hours, as of October 2026. Queen Victoria Market lists two car parks, both entered from Queen Street: a multi-level Undercover Car Park and an Open Air Car Park.
The direct way from Melbourne Airport to the city centre is the SkyBus Melbourne City Express, which runs to Southern Cross Station from 4am to 1am every day, with departures every 10 minutes and an average journey of 30 minutes. An adult ticket is $25.90 one way or $43.40 return, as of October 2026, and Transport Victoria says you can’t use a myki on it.
Melbourne’s public transport is half price until 1 January 2027, so a full-fare myki Money traveller pays no more than $5.70 a day across Zones 1 and 2 on a weekday and $4.00 a day on a weekend. The daily cap means that once you reach it, travel is free for the rest of that day.