Melbourne may not be much about touristy places but it is definitely the countrys sport and cultural capital. You can find art in almost every street of Melbourne, from the city centre to the inner suburbs there is world class quality art on display for those caring to visit. CBD being the business and cultural centre, the CBD Melbourne hotel accommodation is appropriately located to provide easy access to most of Melbournes sport and cultural hotspot.

For the sports enthusiast in you, visiting the National Sports Museum and Melbourne Cricket Ground and learning about the rich sporting history and the importance of sports in lives of Australians may be a soul searching experience. For art lovers your gallery is the streets of Melbourne. Some of the areas you may want to wander about enjoying the excellent street art are the Union Lane, the Hosier Lane and the Centre Place along with Fitzroy and Collingwood in the suburbs. If you care to travel a little out of Melbourne to the foothills then you must visit Dandenongs and go up the William Ricketts Sanctuary. Here you will find some really strange mystical sculptures by the Aboriginals; surrounded in bush background these sculptures have a distinctly unearthly appeal to them. After the full day visit at the sanctuary you may want to rest a little in the comforts of your CBD Melbourne hotel accommodation and gear up for more sporting events the next day.

Melbourne is known as the sports capital of the country for a good reason. Summer through winter there is a world class sport being played somewhere in Melbourne. Summers it is generally cricket and winters is a time when the Australian Rules football match the Australian Football League is in full force. In-between there is the 6-week-long Spring Racing Carnival filled with with fillies, frocks and champagne (and not just horses) and also featuring in the horse racing festival is the world renowned Melbourne Cup race. Also dont forget the Australian Formula One Grand Prix and the Australian Open Tennis held in January every year.

If you want to carry home a souvenir the Melbourne Shop by Lumbi is located not very far from your CBD Melbourne hotel accommodation. This is one place in Melbourne where you get quirky artistic items and souvenirs specific to Melbourne and actually produced in Melbourne (as against the stuffed koala generally imported from overseas). If you so please you may want to take a little Aboriginal Australian art with you from the art galleries of Queen Victoria Market or the Ugg boots (the unisex style boot made from twin-faced sheepskin).