Golden Cow Dairy Centre
Let the kids run wild at the Golden
Cow Dairy Centre in Tongala, and enjoy the daily milking at 11am.
Visitors
can enter the pens and pat the calves and lambs, and look at the display of old
Nestle milk tins from ages past.
The café
serves up 68 flavours of milkshake for the dairy connoisseur, including
butterscotch, Mars Bar, sarsparilla, cappuccino, bubblegum and honeycomb.
For more
information visit Golden Cow Dairy Centre’s website (new window)
Prices
Adults $9,
pensioners $3, concessions $7.50, children $7.50 and families from $25.
See below
for V/Line fares.
Opening
hours
10.30am to
4pm, Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Closed Tuesday and Saturday.
Getting
there
Golden Cow
Dairy Centre is located about 20 minutes outside Echuca, on the corner of Henderson
and Finlay Rds, Tongala. To get there, either catch a taxi from Echuca or take
a V/Line coach from Echuca Station to Tongala. Be sure to check the timetable
before you go, as coaches only run a few times a day.
Catching
V/Line there is easier and cheaper than you might think
$81.60 – that’s how little it costs for 2 adults and up to 4 children
travelling from Melbourne to Echuca and back during off peak times, including
weekends.
This fare is calculated using the Family Traveller fare,
where up to 2 kids travel free with each fare paying adult. Conditions apply -
see vline.com.au/familytraveller for more
info.
Full fare, Off Peak fare = $40.80
return
Concession fare, Off Peak fare = $20.40
(Monday-Friday) return, Concession fare, Off Peak fare = $24.80
(weekend) return
Peak services can be busy, so we encourage families to travel at
off peak times, if possible.
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V/Line fares and times.
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your journey begins or ends in metropolitan Melbourne, pre-purchase your V/Line ticket. On
the day, you can use it to travel on Melbourne metropolitan public transport
from your front door all the way to your arrival station at no extra
cost.
See
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Buy
your V/Line Echuca tickets today from a V/Line sales outlet.
Other things to do in Echuca
Check
out our Echuca page for more suggestions on things to do
when you visit.