Tim’s Frankston guidebook
City bikes
These peddle assist bikes can be used to get around.
Experience some of the most productive fishing grounds on Port Phillip Bay with Frankston Boat Hire.
Great BOATS! Open every day, subject to weather!
Bring your own fishing rods, or hire ours.
Fun for the whole family!
FUEL INCLUDED*
NO BOAT LICENSE REQUIRED*
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Frankston Boat Hire
Kananook Creek BoulevardExperience some of the most productive fishing grounds on Port Phillip Bay with Frankston Boat Hire.
Great BOATS! Open every day, subject to weather!
Bring your own fishing rods, or hire ours.
Fun for the whole family!
FUEL INCLUDED*
NO BOAT LICENSE REQUIRED*
Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre
16N Cranbourne Rdcoffee Food scene
The Little Olly’s team with our beautifully restored vintage 1958 Wayfarer Caravan and 1972 Franklin Caravan can bring a unique take on the Peninsula café or bar experience to your event. We can provide a range of packages and services tailored to suit your next event no matter how big or small. You can also find us each morning, 365 days of the year down at Oliver’s Hill boat ramp carpark, where we keep the locals caffeinated (by our good mates at Prodigal Coffee Roasters) rain, hail or shine.
Amazing dumplings and delicious rice dishes. Small, quiet restaurant with quick, polite service - definitely recommend this restaurant for anyone in the area!
Cosy and Tasty Dumpling Restaurant
489 Nepean HwyAmazing dumplings and delicious rice dishes. Small, quiet restaurant with quick, polite service - definitely recommend this restaurant for anyone in the area!
The 500 meter Frankston Pier is a local landmark of the suburb. Originally built in 1857, it has been both extended as well as repaired a number of times over the years. There is an artificial reef within casting distance of the pier that is home to a wide variety of fish.
Near Frankston Pier is the arched pedestrian bridge over the mouth of Kananook Creek and a boardwalk that meanders along the beach.
Public boat berthing is available on Frankston Pier for up to 48 hours at a time
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Frankston Boat Hire
Kananook Creek BoulevardThe 500 meter Frankston Pier is a local landmark of the suburb. Originally built in 1857, it has been both extended as well as repaired a number of times over the years. There is an artificial reef within casting distance of the pier that is home to a wide variety of fish.
Near Frankston Pier is the arched pedestrian bridge over the mouth of Kananook Creek and a boardwalk that meanders along the beach.
Public boat berthing is available on Frankston Pier for up to 48 hours at a time
Eeny Meeny
96 Young StThe best coffee in town and great breakfast
Frankston Sunday Market
83 Young StLocated in the heart of Playne St, The Hop Shop is Frankston’s independent home of craft beer
The Hop Shop
26 Playne StLocated in the heart of Playne St, The Hop Shop is Frankston’s independent home of craft beer
Coffee, food and gift shop. this cute village is only 10 minutes away by car.
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Mount Eliza
Coffee, food and gift shop. this cute village is only 10 minutes away by car.
Spanish Bar
20 Station St
Little Olly’s
Go early and enjoy the walk along the beach to get there. the van is gone by 2pm
Sightseeing
Enjoy the seaside ambience along the Frankston foreshore boardwalk, Landmark Bridge and pier. Grab a bite to eat from a beachfront restaurant or enjoy a picnic on the foreshore's continuous stretch of sand.
See the foreshore transformed every Boxing Day, when teams of international artists arrive to carve 3,500 tonnes of sand to amazingly life-like creations. The giant sculptures stick around until April, and are supplemented by a host of sandy activities for the whole family.
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Spiaggia di Frankston
Enjoy the seaside ambience along the Frankston foreshore boardwalk, Landmark Bridge and pier. Grab a bite to eat from a beachfront restaurant or enjoy a picnic on the foreshore's continuous stretch of sand.
See the foreshore transformed every Boxing Day, when teams of international artists arrive to carve 3,500 tonnes of sand to amazingly life-like creations. The giant sculptures stick around until April, and are supplemented by a host of sandy activities for the whole family.
Gate opening/closing times:
7am - 9pm November to March
7am - 6pm April to October
The undulating grassed open space and garden beds create a pleasant environment for community and family group activities.
Highlights include:
Different types of vegetation and plant collections
Dreaming poles
Ornamental lake - please supervise children at all times
Picnic and barbecue facilities throughout the gardens - Bookings not available
Playground at the eastern end for young children
Public toilets
Shelter
Walking tracks
George Pentland Botanical Gardens
Gate opening/closing times:
7am - 9pm November to March
7am - 6pm April to October
The undulating grassed open space and garden beds create a pleasant environment for community and family group activities.
Highlights include:
Different types of vegetation and plant collections
Dreaming poles
Ornamental lake - please supervise children at all times
Picnic and barbecue facilities throughout the gardens - Bookings not available
Playground at the eastern end for young children
Public toilets
Shelter
Walking tracks
George Pentland Botanical Gardens
Sweetwater Creek - Walking Track
2 Liddesdale AveAs with all the locations blessed with a spectacular view, the nearest hill or mount has always become a firm favourite for romantic locals from which to survey their domain. Not surprisingly, Oliver's Hill has also attracted its fair share of artists including George O’Brien whose sun-drenched record dates from 1862. Fredrick McCubbin takes a more intimate position with his 1910 painting by locating the viewer within the bushland on the hill, looking out through a break in the trees to reveal the curve of the bay gleaming in the distance.
Robert Taylor-Ghee’s Frankston from Olivers Hill updates O’Brien’s scene with the pier jutting defiantly into the bay. In the foreground is the lookout and to the right, a 1920s jalopy struggles up the hill. The opening of the new road in 1913 was a cause for major celebration and sighs of relief. The previous track was notorious – a treacherous area that quagmired in winter causing fatalities as brakes, gears and horses collapsed.
On a more personal note is the moody Peter Pan Rock 1998 by Rick Amor featuring the boulder-strewn base of the hill, where middens, remnants of seashell feasts enjoyed by Frankston’s original inhabitants, the Boonerwrung people, can still be found.
"They used to go to Olivers Hill, and look at the sea. Look at the sunset, and all those type of things. In the FJ Holdens. Lots of FJ Holdens up there. Lots and lots. Big demand. Still is, I believe."
Jenny Bramwell, quoted in: Watson, 2001, p.99. Ref https://www.visitfrankston.com/olivers-hill-lookout
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Belvedere di Olivers Hill
Nepean HighwayAs with all the locations blessed with a spectacular view, the nearest hill or mount has always become a firm favourite for romantic locals from which to survey their domain. Not surprisingly, Oliver's Hill has also attracted its fair share of artists including George O’Brien whose sun-drenched record dates from 1862. Fredrick McCubbin takes a more intimate position with his 1910 painting by locating the viewer within the bushland on the hill, looking out through a break in the trees to reveal the curve of the bay gleaming in the distance.
Robert Taylor-Ghee’s Frankston from Olivers Hill updates O’Brien’s scene with the pier jutting defiantly into the bay. In the foreground is the lookout and to the right, a 1920s jalopy struggles up the hill. The opening of the new road in 1913 was a cause for major celebration and sighs of relief. The previous track was notorious – a treacherous area that quagmired in winter causing fatalities as brakes, gears and horses collapsed.
On a more personal note is the moody Peter Pan Rock 1998 by Rick Amor featuring the boulder-strewn base of the hill, where middens, remnants of seashell feasts enjoyed by Frankston’s original inhabitants, the Boonerwrung people, can still be found.
"They used to go to Olivers Hill, and look at the sea. Look at the sunset, and all those type of things. In the FJ Holdens. Lots of FJ Holdens up there. Lots and lots. Big demand. Still is, I believe."
Jenny Bramwell, quoted in: Watson, 2001, p.99. Ref https://www.visitfrankston.com/olivers-hill-lookout
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Entertainment
Short walk to see the latest movies and to get something to eat.
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HOYTS Frankston
21 Wells StShort walk to see the latest movies and to get something to eat.
The Frankston Arts Centre is a landmark theatre and art gallery in the outer Melbourne suburb of Frankston in Victoria, Australia. The centre plays host to a number of major performances, including regular shows by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Victorian Opera, and is a tour venue for the Australian Opera, Bell Shakespeare Company, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sydney Dance Company as well as a number of other national production companies.[1] It was opened by then Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon. Paul Keating, on 20 May 1995.
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Frankston Arts Centre
27-37 Davey StThe Frankston Arts Centre is a landmark theatre and art gallery in the outer Melbourne suburb of Frankston in Victoria, Australia. The centre plays host to a number of major performances, including regular shows by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Victorian Opera, and is a tour venue for the Australian Opera, Bell Shakespeare Company, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sydney Dance Company as well as a number of other national production companies.[1] It was opened by then Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon. Paul Keating, on 20 May 1995.
Mornington Peninsula Brewery Bar
72 Watt RdPlace to go on a wet or windy day. Heaps to do for kids and adults. Two levels of non-stop entertainment, 9 tenpin bowling lanes, all your favourite retro arcade & pinball games. Pool tables- you know, those things you drink around? Shufl boards, not one, but two fully-equipped bars, a slide from the top to the bottom & FIVE function rooms.
General Public
16 Playne StreetPlace to go on a wet or windy day. Heaps to do for kids and adults. Two levels of non-stop entertainment, 9 tenpin bowling lanes, all your favourite retro arcade & pinball games. Pool tables- you know, those things you drink around? Shufl boards, not one, but two fully-equipped bars, a slide from the top to the bottom & FIVE function rooms.
Food scene
Frankston Brewhouse
10 New StConsigli per viaggiatori
Muoversi in zona
Getting around
Train station is only 1.8km away.