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What we are not

• We are not the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and we do not speak for it.
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• We are not the operator of any tour listed here, and we do not take bookings, payments or cancellations.

Operators cannot pay for placement

No operator can buy a position, a badge or a mention. The order of the cards follows rating and review volume, the badges are arithmetic — highest review count, lowest price, a rating of 4.9 or better — and a tour that excludes something its own title implies has that stated on its card whether it flatters the listing or not.

The figures belong to the operators

Prices, star ratings, review counts, durations and inclusions are the operators' own, taken from their listings on Viator and GetYourGuide as they stood on 2026-09-09. They move. Treat every figure here as indicative and the operator's own page as final.

Facts about the mountains

Opening hours, fees, distances and climate figures are ours to get right. They come from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, NSW Environment and Heritage, Transport for NSW, Scenic World's own site and the Bureau of Meteorology's Katoomba records, and each is cited where it is used. Where a fact could not be confirmed from an official source, it is left out rather than hedged.