How to plan a day in Hunter Valley
Cellar doors shut early, and two that look close on a map can be twenty minutes apart. That’s what the planner is for.
What you can add in Hunter Valley
How the planner works
Shortlist the places you want
Filter the map down to what you’re after and add the ones you like. Tasting fees under $20, say, or the cellar doors you can walk into without booking.
Say how you’re getting around
Set your start and finish times, then choose how you’ll travel each leg. If nobody wants to drive, put the group on the shuttle or book a bed nearby and carry on in the morning.
Get a day you can do
Your stops come back in an order that cuts the back-tracking, timed against the hours each place publishes. If something won’t fit, you’ll see it flagged instead of quietly dropped.
Good to know
Do I have to use the suggested order?
No. Drag any stop where you want it and the day re-times itself around the change, opening hours and travel included.
How accurate are the travel times?
Driving legs are measured along real roads. Walking and cycling use that same road distance at a slower pace, so a hop between two neighbouring cellar doors is timed the way you’d cover it.
What do the prices include?
Tasting fees and booked experiences, always as a floor. A tasting stop you haven’t chosen an experience for is priced at that venue’s cheapest offering and shown as “from”. Food is never included, because we don’t hold menu prices.
Do I need an account?
No. Your trip stays in this browser, and the share button packs the whole plan into the link itself. Whoever opens it sees the same day, down to the stops and how you’re travelling.
Are the opening hours reliable?
Opening hours are the hardest thing to keep current in wine country, so we date them in the dataset and show a venue that publishes none as unknown rather than closed. Ring ahead for anything your day depends on.