Car Rental or Guided Tour

[RHDZ]

We are staying at the Sydney Harbour Marriot.  We want to rent a car for the day and go to the Blue Mountains. It doesn't look like there are car rentals within walking distance from hotel, is this correct?

 

Or should we take a guided tour? Recommendations?

All recommendations are appreciated!

[GradUT]

There’s an Avis office on Pitt Street, just a 20-minute walk from your hotel and a Hertz office on William Street just a couple minutes further walk (where I have rented cars in the past). 

 

If you don’t want to drive, you can take the train to Katoomba and then walk to the sights or use the Blue Mountains Explorer HO/HO Bus to get around. 

 

And there are a number of guided bus tours as well, several of which make a stop at Featherdale Wildlife Park too.  

[banditoo]

14 hours ago, RHDZ said:

We are staying at the Sydney Harbour Marriot.  We want to rent a car for the day and go to the Blue Mountains. It doesn't look like there are car rentals within walking distance from hotel, is this correct?

 

Or should we take a guided tour? Recommendations?

All recommendations are appreciated!

As suggested in the earlier post, the easiest way is to take the train from central station in the morning and then hop on hop off bus around to the key sites at the Blue Mountains. We did that and had a great experience. 

[RHDZ]

Thank you both for your advice. I will research the train from central station. 

[iancal]

I  also did the train  and the hop on hop off.  It worked well.  Nice day out.

Edited August 4, 2019 by iancal