Check out these unique experiences
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The Lake Macquarie, Hunter and nearby regions offer a fantastic range of culinary, boating, flying, adventure and other experiences to enhance your Top Down Rentals drive.
From aerobatic and scenic flights to skydiving, houseboat hire to river kayaking, winery lunches to local produce hampers and art galleries to cultural centres, we want to make your Top Down Rentals experience as memorable as possible. We're really proud of our region and what it has to offer, so we've carefully selected some of the region's best experiences for you to consider...
Hand-selected local produce hampers
A taste of the hunter in a hamper
Top Down Rentals has teamed up with local hamper company "Hampers of the Hunter" so you can order your own beautiful tastes of the Hunter picnic or gift hamper...
Lake Macquarie houseboat escape
relax in luxury on the lake
Wangi and Beyond Houseboats is a family-run business based in beautiful Wangi Wangi on the shores of Lake Macquarie. Their three luxurious boats - Nanya, Montego Bay and Sirocco - are ready for you to explore the many bays, marinas and towns dotted around the lake. Wangi and Beyond Houseboats will provide an unforgettable boating experience for you and your family and friends…
Hot air ballooning over the Hunter
an amazing bird's eye view experience!
Balloon Aloft has been selected by Top Down Rentals as their recommended provider of exhilarating Hunter Valley hot air balloon experiences because of their 40 years of ballooning experience...
Food and wine experiences
it's what the hunter does best
The Hunter Valley is much more than a destination - it's an experience! With wines ranging from boutique to internationally-renowned and fresh, healthy regional produce, the Hunter offers Top Down Rentals customers an amazing selection of unforgettable wine and food experiences...
The Matt Hall experience
Exhilaration starts here!
Red Bull Air Race World Champion Matt Hall calls Lake Macquarie home, so visitors to the region can experience a magnificent coastal scenic flight or a high-intensity, thrill-a-minute aerobatic flight, and everything in between, over Sydney, Lake Macquarie, the Hawkesbury or local beaches...
The Hunter coastline
aquatic action abounds
The Hunter coastline is home to an amazing array of coastal and aquatic activities from whale watching, nature-based sightseeing, sailing, diving on shipwrecks, island-hopping, sandboarding, snorkelling and more. You can look east across the Tasman Sea or west to Lake Macquarie, the Hunter Valley and the mountains...
Galleries and museums
culture, history and creativity
The Hunter region has an abundance of galleries, museums and cultural institutions, all designed to reflect the rich history, cultural influences and creative talent of the region. The Awabakal tribe and clans are indigenous to the area (in Awabakal language "awaba" was the word for Lake Macquarie) and their culture and history is inspiring...
Tiger Moth Scenic Flights
See the Hunter Valley from a whole new pespective!
Vintage Aviation operates scenic flights in a rare 1945 Tiger Moth vintage biplane. The company recreates the golden age of aviation where passengers sat in open cockpits dressed in vintage flying gear...
