About Us

Travelling with O'Shannessy's Quality Tours


We are a multi-award winning family owned and operated company with over 35 years experience. We specialise in fully inclusive, small group coach tours for mature aged travellers Australia wide and Internationally.


Victorian passengers from Greater Melbourne, Bendigo, Torquay, Ballarat, Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula, Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island and selected areas of Gippsland will be picked up from home in a private chauffeured vehicle by one of our professional drivers. At the end of your tour, you will be safely returned home with memories of a sensational tour.


For Victorian passengers not within this pick-up zone a quote may be provided for home pickup and return in some extended areas. For our interstate passengers, you are also warmly welcomed! We can arrange alternative travel and/or overnight stays to enable you to join any of our tours


Our passengers all enjoy the comfort and safety of our large 'state of the art' luxury touring coaches which are purpose built to our requirements. With our reduced and re-spaced seating, you will never feel like you are in a crowd.


All of our tours are accompanied by our tour directors/coach crew to ensure your travel experience is memorable, taking the hassle out of your travel and keeping you safe. On our tours that include flights, we also have dedicated O’Shannessy’s representatives that will assist you at the airport with your check in.


Our tour itineraries are relaxing but always interesting; we believe in seeing places properly, not rushing through; this means our tours leave you feeling like you have really seen, experienced and explored each destination.


Our flexible booking policy sets us apart. If a tour is cancelled by O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours for any reason, you have the option of transferring to another tour, leaving the funds on hold for a future tour of your choosing with no time limit, or you can take a full refund, but the choice is always yours. Travel Insurance is available through our office for all tour departures. You can continue to book with confidence.


As a thank you to our returning travellers, you receive a saving on your second and all subsequent tours with us and over time the more you travel the greater the saving. Some of our wonderful passengers have travelled with us for over 30 years, on more than 80 different tours! We love rewarding the loyalty of all our dedicated O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours customers.

Our History


The O’Shannessy family involvement in the travel industry dates back to 1967 when Laurie O’Shannessy began a school bus service in Central Victoria. In 1985 Laurie and his wife Margaret moved to the Mornington Peninsula, to expand their school bus services. They saw a demand for high quality Coach Touring and established O’Shannessy’s Tours. The personally conducted tours proved to be very popular and within a short time Laurie and Margaret were touring all over Australia. From a relatively young age Chris O’Shannessy learned the tours from his father and began working in the business driving the tour coaches. 


When Laurie and Margaret retired from touring in 1997, Chris and (now wife) Bernadette continued to expand the business, offering more tour destinations and introducing some international tours.


Today O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours’ main office is situated at Rye on the Mornington Peninsula, where you are more than welcome to call in for a cuppa and meet our friendly team.

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