Luggage storageMelbourne Southbank

Luggage storage in and around Southbank

Plenty of visitors to Melbourne Southbank end up carrying a bag long after it stops being useful, arriving by airport coach or train with check-in still hours away.

Southbank itself has no single official luggage facility, though two major stations nearby serve as arrival points for the area. The main sights, from the Promenade to the Arts Precinct to Southgate, are best tackled unencumbered. Southbank sits just 1 km south of Melbourne's central business district, making it an easy walk from the city centre. The suburb functions as a major entertainment, business, and high-density residential neighbourhood, so bag storage demand is high throughout the week. Arts Centre Melbourne provides a complimentary cloakroom for visitors to store items including luggage, coats, and bags. The Arts Centre Melbourne Theatres Building cloakroom is located in the Smorgan Family Plaza on Level 5 and opens 75 minutes before performances. Arts Centre Melbourne requires that all bags larger than 30cm x 30cm x 15cm be stored in the cloakroom before entering an auditorium. Visitors staying or starting near the eastern and riverfront pockets of Southbank can walk to Flinders Street Station with luggage. From the western end of Southbank near Crown and South Wharf, Southern Cross Station is within walking distance for travellers with bags. With Stasher, you can store bags from A$2.99 per bag a day at 20+ locations across Melbourne Southbank.

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⁣You'll typically find a bag drop at local shops and cafés. Of the nearby points, 1 stays open late. Every booking comes with the Stasher Guarantee, which protects your bags up to A$19,000. Stasher storage in Melbourne Southbank can be booked through the website or app.⁣

Getting to and from Southbank with luggage

Southern Cross, formerly known as Spencer Street, is the hub for regional V/Line trains, interstate services like The Overland and NSW TrainLink, plus coaches and airport transfers, while Flinders Street covers the entire electrified metro network and V/Line services to Gippsland.

Flinders Street is also the closest station to the Melbourne Arts Precinct, so it's the natural arrival point for the area. SkyBus runs express coaches from Southern Cross to both Melbourne Tullamarine Airport and Avalon Airport, which means international visitors often reach Southbank with suitcases in tow and nowhere to leave them before check-in. A 2-hour public transport ticket across the city costs A$4, cheap enough that it's rarely worth lugging a bag around just to avoid a second fare.

Exploring Southbank's sights with bags in mind

The Southbank Promenade draws most visitors first, a long strip of restaurants, hotels and city views along the Yarra that works best when you're not shouldering a backpack through the lunch crowd. The Melbourne Arts Precinct sits just behind it, home to the National Gallery of Victoria, Hamer Hall and the Melbourne Recital Centre, and several of those venues have their own bag rules worth checking before you go. Southgate's three levels of restaurants, bars and cafés sit right on the riverbank, and its Sunday Market runs from 10am to 4pm along the Promenade, popular enough that stalls get crowded. Some visitors only need a short walk or a quick drink here, typically two to three hours, which is exactly the window where a bag becomes an annoyance rather than a necessity. South Melbourne Market opens Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 8am, with closing times of 4pm on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and 5pm on Friday.