Austravel is offering a weekend tour to Australia

The only time for sleep is on the plane. Source: News Limited

FOR those with too much money but not enough time or common sense — here’s the perfect travel solution.

A weekend trip to Australia from the other side of the planet.

A UK-based tour operator has begun offering whistlestop sightseeing excursions from London to Australia that depart Friday afternoon and return “just in time for work” on Tuesday morning.

Austravel — a specialist in Down Under destinations — says the 33,800-kilometre, 46-hour round trip is ideal for anyone trying to maximise vacation time.

You’ll only have time for a drive by of the Opera House. Source: AFP

Tickets starting at around $2,000 include airfare, two hotel nights and rental car for three days.

You’ll need the car because as well as the time spent cooped up in a jet, there’s an eight hour drive from Sydney to Melbourne to make the return flight.

Austravel’s Naomi Moreno-Melgar concedes travelling to Australia for a weekend is “extreme” but insists it’s “doable.”

“A trip to the land Down Under does not need take up all of your holiday allowance, but with four time zones, three million square miles and 22 million people, it would be nice,” she says.

Forget about sleep, the itinerary sees passengers depart London on Friday afternoon, arriving in Sydney on Saturday evening.

You’ll be seeing eight hours of Melbourne highway. Source: News Limited

After a night in a four-star hotel and visits to Sydney’s Opera House, Harbour Bridge and Sydney tower, they bundle themselves into their rental car and hit the coastal road south.

There’s a night and morning in Melbourne, before a return flight that lands in London at 6:40am on Tuesday.

If that’s not enough, Austravel says passengers willing to forgo all sleep can buy “bolt-on” trips to see attractions such as the Great Ocean Road (more driving) or Melbourne’s Yarra Valley wine region.

We can guarantee you’ll be feeling like this at the end. Source: ThinkStock