Ultimate Adventurer - 6 Month Membership 2025

Since HSAC started we have grown and evolved over the months, coming up to our 1st year since this all began! Because our Adventures Club membership commenced for our members half way through 2024, as we had initially planned to do x2 intakes every year. We soon realised, an annual intake at the beginning of the year was the way to go moving forward.

SO to bring all our original members to date, ready for 2026. We have created a temporary 6 month membership. This is an exciting opportunity for new members to join too, since we have never offered a 6 month membership and it will give you a taster on all we do. A once off opportunity we are excited to offer! 

At the end of the 6 month membership, members will have to sign up again at the beginning of 2026 which will flow into our normal ongoing membership that renews automatically each year, unless cancelled. All existing members will have the opportunity to sign up before we open our intake publicly to avoid missing out as spaces are limited.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

• 🌼 x2 excursions.
• 🐮 Sydney Agriculture Farm Day - Wednesday 13th August 2025
• 🐝 Bee Keeping Experience - Tuesday 21st October 2025
• 🌼 All admission fees, tours fee and bus transportation for excursions.
• 🌸 Access to our weekly social club workshops on the Central Coast. Valued at $194 per child for Term 3 and 4 (Hunter Valley and Newcastle members, can still join adding on our bus shuttle option here).
• 🌼 Ultimate Adventurer covers x1 adult and x1 child (must be 5 years+) Please note the age your child is turning that year, is the age we are guided by.

EXTRA PERKS:

• 🌼 6 month membership with exclusive members only discounts for anything we organise.
• 🌼 Complimentary 45 minute homeschooling mentor call with Homeschool Life Mentor.
• 🌼 Multiple pick up points most convenient for our members. See our pick up point list here.
• 🌼 Members will receive a link after purchase to access our private information hub through Discord. Where all information is shared. Parents are able to RSVP attendance, pick up location and more.
  

MEMBERS BENEFITS:

• Savings and convenience with payment plan options to suit your family's budget. Save as a group, gaining access to group rates for excursion entry fees.
• Organisation and planning ahead, don’t worry trying to organise what activities to plan for the year ahead, also having a forecast on excursions to help you plan classes around.
• Hassle free, everything is done for you, planned and ready to go.
• Connection, have a group you regularly see throughout the year, creating connection and building relationships for you and your children.

OUR MISSION:

Our goal is to bring together the Homeschool Community on the Central Coast and Hunter Valley. By creating opportunities for our children to connect with one another, experience school excursions, adventures and camps. This is an exciting opportunity for our community because:

• We are creating a fun and easy way to get together frequently.
• Forecast your classes and plan ahead.
• Take the hassle out of organising and planning groups.
• Benefit from affordable and competitive group prices.
• Lifelong memories and experiences for you and your children.

FAQ’S:

1. How many people are able to join HSAC?

Exclusive to 60 people in total = 30 memberships if no one adds additional add ons. Our goal is to have 1 bus allocated for the Hunter Valley areas and 1 bus for the Central Coast. We want this to be inclusive to the homeschool community but still have the small community feel.

2. Are there seatbelts on the bus?

No, they are your standard public transport buses

3. Is there air conditioning on the bus?

No, we have windows that open up instead that create a nice natural breeze.

4. What are the pick up stops?

• Maitland Station
• Carpark crn of Stanford and Main Rd opposite Caltex 195 Main Road Heddon Greta, Kurri Kurri
• Ampol, 119 Stenhouse Dr, Cameron Park
• Austin Oval Carpark 5A, 10C, Morisset
• Sparks Road carpool car park, Warnervale
• Ourimbah Interchange Carpark, Ourimbah
• Shell, 6 Central Coast Hwy, Kariong

5. What are the ages of the children joining?

We have a lovely fairly even variety of ages of children from 5 - 15 years. We also have a small group of children under 5 years too which is lovely at our weekly social club workshops.

6. When and how long is the membership available to sign up to?

New members can sign up at the start of each term for our Social Club and at the start of the year for our annual Adventures Club

7. What is HSAC future plans for how the membership will operate

Our goal is to eventually have a bus allocated to certain regions e.g. North and South Hunter Valley regions, North and South Central Coast regions. As well as doing themed bonus excursions for specific age groups. This will further enhance connections with other homeschool members located in your area and building connection with one another.

8. Can you swap out the adult attending on the day if needed?

Most definitely! If you are the primary carer for your child and unable to attend an excursion, you are able to have another carer to look after your child for that date. Alternatively if your share care with another parent or know some dates may be shared between another carers that is okay too. The only requirement is that any carer joining has a working with children's check, prior to joining as a legal requirement being around other children. 

9. Can you join the excursion without the bus and meet up with the group on the day?

Unfortunately not, having families joining our excursions separately from the bus was something we did consider when creating HSAC. However considering HSAC is a sister business to Bangin Bus Tours and everything we do is under our initial company for legal purposes it isn't viable for us.

From a logistical view, our goal is to create ease and convenience. If managing multiple buses on our excursion dates and coordinating our members as well as additional people that are meeting us to join is also undesirable as we would always run the risk of others being late and delaying our excursion experience/ tour. I know this may seem minor, but overall this does impact the experience for everyone.

10. Why can’t adult's join for free or be at a reduced cost?

Adults typically still require the same fees and entry charges for all of the venues and activities we have our excursions at. We were trying to look at ways to reduce the cost for adults as we know the focus is around the children experiencing the excursion and adults typically are supervising. But for the excursions we have planned, the adults will still be just as involved as the children. 

In relation to the bus space, adults still take up another seat, so it's not possible to have a reduced price for the same product/service.

This is what inspired us to create the Navigator and Explorer option for children to join our excursions on their own without an adult, from the ages of 7 years +

11. Can I cancel my membership?

Yes, the term "membership" we used as it was the easiest way to describe this service. But it is essentially a payment plan for the service we are providing, please read over our T&C's in relation to our cancellation policy.