Blue Mountains from Sydney - worth a separate DIY trip?
The Grand Australia and New Zealand tour visits Featherdale Park from Sydney. Featherdale is close to the Blue Mountains and is a stop on many many coach tours from Sydney to the Blue Mountains. It appears one can not take a coach tour from Sydney to the Blue Mountains without stopping at Featherdale, which we will have already seen the day previous to our free day in Sydney.
On our free day in Sydney, we are considering making a day trek from Sydney to Katoomba (by train) and doing the Blue Mountain thing on our own - probably on the HopOn-HopOff bus from Katoomba. Since coach tours into the Blue Mountains from Sydney seem invariably to stop at Featherdale, can one get a sense of the Blue Mountains whilst on the Tauck trip into Featherdale, or would a separate day trip be a worthwhile adventure?
Thanks for your input.