Inn The Tropics Cairns

Cairns, Queensland - 28th-30th October, 2008: And so we hit Cairns, with some mixed feelings. It was the end of the road, at least for the driving part of the trip, and the sign that it was time to think about going home. We hadn't planned to do anything in Cairns, it was simply the last town in which we could drop the Van off, back to it's real owners. Beforehand, we spent hours cleaning it inside and out, which was great fun - we spent $8 on a Jet Wash, $6 of which was spent trying to get e...

after going up north we arrived back in cairns and landed a place a hostel called "Inn the Tropics"

24 Nov 03 Time to leave Cairns with the plan to travel south on the greyhound bus, arriving in Sydney in time for Christmas. First stop just two hours down the coast to Mission Beach and to the Beach Shack hostel www.missionbeachshack.com, a very different hostel to those I'd been used to as it was basically a huge house which had been converted in to a hostel. Got chatting to Chris & Katie, a couple from Loughborough and got beat numerous times at pool by Chris. I won't be playing him fo...

Got to my hostel and checked in. Didn't really think much of it, so went around town in the evening looking for another. Found a place called Global Palace, it is really nice and only $22 a night. Got massive TV, pool table etc. Met Dave in my room at Inn the Tropics, he has just done his first day at the same diving place i am going to be going. First day of diving was ok, had a few hours of theory, then got in the pool. Learnt how to kit ourselves up etc. Only had one problem when we went i...

So the lack of work and the approaching Southern Winter drove us to seek greener pastures and warmer climates, a short flight to Cairns in the North of the East Coast delivered the warmth we were looking for, but just a bit too humid for us, Robbie could barely leave the well air conditioned hostel before needing to change his t-shirt! We spent a couple of days exploring Cairns, a backpackers town with plenty of pubs and the Great Barrier Reef.

A day cruising the Great Barrier Ree...

Happy New Year everybody! Everyone recovered yet? Had to get up sooo early to catch the flight to Cairns on the 29th cause it was at 9am, which did mean we got there nice and early, arrived at our hostel bout 12:30pm. We then dumped our stuff and went for a wander around. We're stayin at a place called 'Inn the tropics', which is bout a 10min walk to the town centre, wouldnt want to be any furher away, its sooo hot! Everyone who has been to cairns knows of the Woolshed...we picked up our free...

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So ive just spent the last week in Cairns which is about 60 KM's or so south from Port Douglas. Had a good week and managed to get alot of stuff done really so been a busy bee!

Monday morning we arrived into Cairns city and got to our Hostel called 'NJoy!' Hostel seems a pretty friendly place but smaller than Dougies in Port Douglas and plus it has no bar which sucks but the plus side is that its a BYOB hostel (bring your own beer) so can work out cheaper. Me and Jamie m...

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Well i've had a jam packed week so far and done things i never would have even dreamed of! On Monday we departed Cairns and headed south to the small town of Mission Beach. This pretty much consisted of literally a handful of roads, a few shops and a few hostels. We stayed at the Mission Beach retreat which was 100 metres from the beach itself which was nice. The hostel was owned by an elderly couple Ron and Anne. They were both very nice ut Ron was a bit strict and made sure t...

Depuis Mission Beach on a rejoint Cairns (avec un bus pas annule et a l'heure...wouah).Cette fois on est tombe sur un super backpackers (Inn the Tropics) et ca fait du bien. On savait pas que Cairns etait au Japon!????!!!! En fait je pense que ca doit faire partie des lieux a voir comme Paris ou Zermatt... Il y a des magasins de souvenirs tenus par des japonais avec des etiquettes en japonais, en fait presque tout est traduit partout en japonais. Depuis Cairns on a fait une excursion a Kuran...