Townsville Hostels - Reviews and Rates

From Mackay to Townsville with a one night stay at Home Hill , where we stayed for free a long a train track just behind the Chinese. We planned to contact Ross and Lesley who are friends of ours in Townsville , they have a house close to the beach , while we were staying g at Home Hill.
At Home Hill we met a couple from Tasmania who were ver...

after flying back to Cairns i decided to stay an extra day to recooperate before starting my final trip back to Brisbane. i really loved Cairns and it was my last chance to say "goodbye" to the small city and it's friendly people. today i took yet another early greyhound bus, this time about 6 hours south to Townsville, a sunny tropical town kno...

Ok well don't think we're being lazy but there wasn't much going on here either! The hostel was ok however the staff were hostile! The guy in our room was nocturnal and when we heard that he's been there 3months we soon realised why! LAAAAAZZZYYY!! There was a nice lagoon so we could go swimming, we also got a bit of abuse aswell! We were just n...

Peale lennusõitu oli käes juba õhtu, aga meil oli vaja veel mõnisada kilomeetrit sõita, et jõuda Townsville'i. Tee oli pime ja igav, lõpupoole ka väga putukarohke ning kartsime, et iga hetk võib tuuleklaasile hüpata ka känguru. Õnneks seda ei juhtund, ainult üks konn astus ise ratta alla.

Sellest linnast meile sügavamat muljet ei jään...

Arrived at townsville and managed to find the caravan park quite easily. chilled out for a while in the pool as it gets very hot in the van and it was 34 degrees today. at nite we went down to the beach where they hold a night market and we watched a game of cricket on the beach as this was to promote their christmas party. on the saturday we go...

17th We walked into town from the hostel early but it was already a really hot day. Got the ferry from Townsville to Magnetic island and from there we hired a Moke! ( for those of u that don't know what that is it's like a golf buggy with a mini engine in it and looked like a very low down and miniture jeep. The machine was about 20 years old an...

We managed to catch the 9.30am ferry to Magnetic Island and found that the closer we got to the island the darker the clouds became. Once we arrived we found the island bus and headed to Horseshoe Bay. Once on the beach Fraser found the netted area and he was in. Of course it was relatively short lived as those dark clouds became a rain shower -...

Happy Mothers Day to Dianne. The boys and Craig made coffee and toast for Dianne for breakfast and allowed her to sleep in until 8:30 - a rare treat on this holiday. In the Townsville city mall the Sunday market was being held and we managed to get Dianne through to the other end without her wallet appearing. After gathering more tourist brochur...

I started at the sanctuary on Monday (up at 6am for a 6.30 pickup- ugh!), and wow. There are kangaroos, red and grey, all over the place, just hopping along the paths or lazing under the bushes. I got taken on "the wombat run" where we cleaned out some of the wombats cages, and also some of the koalas- they're so cute! They just sit on their bra...

After leaving the hot humid and very sweaty Cairns our first stop down the coast was Townsville. We have decided to travel by greyhound which is a pretty cheap comfortable way to travel down the coast. Our Air conditioned bus turned up with plenty seats and movies playing for the whole journey, much better than any bus in Asia, they weren't sitt...