Rainbow Beach Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Major fires on the island the last couple days. We get up at 5am this morning, get ready and packed, get all the food and booze from the fridge, pack up the 4x4, drive along to the hire company, all buzzing and raring to go to get told we might not be going. After some waiting around we're told there's no way to get onto the island today. We lat...

We arrived at Rainbow Beach on 10th May going via Gympie to pick up some info about the van.  We had been told about how beautiful it was to camp on the camp sites at Inskip Point so after we signed into a caravan park (Rainbow Waters Holiday Park) for a night we unhitched and drove up to the point to check it out.  Fabulous place and basically ...

After arriving at Rainbow Beach and checking in at our hostel we had our Fraser Island briefing at 2pm. They showed us videos about dingos and other dangers and how to drive 4WD on sand. They put us into two groups and we came up with a shopping list for food for the three days while the lady sorted out insurance paperwork for all those who want...

Wow, it's been a while since our last update. So much has happened. Time and weather played a part in our only being able to visit Fraser Island for one day. The Cyclone took away a pile of sand so half of the island was not reachable. Boo that we really only got to see Mackenzie lake and then a little creek. no Eli creek and no ship wreck. Anyw...

07/01/2009 We caught the bus to rainbow beach, arrived at our hostel and headed down to the beach for a swim. We were booked on the afternoon skydive trip so got picked up and headed to aa small airfield. Just the two of us, just as well as the plane was tiny. Very good views after takeoff over the coast and up to Fraser Island. Not so nervous t...

So, we arrived into Rainbow beach and first things first - we had our meeting about the trip to Fraser Island. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world and what they do is, they put 11 strangers into a 4 wheel drive, stick them on the island with a few tents and some grub, and let them off for 2 nights camping - hoping that they don...

So we left Eungella and the platypus, and headed back to Mackay for the evening, well some of the evening. Our bus south left at 2 A.M. and we got back from the National Park at about 2 pm. We decided, since everything we had was wet, and we were exhausted, that we better get a room anyways. We asked when we got to the reception if they had a wa...

I fell asleep on the couch in the lounge at Pippies from the night before and got blamed for making a huge mess and being noisy. They tried to charge me when Max checked out of the room, but fortunetly Max was the only one who paid for the key deposit so we didn't get charged. We hung around the hostel after checking out and didn't do a whole lo...

Okay nest stop Rainbow beach - the gateway to Fraser Isalnd. We arrived into Rainbow about 7pm so we were too late to meet our group for the Fraser trip so we missed the breifing and the shopping for food. Basically they pile 10 people together give them camping gear,a mapand a land cruiser and thats you for 3 days! We got a complete rustbucket ...

1770 After Airlie we made our way to a town called 1770. It was a tiny little place with only 600 residents. There wasn't much to do here if you weren't into surfing. As we were only staying 1 day we took a tour around the place (which didn't take long) & then headed to the beach. The hostel we stayed in was lovely we had to have the last ro...