Cairns Resorts - Reviews and Rates

After successfully completing the 600-mile road trip from Sydney to Brisbane, I took up Quantas offer to make the next 1,000-mile trek to Cairns (the same distance as between NYC and FL) in 3 hours instead of 22 hours by car. One of Australia's most northeastern coastal settlements, Cairns is the most used gateway to the impressive 1,300-mile lo...

Well - after 2800km I was due for a health check and service and we made it into Cairns just in time to get it done before the weekend. The man at the garage said I was in good shape (was that ever in question?) and it was all smiles when we drove off. I even got a cosmetic make-up - Petra is now advertising her services on my back! The market i...

Diving the Great Barrier Reef has been on my To Do list since childhood. It was an impossible list, I thought at the time - check out the beaches of Acapulco, cross the Death Valley, see the Sequoias - the largest living thing on earth, see kangaroos in the wild in Australia, and in general travel the world. I didn't even dare dreaming about bei...

Really long trip from Magnetic to get to Cairns. We had to to get a bus and then a ferry to even get on the greyhound! So much for rest when we got to Cairns... as soon as we got here, we met up with Gaynor who we had last seen at Airlie Beach and had a good catch up. I had heaps of laundry to do as well and then we had to repack as was leaving ...

I felt like I was on a boat all nite long!!! So the ppl that were parked in our site were told to move their vehicle and it took them about 30 mins to do so. They didn't even apologize to us. Sara and I had some PB and J for breakfast, did some winter cleaning of the van...its friggin hot here but it's still Australia's winter right now and put ...

He said: Well, we arrived in Cairns after a hastily reserved hotel, and found the weather to be just what was forcast - clouds and rain. Apparently, someone wasn't aware of the trip we were on and refused to grant our wish for beautiful sunshine and scuba diving. Regardless, we used the time to catch up on our blog and phone our families to let ...

If you've been reading our previous entries you'll be aware of our spectacular failure with snorkelling in Coral Bay. Ok...so now we're in Cairns, one of the singlemost best places to see the Great Barrier Reef and all it has to offer. One of the best places in the world to go diving. So were we going to let a little thing like absolute terror s...

Arrived in Cairns during a storm, people up here call it the wet season & it is very, very wet! The van seemed to be leaking all over the place, while soaking the carpet it made a wonderful smell. We put posters advertising the van in lots of hostels, Clare wouldn't let me put 'will throw in the wife for a slab of VB' on the ad. Headed north of ...

So many fish and so many friendly people - what a trip. For 4 days and 3 nights we lived aboard the Kangaroo Explorer, cruising between dive spots and enjoying the perfect conditions. Paul and I managed to do our advanced dive certificate which enables us to explore the effects of nitrogen narcosis by going to 30m! The reefs were beautiful, big ...

I've been in cairns now just over a week though it feels longer - i'm blaming jet-lagg for really early mornings (6am) and lates nites - feel the need to sleep for a week !! My first trip out of Cairns was to Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef but the weather wasn't too good and the boat was a bit rough !! It was a real paradise island with...