FN Qld Caravan Park charges...must be some wealthy grey nomads out there

DeBe · Guru

RE: FN Qld Caravan Park charges...must be some wealthy grey nomads out there

Romy5152 · Guru

I like Cairns, but give me the bush - anywhere, any time.

-- Edited by Romy5152 on Saturday 4th of June 2011 07:35:42 PM

goinsoon · Guru

DeBe wrote:
Having just returned from 10days in Cairns visiting the daughter can say it doesnt realy impress me mutch at all. Went out to the reef for a day & found it didnt quite match the brochures. The city fronts one huge mud flat, but the daughter thinks its the ducks guts. Also 90c per liter for LPG????? Just an over priced tourist town. Mutch prefered the Table lands.

HERE, HERE!!!

jimricho · Guru

Caravilla's (Cairns) website is still quoting $34 pn. A Top Tourist discount (10%) up to $30 (discount total) would apply to TT members. I have also stayed at the Big4 at Rollingstone and it's a very nice park right on the beach front but with the downside that Howdrink mentions. (distance to shops)

BTW if you were to join only one of the Caravan Park groups I think Top Tourist would be the one that would be most useful. This is based on my own personal experience.

wendyv · Guru

Agree that Rollingstone CP is very nice - if you get a good site. After our experiences there, a couple of times, I strongly suggest that it is a park where you should inspect site /s offered before booking in. On our first stay there - our site was ok, but smaller than we would have liked (and our van is not big) - we watched a couple of rigs trying to go onto the downhill billabong-front sites, where it was impossible to get anywhere near level. Clearly, one of the two ladies who did Reception, had no actual idea of their site configurations. During our stay were several instances of big vans on very small sites.
Our second stay, saw a couple of rigs near us, having to move sites part way through their stay, because their sites were booked. But, it was evident that this could have been averted just by juggling where rigs were put. Same lady was not up to speed with computerized booking records and how to move bookings around.

I don't know if it survived the recent cyclone, but there was a very pleasant, ocean front, very basic caravan park at Forrest Beach, out of Ingham. They took dogs and the weekly rate of $150 in 2009 we thought was quite reasonable. Nice little village, with small supermarket, newsagent etc. There was lovely view across to the Palm Islands, and a beach where one could walk for kms. We went for a few days and stayed a month.