Fee to Kangaroo Island

Collo · Senior Member

Fee to Kangaroo Island

dazren · Guru

smile Owww !! you would have to go for minimum to weeks to justify that outlay ! hmm But why would you need to book Accomodation, confuse if your taking your Van ! confuse

Collo · Senior Member

Guess I'm in otherwise category. Maybe caravan site can be regarded as "accomodation"

Oma · Guru

Did you ask if there were any specials available. we asked at Victor Harbour when booking.
Return fares for us, car & 20ft van were only $400. That was in 2011, about May.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

The Sealink site for Kangaroo Island ferry shows $548 return ...

http://www.sealink.com.au/transport/search

Cheers - John

Collo · Senior Member

Rocky,

From what I can tell from web site is, that for any vehicle over 5 mtrs in length(the van is 7.5) you have to get a price at time of booking.

Thats what the very nice girl quoted me?

Hope its cheaper!!

Collo.

madaboutled · Guru

180k's in 45 minutes.... gotta love fast boats! LOL

Roving-Dutchy · Guru

I think that the ferry is owned by an overseas company so they screw us for all they can get, this is vital bit of infrastructure for Kangaroo Island, yet we allow overseas interests to own it.
Cheers
David

Meredith · Senior Member

SeaLink Travel Group (SeaLink) is a wholly South Australian-owned company http://www.sealink.com.au/about-sealink/our-company/

Its a profitable company, but hardly making huge profits http://www.smh.com.au/business/sealink-travel-profit-boosted-by-lower-fuel-costs-a-20150206-137lk1.html

We are looking at going to Kangaroo island next year, we figure if we intended to stay a week or less it wouldn't be cost effective taking the van (though I still prefer the van to staying in a hotel) but we will probably go for a couple of weeks.

jetj · Guru

My friends just did a day tour of Kangaroo Island and were not very impressed at all.

aussie_paul · Guru

jetj wrote:
My friends just did a day tour of Kangaroo Island and were not very impressed at all.

We have been to KI twice, since my accident 7 years ago, as Eril's sister has a house there. Because she is a resident she gets a ferry discount.

We thought it was great and interesting. A day trip could not possibly do it justice.

Aussie Paul. smile

Highwayman · Senior Member

I loved the place...got to buy a parks full ticket..it's has so much going for it .seals ....rocks lighthouse..food marron me! the memories will out weigh the pain of the none subsidised ferry service.." It's only money " don't want to be the richest guy in the cemetery ....just do it

bill12 · Guru

The same mob of robbers own the Magnetic island barges,and the ones to Stradbroke island.Time Magazine lists them as the most expensive car barges in the world! Even with resident discount, it costme $341 to take my 4wd, slideon, and tiinie to the mainland , and return. When asked why its so expensive, reply Don,t care, go somewhere else.Great way to do business and make fiends. Bill

Collo · Senior Member

Oops, My mistake. That should be 18 kms...not 180 kms!!

Cloak · Guru

After spending that I'd stay for several months... There'd be enough to see for a long stay You'd reckon.

sangroper · Member

we went to kangaroo island in October it was 835 dollars for car and caravan plus three nights at the caravan park we have dual cab ranger and coromal Princeton which comes in at 15 and half metres in total which was a bit rich the biggest rip off was the park fees you have to pay for each person and cant get a pass for all parks.But we have been and seen it now and its crossed or the bucket list

madaboutled · Guru

Collo wrote:
Oops, My mistake. That should be 18 kms...not 180 kms!!

Yeh, I had a laugh and then couldn't resist!.

BGR · Member

We went over in 2012 and had an open ended ticket for return.
We stayed for 4 weeks and loved the place.
When we got back to Penneshaw we went to the Sealink office and booked our return trip with no hassles

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