Wedgie wrote:I've spent a week at Hamilton, several weeks at Surfers and only one day at Port Douglas but I'd definately do Port Douglas again out of those in a heartbeat. There's plenty of daytrips and drives to go on and as Booney mentioned a good array of pubs. I could spend many a day at the craft beer pub on the Marina, magnificent spot. The missus and I are dead keen to get up there again.
Hamilton Island was great in the early 90s , had one of the times of my life there but was up in the Whitsundays earlier in the year and the area has aged horribly.
Surfers has well and truly run its race as a holiday destination, would much prefer the Sunshine Coast but thats going the same was as Surfers did and will be ruined eventually. Obviously young kids love the theme parks and the last time we were there was for the kids but even then found it a much better idea to base ourselves in Brisbane so you ould do both coasts and driving againstthe traffic for day trips,
I hate humidity but could survive waslking around Port Douglas in January. After visiting Thailand several times Port Douglas's climate seemed very bearable.
I think I might have to take a hit on this one, we were planning on two trips, one with the kids, one without.
I'd imagine the kids would just go to the theme parks every day so we'd just do our own thing, they'll be 17,16 and almost 15 anyway so we'd just have them occupy one unit, we'll give the older ones the option to save though if they wanted to join us.
We both think that Surfers is pretty horrible as far as rubbish in the streets etc. but we found a few little gems while we were up there last that we'd like to frequent again, we loved the Rooftop bar, it had an excellent carnival atmosphere, that was until a blonde Swedish chick was hitting on me in front of the missus and I was too stupid to pick up on it, I was pretty happy walking back to our room, if there were odds on who was gonna get hit on out of the two of us she'd be $1.01 and I'd be paying $23+.
As I type, she's emailed me some places in Cairns to check out, sheesh!!