Cairns Holiday Park, QLD

This park is a great place to call home. We called it home for quite a period in 2011. It does lack a children’s play area I will say that up front so it is not the perfect park….but it is so close. It would have to be one of our favourite parks to date for quite a few reasons.

It is a welcoming park with a good mix of all walks of life. There have been parks where we have gone to and they predominately cater for a particular type such as the Grey Nomads, and of course that is fine, but they should alert us to that when we attempt to book rather than make us feel that we should tip-toe the whole time we are at those parks. I’m sure that is not their intention but that is the way it has felt some times but this is not the case here. They have a great mix of Grey Nomads, backpackers, campers and caravaners.

They offer lodgings (which are better than most motel rooms and can be en-suited or non en-suited).

• Swimming pool (completely shaded, in a good way),
• TV room,
• FREE internet kiosk and FREE WI-FI
• One of the best camp kitchen we have seen.
• In terms of camping/caravanning they also offer some en-suited sites too.
• 2 amenities- both at the same building but meant you never had to wait for a turn and they were completely serviceable. They were clean!

There is nothing I can fault of the service as they went out of their way to accommodate you in any way. It was heart-warming to have staff to be so attentive and professional at the same time . It is by far the most welcoming park to date( review as of 2011). The office staff and the maintenance staff were always on hand and were always about maintaining the park and really approachable.

Good value – end of story!

Easily accessed by car or public transport. It is quite central only something like 2 km from the town. Can be walked as we did and capable for little kiddies either on foot or on a scooter without any moaning.

As far as Top tourist Parks go we would have to say they should use this park in their promotional material and as the basis for their modelling. While it has a rating of 4 star under our rating we would rate this at a SK rate of 4.5/5 rating.