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Tour Specials!
Coral Sea Dreaming offers 2 Day/1 Night Sailing Trip with Maximum 12 passengers. Dive, snorkel or simply relax.
Includes 3 Intro dives
from $460 per person
(private double cabin)
SAVE $240
from $440 per person
(share cabin)
Includes levies & city hotel transfers
from $460 per person
(private double cabin)
SAVE $240
from $440 per person
(share cabin)
Includes levies & city hotel transfers
Book before 31/May/2012
Travel between now and 30/June/2012
Travel between now and 30/June/2012
2 Day Package - Sunlover Outer Great Barrier Reef + Fitzroy Island Day Package
Sunlover Reef Cruise
- 4 hours on reef pontoon
- Sumptuous buffet lunch including fresh seafood
- All snorkelling equipment
- Complimentary glass bottom boat and semi-submersible vessel tours
Fitzroy Island
- Over five hours to explore the great barrier reef and island
- All snorkelling equipment
- Self-guided rainforest walks
$199 per adult
- 4 hours on reef pontoon
- Sumptuous buffet lunch including fresh seafood
- All snorkelling equipment
- Complimentary glass bottom boat and semi-submersible vessel tours
Fitzroy Island
- Over five hours to explore the great barrier reef and island
- All snorkelling equipment
- Self-guided rainforest walks
$199 per adult
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
OUTBACK & ATHERTON TABLELANDS
One of the best Outback Day Tours in Queensland!!
* Reurn Hotel Transfers
* Lake Barrine Cruise
* Morning Tea
* Curtain Fig Tree
* Millaa Millaa Falls
* View Windy Hill Farm
* BBQ Luch
* Woodleigh Cattle Station
* Halloran's Lookout
* Mt Uncle Distillery
One of the best Outback Day Tours in Queensland!!
* Reurn Hotel Transfers
* Lake Barrine Cruise
* Morning Tea
* Curtain Fig Tree
* Millaa Millaa Falls
* View Windy Hill Farm
* BBQ Luch
* Woodleigh Cattle Station
* Halloran's Lookout
* Mt Uncle Distillery
Only $160.00 p/a
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
Reef Encounter - Cairns
Reef Encounter
Sleep on the Reef including all meals and gear!
- Includes Meals and Scuba Gear
- Cabins with Ensuites
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The Reef Encounter offers the best value liveaboard dive and snorkel trips from Cairns.
What Makes it Great:
- Daily departures
- FREE 10 minute Scuba Diving Lesson
- All meals included
The Reef Encounter is a 35 metre catamaran designed for the utmost stability and comfort at sea.
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Activities:
Snorkelling - Enjoy the amazing variety of coral and the profusion of marine life.
Glass Bottom Boat Tours - An 'up close and personal' reef and marine life presentation.
Free Scuba Diving Lesson - Never tried Scuba? Experienced instructors will give you a free 10 minute lesson.
Scuba Diving - Introductory or Certified diving.
Night diving for beginners - see the reef's nocturnal activities.
Heated Spa - Relax with a sparkling wine and enjoy the sunset.
Sundeck - Soak up the sunshine on a sunlounge.
Star Gazing - the ceiling on the reef is the stars - find the Southern Cross.
Cruising - Relax as Reef Encounter cruises from reef to reef.
Scenic Flight - Have a sea eagles view of the reef with a heli encounter.
Reef Encounter offers comfortable cabins as well as staterooms with double or twin beds, ensuites and large picture windows in the staterooms. All staterooms are located on levels one and two of the Reef Encounter. The lounge/dining room contains all dining room facilities, a fully licensed bar and a relaxing lounge area with television and video/DVD facilities. This area is ideal to relax and socialise with the other guests after another perfect day aboard Reef Encounter. Delicious gourmet meals are prepared on board by chefs and served to your table in the dining area. The fully equipped dive-deck is situated at the stern end of the vessel while towards the bow is an idyllic heated spa. Level One is a fabulous deck and is used primarily to accommodate the Top Deck Club clientele.
Top Deck Club is designed to meet the expectations of the most discerning of guests, offering an unhurried, relaxed ambience. Luxurious touches such as crisp Australian bed linen, silk doona, cotton sheets and feather down pillows adorn our oversized double beds. Soft fluffy robes, plush bath sheets and Australian beauty products are replenished daily.
Inclusions:
Dive & Snorkel:
The Reef Encounter caters for divers of all levels of experience with a variety of diving options to choose from, all catered to your specific needs.
Certified Divers are well looked after with more reefs, more variety and less divers. All Certified diving includes mask, snorkel & fins, weights, tanks, refills, BC, and regulator.
Introductory diving is also offered and no experience is necessary. Try a FREE 10 minute Scuba Diving Lesson.
Snorkellers will experience the fun and exhiliration of snorkelling above and amidst the beautiful array of coral and marine life on this trip. To assist you with your every need, the professional crew can assist you with snorkelling briefs and instruction as well as fully guided tours.
The large easy access hydraulic platform allows people who are disabled or with limited mobility to easily enter the water and take part in the days activities.
Outer Reef Locations:The Reef Encounter offers overnight or extended dive and snorkel expeditions to the Great Barrier Reef, cruising to spectacular Reef locations.
Michaelmas Reef
Located 40 kms off Cairns, offers shallow coral reefs, and a dazzling array of exotic marine life including Giant Clams over 100 years old.
Snorkelling at Norman Reef is among the best in the world. Each of our sites at Norman Reef situates you perfectly for shallow observation from the moment you hop off the boat. In the shallow sandy patches of Norman Reef live garden moray eels. It's easy to understand why these beautiful creatures choose to live in the midst of stag horn thickets with rich coral cover.
Frank is our resident Napolean Maori Wrasse is a very friendly local attention seeker and will happily swim around snorkellers and introduce them to his coral home.
Diving:
Scuba divers can explore underwater canyons bursting full of schooling fish such as oriental sweetlips, swim throughs where the light penetrates ideally for silhouette photographs and caves where you’ll discover natures awe inspiring architecture and day dwelling night animals.
Advanced scuba divers will enjoy depths of up to 30 metres (100 feet).
There are many sites that we visit along Norman Reef and each has a variety of attractions on offer. Ski Slopes Mooring – (a shallow ‘horse shoe shaped’ sandy bay walled by coral which slopes gradually down to over 30 meters), Caves Mooring, Fingers Mooring (where walls of reef jut out like the fingers on a human hand, with shallow reef and colourful soft corals at the base and deeper drop offs along the tips), Playground Mooring and the Wild Side Mooring.
Night Dives: Much of the best night diving on the reef happens at Norman Reef. Divers encounter lively lobsters, schools of giant trevally and grey whaler sharks at night. For those not jumping in the water at night, spectate from the side of the boat and view white tip reef sharks and red bass circling below.
58 kms off Cairns, lies 10 sq. kms of colourful coral gardens. Famous for Tame Friendly Reef Sharks, finally the Giant Wrasse, and thousands of tropical fish.
An exciting fact for Reef Experience guests is that Breaking Patches is a breeding ground for the common green turtle and hawksbill turtles alike. Sea Christmas tree worms, anemone, clownfish and butterflyfish are spread throughout the plethora of plate and fan coral which make up the majority of the shallowest Breaking Patches areas. There are swim throughs and over hangs that lead right down to the sandy floor where explorers will find sea cucumbers eating their way around.
Transfers:
The Reef Encounter is permanently moored on the Great Barrier Reef. Transfers and returns to Reef Encounter are conducted daily via Reef Experience. Click here for more info
Extra costs:
Please note:
Some Medical conditions and or medication may stop you from participating in Scuba Diving these include Asthma or wheezing. Brain spinal cord or nervous disorder, chronic bronchitis or persistent chest complaint, chronic sinus, collapsed lung, diabetes mellitis, chest surgery, Epilepsy, Fainting, Seizure or blackouts, Heart Disease of any kind, recurrent ear problems when flying, tuberculosis or other long-term lung disease and High blood pressure.
GREAT NEWS! All payments made to Travstar do not incur a credit card surcharge.
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| Prices valid from now until 31 March 2013 | ||||
| 2 Day/1 Night | Adult | Child | Family | |
| Snorkel -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share | $410.00 Includes Levies |
$410.00 Includes Levies |
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| Cert -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share | $500.00 Includes Levies |
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| Intro -2D/1N Stateroom, Twin Share | $640.00 Includes Levies |
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| Cert -2D/1N Stateroom, Sole Use | $880.00 Includes Levies |
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| 3 Day/ 2 Night | Adult | Child | Family | |
| Snorkel -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share | $625.00 Includes Levies |
$625.00 Includes Levies |
n/a Includes Levies |
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| Cert -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share | $765.00 Includes Levies |
n/a Includes Levies |
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| Open Water -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share | $981.00 Includes Levies |
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| Intro -3D/2N Stateroom, Twin Share | $1,005.00 Includes Levies |
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| Cert -3D/2N Stateroom, Sole Use | $1,345.00 Includes Levies |
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| 4 Day/ 3 Night | Adult | Child | Family | |
| Snorkel -4D/3N Stateroom, Twin Share | $840.00 Includes Levies |
$840.00 Includes Levies |
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| Cert -4D/3N Stateroom, Twin Share | $1,030.00 Includes Levies |
n/a Includes Levies |
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| Intro -4D/3N Stateroom, Twin Share | $1,370.00 Includes Levies |
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| Cert -4D/3N Stateroom, Sole Use | $1,810.00 Includes Levies |
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| OPTIONAL EXTRAS | |
| Prices valid from now until 31 March 2013 | |
| Extra Nights Cert. Diver Stateroom (Sole) | $450.00 |
| Extra Nights Cert. Diver Stateroom (Twin) | $250.00 |
| Extra Nights Snorkeler Stateroom (Twin) | $200.00 |
| Extra Nights Intro. Diver Stateroom (Twin) | $350.00 |
| Intro Night Dive | $80.00 |
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| Child Age = 4-14 years | |
| Family = 2 Adults & 2 Children | |
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| WE DO NOT CHARGE BOOKING FEES OR CREDIT CARD SURCHARGES |
Whats Hot!
Cairns Getaway Package!
-4 nights The Hotel Cairns
-Green Island Day trip
-Snorkel gear or Glass bottom boat
-Kuranda Train/Skyrail - hotel transfers
-$10 Breakfast Vouchers daily per person
-Complimentary Smart Car!
Only $405 per person
(based on 2 people sharing)
SAVE $96 per person
*add full breakfast daily and Deluxe Tower Room upgrade for only $39/person
(based on 2 people sharing)
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
Shangri-La Cairns is situated at the Marlin Marina connected to the Pier shopping complex and adjacent to the Reef Fleet Terminal.
STAY 3 PAY 2
From $192 per night
*Save from $288*
blockout dates apply
Book before 30/June/2012
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
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SEA CHANGE
BEACHFRONT APARTMENTS
5 Star luxury Apartments
Fantastic Ocean Views
STAY 4 PAY 3
1 Bedroom Apartments
from $218 per night
2 Bedroom Apartments
from $248 per night
Book before 30/June/2012
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
Lizard Island surrounded by the unspoilt wonders of the Great Barrier Reef
FREE RETURN FLIGHTS
Book a minimum 5 nights stay on Lizard Island in any room type and receive complimentary return flights to Lizard Island from Cairns for two adults.
SAVE $1156
per couple
(Blockout dates apply: 01 - 31 Aug 2012 and 20 - 27 Oct 2012)
Book before 31/August/2012
Travel between 01/June/2012 and 20/December/2012
Mantra Esplanade located opposite the esplanade swimming lagoon and steps to the Marina.
STAY 3 PAY 2
reduced to $133 p/n
based on 1 Bed City View
Travel between now and 21/June/2012
5 night Reef & Rainforest package
- Bay Village Studio Room
-Continental Breakfast daily
-FREE 5 hours wireless i.net
-FREE drink when dining
-Outer Barrier Reef
-Coral Viewing Tour
-Kuranda Train & Skyrail
-Cape Tribulation
-Rainforest Habitat
-Daintree River Cruise
from $726 p/person
including levy
save $281 person
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
Mantra Trilogy Located right in the heart of the Esplanade and minutes walk from restuarants, shops and Marina precinct.
STAY 3 PAY 2
reduced to $153 p/n
based on 1 Bed Apartment
Travel between now and 30/June/2012
Silky Oaks Lodge is a romantic luxury rainforest lodge located on the Mossman River 1.5 hours north of Cairns.
'Uniquely Silky'
3 night package
- breakfast for 2 daily
- bottle of Moet and canape's
- 3 course dinner nightly
- 1.2hr Kuku Yalanji dreamtime walk
- 1 hour spa treatment/person
Only $1099/person
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
Bay Village
Stay 5 nights and receive:
- Room upgrade to Studio
- Continental Breakfast daily
- FREE 5 hours wireless internet
- FREE drink when dining
Based on a minimum stay of 5 consecutive nights, 2 pax staying
only $130 room/night
Book before 30/June/2012
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
The Hotel Cairns Located one block from the famous Esplanade.
STAY 4 PAY 3
FREE USE OF SMART CAR
to explore the region
$10 BREAKFAST VOUCHER
reduced to $108 per night (including discount)
Upgrade to Deluxe Tower Room including full breakfast daily reduced to $126.75/night
Based on Twin Share
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
Great Deal!
3 full Day tours to our famous world heritage Reef & Rainforest.
- Outer Barrier Reef Cruise
- Cape Trib 4WD Safari
- Kuranda Train & Skyrail
from $400 per adult
including Enviro. Management Levy
Travel between now and 31/March/2013
Contact our North Queensland office for advice on your holiday in Cairns.