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Coral Sea Dreaming
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
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Raging Thunder Ballooning
Your balloon flight is only the beginning of your adventure...
Romantic Hot Air Ballooning!
from $235 / Adult
Including levies
- Personalised Flight Certificate
- Return Cairns hotel transfers
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Kuranda in a Day!
Kuranda
TRAIN & SKYRAIL
The most popular day tour including Freshwater Station & Return transfers from your hotel.
from $110 /person
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Daintree Walkabout
Daintree Walkabout
-Kuku Yalanji Dreamtime Walk at Mossman Gorge
-Tea and damper
-Lunch at Silky Oaks Lodge
-1 hour Daintree River Cruise
-Exotic Fruit Tasting
-Short tour of Port Douglas
from $170 per adult
Departs: Mon, Wed, Fri
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Sunlover & Fitzroy Is Combo
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
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Jungle Surfing & Wildlife
Go Jungle Surfing
Visit Wildlife Habitat, see the endangered Cassowary, then onto Cape Tribulation for Jungle Surfing! 
Fly through the ancient rainforest!
$199 per adult
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Outback & Tablelands
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
Only $160.00 p/a
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GA Barrier Reef Adventure - Cairns

GA Barrier Reef Adventure

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Great Barrier Reef Adventure
  • Outer Barrier Reef platform
  • 10:30am departure - Sleep-in!
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GREAT ADVENTURES OUTER REEF

Great Adventures provides an excellent day at the Outer Barrier Reef from Cairns.

Book with Travstar.com and receive a FREE upgrade to include Green Island in this daytrip! Offer valid until 31 March 2013

There are many activities available for people of all ages and excellent underwater dive options that are perfect for non-swimmers!

 

What Makes it Great!

  • Closest pontoon to the Continental Shelf from Cairns
  • Norman Reef Platform - Largest and most spacious
  • Only location in Australia where you can do the Scuba Doo
  • Biggest Semi Sub
  • Sensational visibility 

Inclusions:

  • Air-conditioned fast catamaran
  • Morning and afternoon tea
  • 3 hours at the Outer Barrier Reef
  • Delicious hot & cold 5 star buffet lunch 
  • Semi-submersible coral viewing tours 
  • Snorkelling equipment
  • Buoyancy vests if required
  • Underwater observatory
  • Reef education presentation

The Pontoon features:

  • Undercover seating and tables
  • Full Bar Facilities
  • Sun-deck with Sun-lounges
  • Swimming enclosure for children
  • Change rooms
  • Freshwater showers
  • Scuba diving
  • Semi-submerged platform
  • Great for Non-Swimmers
  • Underwater observatory
  • Semi Submersible reef viewer
  • Scuba Doo - (At additional cost)Inclusions:

This is the latest departure to the Outer Barrier Reef from Cairns with a very relaxed 10:30am departure.  After dropping passengers at Green Island you will continue your cruise on-board a modern comfortable high-speed catamaran to the first class multi-level pontoon situated on the outer edge at Norman Reef.

The diversity of the Marine life out here is amazing. We saw a huge number of beautiful small and very large tropical fish including a huge Maori Wrasse "Wally" who kept coming right up to us to say hello. It is the closest I have come to swimming in an aquarium. The Coral Gardens are very pretty and extensive.

As a dive site there were fabulous swim throughs and caves and a fantastic range of sea life.

If you want to learn more about the reef there is a Guided Snorkel tour that is very informative. 

Please let us know your Cairns accommodation or Cairns Beaches accommodation so that we can arrange your return transfers.  If you are staying in the city most Cairns City Hotels are located within walking distance to the Reef Fleet Terminal.

Optional Extras:

Scenic Helicopter Flights: See the reef from below and above! You can fly to the reef or fly home by helicopter, or, do a quick Joy Flight while at the reef. There are many options and this is an absolute BUZZ! These are at an additional cost.

Scuba Doo:
This Outer Barrier Reef pontoon is the only place in Australia where you can cruise the reef in your own space-age underwater scooter. Tours depart every 25 minutes from the pontoon with professional guides. There are limited places so it is best to book early.

 
All prices shown in Australian Dollars
Prices valid from now until 31 March 2013
Barrier Reef Adventure Adult Child Family
ex Reef Fleet Terminal $208.00
Includes Levies
$107.00
Includes Levies
$529.00
Includes Levies
ex Cairns Hotel $225.00
Includes Levies
$117.00
Includes Levies
$583.00
Includes Levies
ex Northern Beaches hotel $230.00
Includes Levies
$119.00
Includes Levies
$597.00
Includes Levies
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
Prices valid from now until 31 March 2013
1 x Certified Dive $98.00
1 x Intro Dive $140.00
CNS city transfers - Adult $17.00
CNS city transfers - Child $10.00
TERMS
Child Age = 4-14 years
Family = 2 Adults & 2 Children
CURRENCY CONVERTER
WE DO NOT CHARGE BOOKING FEES OR CREDIT CARD SURCHARGES

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Cairns Getaway Package

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Shangri-La Cairns is situated at the Marlin Marina connected to the Pier shopping complex and adjacent to the Reef Fleet Terminal.

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Lizard Island Resort

Lizard Island surrounded by the unspoilt wonders of the Great Barrier Reef

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Tropical Reef & Rainforest

5 night Reef & Rainforest package

- Bay Village Studio Room
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-FREE 5 hours wireless i.net
-FREE drink when dining
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Mantra Trilogy

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Silky Oaks Lodge is a romantic luxury rainforest lodge located on the Mossman River 1.5 hours north of Cairns.

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- 3 course dinner nightly
- 1.2hr Kuku Yalanji dreamtime walk
- 1 hour spa treatment/person
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Bay Village
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- Continental Breakfast daily
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The Hotel Cairns Located one block from the famous Esplanade.

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