hoenymoon in Oz – help!

We’re aiming to take our honeymoon in Oz next year but have no idea where to start with planning.

Any suggestions?

Decide dates

How about a Oz Pootle? 😛

You pimping it large or a backpacking affair? My best mate runs several companies out there related to backpacker/holiday Market. Trade over there is very slack at the moment so you should be in for some good deals trip wise etc!!

bit of both wrighty – we wanted to the first 3 nights to be 5*, but then more budget afterwards….

I don’t want to name a budget just yet!

Perth/WA—-Melbourne—Sydney—Byron Bay—Fraser Island—-Whitsundays—–Cairns/Tropics

Depending on Time and budget….

I would recommend Entrance/exit via different airports so you can see a bit more.

Have fun and lucky you!

For a destination Fraser Island is reet nice & has varying levels of accom. all the way down to camping

If you really wanted to waste some money you could go to http://www.hayman.com.au/

or

http://www.lizardisland.com.au/

Well if you want I can pass on his details to you, the post above sounds a perfect route by the way. He can sort trips/accommodation/carhire/bago hire for loads of stuff. Recently sorted some stuff for a friend in and around whit and Byron bay. Based in Cairns and Sydney and regularly travels that east coast route via car so he’s well connected!

Yes please wrighty – that sounds ace! Email in profile

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Go somewhere else would be my suggestion. The jet lag takes the best part of a week to get over, and it’s not that good in my book. Food was generally poor.

Paris would be my first choice for a honeymoon.

Watch where you swim!!

WA is getting a fair few swimmers scoffed not far from shore at the mo!

I did over 300 dives in WA and never seen any GW!

Everything is a *long* way from each other.

We spent a month doing Cairns down to Sydney in a campervan, very few places did we stop more than a night, more than one day just spent driving and nothing else. While the road trip thing is great, if you’ve got less than a few months it can feel like too much of a rush. There’s plenty of internal flights though, at similar prices to Easyjet and the like.

If you do want to do east coast, I think a week would be a good amount of time for a tour around the Atherton Tablelands (fly into Cairns, hire a car or campervan), then a trip to the Whitsundays, maybe to Brisbane then you’ve got Fraser Island, plus lots of nice beachy towns to the south (if you skip the high-rise Gold Coast/Surfers Paradise bit). Should leave enough time to see what Sydney has to offer – and there’s always the Blue Mountains which are meant to be great if you wanted a trip out.

YGM Pook

cheers!

May I suggest the backpacking bit first and 5* hotel type accommodation (to recover)to look forward to at the end 🙂

Try to time it to coincide with the Mawson Marathon. Does Mrs Pook ride bikes too?
If anywhere near Sydney stop by the Manly Surf School, excellent and far less busy than Bondi.
While I was nervous of spiders/snakes/etc it was ants that scared the locals, watch out for bullet-ants!
Darwin is very warm and wet, Hobart is cold and wet. Places in between are much drier and a sensible temperature.
If you want to see anything other than big cities/organised tours you will need a car/van. Wild camping is the norm everywhere and there is everything a backpacker could need (never seen so many laundrettes for example) Check local laws about cars though, eg. Queensland ‘MOT’ is not nearly as strict as NSW so doesn’t garentee a roadworthy vehicle. Also, standard insurance only covers you on tarmac roads within a certain distance of the coast. Little differences which may leave you up the creek sans paddle, worth checking nearer the time. Also, they have toll roads with electronic tolls for which you need to buy a special gadget.
Locals are very freindly but get up ridiculously early.

Stop over in Dubai/Singapore for R&R so not too knackered when you arrive. Everything is very spread out so take into consideration when planning. We lived in Melbourne for a year and found plenty to do in that vicinity. Wilson’s Prom was a highlight, you can camp or rent a cabin. Trek around the peninsula. Nice beaches. Stay a couple of nights in Melbourne, there are good places to eat. Drive the Great Ocean Road – to Cape Otway or beyond (12 apostles). Stay at Johanna seaside cottages. Fly over to Sydney. Some of the places in Oz are very seasonal – East cost gets hurricanes and jellies at certain times (think its early in the year).

My honeymoon was in Oz this January, this was my 4th trip since most of my family stay there now. It’s a stunning place, but not somewhere I’d want to go for less than 4 weeks tbh. How long have you got? I’d be wary of trying to do too much just because you think you have to. Just to bring some perspective, would you consider going on honeymoon to France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia?

This time we went to Tasmania, hired a car and rented 4 separate cottages for a couple of nights each. Magical place, and it has weather 🙂 Such a great mix of mountain wilderness, stunning beaches, ancient forest and old school farming communities, with a bit of culture in Hobart.

I’ve been to Fraser Island, which is stunning. We rented a cottage at the north end of the island so had no electricity apart from the petrol genny. You wife might not appreciate that though!

I like the Blue Mountains and the Lower Hunter Valley for things to do near Sydney. The city itself does nothing for me though. I haven’t visited Melbourne yet but it’s supposed to be interesting. And as above, Wilsons Promontary is well regarded. Perhaps base yourselves around Melbourne and do the Tassie tour? They have a bike park 😉

My folks visited Tassie and loved it

Did they wander around service stations trying to buy a map of tassie like my mum did? 😆

Should have been a bit more forthcoming about the weather though. We were there in the middle of summer and it was still between 15 and 25, so very much like the UK. And they have rain, which I’ve never seen in Australia!

They had it all planned out like pros. Stayed in some really decent b&b s. I’m sure they have the details if required.

Ah, you misunderstand. Map of tassie is Aussie slang for a womans pubic hair. My mum got some odd looks…

You should probably start with working out what you’re into and how long you’ve got because that will determine where you go – Australia has a bit (or quite a lot in some cases) of everything. Personally, if I had just a three or weeks I’d acclimatise in Melbourne (bit less in-our-face than Sydney) and enjoy the food and culture (staying somewhere like Villa Donati), fit in a bit of wine touring (Mornington Peninsula) and some wilderness (Wilson’s Prom, ) and then tour Tasmania, which is one of the most wonderful places I’ve ever been. I’d finish somewhere like Bay of Fires, Freycinet or MONA (Rocky Hills Retreat also sounds cool) for a send-off. But, really, it’s a how long is a piece of string question…

My eldest sister lives in Sydney, we did the east coast drive to spend NYE in Brisbane, taking a week and staying at some lovely beech places on the way up. If you intend to stay on the east side, I’d have a few days/week in Sydney and then hire a car and spend a week or two driving up the East coast, maybe flying out of Cairns (or possibly Darwin). In 94 I flew into Sydney and out of Cairns with Quantas.

Check out Perth and W.A. if you get chance.. lovely city, great weather and lots to do and see such as Freemantle, Rotnest and the Quakas, Kings Park and travel down for the surf and wineries at Margaret River… Cottesloe beach with the white sand that stretches up the whole coast too.. The problem will be you won’t want to come home…

Oh and if you decide on Sydney (5 hour flight away) you got to do the bridge walk!

Life is too short to go to Perth. Ignore it at all costs – hateful place.

The rest of the place rocks.

We got married in oz 3 1/2 years ago. We did Perth, Dunsborough, Ayers Rock, Sydney, Hamilton Island (where we got married), then Mekbourne and HK before heading back. We did it over 3 and a bit weeks. Absolutely ace.