Queensland Spirit: Heart of the Outback
Outback QLD guided holiday
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8.1
Excellent
20 reviews
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Sally Greensfield
Tamworth, NSW
18 Jan, 2018
I stayed at this property and absolutely loved it! It was easily the best experience of my life. I stayed at this property and absolutely loved it! It was easily the best experience of my life. I stayed at this property and absolutely loved it! It was easily the best experience of my life.
7.1
Sally Greensfield
Tamworth, NSW
18 Jan, 2018
I stayed at this property and absolutely loved it! It was easily the best experience of my life.
7.7
Sally Greensfield
Tamworth, NSW
18 Jan, 2018
I stayed at this property and absolutely loved it! It was easily the best experience of my life.
From $4199 per person
DEAPRTS: 21 May 22 & 02 July 22
Your Guided Holiday Includes:
- 1 night Overlander Homestead Motel Roma
- 2 nights Ray Station
- 2 nights Mitchel Grass Retreat
- 1 nigh aboard Spirit of The Outback Train in a Private Cabin
- A total of 13 meals: daily breakfast, 2 lunches, 1 dinner & 4 dinners with wine!
- Specialist highly experienced Travel Director and Driver
- Local Specialists (Guides) at Ray Station, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Camden Park Station
- Mixture of unique accommodation including glamping tents and ‘shearers’ restored quarters’
Highlights
Local Connection
- ‘Outback Dan’ is a fifth-generation farmer at Camden Park Station. His family will woo you with outback yarns, dinner and country hospitality.
- Go behind the scenes at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum to meet working palaeontologists in Winton’s fossil lab.
- Life on the land in remote Queensland can be thrilling – but also harsh. Learn what it’s like on two working stations.
- Nature releases all the good endorphins. You’ll feel even better when you check into eco-friendly glamping tents under the stars.
Itinerary
Day 1 - Brisbane – Roma
It doesn’t take long for the towers of Brisbane to give way to bucolic countryside, fading from rainforest to the vivid hues of the outback. Small in population but big in personality, Chinchilla is the first chance to stretch your legs. The ‘Big Watermelon’ hints to the fact this is the melon capital of Australia. Grab a slice, or a more hearty bite to eat, at the historic Club Hotel (fun fact: it’s the only hotel in town that hasn’t burnt down) before you journey on to ravishing Roma. The horizons here extend for days, only matched in expanse by the smiles of locals – expect plenty of country hospitality, not at the least from Charles and Amanda who own your accommodation for the night. Toast the end of the day with them over a glass of wine and regional fare at your welcome dinner.
Hotel: Overlander Homestead Motel Roma
Included Meals: Dinner with Wine
Hotel: Overlander Homestead Motel Roma
Included Meals: Dinner with Wine
Day 2 - Roma – Quilpie
The further west you travel in Queensland, the slower the outback lifestyle. As evidenced in Charleville, which is a slice of natural paradise for the endangered bilbies and wetland birds. The locals will happily reveal the best places to spot wildlife, ideally over a cold beer and a pub meal at heritage-listed Hotel Corones. The stories that get told here… The countryside from here to Quilpie is mesmerising – long stretches of road and vast expanses of nothing can be humbling. And welcoming, as you’ll discover when Mark and Sandra throw open the doors of Ray Station. The family has owned this estate since 1874, and designed the rooms you’ll bed down in – set in restored shearers’ quarters. But before then, there’s a campfire dinner and tunes on the tin piano to be enjoyed.
Hotel: Ray Station, 2 nights
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Hotel: Ray Station, 2 nights
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Day 3 - Ray Station, Quilpie
There’s something about being in the country that whets your appetite. Wake, and look forward to a delicious breakfast prepared by your hosts. You won’t go hungry here – they’re also thinking about what to cook you for lunch and dinner. It’s this kind of generosity that flows naturally into eye-opening, and entertaining, stories about the property, including previous caretakers, and how they tended the land. You can even discover more about their fascinating history: at the family cemetery. Head out on a tour, fossick for boulder opal, and revel in the vastness of Quilpie – certainly one of the best places to visit in Queensland’s vast outback.
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine, Lunch
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine, Lunch
Day 4 - Quilpie – Longreach
If you’re looking for the centre of Queensland, Longreach is pretty much it. After waving goodbye to station life, you’re bound for this patch of outback perfection, all red dirt and spinifex and blazing sunsets. There’s plenty of things to do in Longreach, like visiting the Qantas Founders Museum, which pays homage to the fact this is the spiritual heart of Australia’s national airline. If the idea of glimpsing 100+ years of aviation history gets your heart racing, then the vast swathes of nature that surround your glamping tent for the night will slow it down. Switch off, relax and enjoy your eco-friendly cocoon, replete with creature comforts including air-conditioning, ensuites and dreamy beds. There’s also a kitchenette, so you can enjoy a BBQ on your private deck. Or venture out for more country flavour at an optional outback dinner and show.
Hotel: Mitchell Grass Retreat, 2 nights
Included Meals: Breakfast
Hotel: Mitchell Grass Retreat, 2 nights
Included Meals: Breakfast
Day 5 - Longreach – Winton – Longreach
For a petite town, there’s an impressive number of things to do in Winton. The biggest attraction of all are the dinosaurs that once roamed here, leaving behind the country’s largest collection of dinosaur fossils. Follow in their (large) footsteps at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs, part museum, part working laboratory, where you’ll go behind the scenes. Winton’s other claim to fame is the fact Banjo Patterson wrote ‘Waltzing Matilda’ here in 1903. He’s not the only creative drawn here. Graeme Leak created a fence that can be played as an instrument (aka the Musical Fence), and Arno Grotjahn erected a quirky art wall studded with every household object imaginable. The unexpected stories continue at Camden Park Station, a 7,300-hectare sheep and cattle station where fifth-generation farmer ‘Outback Dan’ will tell you about life on the land… including the visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. They didn’t have a three-course dinner awaiting them in historic shearing shed; you do.
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Day 6 - Longreach – Brisbane
Australia has its fair share of epic outback train tours that let you witness the wild beauty of a region while travelling the historic routes taken by past generations. Among them is Spirit of the Outback, your chariot back to Brisbane on the last leg of your adventure. Exclusive access to the train’s Shearers Rest Lounge means you can enjoy a glass of bubbles while remote towns and vast stretches of bush zip by outside, the click-clack or the rails a meditative soundtrack. Dinnertime in Tuckerbox Restaurant celebrates Queensland’s culinary bounty. And then your plush cabin awaits. Sweet dreams.
Hotel: Spirit of the Outback, Private Cabin
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Hotel: Spirit of the Outback, Private Cabin
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
Guest Information
Check in
2:00pm
2:00pm
Check out
10:00am
10:00am
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Terms and Conditions apply: All prices are quoted in Australian dollars, based on per person double occupancy unless stated otherwise, and inclusive of all taxes and discounts. All prices & itineraries are current as at 10 February 2022 & subject to change without notice. Prices are subject to change due to availability, currency fluctuations, fuel price, and tax increases. All passports, visas, travel permits, and vaccinations are the responsibility of the travelling passenger to secure prior to travel. Airfares are not included in this package. Travel packages advertised may include multiple products provided by several suppliers to provide a travel itinerary. Each component of the package will be treated independent of each other, and the specific terms & conditions of each product supplier will apply. Hotels may charge resort fees, or a security bond not included or mentioned in this package, payable direct upon check-in.View full Terms and Conditions
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