Hello, Hello, Hello!
My message requests are full of people asking for my East Coast Itinerary. A lot of you seem to be starting your trip in the next week or two so I thought I’d post my itinerary first to help you plan yours! I’ve also included the camper rental details at the end.
I am working on an in-depth blog post about the trip, it will take me a little while longer considering the amount of places/ tips/ recommendations, so please bear with me on that one.
DIRVE SYDNEY TO CAIRNS IN 1 MONTH Suggested stops & recommended time to spend in each place. See picture below & destination details underneath.
Destination 1: Set off from Sydney drove to Port Stephens, Nelsons Bay (3 hour drive, stay 1 night)
Destination 2: Nelsons Bay – Coffs Harbour (3.5hr drive, stay 1 night)
Destination 3: Coffs Harbour – Byron Bay (3 hr drive, stay 4* nights)
*originally planned for 3 nights, loved it so much would defo recommend 4
Destination 4: Byron Bay – Brisbane* (2 hour drive, stay 1 night)
*The next destination you should do is Gold Coast, we done it this way because we wanted the weekend in Gold Coast to celebrate Niall’s birthday so we drove back on ourselves an hour to get back to Gold Coast the following day
Destination 5: Brisbane – Gold Coast ( 1 hour drive, stay 3 nights)
Destination 6: Gold Coast – Sunshine Coast, Noosa (3 hour drive, stay 1 night)
Destination 7: Noosa – Rainbow Beach (2 hour drive, stay 1 night before Fraser Island and 1 night after, park camper at Dingos Hostel)
Destination 8: Fraser Island (park campervan at Dingos Hostel for 2 nights, camp on Fraser Island with the Dingos Tour)
Destination 9: Back to Rainbow beach, Dingos Hostel stay 1 night after Fraser Island
Destination 10: Rainbow Beach – 1770 (4 hour drive, stay 1 night)
Destination 11: 1770 – Airlie Beach (8 hour drive, stay 1 night before Whitsundays & 2 nights after, park camper for Whitsundays trip, would recommend only 1 night before & 1 night after)
Destination 12: WHITSUNDAYS – Ride to Paradise, stay 2 nights on Paradise Cove Island Resort
Destination 13: Back to Arlie Beach for 2 nights
Destination 14: Airlie Beach – Magnetic Island (4 hour drive, stay 2 nights)
Destination 15: Magnetic Island – Mission Beach (3 hour drive, stay 1 night, we actually ended up leaving Mission Beach out as the only thing to do here is Skydive & none of us wanted to do it, so we drove straight to Cairns)
Destination 15: Mission Beach – Cairns (2 hour drive, stay 1 night)
Destination 16: Cairns, we stayed for 5 nights and done the following day trips.
Day Trip – Port Douglas & Cape Tribulation
Day Trip – Scuba Dive Great Barrier Reef
Day Trip- Waterfalls (Uncle Brians Tour)
Flight home- Fly back Cairns – Sydney
Camper Van Rental Details
Company- Chepa Campa, Apollo Motorhome Holidays
Rental Time 1 Month
Price including Insurance $5,000 (approx)
Pick up Sydney, drop off Cairns
We had a 6 person van although there was only 4 of us, would recommend going bigger if you can afford to for the extra space as it gets so cramped.
I hope you find this useful to plan your own East Coast Trip. Give me a message on insta if you have any questions and I’ll be happy to help. Also let me know if you find it helpful, I love hearing feedback.
Chat soon lovelies,
GemKen xx