Travellers on Tour

You would think that Frequent Flyer Tickets would be a really cheap way to fly. But by the time you add on taxes and surcharges you may still need to pay for half of your ticket! We have been using our credit card with the intent to build up points to transfer to our Qantas [...]

With some domestic tickets that we just purchased we had the choice between flying through Melbourne, Australia and Sydney, Australia. I had always heard that Sydney, Australia has some of the highest airport taxes in Australia, so I wanted to check that out. With our tickets we had to transit through either Sydney or Melbourne. [...]

Petrol prices in Australia fluctuate by almost 10% a week. The best day to purchase petrol in Australia is on a Wednesday. Last week petrol was $1.24 per litre on Wednesday and then on Thursday I had to pay $1.34 per litre. Consumer Groups in Australia have reported that petrol in Australia is almost always [...]

Although the Bruce Highway between Townsville to Cairns is a very busy and well travelled highway, it is not a very good highway in my experience. The Bruce Highway between Townsville and Cairns is a two lane highway for about 95% of the trip, with very few places to safely overtake. About 1/3rd of the [...]

My wife and I just spent a long weekend staying in Trinity Beach, Queensland. We stayed at Castaways, Trinity Beach. For the price we probably couldn’t have a found better value accommodation around Cairns. We found a package for $279.00 for five-nights accommodation in a one bed-room apartment. That works out to about $56.00 per [...]

My wife and I just drove through Carwell, Queensland on our way back from a long weekend in Cairns. We had lunch in Carwell on our way there and back at the same place, the Cardwell Hot Bread located right on the Bruce Highway. On our way up through Cardwell I had a Steak and [...]