Gondwana Rainforests Accommodation

Your tour of Australia’s Gondwana Rainforests will include the following types of accommodation. Specific accommodation on a tour is subject to change and you will be advised at time of booking or prior to departure of any changes.

Important notes:  The variety of unique accommodation on your Gwondana Rainforests tour provides you with an excellent standard throughout. The standard basis is twin-share with ensuite, although ensuites at The Peel Inn attract a small additional supplement. There is a limited number of single supplements and double rooms. Please discuss your accommodation preferences with us prior to confirming your reservation.

Monkerai Valley

Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort

Riverwood Downs is located on the banks of a mountain river in the foothills of the Barrington Tops World Heritage Wilderness, in a beautiful rural area known as the Monkerai Valley between the towns of Stroud and Gloucester. The range of accommodation includes boutique resort rooms, river cottages and riverside or park cabins. The Rosewood Restaurant is a highlight.  The property offers walking trails, swimming holes, games room, canoes, horse riding, platypus and bird spotting and an abundance of wildlife. More information >

Nundle

The Peel Inn

A friendly drinking hole since 1860, this hotel has been in the same family for four generations since John Schofield won the pub in a card game. The largely unchanged exterior retains the frontier charm of the gold rush days, with decorative iron work, a Wunderlich tin-lined balcony and deep verandas. It’s a quintessential country pub experience with damask bed linen, antique wash stands, cane Bentwood chairs, timber ceilings and shutters, pressed tin walls and vintage wallpapers. Fine meals featuring local produce are served in the elegant dining room or on the grapevine covered deck, courtyard or garden. Your hosts: Robert and Margaret Schofield,  Nathan & Rebecca Schofield and Drew Schofield. More information >

Nymboida

Nymboida Coaching Station Inn

Overlooking the river and the Great Dividing Range, The Coaching Station offers 4-star accommodation and a spectacular setting in the unspoilt Australian countryside. Motel-style accommodation caters for single travellers, couples, friends and families in en-suite rooms and groups in shared rooms. The Hotel/Restaurant features the century-old Wine Bar and Parlour Room, with many old photographs and memorabilia. The original hand sawn cedar and red mahogany beams, parallel walls and open log fires retain the historical atmosphere of a time when Cobb & Co stage coaches, bullock teams, timber cutters, graziers and other pioneers stopped here on the woolpack road from Armidale to Grafton. More information >

Woodenbong

Dairy Flat

Dairy Flat is a dairy farm situated on the headwaters of the Richmond River. The property is in a valley formed by the McPherson Range, with Mt. Lindesay and Glennies Chair, both volcanic cores, forming the north/east boundaries of the property. The area was first settled by timber cutters whose prize was the massive stands of red cedar in the area. Today, there are dairy and beef properties and beyond them State Forests and National Parks. Dairy Flat has on its N/E boundary the wilderness areas of the Mt. Lindesay section of the "Border Ranges National Park" and "State Forests" on its other boundaries.

Dairy Flat has four houses providing accommodation on the property. The main house is the five-bedroom homestead, which has two ensuites, a farmhouse kitchen, elegant dining room, spacious verandahs and a log fire in the lounge room. The Red House is nestled under Mt Lindsay, overlooking paddocks where the cattle graze beside the creek. It has three bedrooms, share bathroom, a pot belly stove in the large kitchen and verandahs to take in the view. There is also the two-bedroom Green House and the one-bedroom Blue Cottage. The property also includes a tennis court and saltwater pool.

As a working dairy farm, there is milking twice a day as well as feeding sessions for chooks, lambs, kids and calves, great views of the surrounding national parks and state forests and a wealth of bird watching opportunities.  More information >

Midginbil

Midginbil Hill Farmstay

A working cattle farm on 400 beautiful acres beneath the escarpments of Nightcap National Park, Midginbil Hill boasts a 1906 homestead among native sub-tropical gardens. Accommodation includes a large Lodge and a budget Bunkhouse. The Lodge features 8 rooms with en-suites, recreation room, laundry, dining room, deck with BBQ, saltwater swimming pool and tennis court. The property offers rainforest walks, fishing, horse riding and canoeing. Your hosts: John & Annette Flower. More information >