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Daintree Rainforest Magnetic Island
Great Barrier Reef
“The list of what we enjoyed on Barter here was
endless. We ate in a different restaurant every night on
Barter, took a trip to the Barrier Reef and Scuba dived,
had a night in the Daintree forest, dined on the wild
side with Lions (fantastic experience), fishing, spent two
nights at Port Douglas (I would love to retire there) and
all excursions, car hire, chauffeur to the airport, gifts
etc.... Bartercard Hospitality at its best is in Cairns! “
Holiday planning started in the have knocked me down with a feather! Birthday! Magnetic Island was paradise
Autumn of 2008, whereby we We had a couple of fantastic meals at lost! Three days were spent relaxing on
sourced and booked the best flights. the Sauce Grill on the beach beaches and eating under the stars
D-Day was to be the 25th July 2009 - (Bartercard), Excellent cafe in Darling listening to the calls of the ancient
with 4 long weeks down under. Harbour (Bartercard), and take away 'curlews'.
Chinese (Bartercard). We almost enjoyed
I contacted the Bartercard travel team
a special boat trip visiting the harbour on
On 10th August chauffeured 4 hours
in Australia and set out my rough
trade, but we were too tired and
up the coast to Cairns staying 5 mins
agenda - I wanted to start in Sydney, on
preferred to relax and enjoy the view!
from Cairns Centre and Harbour!!!
to Brisbane then up the coast finishing in
Cairns. What I didn't realise was the On 3rd August fly to Brisbane and stay
Cairns is where Barter came alive -
shear size of that coastline! Our emails at the Best Western in Sunnybank - 20
helped by the wonderful team at the
were bouncing back and forth for a few mins from Brisbane.
local office (especially Menake who took
weeks, until we had our holiday all
service to a higher level!).
pinned down as follows:
Picked up from the Airport by Camdoit
chauffeurs (Bartercard) and driven to the
On 20th August sadly have to fly home
Arrive Sydney 25/07 and stay in a hotel - great service. First job was to call
after the holiday of a lifetime - after
PENTHOUSE apartment in the Gemini the local brokerage and see what was
offsetting over T£10,000 of my holiday
Hotel in a suburb called Randwick happening - again great service, had me
costs on Barter. I definitely would not
20mins from Darling Harbour - fantastic! booked into the local Chinese for my
have been able to do this without
Anniversary!
Bartercard!
From there we dealt with the local
brokerage who were great. I 'jokingly' On 6th August fly to Townsville and
The only upside to coming home is
asked if I could get UGG boots on trade catch the ferry to Magnetic Island - what
that we can start planning our next trip!
and they said no problem - you could an enchanting place to spend my 40th
Vive La Barter!
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