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The two big Queensland ticks for the price of a week in a hostel bar.
Our cheapest East Coast package: a 2-day, 1-night K'gari 4WD tag-along from Rainbow Beach and a full day sailing the Whitsundays from Airlie Beach, in one booking. Activities only, so it slots into any bus pass, campervan or flight plan. Pick a date for each, or leave them open.
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If your budget is tight, these are the two adventures to keep. Two days driving a 4WD in convoy across K'gari, the world's largest sand island, with a night in a beachfront camp, then a full day under sail in the Whitsundays with a snorkel on the fringing reef and two hours on the Langford Island sandbar.
This is an activities-only package: the price covers the two tours and nothing you'd have to pay for twice. Getting between Rainbow Beach and Airlie Beach and your hostel beds are up to you (a Greyhound pass or the overnight bus does it), which is how the price stays this low. The package price is simply the two tours added together at today's prices, so you never pay more than booking each one with us on its own. Book once, choose a date for each adventure now or later, and a real person on our team books both and sends you the confirmations.
K'gari 4WD tag-along, 2 days and 1 night: Lake McKenzie, Eli Creek, the Maheno wreck and Central Station rainforest
A full Whitsundays day sail from Airlie Beach: fringing reef snorkel and two hours on the Langford Island sandbar
Priced under the two tours added together at today's prices
Activities only: no bus or hostel nights to pay for twice
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Sleep in Rainbow Beach the night before: the briefing is at 7am, where you're put into vehicle groups and taught the sand-driving basics. Then it's onto the barge and across to K'gari, sharing the 4WD driving in convoy behind your lead guide. Float Eli Creek, climb around the SS Maheno wreck, walk the Central Station rainforest and swim in Lake McKenzie. The night is in an enclosed beachfront camp with dinner, music and power to charge your phone. Back in Rainbow Beach on the afternoon of day 2.
The overnight bus from Rainbow Beach reaches Airlie Beach the next morning, or take a few days and stop at Bundaberg, Agnes Water or Rockhampton on the way. This leg isn't part of the package, which is why it's this cheap: use a Greyhound pass, a one-way ticket or a campervan.
Check in at the Coral Sea Marina for a full day under sail: snorkel the fringing reef in a stinger suit, eat lunch on deck, then spend about two hours on the Langford Island sandbar, where turtles cruise the shallows. Sunset sail back into Airlie.
Optional extras you can add after you book, or just ask us on the road.
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