Australia Travel Review: Sydney, Port Douglas, Ayers Rock

If we had a larger budget we might have asked for higher end transport to our excursions, hotels, etc. One inconvenience was that we were booked on transports that had multiple pick-ups having to be at different places at different time. That meant we had a lot of "hurry up and wait" time which we didn't like. For example, we had to be picked up at 4:30 AM to catch a flight to Ayers Rock from Port Douglas. It got us to the airport 3 hours early and the ticket desk wasn't even open yet. Then when we got to Ayers Rock Resort our room wasn't ready because it was so early and we had a 4 hours wait in 100F+ heat.