Travel Review: Family Trip to Fiji & Australia, Sydney, Port Douglas, Blue Mountains, Uluru, Great Barrier Reef Snorkeling

Sydney - we LOVED this city.  My husband's favorite was the Lunch Cruise - it was a great way to see the city and our cruise was on a beautiful sunny / summer day.  My daughter's favorite was the Bridge Climb - she is 20 years old and likes "to do".  The trip to the Blue Mountains was a fabulous tour with a fabulous tour guide.

Ayers Rock - we all enjoyed this but of all of the places it was our least favorite.  The resort was quiet and conservative (we like to relax at a bar in the evening).  Don't misunderstand this as a complaint - we enjoyed this - but it was hot with long tours.  I am appreciative that our tours were with small groups and I loved the champagne at sunset.  The Sounds of Silence dinner was alot of FUN!!  We met nice people and had a great opportunity to try local food, learn about the stars in the southern hemisphere, and meet great people.  Might have helped to be provided some choices on how to spent our short time here; we might have liked the camel tour.

Port Douglas - this visit was a little too short (would have liked one more day).  Good idea to stay in Port Douglas instead of Cains.  The town is adorable and it was great that we were able to get out to the reef in 1 1/2 hours.  Our day snorkeling and scuba diving was a lot of fun.  The Daintree Rainforest was also a nice tour but might have been long because we were later in our trip, getting tired, and wishing that we were at the beach.  Thank-you for putting us in a hotel that was right in the middle of the town; this allowed us to make the most of our short visit.

All of the logistics of the trip were perfect!!  Thank-you!!  We appreciated having a driver / pickup / shuttle at every moment so that we didn't have to worry about where we were going or how to get there.

Figi ... wow!!  It was a perfect ending to our vacation ... and exactly what we asked for.  A place to relax.  That resort was fabulous ... it was small with fantastic customer service, food, entertainment ...