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My wife and I have just completed a four-week vacation in Australia organized by "Inside Australia ". Vickie Parrack was our travel consultant. Our custom itinerary was put together by Vickie following several telephone discussions and exchanges of emails with us. Our itinerary (omitting the details of numerous multi-day stopovers) can be summarized as follows: Melbourne, drive to Adelaide, fly to Cairns, drive to Port Douglas, overnight train to Brisbane, drive to Noosa, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle and Sydney. Our strategy was to stay in excellent, well-located hotels in the major cities, and to be more economical in smaller locations. Hotels that deserve a special mention were The Langham in Melbourne and The Four Seasons in Sydney, both of which were wonderful and incredibly well-located. Peppers in Port Douglas and Rydges in Newcastle were excellent as well. Finally - not a hotel but a train - the accommodation on the Spirit of Queensland train from Cairns to Brisbane, a 25-hour journey, was excellent. The "rail beds" are super-comfortable and comparable to the lie-flat seats in the business class cabin on an aircraft. We’re really glad we didn’t try to drive from Cairns to Brisbane. It would be a very long drive on less-than-wonderful roads.

Neisha did a great job organizing our Australian vacation and we had a wonderful time. She planned our New Zealand vacation in November, 2023 and we were so pleased my wife insisted we use her again when we found out she also planned Australian vacations. Vacations are so much better when everything flows smoothly and the hotels, rental cars, and apartments are ready when you expect them to be. We told Neisha the kinds of things we like and the kind of accommodations we liked and she came through with flying colors! I highly recommend letting Neisha plan your vacation, I know I will be giving her a call when I get to come back! Thanks, Michael Till

Dear Petra, Thank you so much for your help and guidance with planning our itinerary for our Australian driving tour. All the hotels that you picked out were very comfortable and beautiful! We loved the personality and uniqueness of each place we stayed (especially the historical Carrington in the Blue Mountains). We did stop at a couple of your recommendations along our driving tour and enjoyed each area we explored. We had a very special koala encounter at the Koala Sanctuary, and the dinner cruise on Sydney Harbour was amazing.

Trip was very nice and well organised. We enjoyed it. Thanks for your advice in organising. When discussing Australia travel with others we will refer to your company.

We are back home safe and sound after a truly wonderful trip, and I just wanted to take a moment to thank you, again, for everything. Our trip went off without a hitch, we had an incredible amount of fun, all of our lodging was in top notch locations and worked very well, and we absolutely fell in love with your country! There are just too many amazing moments of our vacation to recount, and we appreciate all of your work in putting it together for us.

We recently concluded a most rewarding visit and journey to Australia. We owe this good fortune to our contact with Andrew Lawson at Inside Australia Travel. We contacted him approx. 10 months prior to our Australian tour. During that time, Andrew was a beacon of enthusiasm, support, with keen attention to detail, and also most accommodating when we edited our travel plans. He made the entire process seamless and, quite frankly, very easy. Andrew offered the very best in accommodations, tours, and travel within Australia. All the reservations were spot on. There were absolutely no glitches in this travel experience. Therefore, we could not be more thankful or appreciative for all that Andrew did to make this great Australian experience happen.