Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
Jun 13th 2016, 11:43 pm
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Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
For Easter 2017.
Any suggestions of good websites to use for browsing/booking, and decent locations (any to avoid?), etc.?
There are ten of us (though two of us are <6 yrs) and we need minimum of four bedrooms, preferably five. In NZ there are really just two websites for booking baches so it's all very easy and this is doing my spud in.
We don't have to be by the sea but near water/ with pool would be nice. Would consider GC if it was somewhere quiet (my mother is convinced it would be lunacy to go there over Easter and keeps going on about the M1 being impossible, etc.). I think my visiting sister would enjoy the GC and I have been wanting to explore the hinterland a bit for years. So either SC or GC would be fine, so long as we can avoid the crowds/ traffic. Two of the three family units plan to fly up from Sydney; my family plan to drive up (from Newcastle - my kids are all grown so can suck up the long car journey).
Advice would be most gratefully received. Here's some in return: never offer to be the one who organises a holiday for extended family
Any suggestions of good websites to use for browsing/booking, and decent locations (any to avoid?), etc.?
There are ten of us (though two of us are <6 yrs) and we need minimum of four bedrooms, preferably five. In NZ there are really just two websites for booking baches so it's all very easy and this is doing my spud in.
We don't have to be by the sea but near water/ with pool would be nice. Would consider GC if it was somewhere quiet (my mother is convinced it would be lunacy to go there over Easter and keeps going on about the M1 being impossible, etc.). I think my visiting sister would enjoy the GC and I have been wanting to explore the hinterland a bit for years. So either SC or GC would be fine, so long as we can avoid the crowds/ traffic. Two of the three family units plan to fly up from Sydney; my family plan to drive up (from Newcastle - my kids are all grown so can suck up the long car journey).
Advice would be most gratefully received. Here's some in return: never offer to be the one who organises a holiday for extended family
Jun 14th 2016, 12:49 am
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
For Easter 2017.
Any suggestions of good websites to use for browsing/booking, and decent locations (any to avoid?), etc.?
There are ten of us (though two of us are <6 yrs) and we need minimum of four bedrooms, preferably five. In NZ there are really just two websites for booking baches so it's all very easy and this is doing my spud in.
We don't have to be by the sea but near water/ with pool would be nice. Would consider GC if it was somewhere quiet (my mother is convinced it would be lunacy to go there over Easter and keeps going on about the M1 being impossible, etc.). I think my visiting sister would enjoy the GC and I have been wanting to explore the hinterland a bit for years. So either SC or GC would be fine, so long as we can avoid the crowds/ traffic. Two of the three family units plan to fly up from Sydney; my family plan to drive up (from Newcastle - my kids are all grown so can suck up the long car journey).
Advice would be most gratefully received. Here's some in return: never offer to be the one who organises a holiday for extended family
Any suggestions of good websites to use for browsing/booking, and decent locations (any to avoid?), etc.?
There are ten of us (though two of us are <6 yrs) and we need minimum of four bedrooms, preferably five. In NZ there are really just two websites for booking baches so it's all very easy and this is doing my spud in.
We don't have to be by the sea but near water/ with pool would be nice. Would consider GC if it was somewhere quiet (my mother is convinced it would be lunacy to go there over Easter and keeps going on about the M1 being impossible, etc.). I think my visiting sister would enjoy the GC and I have been wanting to explore the hinterland a bit for years. So either SC or GC would be fine, so long as we can avoid the crowds/ traffic. Two of the three family units plan to fly up from Sydney; my family plan to drive up (from Newcastle - my kids are all grown so can suck up the long car journey).
Advice would be most gratefully received. Here's some in return: never offer to be the one who organises a holiday for extended family
AirBnB would be a great start, and I have also used Booking.com as well- both allow you to filter for your requirements.
S
Jun 14th 2016, 1:36 am
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
Thanks for the links - very helpful. Are you familiar with GC and SC? Is my mother right that the GC would be "hell over Easter" with logjam on the M1? Is Varsity Lakes a quiet enough area?
I think the problem might be finding somewhere that suits folk in their mid-60s and teens ....
I think the problem might be finding somewhere that suits folk in their mid-60s and teens ....
Jun 14th 2016, 1:39 am
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
Thanks for the links - very helpful. Are you familiar with GC and SC? Is my mother right that the GC would be "hell over Easter" with logjam on the M1? Is Varsity Lakes a quiet enough area?
I think the problem might be finding somewhere that suits folk in their mid-60s and teens ....
I think the problem might be finding somewhere that suits folk in their mid-60s and teens ....
Personally, I'd say the GC would be hell at any time of year, but thousands of kids can only work to make it a lower level of hell.
S
Jun 14th 2016, 4:52 am
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
Thanks for the links - very helpful. Are you familiar with GC and SC? Is my mother right that the GC would be "hell over Easter" with logjam on the M1? Is Varsity Lakes a quiet enough area?
I think the problem might be finding somewhere that suits folk in their mid-60s and teens ....
I think the problem might be finding somewhere that suits folk in their mid-60s and teens ....
Jun 14th 2016, 5:37 am
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
OK, thanks - will go for SC then 
If nothing else, because I can't be done with 7 days of her saying 'I told you so'!
If nothing else, because I can't be done with 7 days of her saying 'I told you so'!
Jun 14th 2016, 6:05 am
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Jun 14th 2016, 11:55 am
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
I've never noticed the GC being hell over Easter. I don't live around Surfers/Broadbeach or the theme parks but life goes on as normal. Supermarkets get stupid on the Thursday but I'm fairly sure that happens the world over. The motorway is busy on the Thursday afternoon/Friday morning going south and then north Monday afternoon, apart from that someone needs to show me the hell 
Apart from anything else why would the Sunshine Coast be any different? People from Brissie go North as often as they go South, it's a holiday. Call me confused.
However wtf do I know, I've only lived here 10+ years. Some of you are obviously way more knowledgeable.
Apart from anything else why would the Sunshine Coast be any different? People from Brissie go North as often as they go South, it's a holiday. Call me confused.
However wtf do I know, I've only lived here 10+ years. Some of you are obviously way more knowledgeable.
Jun 14th 2016, 11:02 pm
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
Well, it's all academic now as we are now going to Byron Bay. 
At least we can do theme parks from BB so the older teens (and husband) will be happy.
Used the Stayz site - thanks all.
moneypenny: I kept looking at the map and saying, "but the GC is massive, right? It can't all be busy". I have a fanciful notion to visit Tamborine Mountain and if it has been all up to me we would have stayed in a retreat up there
At least we can do theme parks from BB so the older teens (and husband) will be happy.
Used the Stayz site - thanks all.
moneypenny: I kept looking at the map and saying, "but the GC is massive, right? It can't all be busy". I have a fanciful notion to visit Tamborine Mountain and if it has been all up to me we would have stayed in a retreat up there
Jun 15th 2016, 1:37 am
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
Jun 15th 2016, 4:35 am
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Whatever goes down. You have the most lovely family holiday BB.
Jun 15th 2016, 11:29 pm
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Re: Booking holiday home, Sunshine Coast
Thanks BEVS
I have both sisters and their families coming over in the next 9 months: exciting!
