jbwilliamz

Ola folks, here in Melbourne for the last 8 weeks and lookign to rent a campervan and drive from here to Cairns, anyone done anything simular?!

Some ideas on duration and price?
Camper would cost around $1200 for 4 weeks ish...

Duration?! is that long enough? do we need more time?!

Cheers!!
Jb

UK-2-OZ

We have drove to Brisbane but you are probably looking at nearly twice the distance to Cairns. We prefered to get to our destination asap so only stopped one night which was just over half way in Coonabarabran (sp) I think 4 weeks will give you plenty of time. Just be careful if you are thinking of driving at night, there are a lot of roos on the road and you could end up writing the car off.

johnthepom1

hi there
when me and oh were in oz backpacking we phoned around the campervan companys and asked if they had any relocations.

we done this a few times and they only charged us $1 a day but there was a time limit for us to get the van to its destination but if i remember right we could have it longer at a cheaper rate than normal.

the best one we had was a 6 berth van and we drove that from sydney to perth over 13 days where we stoped of at melbourne and adelaid and a couple of other places in western austrailia.

i would recomend this as we saved so much money and you could do it over a month from melb to cairns that would be plenty of time to see the sights and not have to worry about rushing it

slipshot

Depends on how long you want to stop at various places.

Mrs Slip's father did this when he moved from Melbourne to Port Douglas, and he drive towing a boat, so it was a slower speed than a camper would do, and because he did not want to stop unless to sleep, he did it in 48 hours, including sleeps. Hard going through.

remember Brisbane is closer to Melbourne than Cairns. Sydney is about 8 hour drive from Melbourne.

That should help you plan your drive... I reckon, with tourist stops, 4 days would be easily enough.