When Camping Turns Luxury Down Under
We've already whet your appetite for an Australian luxury tent holiday with our daydreaming about a stay at Longitude 131: a relaxing stay with the best views in Australia. Luxury tents seem like the best of both worlds to us, since you can do the whole communing with nature thing but without having to, well, commune with nature too much. It's the fresh air and great views without the ants in your sleeping bag (or worse).
It seems like these luxury tents are starting to sprout all over Australia, as there are a number of advantages, not least that they don't require such environmental destruction as setting up a regular hotel does. Plus:
New safari-style camps come with few worries ... Instead they deliver king and queen-size beds, ensuite bathrooms, mini-bars, airconditioning and sometimes canapes at sunset. Australia has a handful of upmarket tented resorts, often in wild and beautiful places where bricks and mortar would come between the visitor and what they've come to see.
Other Aussie "tent" hotels that come recommended include the Gawler Range Kangaluna Camp properties in the outback north of Adelaide, the tented Wilson Island on a bird sanctuary at the Great Barrier Reef and the creekside Paperbark Camp in New South Wales. Check them out if you want to sound tough enough to "go camping" (but don't show your friends back home the photos if you want them to believe the camping thing).
[Photo: Chela & Damian]
Related Stories:
· Aussie Tents a Luxury [The Australian]
· Cubicle Dreamin': Longitude 131 at Ayers Rock [HotelChatter]
Hotel Reviews:
· Longitude 131
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