Great value for money, almost like a mini holiday in itself (Magnetic Island)

Member Name: damsmi2002

Product:	Magnetic Island
Date:	14/01/09 (19 review reads)
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Advantages: So cheap you have to do it

Disadvantages: Annoying birds

Magnetic Island, or Maggie Island as you will soon call it, is supposed to recieve the most sunshine per year out of everywhere in Australia, how unfortunate that during our three day stay, two of them were cloudy! Typical.

Despite this Maggy island was one of our highlights of the east coast. It is so cheap that you are stupid not to do it really. It cost us about 50pound and for that we got return ferrys, 2nights accomadation, breakfast and free internet. We were paying about this for a normal dorm on land so to get it here was very good value.

We stayed at the YHA, called a Koala resort, and being a YHA was obviosly going to be a good standard of accomadation. The staff were very friendly and helpful and the beds were in a wooden hut which was novel and comfortable. There was a large communal kiktchen, big enough for about 12-14people to cook, usually they only hold about 5-6.

There are so many activities to do on the island, lots of bush walks, chilling on the beach, we took a sea kayak out for the afternoon and managed to kayak out to a very tiny remote bay where we stayed for the afternoon and were the only people on it...very romantic! There are other water sports to do too, and other accomadations to stay at, such as base.

Despite it not being sunny it was very warm still, we could still sit in our swimwear on the beach, so if your goiung in the summer i would imagin it to be incredibly hot, so take plenty of suncream.

There was one downside, when we wanted to eat on the beach, or on grassy areas, there was a type of multi-coloured bird that was intent on attacting us! was sort of like the film 'the birds' apart from this though, the island was fantastic.

Summary: Its cheaper than staying on the mainland and gives a different experience, a must do