We have been on Fitzroy Island since Thursday morning, travelling back to Cairns tomorrow. We did enjoy our time away from the van and the Island was nice although rather rundown. Overall we did enjoy our time there but we had some reservations as well. We were told there was to be no alcohol taken to the Island nor food. We understood this as it was the Resorts way of making a quid out of us. To our utter disappointment our fellow passengers on the ferry were loaded up with grog and food, so our demeanour was not ideal even before we hit the Island.

The trip started off with a 45 minute ferry ride to the Island which turned quite rough, half way across. A fair portion of the passengers on the bottom deck, grabbed a sick bag and headed out back but I don’t believe any were actually sick. I liked the bumps, it was a bit like a ride in a aerobatic plane, although I was able to have a Bundy on this ride, not something that comes in a plane when doing aeros!

Our rooms were very nice with excellent views, although it was easy to see little maintenance was occurring. We had cockroaches in our room, so did Andrew & Sue but they had the added experience of a large Gecko in their room as well. We had an excellent meal in the restaurant the first night but next morning breakfast turned up after 50 minutes and it was cold, so we sent it back and gave it a miss. I know I’m having a whinge but when your paying top dollar at a supposedly high end resort you expect a decent level of service and it was far from that on Fitzroy. Additionally we didn’t know that backpackers and day guests were allowed to frequent the Resort, so there they are sitting drinking their BYO whilst we’ve been forced to pay an exhorbinant amount for ours. It was very disappointing and there were a number of other issues which I won’t go into but lets say that was our one and only time on Fitzroy. I would not recommend it.

That being said we did get to snorkel, swim in the pool, do bushwalks and eat and drink heaps. These are the normal things you do on a holiday, so we managed to do the things we wanted. I do sound ungrateful but it was still nice to be van free for a few days and the views on the Island were great. Certainly we’ll remember that side of our trip with fondness and my experience with the Hen’s party will live long in my memory (see the photo below).