Adelaide to Ayers Rock

John,

Cadney is definitely a good one night stopover. I agree with the poster above and also here are some other opinions along the track.

home.vicnet.net.au/~badger04/parks_s4.htm

Ayers Rock is awesome! The general opinion is that the resort and the local community are a bit heavy with their charges, but I guess that's their call.

Don't miss the RFDS Connellan's Hangar and the Telegraph Station in Alice.

Safe travelling

Kingo

I was surprised at how relatively cheap the Ayer's Rock Resort was for our camper trailer, also you can get pretty cheap meals at the Outback Pioneer Lodge.
The supermarket prices were OK too.

Another good place to camp would be at Mount Connor, I believe that you can get the OK from Curtin Springs. Apparently it is very much like camping at Ayer's Rock 40 years ago.

thanks for quick response. Are there conditions for the free camping at Cadney? do you have to arrive between 5-7pm?

When we stayed at Yulara in the Camping ground it was shocking. So much so that I wrote letters of complaint to the manager and NT Tourism.

They put us in amongst the tour buses. About 60 18 to 35 yr olds who partied all night. When I asked them to keep hte noise down as my young kids were trying to sleep they said OK but did nothing. When I called security they did not come for over an hour and then simply drove oast with their windows up. Didn't even shine a torch around. When I called them back at about 1am they said they had investigated that complaint and there was nothing to worry about.

I eventually called the NT Police who came into the area and asked the bus group to be quiet. They then sat in their car until the lights were all out.

Next night it was a differnet tour group but the same story. I had spoken with the duty manager during the day and she assured me that if I had any more problems she would deal with it. She gave me her mobile number but when I called it it was turned off.

In addition to this the toilets and showers were filthy. Waste bins overflowing mud all over the place and no toilet paper. My 11 year old son was very upset when he got out of the shower to find young women from the tour bus running around in the gents.

Will we ever go back? Not likely. They could not pay me enough.

As for the price, it was a lot more expensive than the Resort Campground at Kings Canyon. There were tour buses there too but they were well behaved probably because of the visible and active security.

Apart form that John we enjoyed our trip to Alice and surrounds. I am not sure what kind of van you have but if you are comfortable on corrugations then Rainbow Valley is worth a look. In Alice Macdonnel Ranges CP is very good.

Duncs

Opps, soory John, no longer FREE, but still go value!. Is it $5 per person or car load. No John you can arrive any time you like :))