A fully guided tour visiting the world’s largest Sub Tropical rainforest and famous O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat. Experience stunning panoramic views, canopy treetop walk, see wild birds and more on this relaxed journey to 1,000 metres above sea level.
Learn about the O’Reilly’s amazing history on route including the Stinson plane crash and see why this beautiful property is on the must do list for travellers from all over the world.
When visiting the Scenic Rim, a stop at a vineyard is a must. O’Reilly’s own Canungra Valley Vineyard set by a mountain stream gives you the chance to check out the vineyard and enjoy a complimentary glass of their own sparkling wine. This is also home to Mountain View Alpaca Farm.
Remove the hassle of driving and experience the hinterland with the Gold Coast’s most experienced rainforest tour operator.
Posted By : Margaret_C
Had a fantastic day!! Great trip to the rainforest. Stopped for coffee in Canungra, then morning tea at the top of the mountain, with amazing views. Then went to O'Reillys, walked through the tree tops. Fed the beautiful birds, then off for lunch and wine tasting....delicious. Finally walked an Alpaca, another great experience. Mark, our guide was brilliant. He is very knowledgeable and really easy to talk to, so made the day relaxing and a great experience!! Highly recommend!!
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Posted On : 2024-05-03 17:46:14 
Posted By : Jordan_R
The mountain lookout was a beautiful pit stop on our way up to the tree walk. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and shared lots of fun facts about the rainforest with us. After the beautiful walk, the winery was the perfect end of the day. Would recommend!
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Posted On : 2024-03-17 19:35:50
Posted By : P5001YDlilyl
Great tour! Pick up location was easy to find, bus is comfortable and air conditioned.
Our tour guide Mark was not only very knowledgeable but also clearly passionate about the area. We learned lots of interesting facts about the wildlife and nature. The first stop is a beautiful view, then the walk through the rainforest is very easy and interesting (seeing from the top of the canopy is cool). A big highlight is getting to feed the wild birds! They are so friendly and calm, they will happily eat seeds from you for ages. The vineyard to end the tour is lovely; good food options for gluten free and very reasonably priced wine tasting (one per couple is probably enough as they give you BIG tasters!). All in all very happy with this tour company and would highly recommend this tour in particular as a fun day out.
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Posted On : 2024-03-15 08:31:47 
Posted By : RobynW1016
This was a great trip with Bill our experienced driver and guide who was very knowledgable and informative about the region and sights to look at.
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Posted On : 2024-03-03 16:20:33
Posted By : MaciekM208
Marc was such a great guide, he's told us so many cool stories about the areas we visited and GC itself but also about the NT where he was raised. It was a very enjoyable day, but if you have a motion sickness, make sure to take your tablets in the morning as the road is a bit windy - I loved it and wished I could drive myself! My suggestion would be to extend the time spend in the winery, we only had time for a meal (loved the pumpkin salad) and we had to go back to GC. I'd like to get an hour to walk around and explore or just chill under the tree, that's my only criticism.
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Posted On : 2024-02-24 23:14:49
Posted By : Tamara_M
Our guide, Bill was great! He was full of great facts and stories, altered the tour to accommodate our interests and kept things moving.
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Posted On : 2024-01-25 19:01:45
Posted By : Cheryl F
Had so much fun on this tour! Andy is an amazing tour guide and is very knowledgeable about the area. I especially love feeding the birds. Would recommend
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Posted On : 2023-12-07 01:01:27
Posted By : JaseLuce
Great day out and Bill is an awesome tour guide! Stunning rainforest canopy walk, hand-feeding the parrots and rosellas, and lunch at O’Reillys was amazing!
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Posted On : 2023-11-16 18:12:29
Posted By : CarolinaCocina2
We went on the Lamington Park tour from the Gold Coast. The pick up time was 9:15am and they ask that you arrive 5-10 minutes early. We did and they were early so this made for a smooth start. Our guide did not introduce himself (later learned that his name is Andrew) or any of the other guests (on other tours guides have surveyed the guests to find out where people are from, if it is there first visit, etc. and we have found this to be a nice way of getting people to talk/make connections). He did give us some interesting history of the Gold Coast as we left the area which we appreciated. Our first stop was a restroom break (advertised as a coffee/tea break but there was no time for that). From there we went to a nice lookout and cakes/popcorn/pretzels and boxed drinks were provided. At this point he passed around menus for us to choose our lunch choices (lunch was not included). We had noted when booking the tour that lunch is listed as "optional" and so I had asked if we could bring our own lunch. I was told yes, that we could bring a picnic lunch to eat at the winery. When we told our guide that we had this and were not going to order lunch, he seemed very surprised and said that wasn't really allowed and we would have to be very discreet and eat away from the main area where we couldn't be seen. Our next stop was O'Reilly's Rainforest. This was a fascinating place and well worth spending time here. Unfortunately, the whole thing felt very rushed. It was not crowded at all, so we really just wanted to take a few minutes in one place and really see/hear all the amazing life around us. The pace was set to keep moving and not linger in one spot, so this was disappointing. After leaving, we went to the winery for lunch, where there are clear signs prohibiting any outside food on the premesis. We took our lunch down to the river (a beautiful spot!) and discreetly ate our lunch. The bird life there was amazing. A quick drive home had us back at our hotel by 3:20, making us feel that we could have had more time at the rainforest. The trip was worth taking because we wanted to see the area, but we will not use Southern Cross tours again.
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Posted On : 2023-10-29 12:43:28
Posted By : treozzie
Excellent tour ...our tour driver Andy was really good .So much knowledge about the area we visited especially the birds we saw and got to photograph
I highly recommend .
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Posted On : 2023-10-24 05:31:03
