Tangalooma Island Resort By Mandy Clarke, Editor
TripAdvisor’s 2020 Travellers’ Choice Best of The Best Awards are based on millions of real guest reviews across hotels worldwide and focus on uncovering those that deliver the greatest overall guest satisfaction. Tangalooma Island Resort’s Bernie O’Keefe told me he was thrilled about the resort’s success.
This month, our Last Resort features more of a First Resort as we sought to spotlight a local provider doing amazing work! Surrounded by white sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, fringed by national park, Moreton Island is home to a pod of wild bottlenose dolphins, sunken shipwrecks, and Tangalooma Resort. This is possibly South East Queensland’s most iconic Island resort and the ‘first resort’ many of us Aussies ever visited. Tangalooma was also my first resort experience when, in 1982, I remember holidaying on the idyllic deserted tropical island paradise. We camped on the beach, swam with the dolphins, snorkelled in and around the wreck, and of course visited the resort daily. It was certainly another world for me (a pom from the Midlands in the UK) and I could not believe that this nirvana was right on Brisbane’s
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doorstep - only a 75 min trip. Over the years, I revisited the resort many times and took my own children who also loved the Island. They especially loved that Tangalooma Resort was used as a location for the 2002 Scooby Doo movie and I will never forget their delight at arriving on the old Tangalooma jetty. To my kids, Tangalooma Resort will always be “Spooky Island” but today there are not many reminders that the film was shot there, as the resort has been beautifully developed and transformed. Although not everything has
Recently, Tangalooma Island Resort on Moreton Island was named top three in TripAdvisor’s 2020 Travellers’ Choice Best of Best Awards.
He said: “It’s great to see that we are hitting the mark as a familyfriendly destination. We are lucky to have such a stunning location so close to a major city, but it’s great that our guests feel that the proximity to Brisbane and ease of access is being matched by the variety and calibre of tours and activities and overall experience on offer. It’s an honour to be recognised for delivering on that premise. Families keep telling us how safe they feel at Tangalooma.
This recognition places them in the top one percent of hospitality businesses around the globe. It is also one of the top three Family Hotels in Australia and one of the Top 10 Family Hotels in the South Pacific region.
“There are no cars, highways, or traffic jams to worry about. Our calm waters mean you don’t need to worry about the waves, and even when the resort is at capacity, it often feels like you have the beach all to yourself.”
changed over the years and the highlight of any stay is still the opportunity to interact closely with nature and hand feed the dolphins daily.
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