Queensland outback tours: Coach holidays to Roma, Longreach and Winton
New guided Queensland outback tours with AAT Kings combine coach holidays with the Spirit of Queensland train journey.
Tour operator AAT Kings has launched a new seven day holiday option that takes in several top attractions in the Queensland outback.
The new Queensland Spirit: Heart of the Outback tour is part coach holiday, part great train journey. It starts in Brisbane before heading inland to some of Queensland’s most fascinating outback towns, including Charleville, Longreach and Winton. Experiences include dinners on vast sheep stations and learning about the dinosaur fossils paleontologists have dug up in rural Queensland.
Queensland outback tours: Chinchilla, Roma, Charleville and Quilpie
The first day of these Queensland outback tours stops by the Big Watermelon in Chinchilla before stopping overnight at the Overlander Homestead Motel in Roma.
It then continues past the wetlands around Charleville to the Ray Station in Quilpie. The two night stay here is about station life. You can stay in the refurbished shearer’s quarters, talk to the people who make this working station tick, head out on a tour of the vast property and fossick for opals.
Queensland outback tours: Longreach and Winton
The next stop is Longreach, home to the Qantas Founders Museum. The two night stay is in glamping tents at the Mitchell Grass Retreat.
From Longreach, there’s a day trip to Winton, home of the Waltzing Matilda Centre and Australian Age of Dinosaurs. The highlight on this section of the AAT Kings Queensland outback tour, however, is a three course dinner in the shearing shed at Camden Park Station.
Spirit of the Outback train: Private cabins
The final leg of the journey is the Spirit of the Outback train from Longreach to Brisbane. Guests on the AAT Kings Queensland outback tour get their own private cabin on the Spirit of the Outback. Dinner is served on board as one of Australia’s great train journeys makes its way through the outback.
The Heart of the Outback tour costs from £2,605 per person, including accommodation, most meals and return flights to Brisbane from the UK. For prices travelling from elsewhere, enquire via the AAT Kings website.