Gold Coast to Airlie Beach road trip: Best stops, distance & time
Gold Coast to Airlie Beach road trip: Bundaberg and Childers
The next tempting detour is Bundaberg, where you can taste Queensland’s most famous rum on the Bundaberg Rum distillery tours. You can also choose turtle-watching at Mon Repos, beach time at Bargara, or strawberry-picking at Tinaberries,.
6 Bundaberg experiences to make the most of your free time
- (Highly recommended ✅) Tour – with tastings – at the Bundaberg rum distillery.
- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Day trip to Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
- Fly out to Lady Elliot Island for a day on the reef.
- See migrating humpbacks – on a four hour whale watching cruise with lunch.
- Brewery tasting tour – including the famous Bundaberg ginger beer.
- Farm life experience at Splitters Farm.
Excellent value Bundaberg accommodation includes the Villa Mirasol Motor Inn, Bundaberg Spanish Motor Inn and Bundaberg Big4 Cane Village Holiday Park.
Stay on the Bruce Highway, though, and you’ll reach to heritage town Childers and the Snakes Downunder reptile park. A little further along come Good Night Scrub National Park from Gin Gin, and fishing-friendly Lake Monduran.
Click through for the next section: Agnes Water and Gladstone.