43 Reviews
Fraser Island Retreat
Fraser Island|1.07km from Yidney Rocks Beachfront Units
This complex is showing its age but it was a comfortable location in Happy Valley. We lucked out with a refurbished bathroom in our 1 bedroom cabin (cabin 5, our friends in cabin 4 had an older bathroom). It contained a full size fridge and kettle and cups in the room with access to a communal camp kitchen with a gas BBQ, microwave, toaster, sink. Plenty of dishwashing liquid, chux, paper towels and alfoil were supplied there. Two hotplates and a dire looking fridge looked old and no idea if they worked; the BBQ was a little slow but worked fine. With your own fridge in your cabin there is no need to use the communal one but remember to bring all your own crockery, cutlery and anything else you need. Our cabin was clean and the camp kitchen reasonably so. We had plenty of hot water in the bathroom with decent pressure in the shower. In relation to a comment below, there was one blanket on our queen bed and a double size one on each of the two single beds (so they could be doubled over for warmth) but there were also extra quilts in the blanket box in the room. The mattresses felt new as did the pillows, but they were quite high and hard and I wished I had brought mine with me. If you have children, like camping, don't forget to bring along things to amuse them as no TV and variable internet depending on your provider. Be prepared to carry your gear up several flights of wooden stairs to reach the higher cabins. There is a pool (too cold so didn't try it) and a cafe/licensed bar/restaurant on site and the dinner we ate there was very good and reasonably priced. Special mention to a decent salad with our various seafood options that contained lots of variety not just limp lettuce as we have been served in much more expensive establishments. Like all settlements on Fraser now, Happy Valley is enclosed within a dingo fence. The shop area stocked a variety of eg tinned and snack items if you forgot something or need to boost your supplies, as well as various toiletries, bait for fishing and souvenir items. The cafe opened for coffee by around 8am. Don't forget of course you need a 4WD to get here.
