Orpheus Island Australia

Escape the pressures of the modern day with a luxury Queensland island holiday at Orpheus Island Resort, a Great Barrier Reef resort situated within its own national park. Be pampered with the very best in cuisine and hospitality and stay in tropical vacation comfort in your own private luxury holiday accommodation. Just a few kilometres from the Australian mainland, Orpheus Island feels a universe away from day-to-day cares ? the perfect place to be marooned in luxury for a few days. With only 21 rooms, and pretty well an entire island to themselves, guests are generally only apparent at meal times.

Orpheus is all about unhurried private luxury and tranquillity as you have only the best of everything for your holiday. The private patio, the big spa, the separate living area, with Chardonnay chilling in the ice bucket, the king-size bed, the blissful quiet after five minutes, and the city seems like a distant dream, as you start to relax and unwind in your spacious unit. A coral fringed island resort within its own national park, Orpheus Island Resort offers the ultimate in Great Barrier Reef holidays. An exclusive, sophisticated hideaway for those seeking intimate experiences in a natural, relaxed retreat! Without the intrusion of telephones, televisions, day-trippers or children under 15, Orpheus Island offers total privacy and a premium level of discrete and unaffected service. With a limit of 42 guests you will have the space you need to truly find yourself.

At Orpheus Island Resort, the activities are plentiful and purely optional. Here you can take part in a wide array of complimentary activities, at your leisure. There are a hundred ways to lose yourself on Orpheus. Nothing is forced upon you, but there are activities for all levels of fitness and taste. Explore the coral gardens where 1,100 species of fish add to the riot of colour. Relax on your own private beach with a gourmet hamper, take part in a unique nature interpretive activity, or simply relax by the pool and waste away the hours ? it?s your choice. One certainty is that at Orpheus you will find your perfect romantic escape.

You can also choose to take out a motorised dinghy, paddle skis, canoes, catamarans or even have a go at some day or night tennis. There is also complimentary light fishing gear available as well as local snorkelling trips available and not to mention the self guided walk through the pristine national parks on the island. Orpheus Island Resort is a premium nature based hideaway. Surrounded by 1,300 hectares of pristine national park, Orpheus offers guided and unguided walks throughout the park allowing you to explore the local flora, fauna and wildlife. There are three clear walking tracks within the national park. The resort offers various guided and unguided walking options.

Orpheus Island is a true Great Barrier Reef island. The surrounding waters contain what is regarded by experts to be some of the best coral on the entire Barrier reef. The islands fringing reef are best explored by snorkelling or diving - 1,100 species of fish and 340 of the 350 known species of reef coral. Snorkelling is a fantastic way to explore the wonders of the reef! At Orpheus Island Resort, they take pride in the fact that every person in the water who is snorkelling or diving has the highest standards of skills necessary for their own safety and for the preservation of the Reef areas they frequent.

Dining is a relaxed and unforgettable highlight of the Orpheus experience. Tropical fruits, local seafood?s and exotic delicacies are served with flair and imagination ? with delicious ocean views and sunsets thrown in for good measure. Their award winning restaurant caters to the gourmet lover, offering an a la carte breakfast, to alfresco courtyard lunches, to gourmet picnic hampers, and finally each evening a seven course degustation menu. Their chef prepares a new menu daily which is sure to take your taste buds on a gastronomic tour. To find yourself, you must first of all lose yourself. And if you must lose yourself, what better place than amidst the world?s greatest natural wonder ? the Great Barrier Reef. This is Orpheus Island!