Rates for Araucaria Ecotours
Prices to 31 March 2019
A
note on prices
Dates of
travel How to book
Our prices will go up slightly after March. Download PDF
Prices
are per person, in Australian dollars
and include GST
Children's prices
are to age 16 if accompanied by an adult
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Day tours (all include lunch and
refreshments)
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Adult
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Child
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Bird watching
(see note on
children on birdwatching tours)
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$220.00
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$143.00
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Coochiemudlo
Island
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$176.00
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$119.00
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Australian
Wildlife and Forests
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$209.00
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$154.00
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Glow Worms,
rainforest and wine
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$209.00
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$143.00
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Custom tours
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POA
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Longer tours
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Australian
Wildlife Overview (3 days, 2 nights,
Wed-Friday, all-inclusive):
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camping
(tents, seeping bags etc. provided by
Araucaria)
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$660.00
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$440.00
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lodge /
guest house (twin/double or sharing with
up to 3 others)
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$880.00
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$586.00
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lodge /
guest house (solo occupancy)
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$902.00
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n/a
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Outback tour
(6 days 5 nights or 8 days 7 nights, autumn
& spring, all-inclusive)
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$2662.00
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$1762.00
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Nature study
weekend (self-drive, self-cater): bird
identification an behaviour, ecology of
local wildlife, introduction to identifying
local plants, children's activities TBA
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POA
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Custom tours:
Bunya Mountains Girraween National Park,
variations on our regular tours above
or something completely different: usually
or groups of 4 - 8, with at least 1 month's
notice for a one-day tour, or 3 months'
notice for a longer tour.
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POA
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A note on
prices
 We specialize
in small-group tours with
high-quality guiding in natural
areas.
Companies that take large groups can
spread the travel cost over
more passengers and so
charge less, but with small groups and a
genuine interest in sharing our passion
for wildlife, we can walk more quietly
in the forest, listen to your questions
and cater to your special interests and
needs.
It costs us just as much in time and
fuel to run a one-person tour as
an 8-person tour (although obviously
less for meals, accommodation
etc.). We never cancel a tour if
you do turn out to be the only one on a
tour, but we do then need to charge an
additional $50.00/day (even then we
don't really cover costs, but appreciate
it of you can tell others of your
experience afterwards).
We also charge an additional $50 per
group for an airport pickup or a
Gold Coast pickup.
Dates
of travel
We do
not run tours in the Christmas - New
Year period (23 Dec to 2 Jan) or the
Easter break, when venues tend to be
either closed or very crowded, and
traffic is heavy (sometimes crazy!),
meaning too much time in the vehicle
and not enough at our destinations.
The 3-day
wildlife overview tour runs
Wednesdays
to Fridays throughout the
year. except for the Christmas - New
Year period (when
we are closed from 23 December
through to 2nd January) and the week
before Easter, (when we run this
tour from Tuesday to Thursday
instead).
We can sometimes also slip in an
extra Sunday to Tuesday tour if you
give us ample notice.
With ample notice we can also add an
extra day to the 3-day wildlife tour
to include a day of whale-watching
(May to October) or
snorkeling/diving.
Our prices are based on a cabin
without ensuite on the 2nd
night. Let us know if you'd like to
upgrade fir a slight extra charge.
The
outback tour runs a
maximum of four
times a year - up to twice
in autumn and twice in spring
(summer is very hot, and reptiles
are not active in winter). Dates
vary from year to year based on
demand and availability. Let us know
well in advance if you'd like to
join us (you may even be able to
name your dates if far enough in
advance). It takes us a full day to
reach the start of what we consider
the true outback, so to make the
travel time worthwhile our tours are
usually 6 and sometimes 8 days.
Day-tours
run throughout the year, mostly
on weekends, Mondays or Tuesdays,
but are possible on other days. We
recommend weekdays, as weekends
often see heavy traffic and crowding
if some venues.
Custom tours can be run at
almost any time with sufficient
notice preferably at least three
months).
Booking
a tour
A
deposit of 10% of the tour price or
$50.00 Australian per person
(whichever is highest) is required
at time of booking, and can be paid
by credit card (MasterCard or Visa)
or electronic transfer.
Cancellation: the deposit is
refundable if cancelled more than 14
days prior to the departure date of
the tour.
To book please email
us or see our 'contact' page
Children
of all ages are very welcome on most
of our tours. We generally don't
take the very young on birding
tours that include other birding
guests, as some find it very
difficult to be quiet enough.
However, we are very happy to take
families on birding tours if the
children are interested and
able to talk quietly, and our other
guests for the day are okay with
this.
Some children are very fit and love
walking, but some are not
accustomed to much exercise and tire
very quickly - please let us know
before the tour the relative fitness
of your children so we can plan
accordingly.
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