Guidebook for Cairns City

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Guidebook for Cairns City

Food Scene

Providore Amore - Gormet Food Merchants. BEST coffee in Cairns and it's right across the road! Amazing deli too with a wide variety of deli meats and cheese.
113 Sheridan St
Providore Amore - Gormet Food Merchants. BEST coffee in Cairns and it's right across the road! Amazing deli too with a wide variety of deli meats and cheese.
Open Friday to Sunday. Over 180 stalls with exotic fruit, vegetables, flowers, delis, fresh baked breads, dairy, seafood, international food and beverage stalls, bric-a-brac, clothing, jewellery, coffee and chocolate! Support our local farmers and pay the markets a visit.
225 localnici recomandă
Rusty's Market
89 Grafton St
225 localnici recomandă
Open Friday to Sunday. Over 180 stalls with exotic fruit, vegetables, flowers, delis, fresh baked breads, dairy, seafood, international food and beverage stalls, bric-a-brac, clothing, jewellery, coffee and chocolate! Support our local farmers and pay the markets a visit.
If you want to get fancy, this is the best restaurant in Cairns. Multi award winning with Asian fusion dishes, it's very romantic with a soft and intimate atmosphere. If you're a foodie you have to try it. Not for the budget holiday.
22 localnici recomandă
Tamarind Restaurant
6-8 Wharf St
22 localnici recomandă
If you want to get fancy, this is the best restaurant in Cairns. Multi award winning with Asian fusion dishes, it's very romantic with a soft and intimate atmosphere. If you're a foodie you have to try it. Not for the budget holiday.
Awesome little café and art gallery with amazing food and great service
50 localnici recomandă
Flying Monkey Cafe
154 Sheridan St
50 localnici recomandă
Awesome little café and art gallery with amazing food and great service
Pizza delivery or walk across the road
9 localnici recomandă
Domino's Pizza Cairns City
117 Sheridan Street
9 localnici recomandă
Pizza delivery or walk across the road
Great restaurant for casual dinner or large groups. Awesome small plates selection and really good value for your money. Also a great location right on the water front.
25 localnici recomandă
Boatshed
25 localnici recomandă
Great restaurant for casual dinner or large groups. Awesome small plates selection and really good value for your money. Also a great location right on the water front.
49 localnici recomandă
Jamdrop Cafe Cairns
193 Lake St
49 localnici recomandă
Fantastic authentic Greek food, atmosphere is fun and crazy with plate breaking and belly dancing on Friday and Saturday nights. There is also takeaway gyros available for a quick and easy dinner.
10 localnici recomandă
Fetta's Greek Taverna
99 Grafton St
10 localnici recomandă
Fantastic authentic Greek food, atmosphere is fun and crazy with plate breaking and belly dancing on Friday and Saturday nights. There is also takeaway gyros available for a quick and easy dinner.
Cute little bakery just down the road, the fruit tarts are divine.
Swiss Cake & Coffee Shop
91-93A Grafton St
Cute little bakery just down the road, the fruit tarts are divine.
Ribs with bibs! Right on the Pier boardwalk over looking the water, this awesome restaurant has consistently good food.
96 localnici recomandă
Waterbar & Grill Steakhouse
1 Pier Point Rd
96 localnici recomandă
Ribs with bibs! Right on the Pier boardwalk over looking the water, this awesome restaurant has consistently good food.
Fusion Art Bar & Tapas is a new and exciting space in the heart of Cairns. They specialise in good coffee, fine wine and great food. It has an industrial, up cycled and vintage look with old exposed red brick walls and high concrete ceilings. The establishment is 'fused' with UnderArt Gallery.
7 localnici recomandă
Fusion Art Bar & Tapas
12 Spence St
7 localnici recomandă
Fusion Art Bar & Tapas is a new and exciting space in the heart of Cairns. They specialise in good coffee, fine wine and great food. It has an industrial, up cycled and vintage look with old exposed red brick walls and high concrete ceilings. The establishment is 'fused' with UnderArt Gallery.
AMAZING food, great service, just a walk through the park away from our apartment! They are open for breakfast and lunch. Soon they will be doing Friday night wine and tapas nights
Mi Piace Espresso Bar
119 Sheridan St
AMAZING food, great service, just a walk through the park away from our apartment! They are open for breakfast and lunch. Soon they will be doing Friday night wine and tapas nights
Delicious homemade dumplings, buns and noodles! You can eat in or get takeaway, or even order to your door with UberEats.
Dumpling studio
136 Sheridan St
Delicious homemade dumplings, buns and noodles! You can eat in or get takeaway, or even order to your door with UberEats.

Drinks & Nightlife

Great afternoon hang out spot, live music, restaurant section or more casual bar hang out spots with couches and bar menu. Strawberry Bang cocktails are worth a try too.
239 localnici recomandă
Salt House
2 Pier Point Rd
239 localnici recomandă
Great afternoon hang out spot, live music, restaurant section or more casual bar hang out spots with couches and bar menu. Strawberry Bang cocktails are worth a try too.
Right on the esplanade, this place has lots of atmosphere. Very popular with locals and tourists alike.
40 localnici recomandă
Rattle N Hum
67 Esplanade
40 localnici recomandă
Right on the esplanade, this place has lots of atmosphere. Very popular with locals and tourists alike.
First Choice Liquor Cairns
86 Sheridan St
Liquor store
Two nightclubs in one, this is Cairns' largest party venue.
103 localnici recomandă
Gilligan's
89 Grafton St
103 localnici recomandă
Two nightclubs in one, this is Cairns' largest party venue.
In our opinion this is the best wine bar in Cairns. It's open from Wednesday to Sunday and has live music, amazing wine and you can even create your own grazing plate!
17 localnici recomandă
The Conservatory Bar
14 Lake St
17 localnici recomandă
In our opinion this is the best wine bar in Cairns. It's open from Wednesday to Sunday and has live music, amazing wine and you can even create your own grazing plate!

Parks & Nature

Great to get out and go for a walk for some fresh air and exercise along the pathways. Bike tracks are also available.
10 localnici recomandă
Cairns Esplanade Markets
52-54 Esplanade
10 localnici recomandă
Great to get out and go for a walk for some fresh air and exercise along the pathways. Bike tracks are also available.
Great if you have your own hire car, approximately 30 minute drive from Cairns. The hike takes around 45 minutes each way and is good for people with moderate fitness levels. There are beautiful views and gorgeous swimming holes to enjoy along the way.
Behana Gorge Road
Behana Gorge Road
Great if you have your own hire car, approximately 30 minute drive from Cairns. The hike takes around 45 minutes each way and is good for people with moderate fitness levels. There are beautiful views and gorgeous swimming holes to enjoy along the way.
Reef Magic is family friendly and goes out to a pontoon with buffet lunch and glass bottom boat tours, Passions of Paradise is great for younger couples as it's more of a sailing boat and goes out to Michaelmas quay and various reefs, Silver Sonic boat is good for diving and snorkeling and goes to a few different reefs.
17 localnici recomandă
Great Barrier Reef
17 localnici recomandă
Reef Magic is family friendly and goes out to a pontoon with buffet lunch and glass bottom boat tours, Passions of Paradise is great for younger couples as it's more of a sailing boat and goes out to Michaelmas quay and various reefs, Silver Sonic boat is good for diving and snorkeling and goes to a few different reefs.
This amazing tropical island is only a 40 minute ferry ride from the Reef Fleet Terminal. A lot more tourists go to Green Island so we prefer to go here as there is less people. Snorkeling, diving, swimming, kayaking, glass bottom boat tours, lighthouse hike, snorkeling, walking track to the stunning Nudey Beach. Foxy's bar serves up a great cocktail and lunch. To get there , the Reef Fleet Terminal is less than 2kms from our apartment, an approx 8 minute drive without traffic.
149 localnici recomandă
Fitzroy Island
149 localnici recomandă
This amazing tropical island is only a 40 minute ferry ride from the Reef Fleet Terminal. A lot more tourists go to Green Island so we prefer to go here as there is less people. Snorkeling, diving, swimming, kayaking, glass bottom boat tours, lighthouse hike, snorkeling, walking track to the stunning Nudey Beach. Foxy's bar serves up a great cocktail and lunch. To get there , the Reef Fleet Terminal is less than 2kms from our apartment, an approx 8 minute drive without traffic.
Muddy's is a modern, fun, safe, splash playground and parkland. Also has a disabled-use Liberty Swing and a café.
96 localnici recomandă
Muddy's Cafe
174 Esplanade
96 localnici recomandă
Muddy's is a modern, fun, safe, splash playground and parkland. Also has a disabled-use Liberty Swing and a café.
Playground
7 localnici recomandă
Cairns Esplanade Fun Ship Playground
Esplanade
7 localnici recomandă
Playground
Newly redeveloped and finished in August 2016, Munro Martin Parklands is a premier gathering place and outdoor performance space. Tropical plantings, vine covered pergolas and arbours and open-air plaza will host a wide range of shows from full orchestras to music concerts and theatre performances. Open to the public from 6am to 8.80pm.
24 localnici recomandă
Munro Martin Parklands
123 Sheridan St
24 localnici recomandă
Newly redeveloped and finished in August 2016, Munro Martin Parklands is a premier gathering place and outdoor performance space. Tropical plantings, vine covered pergolas and arbours and open-air plaza will host a wide range of shows from full orchestras to music concerts and theatre performances. Open to the public from 6am to 8.80pm.

Shopping

Cairns' biggest shopping centre with fashion stores, health and beauty, supermarket, liquor shop, services, homewares, food court and more. Approximately a 12 minute walk from the apartment.
173 localnici recomandă
Cairns Central Shopping Centre
21 McLeod St
173 localnici recomandă
Cairns' biggest shopping centre with fashion stores, health and beauty, supermarket, liquor shop, services, homewares, food court and more. Approximately a 12 minute walk from the apartment.

Essentials

Catch up on the local news and see what's happening around town.
Sheridan ST News
Catch up on the local news and see what's happening around town.
24 hour medical centre, 140m down the road.
60 localnici recomandă
The Cairns 24 Hour Medical Centre
60 localnici recomandă
24 hour medical centre, 140m down the road.
Cairns Base Hospital is the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland if anything major should go wrong.
20 localnici recomandă
Cairns Hospital
20 localnici recomandă
Cairns Base Hospital is the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland if anything major should go wrong.
Ramsay Pharmacy Cairns Medical Centre (formerly Cairns Apothecary Pharmacy)
156-160 Grafton St
Chemist just down the road
Massive Woolies with a bakery, hot food and café, also has a full sushi bar with freshly made sushi,
99 localnici recomandă
Woolworths Cairns
103 Abbott St
99 localnici recomandă
Massive Woolies with a bakery, hot food and café, also has a full sushi bar with freshly made sushi,

Sightseeing

Experience spans 7.5kms over Australia's pristine tropical rainforests. Takes approx 1.5hrs one way or 2-2.5hrs return. Commence or conclude at either Smithfield or Kuranda. Coaches are available for transfer.
284 localnici recomandă
Skyrail Rainforest Cableway
6 Skyrail Dr
284 localnici recomandă
Experience spans 7.5kms over Australia's pristine tropical rainforests. Takes approx 1.5hrs one way or 2-2.5hrs return. Commence or conclude at either Smithfield or Kuranda. Coaches are available for transfer.
Located just 40 minutes north of Cairns and 25 minutes south of Port Douglas, Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures is simply the best place to see crocodiles and local wildlife in Tropical North Queensland. With over 2100m of timber boardwalks and pathways leading you on a journey of discovery through woodlands and rainforest where you can see an array of wildlife, including beautiful tropical birds, reptiles, insects and other native fauna.
197 localnici recomandă
Aventurile cu crocodili ale lui Hartley
Captain Cook Highway
197 localnici recomandă
Located just 40 minutes north of Cairns and 25 minutes south of Port Douglas, Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures is simply the best place to see crocodiles and local wildlife in Tropical North Queensland. With over 2100m of timber boardwalks and pathways leading you on a journey of discovery through woodlands and rainforest where you can see an array of wildlife, including beautiful tropical birds, reptiles, insects and other native fauna.
Where to catch the reef boats from
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Reef Fleet Terminal
LOT 2 Spence Street
46 localnici recomandă
Where to catch the reef boats from

Entertainment & Activities

Public swimming pool. FINA standard 50m Olympic pool, warm water therapy, flow rider (artificial wave pool), swimming lessons, toddler splash pool,
80 localnici recomandă
Tobruk Memorial Pool
370 Sheridan St
80 localnici recomandă
Public swimming pool. FINA standard 50m Olympic pool, warm water therapy, flow rider (artificial wave pool), swimming lessons, toddler splash pool,
This is the world's first challenge ropes course in a wildlife park. In the Reef Hotel Casino, half day or full day tours are available. You can cuddle a koala, enjoy wildlife presentations, experience adventure on the zoom courses with three ziplines.
82 localnici recomandă
Cairns ZOOM și Wildlife Dome
35-41 Wharf St
82 localnici recomandă
This is the world's first challenge ropes course in a wildlife park. In the Reef Hotel Casino, half day or full day tours are available. You can cuddle a koala, enjoy wildlife presentations, experience adventure on the zoom courses with three ziplines.
Active Living Free Fitness - here is a timetable for the free fitness classes held by our local council on the Esplanade. There is yoga, pilates, strength training, boxing, aqua zumba, bouldering, interval training, and meditation. http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/esplanade/whats-on/active-living
281 localnici recomandă
Laguna Esplanade din Cairns
54 Esplanade
281 localnici recomandă
Active Living Free Fitness - here is a timetable for the free fitness classes held by our local council on the Esplanade. There is yoga, pilates, strength training, boxing, aqua zumba, bouldering, interval training, and meditation. http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/esplanade/whats-on/active-living