Hotels in some of the country's most popular destinations are reporting no vacancies for the next three weeks as holidaymakers race to snap up half-price airfares, smashing pandemic travel records.
"There's just nothing available; we're fully booked till the end of the holidays," said Tracey Harris of the Caloundra Holiday Centre on the Sunshine Coast.
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"After that, there's some availability, but things are being booked really fast, so you have to get in quick. I think prices have risen by about 10 per cent because of demand."
On the Gold Coast, many hotels says they only have a few vacancies left in the coming weeks, while bookings platform Wotif.com saw accommodation searches for the destinations in the cut-price airfare bonanza soar by 55 per cent, and advise travellers, if they can, to avoid long weekends and the winter school holidays.