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.
See Also 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.