Cairns Backpacker Accommodation

Being a mecca for Backpackers, you’ll find hundreds of places in and around Cairns and the Tropical North Queensland region to rest your weary head at the end of a long day. There’s backpacker accommodation to suit every budget, from dorms and hotels to short-term rentals of fully furnished flats.

The types of youth hostel/ backpacker accommodation around Cairns backpacker accommodation ranges from converted houses, old motels to brand new and purpose built places. It’s pobably a good idea to book your first few nights’ accommodation in advance to ensure you have a bed. Once you get here you can decide to stay where you are, or look around for something different depending on your needs.

Our Cairns Backpacker Accommodation Tip: Most places will pick you up from the airport, provide sheets and pillows, have a pool and have kitchen facilities. Some of the places include dinner with the price of your bed and have a shuttle service to the Cairns city. Your best bet is to ring a couple of places and go with the one tha sounds the friendliest and have the facilities you require.

While the majority of accommodation backpackers are situated in Cairns, there are excellent places to stay in the surrounding areas like Cape Tribulation, The Tablelands, Port Dougas and Mission Beach.

Cairns has a thriving and popular backpacker culture, with many restaurants, cafes and nightclubs supporting almost exclusively backpacker clientele. For those on a budget, backpacker hostels in Cairns are a popular option for cheap Cairns backpacker accommodation.

Mutual back scratching abounds, hostels support the backpackers accommodation who support them! Many have meal deals to go with the accommodation, as well as a wide network of backpacker accommodation supporting businesses which give discounts for various things around the city.

To go backpacking in Cairns is to PARTY! Backpacker accommodation hostels in Cairns have fun daily specials, and give out lengthy lists of discount vouchers to tours, restaurants and souvenirs. Some of the funky things you can expect to find in Cairns hostels include; white water rafting practice in the pool, strip naked for an adventure tour, boob painting with your native flag for a bar tab, sumo suit wrestling and many more crazy party antics!

Many fellow backpackers in Cairns can be found catching some rays around the lagoon on the Cairns Esplanade. It is permissable to sunbake topless on the Cairns Esplanade (within a designated area) and backpacker girls and guys alike flock to the area.

If you are planning to go backpacking in Cairns, enquire at your hostel's tour desk for special deals on Great Barrier Reef tours and diving trips, as many will have access to discounts unavailable to the general tourist public.

The best backpacker focussed learn to dive course we've found is Fitzroy Island Dive. Their courses are land-based, which means you don't bob around on the boat and get seasick, and you stay on Fitzroy Island, which is the ULTIMATE backpacker party island. The dive courses are exceptional value, and well worth checking out if you're interested in learning to dive.