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Great Barrier Reef Experience
Reef & Fitzroy Island Day Tour
BEST VALUE TOUR
A two-in-one adventure. Moore Reef + Fitzroy Island, in a day!
Reef & Fitzroy Island Full Day Reef Tour
All inclusive.
Adult $285 | Child $165 | Family $735
Departing from Cairns, embark on a 1.5-hour journey aboard our air-conditioned catamaran to reach Sunlover Moore Reef Pontoon on the Outer Great Barrier Reef. This pontoon is perfectly positioned and fully equipped with snorkelling equipment. Younger guests can enjoy fun-filled moments in our enclosed ocean pool or experience the thrill of swirling down Sunlover’s 30-metre spiral waterslide into the tropical ocean pool. Looking to stay dry? Try our semi-submersible, glass-bottom boat tours. or underwater observatory , where you can marvel at the most impressive natural fish tank to ensure that visitors of all ages and abilities can fully immerse themselves in the beauty of the reef, with its vibrant coral, fascinating marine life, including turtles, and more. For those who want even more adventure, you can add to your experience a guided-snorkel tour , Seawalker helmet dive , or take to the sky for a scenic helicopter flight .
The journey continues with a visit to Fitzroy Island where lunch will be served, you’ll have a delightful 3-hour afternoon stay on this beautiful tropical paradise. Fitzroy Island is a Favourite among Cairns locals, with 99% of its landscape covered in lush tropical rainforest, complemented by granite outcrops, open woodlands, mangroves, and coral-fringed beaches . Additionally, we provide snorkel equipment as part of this tour.
Experience the best of both worlds effortlessly – the mesmerizing Great Barrier Reef and the serene beauty of Fitzroy Island, complete with a wide range of water activities – all in one single, unforgettable day.
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Included in your tour
- Snorkelling & equipment
- Semi-submersible tour
- Glass bottom boat tour
- Underwater observatory
- Fish feeding presentations
- Enclosed ocean pool
- Gourmet tropical-inspired lunch
Extra Activities
- Guided snorkel tour
- Seawalker helmet dive
- Scenic helicopter flight
- 7:00 AM Check in Opens
- 7:30 AM Check in Closes
- 8:00 AM Depart Cairns to Moore Reef Pontoon
- 9:30 AM Arrive at Moore Reef Pontoon
- 2 Hours of Pontoon Fun
- 11:30 AM Reboard and Depart Moore Reef
- 12:15 PM Arrive at Fitzroy Island
- 12:30-1:30 PM Lunch
- 2 Hours of Island Fun
- 3:30 PM Depart Fitzroy Island
- 4.30 PM Arrive Back in Cairns
What our Guests Say
This was such an amazing trip on the great barrier reef for us as a family. Both my 4 and 10 year old boys absolutely loved it 😍 We will never forget this experience and hope other families out there will get to one day be as lucky as we were and get to snorkel in the great barrier reef for the day.
Mia Hoff – Google Business Review
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Cruising the Moskva River: A short guide to boat trips in Russia’s capital
There’s hardly a better way to absorb Moscow’s atmosphere than on a ship sailing up and down the Moskva River. While complicated ticketing, loud music and chilling winds might dampen the anticipated fun, this checklist will help you to enjoy the scenic views and not fall into common tourist traps.
How to find the right boat?
There are plenty of boats and selecting the right one might be challenging. The size of the boat should be your main criteria.
Plenty of small boats cruise the Moskva River, and the most vivid one is this yellow Lay’s-branded boat. Everyone who has ever visited Moscow probably has seen it.
This option might leave a passenger disembarking partially deaf as the merciless Russian pop music blasts onboard. A free spirit, however, will find partying on such a vessel to be an unforgettable and authentic experience that’s almost a metaphor for life in modern Russia: too loud, and sometimes too welcoming. Tickets start at $13 (800 rubles) per person.
Bigger boats offer smoother sailing and tend to attract foreign visitors because of their distinct Soviet aura. Indeed, many of the older vessels must have seen better days. They are still afloat, however, and getting aboard is a unique ‘cultural’ experience. Sometimes the crew might offer lunch or dinner to passengers, but this option must be purchased with the ticket. Here is one such option offering dinner for $24 (1,490 rubles).
If you want to travel in style, consider Flotilla Radisson. These large, modern vessels are quite posh, with a cozy restaurant and an attentive crew at your service. Even though the selection of wines and food is modest, these vessels are still much better than other boats.
Surprisingly, the luxurious boats are priced rather modestly, and a single ticket goes for $17-$32 (1,100-2,000 rubles); also expect a reasonable restaurant bill on top.
How to buy tickets?
Women holding photos of ships promise huge discounts to “the young and beautiful,” and give personal invitations for river tours. They sound and look nice, but there’s a small catch: their ticket prices are usually more than those purchased online.
“We bought tickets from street hawkers for 900 rubles each, only to later discover that the other passengers bought their tickets twice as cheap!” wrote (in Russian) a disappointed Rostislav on a travel company website.
Nevertheless, buying from street hawkers has one considerable advantage: they personally escort you to the vessel so that you don’t waste time looking for the boat on your own.
Prices start at $13 (800 rubles) for one ride, and for an additional $6.5 (400 rubles) you can purchase an unlimited number of tours on the same boat on any given day.
Flotilla Radisson has official ticket offices at Gorky Park and Hotel Ukraine, but they’re often sold out.
Buying online is an option that might save some cash. Websites such as this offer considerable discounts for tickets sold online. On a busy Friday night an online purchase might be the only chance to get a ticket on a Flotilla Radisson boat.
This website (in Russian) offers multiple options for short river cruises in and around the city center, including offbeat options such as ‘disco cruises’ and ‘children cruises.’ This other website sells tickets online, but doesn’t have an English version. The interface is intuitive, however.
Buying tickets online has its bad points, however. The most common is confusing which pier you should go to and missing your river tour.
“I once bought tickets online to save with the discount that the website offered,” said Igor Shvarkin from Moscow. “The pier was initially marked as ‘Park Kultury,’ but when I arrived it wasn’t easy to find my boat because there were too many there. My guests had to walk a considerable distance before I finally found the vessel that accepted my tickets purchased online,” said the man.
There are two main boarding piers in the city center: Hotel Ukraine and Park Kultury . Always take note of your particular berth when buying tickets online.
Where to sit onboard?
Even on a warm day, the headwind might be chilly for passengers on deck. Make sure you have warm clothes, or that the crew has blankets ready upon request.
The glass-encased hold makes the tour much more comfortable, but not at the expense of having an enjoyable experience.
Getting off the boat requires preparation as well. Ideally, you should be able to disembark on any pier along the way. In reality, passengers never know where the boat’s captain will make the next stop. Street hawkers often tell passengers in advance where they’ll be able to disembark. If you buy tickets online then you’ll have to research it yourself.
There’s a chance that the captain won’t make any stops at all and will take you back to where the tour began, which is the case with Flotilla Radisson. The safest option is to automatically expect that you’ll return to the pier where you started.
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