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.
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Rusty's Market
89 Grafton St
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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.
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Tamarind Restaurant
6-8 Wharf St
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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
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Flying Monkey Cafe
154 Sheridan St
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Awesome little café and art gallery with amazing food and great service
Pizza delivery or walk across the road
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Domino's Pizza Cairns City
117 Sheridan Street
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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.
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Boatshed
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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.
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Jamdrop Cafe Cairns
193 Lake St
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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.
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Fetta's Greek Taverna
99 Grafton St
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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.
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Waterbar & Grill Steakhouse
1 Pier Point Rd
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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.
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Fusion Art Bar & Tapas
12 Spence St
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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.
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Salt House
2 Pier Point Rd
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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.
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Rattle N Hum
67 Esplanade
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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.
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Gilligan's
89 Grafton St
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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!
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The Conservatory Bar
14 Lake St
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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.
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Cairns Esplanade Markets
52-54 Esplanade
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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.
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Great Barrier Reef
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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.
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Fitzroy Island
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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.
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Muddy's Cafe
174 Esplanade
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Muddy's is a modern, fun, safe, splash playground and parkland. Also has a disabled-use Liberty Swing and a café.
Playground
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Cairns Esplanade Fun Ship Playground
Esplanade
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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.
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Munro Martin Parklands
123 Sheridan St
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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.
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Cairns Central Shopping Centre
21 McLeod St
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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.
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The Cairns 24 Hour Medical Centre
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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.
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Cairns Hospital
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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,
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Woolworths Cairns
103 Abbott St
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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.
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스카이레일 우림 케이블웨이
6 Skyrail Dr
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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.
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하틀리크로크다일어드벤쳐
Captain Cook Highway
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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
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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,
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Tobruk Memorial Pool
370 Sheridan St
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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.
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케언즈 줌 앤 와일드라이프 돔
35-41 Wharf St
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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
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케언즈 에스플러네이드 라군
54 Esplanade
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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