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Norfolk Island is fortunate to have a selection of quality accommodation choices to suit every budget and taste, from three-star to five star rated properties, self-catering, hotels, motels, and resorts. If your preferred choice is not listed in this select offering below, please contact us.

Activities

Activities and Tours on Norfolk Island include natural scenery, first class sporting facilities, water sports, bushwalking, history and so much more. Norfolk Island boasts a huge array of tours, shows showcasing the history, cultural and spectacular scenery of Norfolk Island.

Around one third of the Island is devoted to national parks and reserves which contain numerous signposted walking trails that offer breath-taking views. Mountain biking and bushwalking are popular activities on the Island. The golf course is superbly situated between the rugged coastline and the delightful grounds of Government House. Green fees, club and buggy hire are inexpensive. Gymnasium, tennis, squash, lawn-bowls, archery, clay and pistol shooting, mini-golf, basketball, netball, snooker, darts, volleyball and skateboarding facilities are also available.

There are over 30 different local service and social clubs on the Island. Visitors are welcome to participate in club activities. Watersports are very popular on the Island. Emily Bay must be one of the picturesque and safest swimming beaches in the World. The waters surrounding Norfolk Island offer plentiful catches of trumpeter, tuna, kingfish and many other species, including game fish. Scuba diving, snorkeling, surfing, kayaking and sailing can also be enjoyed on the Island.

You'll never have enough time to do everything - there is more to do on Norfolk Island than virtually all the other Pacific Islands combined!

Here is a sample to wet your appetite:

  • Bushwalking and Bird Watching - some birds and plants are found on Norfolk Island and nowhere else in the world!!

  • Horse Riding - in the National Park and private lands

  • Diving - get your PADI certificate

  • Golf - don't lose your balls in the Pacific Ocean!

  • Museums - see all four museums for approx. $18 museum pass

  • Fishing - catch over 80 fish in two hours!

  • Snorkeling within a beautiful coral reef with spectacular fish!

  • Kayaking - best scenery in the world!

  • 4 Wheel Driving - over private lands

  • Mountain Biking - ride the National Park, rent for approx. $15 per day

  • Lawn Bowls - floodlit at night, cheapest place for a meal too.

  • Tennis - well kept floodlit hard courts , free use for Cumberland guests, of course!

  • Squash - glass backed courts!

  • Yoga - choice of three yoga studios and regular yoga workshops with internationally renowned teachers

  • Archery - superb setup

  • Shooting  - overlooking the cliffs!

  • Massage - end your day with a relaxing in-house massage at Cumberland!

Tours and Shows

  • Island Discovery Tours

  • Farm and Industry Tours

  • Coffee Plantation Tours

  • Winery and Wine Tasting Tours

  • Photographic/Scenic Tours

  • Feature and themed dinners

  • Shows (e.g. Mutiny on the Bounty show, Convict Dinner, Fletcher's Fate, Wonderland by Night)

  • Water Sports and Tours (including Glass Bottom Boat, Marine Charters)

  • Horse-riding and carriage tours

  • Cliff-top BBQ and Fish Fry

  • Historic Tours and Museums

  • Garden Tours

  • Bird Watching

  • Jazz Festival

  • Country Music Festival

  • Tennis events

  • Golf events

  • Writers and Readers Festival

  • Food and Wine Festival

  • Plenty more...

Explore Norfolk’s Gardens
Garden tours visit a range of delightful properties, from private cliff-top gardens with spectacular coastal views to market gardens where

fresh local produce is grown. You can even visit Helen Reddy’s secluded Norfolk hideaway for afternoon tea!

Naturally NorfolkTake a Farm & Industry Tour
 This specialty tour takes you behind the scenes to see a market garden and piggery which supply much of the island’s produce, plus a state of the art kentia palm and Norfolk pine nursery that exports around the world. You’ll also get to sample the soft drink and liqueurs which are made locally from the island’s fruits.

Naturally NorfolkEnjoy a Bushwalk Experience or Breakfast Bush Walk
Work up an appetite on a guided early morning walk through Norfolk’s beautiful rainforest, and spot some of the island’s abundant local birdlife en route. Tours finish with a hearty breakfast.

Naturally NorfolkExplore the Botanic Garden
 Norfolk Botanic Garden on Mission Road has some lovely short trails leading through towering native tree ferns, and those with keen eyes may even spot Norfolk’s rare green parrot in the aviary.

Naturally NorfolkVisit the Norfolk Coffee Plantation
 This 4WD tour takes you behind the scenes at the island’s Arabica coffee plantation, from the seedling nursery through to the coffee roastery. You’ll get to sample a cup of locally grown and roasted coffee, along with some delicious home baking.

Naturally NorfolkGo Horseriding in the National Park
Saddle up for a trek through Norfolk’s beautiful National Park and enjoy a cup of genuine billy tea and damper in the heart of a gum forest.

Tour Operators
 

  • The Norfolk Touring Company on Taylor’s Road operates a Bushwalk Experience and Gardener’s Delight tour. Phone 22 232, email Norfolk Touring Company, or visit www.norfolktouringco.nf.
  • Pine Tree Tours on Taylor’s Road operates a Farm & Industry Tour, a Coffee Plantation Tour, a Greenfingers Tour and a Breakfast Bushwalk. Phone 22 424 or 22 174, email Pine Tree Tours, or visit www.pinetreetours.com.
  • Silky Oaks Stables & Tea Gardens, Mission Road, phone 22 291