Just had our second stay at Castaway Cove in a Beach house and loved it again. Apartment was clean and tidy and the complex has great gardens etc. Biggest plus is absolute beachfront location with a very short walk over a sand dune to the perfect beach.
The $rate was fair for the 7 night or more stay. The managers were helpful and efficient but were not welcoming or friendly so not the ideal type for Tourism & Hospitality.
Would stay again no problem.

Stayed for 3 nights recently and as for a nice quiet place for relaxing and beach walking this place was perfect , Sure there are no shops within easy walking distance but Noosa is only a 10 minute drive away , The beach is just thru the dunes and is a great beach , Accomodation is self contained units with a BBQ and pool area , No complaints from us

i'll start this by saying that we are australians and not from the uk. it just seems like all the complaints about this place so far are being blamed on people being foreigners. this is typical of our experience of them however. any problem is the guests fault and how dare you raise an issue. i'm sure there will be a response to this explaining in great detail why there was absolutely nothing wrong with how they handled the situation and we should have changed our behaviour to suit them (even tho it was our holiday). i note how the positive reviews of this place are suspiciously short of detail but who knows.

anyway there was a problem with our booking that we made through a website. as such we decided to sort it out with the booking website on our return as they were fully booked and we knew theres always a few sets of hands these things go through when booking on the net. we said this to them and considered it closed for the time being. however when we returned to our room the phone ran and my wife answered only to have the male manager aggressively run through the reasons why they believed we were in the wrong and we were at fault (we were clearly in the right as we confirmed when we returned home and checked the website - the website has since changed the listed details fortunately).

unfortunately he brought her to tears through this call and his aggressive manner. so after she hung up i rang back to elicit an apology and they refused to even acknowledge that they had upset her (i suppose they believed she was crying for the fun) and were still completely concerned with pointing out that we were wrong with our booking (of course not the issue by that point but as i said it turned out we werent).

during the brief conversations that followed we were told that they 'dont like complaints' and they 'prefer happy customers'. they didnt seem to realise that they could play a role in our happiness while we stayed there, it was all up to us to cop whatever they threw and still come out happy.

they finally said that were were annoying them and they were going to come round and 'abuse us and throw us out' at which point we decided to hell with the cost we'd rather be at home then on holiday anywhere near these aggressive people so we returned the keys and left. (we only live a few hours away in brisbane so we just drove home and were relieved)

as we were only there for a short time i cant really comment on other aspects of the place. the place seemed ok for what it was. pretty simple. wouldnt have described it as a resort really but it did had a pool and was on the beach (so i hear, never saw it) and a basic but comfortable enough apartment with balcony.

with holidays like this you may as well stay at work.

Location is great, beautiful beaches but I would NOT recommend staying at Castaway Cove. You can get much nicer places than this for much much cheaper. It sounded great on the internet so we booked a week and we were happy to pay extra for what we thought was going to be a great place but were very disappointed. And the service was terrible!!!