we spent 3 days at kingfisher,
nice hotel, little bit old style, girls at reception very unpolite,
avoid restaurants inside the hotel (expensive and bad),
go to pizza food court, enjoy the amazing island.
maybe nicer new places to live on the other side of the island.
check it out, but consider the tides.

what i am about to say , you better read carefully because its no BS. The resort is ok if you are there for the four wheel driving and to visit lady mckenzie. But if you are visiting for beach holiday, luxury , then you will not find it here.

Accomodation:

1) We stayed at the villa in Dec 2011 and although its clean it is not a luxury. It only looks that way because of the accomodation fees which is not worth the money

2) It has only got one bathroom. I am very particular about my bathroom so 4 people sharing a bathroom is not a good thing (for me).

Beach

1)_ Thousand of years ago, you could walk from mainland Hervey Bay to Fraser Island. Well, well well, it shows because its a muddy beach.

2) Its is shallow. Good for kids but not for grown ups.


Dingoes

1) I was there for 3 nights and four days with my family. We went to Lake Mckenzie, did a lot of four wheel driving, went to Eli creek and yet did not see one bloody Dingo.

Food

This is important if you like your food and you will not find it here. Buffet is sub par but they dont have any problem charging you ( No choice).

People

Because Kingfisher Bay Villa has a kitchen, the yobbos from the mainland Hervey Bay will be inviting all their friends to come and join them , next thing you know, loud beer Yobbo party next door.

There you have it.

My partner just had a 2 night stay at the Kingfisher Bay & were really disappointed.
The grounds of the resort were great - couldn't complain really... Until we got to the room.
The room was very out of date & in need of some serious TLC! We opened the door to sit out on the balcony only to have the doors fall off!!!!
The ancient shower fixture that flew out of the grip every time you turned it on - soaking everything!!!
Then there were the ants... The ants that woke us up at 2am... crawling all over us & the bed!!! GROSS!!!!!
The food was nothing short of disgusting at the sand bar, the breakfast was just as bad & as for the "al a carte" well I've had better that came out of a tin!!

This hotel seriously needs re-rating as it is no way a 4*

It is better than the Eurong Beach, but not by much!!

The best thing about this hotel were the guys at Aussie Trax the 4x4 hire company on site!
Great service & very friendly... unlike every other member of staff we came across!!

We decided to invite friends up from the Sunshine Coast to join us for a special birthday celebration ~ wish we hadn't!
There were no seating options offered when booking so we brought the 'special occassion' to the attention of the young lady who seated us, asking if it were at all possible to be seated outside on the deck area as there were plenty of tables set up & not occupied. The short answer was 'NO'. We watched that space all night & four (4) tables were still vacant at the end of the night. How hard would that have been to satisy our request?
The food on offer semed to have only just met the thawed out requirement as most of it was icey cold, bland & wet, I could have squeezed a cup of water out of the couple of the rather tastless bugs that I had. The salmon was dry & again lacking any flavour, the fruit platter was ineddible as al of the offerings were green, something that should have been picked up in the kitchen when being sliced. If you decide to experience it for yourself & waste your money make sure that you take your own ice cream scoup as there is only one for all to use with the six buckets of ice cream choice on offer & a dirty glass of water to rinse it in between kids helping themselves.
The whole place lacks atmosphere & certainly looks very tired, the bar area was dead, an old piano covered over & shoved into the corner, no entertainment (on a Saturday night!) & when this was mentioned to a member of staff they just said ' you are supposed to make oyur own entertainment'.
When walking out through the main entrance to wait around for 20 minutes or more for the transport back to the 'Barge' look up & see the dirt, grime & bird poo spattered all over the glass that never seems to have been cleaned ~ Probably a nice place when it first opened but has been let go & needs a good shake up.
One question also ~ how come the pool is not fenced?