O'Reilly's Lamington and Tree Top Canopy Tour from Brisbane
Badge of Excellence
Brisbane, Australia
- 10 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
Explore our promoted experiences
Overview
Explore the natural bounty of Queensland on this full-day tour to Lamington National Park from Gold Coast or Brisbane. Soak up spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean from atop Mt Tambourine, and create your own adventure at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat. Encounter flocks of king parrots and other native bird species on a treetop canopy walk, and try your hand at bird feeding on a ground-level bush walk. Visit a local alpaca farm for a furry finish to the day!
- Queensland day trip to Lamington National Park from Brisbane or Gold Coast
- See the beauty of World Heritage-listed Lamington National Park
- Enjoy lunch at O'Reilly's (if option selected)
- Enjoy a treetop canopy walk at O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat
- Get amazing views of the rainforest and the coast from Mount Tamborine
- Visit an alpaca farm
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop off (Sebel Hotel Brisbane)
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Gallery Walk retail precinct
- Canungra Valley Vineyards and alpacas
- O’Reilly’s Tree Top Walk
- O’Reilly’s Interpretive Rainforest Centre
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks, unless specified
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- The Sebel BrisbaneCnr Albert And, Charlotte St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia
Please note it is important to contact us to reconfirm pickup time and location 24 hours before you travel. We would like your tour to run perfectly so these details are vital.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Start time.8:15 am
Itinerary
Part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Godwana Rainforests of Australia, Lamington National Park is a delightful destination for exploring Queensland’s subtropical beauty. Your full-day tour begins with pickup at your Brisbane or Gold Coast hotel and a scenic drive to the park. Along the way, stop at the Gallery Walk to chance to stretch your legs and browse unique local arts and crafts shops, and admire sprawling views of the surrounding forest and Pacific Ocean from the top of Mt Tambourine.
Your base camp for the day is O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat — a family-owned nature resort in the heart of Lamington National Park. Soak up the pristine surroundings of the Gold Coast hinterland and enjoy a natural soundtrack of bird calls during your leisure time at the retreat.
Experience one of O’Reilly’s most popular activities with a treetop canopy walk. Stroll across nine footbridges suspended 45 feet (16 meters) in the air for a unique perspective of the subtropical rain forest. A guide will point out highlights of the diverse ecosystem and help identify unique species of flora and fauna.
Back on the ground, have an up-close encounter with native bird species like bowerbirds, wedge tailed-eagles, Albert lyrebirds and flocks of vibrant red-and-green king parrots during a guided bird feeding. These wild wonders may peck seed straight from your hand! You can also bush walk among the property’s beautiful trail system.
If you selected the lunch option at booking, savor a freshly prepared lunch at O’Reilly’s inviting on-site café. Snacks and O’Reilly’s estate-made wines are also available to purchase à la carte.
After departing the retreat, stop at a local alpaca farm to meet the friendly, furry creatures and take advantages of some great photo ops. Your full-day tour concludes with drop-off back at your Brisbane or Gold Coast hotel.
Your base camp for the day is O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat — a family-owned nature resort in the heart of Lamington National Park. Soak up the pristine surroundings of the Gold Coast hinterland and enjoy a natural soundtrack of bird calls during your leisure time at the retreat.
Experience one of O’Reilly’s most popular activities with a treetop canopy walk. Stroll across nine footbridges suspended 45 feet (16 meters) in the air for a unique perspective of the subtropical rain forest. A guide will point out highlights of the diverse ecosystem and help identify unique species of flora and fauna.
Back on the ground, have an up-close encounter with native bird species like bowerbirds, wedge tailed-eagles, Albert lyrebirds and flocks of vibrant red-and-green king parrots during a guided bird feeding. These wild wonders may peck seed straight from your hand! You can also bush walk among the property’s beautiful trail system.
If you selected the lunch option at booking, savor a freshly prepared lunch at O’Reilly’s inviting on-site café. Snacks and O’Reilly’s estate-made wines are also available to purchase à la carte.
After departing the retreat, stop at a local alpaca farm to meet the friendly, furry creatures and take advantages of some great photo ops. Your full-day tour concludes with drop-off back at your Brisbane or Gold Coast hotel.
1
Gallery Walk
1 hour • Admission Ticket Free
2
O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
3
Lamington National Park
2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 5 hours of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Infants must sit on laps
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
Supplied by
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
Traveler Photos
Featured review
Wonderful and very informative day trip! The views on Tamborine and Lamington lookouts are spectacular our guide is very kind and knowledgeable and showed us wallabies and local birdlife as we saw them. I have several great photos of the lovely robin.
Recommend to nature lovers and photographers, or any other who want to enjoy a relaxing day in the mountains.
Reviews
4.2
based on 114 reviews
Sort by: Most insightful
David is a very professional tour guide and Very informative
Enjoyed the tour very much
The shops in the tambourine mountain is very nice esp the cuckoo clock shop
The lamington national Park is beautiful and good walking tracks
Timely pickup outside Sebel Hotel. Coach to transfer from Brisbane to Gold Coast was a bit grubby and required a good clean.
Once we transferred coaches the new one was fine. David the guide and driver was very informative and very knowledgeable. Plenty of time at each stop. He pointed out many interesting things along the way, Alpaca farm and winery was good... we stopped to look at the view at Tambourine mountain...when we got to O’Reillys we had lunch. Food was quite basic and the value was not there as we had prepaid.. pie chips and a salad with too much dressing. It is a great spot and if they lifted their quality it could be a much better experience.
The walk through the rainforest was great.. David our guide was very good and he even got the various birds to fly onto our hands and feed off the worms he supplied. The tree walk and 300 year old tree were very interesting,the rainforest was so peaceful and we even saw a small snake!! then we had some free time. Feeding the parrots was a hilight and be sure to buy the bird seed ... David gives you a $1 voucher to use instead if paying the usual $3 or $5.. one tray is enough. The parrots fly onto you head , shoulder and really are a treat.
The drive back to BRISBANE was good and David pointed out our various wildlife including some Wallabies.
Overall a nice day out and enjoyed the experience - David was a very good guide and whilst you could drive there yourself you would miss out on most of the interesting facts plus the sights.
Thank you
The bus was comfortable and air conditioned. The driver, Chris, was very knowlegeable about the places we visited and gave a very interesting commentary about them and the flora and fauna we saw along the way. The 2 hours at Lamington was plenty of time to walk a couple of the paths and enjoy lunch in the superb eatery where you could sit on the deck overlooking the fantastic views. I thoroughly enjoyed the day.
Very well organized trip and authentic and interrested personnel.
The Park itself is well worth the visit and was good value for Money. The Birds are spectacular.
The guide was wonderful person and trip was wonderful. I enjoyed it very much. I will recommend this trip to my friends.
Response from Host, Oct 2019
The Green mountains trip is an evergreen tour experience which has thrilled guests for decades. Thank you for your comment! Regards, Allison @ JPT
Our tour guide, Dave, was wonderfully informative and interesting. Buses were on time and comfortable. Highly recommended!
Response from Host, Oct 2019
Thank you for your kind words. David Preston is a gem.
The guide, David, really made the tour great. Made sure we would get to see the wildlife and gave interesting facts throughout the day.
Response from Host, Oct 2019
Thank you! David Preston is really devoted to his guiding job and loves showing our guests around. He is a long term employee but looks at the forest and it's inhabitants with fresh eyes every day! So glad you noticed, Allison @ JPT
I loved the trip, David our tour guide was excellent. The only thing I would suggest is to possibly bring your own lunch, food is quite expensive, was nice but expensive.
Our tour guide made this a very memorable excursion. He shared is knowledge of the area, of the animal and of trees. He shared some of his worms to feed the birds. We had some folks on the excursion from Japan and he was fluent in Japanese so he shared the same info with them in Japanese. All-in-all an amazing tour thanks to our guide.
Overall, the tour was okay. Our tour guide, Dave, was very knowledgeable, had great stories, and was an excellent driver. The bus trip is about 2 ½ hours of driving to/from the park and the bus holds @ 20 people. If you are easily carsick, make sure you are the first to get on the bus to choose your seats or mention it during booking. We stopped at a mountain town on the way up (45 minutes of free time) but there was no stop on the way back down (see #4 below). The Lamington National Park walk thru the tree tops was awesome (@ 20 minutes), and the bird feeding excellent. We purchased lunch with our tour and recommend you do so as there is very little time to order & eat otherwise – the food was fine, nothing extravagant about it. After eating, we had about 30 minutes to feed the birds (HIGHLY recommend this) before we got back on the bus. There are several areas where the company/tour can improve: 1) Our confirmation paperwork states that there would be hotel pickup – however, this is not the case. Luckily, we called the day prior to the trip to verify our booking and were told we must meet elsewhere instead (a 30-minute walk from our hotel).2) The man who checked us in was rather abrupt, did not verify our identity (asked for a name & # in our party only), & then said ‘wait over by the blue seats’. When asked a question, he made a huge sigh like he didn’t have time for it.3) While our tour guide connected readily/easily with bird watchers or local, he seemed to avoid the foreign travelers and kids (my kid tried to talk with him a couple times without success). Also, he openly criticized a passenger who joined our tour from the Gold Coast (‘why they couldn’t just rebook instead’) and then again when the passenger was 2 minutes late rejoining the group. 4) We did NOT go to the alpaca farm as was listed on the website itinerary. Our guide mentioned the alpaca farm early in our tour but later received a phone call and instead we swapped buses on our return trip to pick up 4 additional passengers at an amusement park. Although the alpaca farm was not a highlight of the tour, the passengers on the tour had no say in the itinerary change. I later reviewed the confirmation paperwork and the website and neither state the itineraries may change without notice based on the company/management needs or at the expense of the passengers. Be aware that you may not get everything you thought you paid for!
our guide Mr David Peterson was very experienced and knowledgeable, and able to keep up an interesting dialogue and commentary during the trip for us. he has a way with the creatures of the forest, coaxing all the native birds to come for us really made the trip memorable! only wish that at each place, we could stop for a longer period of time. still, i recommend this tour for a great day out from the city.
Great tour and well organized. My one criticism is to Viator who offers no lunch option with this tour. There is clearly a lunch option. the Drive combined guide was very knowledgeable, fluent in multiple languages and a true man of the bush.for instance, he stuck out his hands and birds came to him and knew animal calls, The O' Reilly Cafe is home to a reproduction plane from the 1988 movie Riddle of the Stinson. It is very interesting story about a flight from Brisbane to Syndney that crashed.
Amazing tour thanks to Super Guide, David! David is fluent in Japanese and he spoke both English and Japanese from the moment we boarded the bus till end of tour. There were some breaks of course, but we learnt so much. Many aspects on flora and fauna were covered in good details with stops to see actual thing.
The one hour at The Gallery was pleasant for a bathroom break : coffee, wine tasting, local fare or early lunch etc. We had samples at the macadamia fudge shop.
David ensured O'Reilly staff facilitate the prepaid lunch smoothly burgers, fish and chips : The queues are very long, so pack your own sandwich or prepay. After the 30 minute lunch, have your breath taken away as David takes you into the Park. He whistles and robins come feeding off our hands!!! Very informational, we went inside a hollow tree too. David showed us a real elaborate nest that the male Bower bird built to entice females. The male bird collects all blue items and place it around the nest!
If we went on our own, we would have minimum experience. So Thankful to have a learned Guide like David!
The walk is very eye-opening. There's free time to absorb all the natural settings.
On the way back, David would stop for us as soon as he spotted wallabies or interesting Flora. We saw macadamia trees too. We saw a total of 11 wallabies in a few stops. THANK YOU DAVID, you made the trip so worthwhile!
At lot of transportation for only 1h walk in the park...
Wonderful and very informative day trip! The views on Tamborine and Lamington lookouts are spectacular our guide is very kind and knowledgeable and showed us wallabies and local birdlife as we saw them. I have several great photos of the lovely robin.
Recommend to nature lovers and photographers, or any other who want to enjoy a relaxing day in the mountains.
Were the only people from Brisbane and had to meet the rest of the tour half way from Gold Coast. This component was well organised and did not waste time. Overall the tour was good with the guide very knowledgeable. Shame that the overseas tourists couldn't understand time instructions.
Guide very knowledgeable. Would have liked more time at OReilly's. could have had less time in town en route.
The meeting place was very easy to find. The group was mixed, with some people staying at O'Reilly's overnight and some of us as daytrippers. The tour guide provided a lot of information about the flora and fauna, and we saw lots of birds. There is some independent time for lunch and additional hiking/bird feeding at O'Reilley's, before gathering at the bus and heading back to the city.
Chris was super nice and introduced everything around. The day was amazing with him!!
More time at Mt Tambourine would have been great. The tour guide I'm sorry I never asked for your name was brilliant!
the tour guide who is named chris is very professional. he can introduce very well for the things in rain forest. also he can speak japenese as well. the tree top walk is also awesome. i definitely will recommend this.
This is a long trip out of Brisbane. Once you get off the shuttle bus and away from the highway the day improves. Our guide/driver was excellent and very knowledgeable. I am just sorry I cannot recall his name. Chris, I think. I was glad of the stop at Gallery Walk to get a decent coffee and a cake - I would advise you get food here as the food at the park is not brilliant. We pre booked the optional lunch, which was off a poor standard. Take your own food. I am not a shopper so the short stop was adequate and there is a long drive ahead. The landscape you drive through is stunning, very windy roads and so glad I was not driving. The tree top canopy walk is not to be missed. I learned so much about the history of this country and about the wildlife on this trip. Seeing the bird that collect blue things in its bower was a bonus. On the drive down we saw pretty faced wallabies. All in all an excellent day out.
Very comfortable transport. Experienced and knowledgeable guide. Great views from Kamarun Lookout.
It was a good tour. Pick up and drop off with no hassles. The tour guide, David, is friendly and very knowledgeable. The only thing to be aware of is for a nine hour tour, you will spend more than half of the time on the road.
The trip was good so was our tour guide Chris. However I wish we could have spent more time at the gallery walk as ther are many things to see.
Great day trip from Brisbane. It was all very beautiful! I fed the birds, ate a nice lunch, saw some great overlooks, and the Tree Top Canopy was wonderful! I enjoyed the alpaca farm. The tour guide was great! Saw lots of wallabies, too! I recommend this day tour!
A great tour! We also went to an Alpaca farm and different look out points. Our tour guide, David, gave us fantastic and very informative commentary - I can definitely recommend.
Too much time spent on the bus. Not enough time at laming ton, we were rushed around the tree top canopy in order to spend time shopping. Tour needs to be focused on the national park.
Omg this was awesome ...great trip ... Great driver
We thoroughly enjoyed the trip. David the Driver/Guide was excellent and very knowledgeable. Everything ran to plan and on time.
Member Pricing
From
$101.29
per personWas $106.63(-5%)
up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)
Compare Similar Experiences
Current
Member Pricing
O'Reilly's Lamington and Tree Top Canopy Tour from Brisbane
114
10 hours
Free Cancellation
From
$106.63
$101.29
5% savings
Customers Who Bought This Tour Also Bought
Attractions in Brisbane, Australia
- Mooloolaba Tours & Tickets
- WhiteWater World Tours & Tickets
- Old Windmill Tours & Tickets
- Brisbane River Tours & Tickets
- Gheebulum Kunungai (Moreton Island) Tours & Tickets
- Suncorp Stadium (Lang Park) Tours & Tickets
- Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary Tours & Tickets
- Dreamworld Tours & Tickets
- Tamborine Mountain Distillery Tours & Tickets
- Queensland Cultural Centre Tours & Tickets
- Kangaroo Point Cliffs Park Tours & Tickets
- Anzac Square Tours & Tickets
More attractions near Brisbane, Australia