Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns
209-217 Abbott St, Cairns City QLD 4870, Australia
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•Why you'll love Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns
- Flexible spaces with various options for setup with free Wi-Fi.
- Event catering and additional audio and visual equipment and presentation aids available.
- Enjoy the superb resort facilities including three swimming pools, spa & sauna, and fitness centre & tennis courts.
Located only 7 minutes from Cairns International Airport and 5 easy minutes from the city centre, Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns is perfectly designed and quietly situated to concentrate on your event. With breathtaking views of the famous Cairns Esplanade, unsurpassed service and years of industry knowledge, Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns has everything you need for your event.
Our custom-built event floor, Level One, is dedicated to conferences and events only and offers privacy for your meeting activities, where our skilled events team will provide your delegates with service of the highest quality. Versatile rooms and spaces will offer options to suit individual requirements, and we would love to let our creative kitchen team exceed both your and your delegates expectations with award-winning menu options that will delight.
Our 242 large accommodation rooms, all with private balconies were refurbished at the end of 2017 and have a lovely fresh, clean feel and all offer our Rydges Dream Beds, for the best nights sleep. For delegates who decide to stay, Rydges Esplanade Resort offers an array of facilities onsite including three swimming pools, a heated spa, a sauna, 2 tennis courts, a fully equipped gym and award-winning restaurant.
PERKS
- Complimentary Wifi throughout the hotel, for accommodation rooms and conference & events
- Exclusive accommodation rates for delegates Happy hour drink prices in CHB Bar from 5 pm daily
- Events and Sales Team with a combined 40 years of industry knowledge & experience
- Onsite car parking available over 2 levels – fee’s apply
- Flexibility in packages and menus
THE LOCATION
- 7 minute drive from Cairns International Airport
- 5 minute drive from Cairns City Centre Close to public transport
- Walking distance to Cairns Foreshore, Promenade and shopping precincts
- Close to Cairns Convention Centre (driving distance)
THE FACILITIES
- Function spaces located on level 1 - for your privacy and focus
- Range of versatile indoor and outdoor function spaces, to cater from 10 delegates to 300 cocktail guests
- Function spaces with natural light.
- Option for the exclusive use of level 1 event space
- CHB Restaurant & Bar is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily
- Locally famous Fire & Ice Seafood Dinner Buffet – available Thursday, Friday & Saturday
- 242 Accommodation rooms – refurbished in 2017 – all with Rydges Dream Beds & private balconies
- 3 Resort swimming pools
- Fully equipped gym with sauna and outdoor spa
- 2 Tennis courts
Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns Function Rooms
Poolside
Wow your guests with an event on the pool deck, surrounded by tropical gardens and the lagoon-style pool. With natural breezes and the stars as your ceiling, this area is perfect for cocktail parties and smaller dinners. The Perks: Natur...
Rah Rah's Bar & Terrace
Perfect for cocktail and pre-function events, this room offers a large indoor purpose-built bar area, opening onto an outdoor terrace that features sea breezes and a tropical backdrop. This versatile space can be used for small intimate din...
Executive Boardroom
A fantastic room for small meetings or interviews, comfortably seating up to 18 in a boardroom style or 15 in a U-shape. With plenty of windows, the room offers an abundance of natural light or the option of closing the curtains to blackout...
Golden Palm Room
This is our most popular conference room due to its practical shape and private entry foyer area. Golden Palm Room is utilised best in a U-Shape seating style, seating up to 24 delegates or in a theatre seating style for guest speakers or p...
Crystal Twig Room
Crystal Twig is an elegant event space or reception venue for an intimate dining experience. Ideal for small to medium events. Marble tiled floors, windows running the length of this reception venue and warm lighting add elegance and char...
Kauri Ballroom
This 238m2 space is an expansive, versatile conference or dining area that can seat up to 180 guests banquet style or 300 delegates in theatre style. Located on level one of the hotel, this room is easy to access via our stairs or one of ou...
Coral Hedge Bar
Located on the ground floor, the Coral Hedge Bar is perfect for cocktail events or pre & post-event networking. Your guests can relax in the comfortable setting overlooking the hotels tropical gardens and lagoon pool. The Coral H...
Fire & Ice Terrace
This tropical outdoor venue is ideal for gala events with a difference, casual cocktail affairs or tropical themed parties. Surrounded by tropical gardens and boasting a tranquil water feature that comes alive at night, lighting up the spa...
Reviews for Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns
Rachel Smith
The staff at reception are generally friendly and do their best to make the stay comfortable. The rooms are pretty spacious, which is a nice plus. However, housekeeping needs serious improvement. Rooms are often not cleaned properly - tables and benches left dirty, bathrooms not up to standard and occasionally questionable bedding more often than it should be. Cleanliness can be hit or miss, and unfortunately, it seems to have gotten worse over the past year. The bathtubs also don’t drain very well at times, which can be frustrating. Items left behind no longer seem to be recovered, which wasn’t the case in the past. Management should consider closely monitoring the housekeeping team to ensure better consistency. Overall, it’s not a bad hotel, but there’s definitely room for huge improvement.
David Fielder
Cleaning rooms was terrible. 2 people 9n our room and they gave us one towel. Safe is at floor level and requires a key from somewhere No cupboards in room. But found a front opening box. See photo. Aircon is either on or off and no duvet provided. Only a sheet and one blanket. Tv connection to internet not working and phoning for technician was told hotel does not guarantee smart tv connection. Cleaner could not be bothered to wipe tabe or clean glasses. After complaining technician came after 5 mins and fixed it. There is no option for leaving a sign on door for do not disturb Towels for pool are very threads Hotel needs to learn more about customer service Only saving grace is food is quite good and most but not all. Staff are helpful Clearly the hotel seems to be trying to cut costs wherever they can. I used to travel over 300 days a year and can recognize when a hotel is not good. Management are welcome to contact me to discuss these failings Buffet Breakfast is 6.30 to 9.30 including weekends. Coming down at 8.45, spent more time waiting for food than eating it. Kept hearing " it is coming" with people getting fed up. Excuse was they only had one chef. Having read the excuses I now wonder how management will defend mould in bath rim and on ceiling as per pictures
Megh Shetty
Rydges Cairns is a fantastic hotel. Very spacious, neat n clean. The hotel is located walking dustance from city centre but on a dry humid day even that looks far. Ample covered and uncovered parking is available. For tourists like me, The Esplanade is close by. Set that as search in Google maps. The place looks gold class after sunset.
Steve Kyte
We stay in Cairns and surrounding areas very often and do not stay in the ‘glamorous hotels’ however the Rydges Esplanade fell well short of acceptable quality in both cleanliness and general upkeep. The rooms are very outdated, the amenities are outdated, the cleanliness was abysmal and the hotels is in disrepair with basic maintenance not carried out. I have many photos and since leaving the resort find them even more shocking! The Good: The hotel has a great view - uninterrupted views of the sea and of the hills and the location on the esplanade is ok with a 15 minute walk to the busier end.
Ceri Martin
Cheap hotel and you get what you pay for. It’s very dated, the bedding is horrible, 2 towels in a 4 person room etc but clean. The pool is nice but the food was terrible and so were the cocktails. I have an issue when you charge the same prices at your restaurant/bar as the good hotels when you’re a 2 star establishment. We won’t be back
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