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
Helen Clare
Sorry, but this is just not a 4 star hotel in terms of what you imagine a 4 star hotel to be. Everything is quite shabby and very dated to the point where even I couldn’t look past it. We didn’t want to go bare feet on the room carpet. The reception is underwhelming and the breakfast wasn’t worth the cost. Someone else said the fitness room was a joke, and lol, it was. The back entry to the hotel from the street seems to have been totally forgotten about. Our balcony had what used to be a planter area just underneath it but maintenance was abandoned long since and it was just an area where lost underwear and brushes etc were collecting in dead grass. We didn’t mind our stay because we didn’t pay much for it, the sheets were clean, the shower was powerful and it felt safe, but whatever boxes were ticked for it to get 4 stars obviously weren’t based around them updating, maintaining or deep cleaning anything. This review isn’t actually intended to be mean, it’s purely to let people know that when they don’t pay much, it’s not actually a bargain in this instance. You’re just getting what you paid for. Giving it 2 stars feels a bit mean, but I really don’t think I can do 3. Please maintain it a bit better if your going to advertise as 4 stars. The staff were nice.
Cheryl Beech
Pauline on Reception was very helpful and was always very courteous and polite. She kindly highlighted various places we wished to visit on the lical map, with walking times to reach them, which was very helpful to us. However, on our last morning, when I complained to Reception about the level of noise from our next door room (which had happened twice during the early hours of the morning) to Brad, he became defensive and told me that I should have reported it, at the time. We just wanted to go back to sleep!! (We had a room where it was possible to use it as an interconnecting room but they had failed to make sure it sealed out the noise from that room, at all!) He was also most unsympathetic to issues I was having trying to use my UK phone to confirm our local taxi transfer to the airport later that day ... he was very unprofessional. Later, Pauline just rang for us and confirmed our booking, which was exactly what I would have expected from your hotel - thank you, Pauline! You have a nice view of the garden and pools from the restaurant windows. Staff there were helpful, but due to it's layout, it lacked any real atmosphere, whatsoever and in some ways it felt more like a UK service station food outlet than a restaurant. Much to our surprise and delight we found the fresh soups and thin crust sourdough pizzas were both delicious, on both days! Breakfast was buffet style with a good choice of items and the menu seemed to change daily. It was possible to request a key to lock away your passports, etc, inside the room, which was helpful to us. Thank you.
Raquel O'Grady
This was a great hotel, 3 pools and tennis courts. The rooms were a great size for 4 people. Queen beds would have been better, but I knew they were double. The beds are on wheels and moved a lot. The balcony was a good size. I liked that they had an air con and a fan. We mostly used the fan. The hotel was close to the beach and Muddy's playground, which was a huge playground and water play area. It is about a 10-15 minute walk to most of the restaurants. After a big day of sightseeing, it was a bit far most nights. The staff were always friendly and helpful. They filled my drink bottle with ice any time of day. We really enjoyed our stay.
Maz Maszlag
Great location on the sea front. Rooms were spacious, comfortable and clean. Staff were lovely and helped us check in earlier than expected & looked after our luggage while we went exploring. The restaurant was very good & had a nice selection of food at a reasonable price. I'd definitely return.
kan maj
Rydges is one of the biggest hotels in the Esplanade. However , this is a old hotel and needs refitting of carpets and uplift of furnishings and bathrooms. Overall the rooms are not maintained to what would be expected from a 4/5 star hotel. The front service desk and people working at the restaurants are super helpful and courteous. Also, the Marina is a about a 10/15 min walk from this hotel. We did get sea view rooms with a small balcony which was definitely the highlight. Swimming pool water was too cold and I expected it to be a heated pool
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