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Red Centre Hotel map and travel info

Getting there

Planes, trains, automobiles, or maybe even helicopter – we tell you the best way to go.

Planes
Regular flights are available from all major Australian cities to Yulara’s Conellian Airport with Qantas (www.qantas.com.au). Flights are daily from Perth, Sydney, Cairns and Alice Springs and there are flights from Melbourne twice a week. If you’re coming from Darwin or Brisbane, you’ll have to change at Alice Springs. The airport is close to ten minutes’ drive from the small Yulara township.
Trains
Alice Springs is a stop-off on the famous cross-continental Ghan train route (www.gsr.com.au/our-trains/the-ghan/the-journey.php) that runs twice weekly between Adelaide and Darwin.
Automobiles
4x4s are best suited to handling the Red Centre’s rugged terrain, and a stash of water is always advisable when taking to the tracks of the desert. Avis (www.avis.com.au), Thrifty (www.thrifty.com) and Hertz (www.hertz.com) have branches at Yulara and Alice Springs, and it’s a four-to-five hour drive between the two – book in advance.