Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns
Cnr of the Esplanade and Kerwin Street, Cairns Queensland Australia 4870 View Map

Venue Highlights

Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns offers a relaxed but professional location for conference, day meetings and seminars. The Resort has 4 dedicated function rooms, located on Level one. Main plenary room is the Joseph Banks Ballroom with capacity for up to 350 delegates - ideal for conferences, exhibitions and tradeshows. The Crystal Twig and Golden Palm Rooms boast natural light and can be utilised for day meetings or breakout areas. The

Accommodation options include 240 spacious hotel rooms and 20 self contained apartments. Resort facilties include Coral Hedge Brasserie, lobby bar, 3 pools, two tennis courts, business centre & Health and Fitness Centre, 2 levels free undercover carparking, complimentary scheduled shuttle to the cbd and a convenience store.

Location

Located conveniently on the Esplanade, Rydges Esplanade Resort is in walking distance to a vast array of Cairns finest shopping and dining facilities.

Approximately 6km for Cairns International and Domestic airport, less than 2km to Cairns Central and just minutes to Muddy's (free water and recreation park, BBQ facilities and Cairns Lagoon).

The Resort is also the perfect base to explore the Great Barrier Reef and World Heritage Rainforest Areas. Known as the gateway to Tropical North Queensland, Cairns is located approximately 1700km north of Brisbane and 2500km north of Sydney.

Accommodation

Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns features 240 spacious hotel rooms and 20 apartments offering:
Private balconies
Air conditioning and ceiling fans
In-house movies
Mini bar and refrigerator
Tea and coffee making facilities
Direct dial telephones
In-room safe
Iron and ironing board
Blackout drapes
Hair dryer
In addition, all fully self-contained two bedroom Tower Apartments feature:
Separate dining/living area
Washing machine and clothes dryer
Full Kitchen facilities; dishwasher, oven, cooktop, microwave, utensils, cutlery
and crockery
Two bedroom apartments have two bathrooms
PLEASE NOTE: the semi self-contained two Bedroom Studio Apartments have limited kitchenette facilities – dual plate cooktop, microwave, toaster, utensils, cutlery.

Recreational Facilities

3 swimming pools set in lush tropical gardens – main lagoon pool includes swim-up bar
Children’s wading pool
Health Club
2 full-size tennis courts
Spa
Sauna
Convenience Store
Tour Desk - book your local touring options which include Skyrail & Scenic Rail to Kuranda; Green Island, Fitzroy Island & The Great Barrier Reef; The Daintree Rainforest; Mossman Gorge; The Atherton Tableland; Hot air ballooning; White water rafting; Horse riding and much, much more.

Technical Facilities

Our conference and banquet team are dedicated to making your event a success. With a ballroom, meeting rooms, breakout locations that include a tropical terrace beside our lagoon pool, we will have the solution for your next conference or event. Our banquets team can guarantee fast, efficient food service for all breaks and meals. The versatility of our in-house restaurant ensures that we provide your guests with a genuine choice of dining venues.

Business Facilities

The Resort provides our corporate and conference guests with accommodation, restaurant and conference facilities in the heart of Australia's tropical north, with easy access to the Cairns foreshore and everything that this vibrant city has to offer. Similarly, the Resort provides an idyllic setting amongst tropical gardens for social events such as weddings, parties, corporate banquets.

Affordable, high speed and secure Broadband Internet access (both hard wired & wireless) is available in all conference rooms and hotel accommodation rooms.

Located on the ground floor is the dedicated business centre offering internet access and computer facilities for guests.

Accolades

Most hotels provide accommodation. Your hotel provides true hospitality. Every one of your staff was helpful and cheerful in making our seminar a success. Alistair Tuttle was outstanding in ensuring that we have all we need to set up the seminar room. His can-do attitude is absolutely great. The service provided by your staff in serving our guests was highly commendable. I will definitely recommend your hotel to others.
Sanky Sue, Daikin Air-conditioning