The notion of house party tourism is fast gaining ground and many venues now actively seek one-booking parties to take overall the rooms in a guest house or B&B.
It’s like visiting the home of an absent friend, someone who’s left out t he keys f or you and, in the best cases, has stocked the fridge, provisioned the pantry , and cheerily expects to find the beds left unmade and the soaps all nicked when you depart.
The Plantation at the former saw milling town of Cooroy in the Queensland Sunshine Coast hinter l and is just such a place. It’s about 30 minutes from Sunshine Coast airport, up the Bruce Highway and into rolling pastures, timber Queens lander homes and abundant palms and banana trees. It always seems a minor miracle how quickly the landscape changes here from busy beaches and coastal development to a snap shot of old – fashioned Australia
