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SANDSTONE POINT GOES GLAMPING
QHA REVIEW | 6
The Comiskey Group’s Sandstone Point Hotel has
been a runaway success since opening a few years
ago. Its vast, waters-edge setting stretching 300m to
the foot of the bridge to Bribie Island has enabled it to
do everything on a grand scale.
Spectacular views and spacious bars, bistro and
alfresco dining decks all set above a sprawling grassed
area - that just happens to double as one of the
greatest outdoor live music venues in Australia - have
combined to give the hotel something of a cult status.
Throw in a fresh oyster outlet by a jetty and a petting
zoo for the kids and you’ve got an offering that far
surpasses what most of us associate with a hotel …
almost.
In response to an all-too-common question from a
throng of adoring patrons, “so can we stay?”, staff
have unfortunately only been able to point them across
the bridge in one direction or a long way down the
road in the other.
But all that’s about to change with the creation of a
“glamping resort” out back. Partnering up with BIG4
Holiday Parks, the Comiskey Group plans to have a
camping and caravan resort open on 9ha of adjacent
waterfront land by September.
Rob says the plan is not just to give hotel patrons
and concert guests a place to stay, but cater for the
broader tourist market in the Morton Bay area.
‘You have to suit the resort to the market you are
aiming for and here it is more of a holiday and family
market.”
The multimillion dollar Sandstone Point Holiday Resort
will include 45 two- and three-bedroom villas, a dozen
glamping tents, 150 powered sites, a water park
with separate adults’ and children’s pools, a gym,
basketball and tennis courts and walking tracks.
“We plan on taking BIG4 to the next level with a resort
unlike any other,” says Rob. “We can’t wait to open our
doors and show everyone just how great the Moreton
Bay Region really is. We are very much looking forward
to the future.”