Start from 38 curated places around Airlie Beach, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Fish D'vine and the Rum Bar
Airlie's loudest, longest-running seafood pub — battered local reef fish, garlic prawns, and a rum list that runs to 500-plus bottles. The dining room and the rum bar share the same kitchen but very different energies; pick your room before you book.
Hemingway's
The chef-hatted fine-diner out on the point at Coral Sea Marina South — modern Australian plates built around local seafood and oysters, framed by one of the best sunset outlooks in town. One of only two hatted restaurants in Airlie, and the marina's special-occasion booking.
Trails & outdoors
Whitsunday Great Walk (Conway section)
The 30km multi-day track through Conway National Park rainforest, with three bush-camp nodes and a continuous tree canopy almost the whole way. Most visitors walk it as overnight or day sections out of the Brandy Creek trailhead rather than end-to-end.
Honeyeater Lookout Track
A 5km return climb out of the Conway day-use area to a ridge lookout over Pioneer Bay and the islands. Steady uphill the first half, flat ridge the second, and the best of-its-effort view in the park.
Things to do
Cruise Whitsundays — Heart Pontoon (Great Barrier Reef Adventure)
The big-boat Great Barrier Reef day trip out to the Heart Pontoon at Hardy Reef on the outer reef — snorkelling, a semi-sub, an underwater observatory and a buffet lunch. Cruise Whitsundays refurbished this pontoon and moved the day trips here in April 2026, after the older Reefworld pontoon switched to overnight-only Reefsleep and Reefsuites stays. Still the easiest way to reach real outer-reef coral without a dive ticket or a small, rough boat.
Ocean Rafting Whitehaven & Hill Inlet Tour
Half-day rigid-hull inflatable trip out to Whitehaven Beach and the Hill Inlet lookout — faster, smaller boats than the catamarans, and the only operator permitted to run inside Hill Inlet's swirling sands. You reach the lookout before the big-boat hordes; the Whitsundays day-trip locals book their own visitors onto.
Landmarks & sights
Airlie Beach Lagoon
The free, council-run swimming lagoon on the foreshore — built because the bay itself is off-limits to swimmers through stinger season. Patrolled by lifeguards, ringed by lawn and BBQs, and the de facto town living room from sunrise laps to sunset beers on the grass.
Airlie Beach Boardwalk
The flat coastal timber walk linking the lagoon to Abell Point Marina past mangroves, tidal flats and a few quiet swimming bays. Bookended by cafes at one end and the marina bars at the other, it's the route locals use to skip the Shute Harbour Road traffic.