Longitude 131

Excellent trip to Longitude. We would highly recommend staying here for 2 nights. We have stayed at 3 boutique hotels during our 4 week Australia trip and Longitude was the second in the rating. The tents are beautifully decorated, dinner under the stars was the highlight for me and of course seeing Uluru was a highlight. It is very well organised but as mentioned in previous reviews it is a place where your trips are with fellow travellers. It’s very “scripted” but we still enjoyed it. The staff are friendly and full of enthusiasm for what they do. We were very unlucky with the weather and had rain so on our “activity free”afternoon we found we were bored. Had it been sunny the pool would have been great but we were just unlucky. The Cultural Centre was the only extremely disappointing part as it’s not finished and it is so expensive. Be prepared to pay £1000’s for a small aboriginal canvas. We would have missed this if we had known as it was a tourist trap.

Longitude is a very nice facility. Public space is inviting and "tent" rooms are exactly what they should be for an upscale "camp". The hotel is designed for its guests always being on the go on tours to Ayers Rock and is prepared for guests to come back happy, but exhausted from summer heat( 100 degrees Fahrenheit ) with cold wash clothes and cold drinks. Facility is all inclusive. Overpriced - but there really is no competition!

The very remote Ayer’s Rock Lodge offered luxury living within sighting distance from the sacred Uluru rock formation. Private accommodations designed as tent cottages were luxuriously appointed with a very comfortable bed. Breakfast and dinner were delicious with a varied menu, served by courteous and friendly staff. Daily hiking excursions to the Uluru rock and the lesser known Kata Tjuṯa formation started early morning while the temperature was still around 25 C. Evening activities included dining under a starry sky, completely devoid of light pollution.

When somebody mentions glamping , this does not begin to describe it. The "tents" are constructed about 10 feet above ground and although they look like tents they are really pernmanent structures. The rooms are spacious and very comfortable with a deck that in most cases looks towards Uluru. the food was excellent and the staff tremendous both for their friendliness and efficiency. In the middle of January the A/C struggled a bit during the day but it was very comfortable at night. Dining under the stars was a highlight of our last evening.

This was a disappointment. We stayed here for 2 nights and at southern ocean lodge (much better) for 2 nights. The location is amazing and very pretty, the red sand is like another world. The rooms are also pretty nice, not amazing but nice. The activities are terribly run. You get on a bus with many other tourists and do pre-programmed activities throughout the 2 days there. No choice (we tried). Many are things we would have skipped. It feels like a field trip in elementary school. We asked ahead if there was bird watching, they said no. Once we got there we googled it ourselves and saw adds for bird watching guides in the area. Food was mediocre. I know its remote but its a trash excuse. We have been to far mor remote places with excellent food. Its the quality of a Hilton brunch. All this for 4k/night. We have stayed at places for 2-3k that were just as remote that were far better. I guess its the best place in the area, but otherwise no reason to go