Stumbled across this offer in the Scoot In-Flight Magazine. Appears to have no expiry date, and doesn't ask you to present the advertisement or a boarding pass like some other offers in the magazine. Have not tried it out myself, but might be worth a go if you are visiting anytime soon.
http://www.ink-live.com/emagazines/scoot-magazine/2289/janua…
Done.
Thanks.
Thanks. I was almost confused with all the other currumbins that have a famous wildlife sanctuary. Sorted.
Some people genuinely might not know where it is. Besides, including the state seems to be a norm for heading formats on OzBargain.
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I think groupon price is better for $25 sometimes u get 10'/. or 15 '/. off with coupon + cashrewards.
Definitely agree, but if the Groupon tickets are not available, and you're just off for a weekend with the kids and haven't prepared anything in advance, no harm in gently whispering the word 'Scoot' to the man/woman behind the ticket desk.
Here, you can borrow some of mine :)
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Doesn't that imply that they have to give them back to you? Doesn't sound like a good deal to me….
BTW the lorikeets currently don't visit the place for a feed.
Plenty of them there Thursday morning when I got there
well I take that back, two weeks ago we were told by staff they haven't been there for a bit.
I went there 20 years ago and there were loads of lorikeets. When I went there a few months ago for the entire day, there were none to be seen. Someone told me there's a park a short distance away (Burleigh Heads?) where the lorikeets amass in droves on sunset.
I enjoyed the crocs at Currumbin, but it's much more polished than it was. In some ways, I preferred the old park, which basically had nothing but birds, grass and trees.
@DeWalt:
Alex, who set up the park, enjoyed people enjoying themselves - hence the birds. There was no charge, just a donation box.
As he got too old to manage it as it became more popular, he gifted it to the National Trust. However the organisation was poorly suited to the task, turning over management & operation to a company. So the focus changed to become a major Gold Coast attraction & charges were introduced.
Now the birds find food elsewhere, not needing to be fed from bowls & sit on people's heads.
Alex used to say how he regretted giving away his Sanctuary, & how he hated the introduction of entrance fees. He lived in the Sanctuary until his death.
I knew the different phases, but loved most my childhood spent with the birds & the train looping through the Sanctuary. A simpler time.
@Infidel: National Trust see it as their cash cow.
We saw more wildlife at the house we staying in at Tugan, possum & bub, owls, lorikeets, rosellas, king parrots, kookaburras, cockatoos, galahs, magpies, crows, currawongs & scrub turkeys running around the street, I'm glad we didnt waste our money.
@supabrudda:
Gee, regularly see those in Bribane suburbia, although currawongs are infrequent where I am. That's not what the Sanctuary is mainly about.
Had cute young Butcher Birds flying in & out of the suburban house this afternoon. Magpies are now calling for supplemental feeding, 1 is blind in an eye since birth. I lay in the garden & they walk up to investigate. Lorikeets are bloody noisy on sunset. Neighbours do feed them, but they have to put up with the screeching.
Used to have Eastern Grey kangaroos from a Sanctuary property living on my place in the Currumbin Valley - bought on Alex's advice to protect local water catchment. Large wingspan birds rode the thermals as far as my shack, then glided out to sea. Microbats & swamp wallabies were wonderful on sunrise. The Sanctuary is quite good. I think you missed the point with it.
My Mother was on the committee of the National Trust way back, so I've seen it from both sides. By Act of Parliament, they had to manage it. The public incorrectly assumed it was a cashcow. But from what I saw, they didn't want it, was more problems than it was worth for a body with very different interests than animal conservation or theme park attraction. Differences of opinion over it caused way too many arguments. Any profits were mainly ploughed back into developing the Sanctuary. Management fees seemed high. There was stringent accounting & reporting.
I got given a free entry through the McDonald's alarm app
Also anyone using the maccas prize alarm app the 'attraction pass' prize can be for Currumbin, have "won" this about three times in the last 6 weeks so the odds are pretty good.
Do you know Currumbin's T&C on the MaccasAlarm voucher (it says 1 free entry per group, but vouchers have attraction t&c as well).
Voucher value is only $10 - much less than entry price. Best to contact attraction to check t&c.
I've won a few attraction vouchers. MaccasAlarm Forum may have vouchers to give away.
If they expect me to pay another $30 to get in they can get stuffed
Negged again for offering valid information - as discussed in the MaccasAlarm Forum :(
Mod: Removed personal attack
I took my daughter there and used a voucher each, I was prepared to have to pay for her to get in because of the one voucher per group condition but they just took them and sent us in. YMMV
Great. Hope she enjoyed it.
I got it to take an overseas friend.
MaccasAlarm vouchers t&c vary by attraction. A simple Timezone pass was reported in the forum as bogof.
I used to get in free as knew Alex who set the Sanctuary up.
They're pretty much always on the shopadocket website for adults at kids prices $35. At least you have something you can actually redeem in front of them if they were to ask.
They make up the cost by selling premium priced food and drink. Though the kids enjoyed themselves at the bird show and thought the hello kitty koala was random, clearly tagetting chinese tourist
We spent a decent amount of money in the park, doubt I would also pay much for entry though. At the prices they want for entry (RRP) my kids would get more out of me spending a little more to get the village park passes and go to sea world etc IMO so they're better off having the free and discounted entry offers and make up the rest once they get the people in the gates
You can just walk into the Lorikeet feeding for free its outside of the 'pay for' area we take our 3 year old there OZ Bargain style. I think its at 9:00 and 4:00 but could be wrong. Best time to go its after its been raining apparently.
Might wanna put the state in the title also…