The stay
What to know about this stay.
Pacific Hotel Cairns sits on the Cairns Esplanade overlooking Trinity Harbour and the Reef Fleet Terminal, the main departure point for the Great Barrier Reef. Rooms and suites look out over the city or the harbor, each with its own balcony, and the hotel sits opposite Cairns' main shopping and dining strip.
Bushfire Flame Grill serves a Brazilian-style churrasco of slow-roasted Australian beef, pork, lamb and chicken carved tableside, one of the more distinctive dining rooms in Cairns and a good option the night before an early reef departure. The Esplanade Lagoon, with its waterside boardwalks and parkland, is a short walk down the water's edge for a slower afternoon.