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Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort

Accommodations here are fairly basic, but visitors come for the Reef, not the room. The top-of-the-range rooms are Island suites (the only rooms with air-conditioning), which have one or two separate bedrooms and great sea views from the deck. Most Reef rooms sleep four and have decks with views through the trees to the sea. The cool, spacious safari-tent “eco-huts” have four bunks, electric lighting, and timber floors but share the public toilets and showers used by day guests. The limited facilities include a boutique, an education center, and a dive shop, which runs shore and boat dives, introductory dives, and rents equipment. The resort has no TVs, no radio, no mobile phone reception, and no phones in the rooms (but there is a public telephone). A program of mostly free activities includes glass-bottom-boat rides, badminton, guided walks, and beach volleyball.