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Easter 2012 Kids Holiday Program

There are year round kids activities here at Emerald Beach Holiday Park including jumping pillow, heated pool and games rooms. During the school holidays we super size that with organised acticities that are always a hit. Some of the fun enjoyed in the past include T shirt tye dye face painting ceramic bead making camp [...]

Wintersun Nostalgia Festival

Coffs Harbour will be the only place to be from June 1st to 11th 2012 when the Wintersun Nostalgia Festival rolls into town. The Wintersun Nostalgia Festival delivers nearly two weeks of day and night activities including events like street parades, concerts, dancing and dance workshops, classic and vintage car parades, performances and entertainment reflective [...]

Girls Go Surfing at Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour

The Surf Groms program was popular this holidays but why should the groms have all the fun? Join Coffs Coast Surf School on Saturday 21st for Girls Go Surfing Day right here at Emerald Beach. Lessons are 1.5 hours at a cost of $50 pp. Each participant will receive a gift pack which has been [...]

We’re taking the kids on a world trip!

We always have a great Kids Club program here at Emerald Beach Holiday Park but this holidays we are giving them the world! Each day is themed and from Japan to Egypt there will be food, craft and fun to give our Kids Club a real international flavour. Activities range from boomerang making, ping pong [...]

Surf Groms right here at Emerald Beach Holiday Park

Our good friends at Solitary Islands Surf School are running their popular Surf Groms program right here at Emerald Beach Holiday Park this summer. With courses starting Monday December 19th and running through until January 15th 2012 kids aged between 5 and 12 years old, regardless of experience or ability, can learn to surf with [...]

Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Ocean Race

It is only four short weeks until this ocean spectacular gets underway. This year the event has been changed to a regatta with a further four races being held right here in Coffs Harbour from Jan 5 and 6th. Will Wild Oats X take out line honours again. Pick out your best vantage point now [...]

Food and Sustainability Festival

Who doesn’t love a fresh home grown tomato or greens straight from the garden? The Coffs Coast Sustainable Living Festival is a community celebration of all things “sustainability”, showcasing environmentally sustainable ideas, products, and practices to help us live more happily and healthily, in harmony with our surrounding environment. Held from October 30 you can [...]

Wooli Goanna Pulling Championships

Don’t panic, kids! We’re not really mistreating our native animals. That is the name of just one event at the Wooli Goanna-Pulling Championships on October 2.. “When most people think about woodchopping, kids’ rides, live music, sideshows and food, they’re usually thinking about the show. One of the event’s organisers, Margy Hewetson, said given it [...]

We’re finalists in the Sunny Awards

Stop Press! We have just received this from the Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce. CONGRATULATIONS BlG4 Emerald Beach Holiday Park has been selected by our Judges as a finalist in the accommodation category of this year’s Sunny Awards. The Sunny Awards are an initiative of the Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce to celebrate business innovation [...]

Coffs Harbour Streets to come alive!

We think it is always an interesting place but during the September/October School Holidays the streets, parks and gardens of Coffs Harbour will come alive with…street theatre! The Coffs Harbour International Buskers Festival will take place from September 24th to October 2nd 2011 with entertainment suitable for all ages on the street during the day and the botanical [...]

Whales visit Emerald Beach

The Southern whale migration has started and Emerald Beach Holiday Park guests have already seen whales frolicking off Emerald Beach. They said that “there were heaps of them and that they were really close in to the shore”. At this time of the year, we frequently have sightings of whales and pods of dolphins at [...]

Coffs Cycle Challange

It’s on again! The Coffs Coast Cycle Challenge will be held on Sunday 7th August 2011. BCU and the Coffs Coast Rotary Club invite all cyclists to join this fun event. The challenge has eight categories, all starting and finishing at the magnificent Coffs Harbour Jetty. The nett proceeds are donated to assist various Rotary [...]

World Rally relocates to Coffs Harbour

This year the FIA World Rally Championship relocates to beautiful Coffs Harbour. From Sept 8 to 11th we will be treated to three days of thrills and spills competition from up to 90 cars and world class teams. In announcing the move, President of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (“CAMS”) Mr Andrew Papadopoulos said [...]

Here’s to marshmallows

Toasted over the camp fire, that is! The nip in the air at night provides the perfect reason to fire up our camp fire, pull up a camp chair and toast a marshmallow or two. Wood and a starter pack of marshmallows are provided FREE!

Not long until the Easter Bunny arrives

It’s just a few weeks until school holidays start and the Easter holidays fun kicks off here at Emerald Beach Holiday Park. Kids club starts the first Monday of the school holidays with supervised craft, games and activities. Plus, we have it on good authority that someone special will be hopping in over the Easter weekend so [...]

Merry Christmas at Emerald Beach Holiday Park

Santa Had a wonderful time with all of the kids and and parents on Christmas eve, he brought a lot of lollies and Christmas cheer.

Christmas Holiday Kids Activities

Want to know whats on this Christmas 2010 holiday? Just click on the week that you will be staying to see our Kids Activity Program. Week one 11th to the 17th of December Week two 18th to the 24th of December

Kids

We love kids here at Emerald Beach Holiday Park and we want them to feel safe and secure while on holidays. The park is the perfect size to know where your kids are and all the kids’ facilities are located within the one area. We offer a FREE year round kids activity program Monday to [...]

Holidaying with Kangaroos

We are very lucky to have several families of wild Kangaroos who visit our park regularly. You will often see them resting under a shady tree during the day and grazing in the morning and evenings in and around your cabins and sites. The kangaroos in the park are very used to having their photo [...]

Surfing Holiday at Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour

We are very lucky with surf at Emerald Beach. There are 3 breaks in the area. One for each wind pattern. Emerald Beach. Good Challenging waves for a south west breeze Sandy Beach. Gentle Break for long boards Shelly Beach (off Dammerel Cres). Good for a North East Sea Breeze. Emerald Beach Holiday Park is [...]

Fabulous walks from Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour

A fabulous way to spend a few hours is to take a walk from the park, through the Moonee Beach Nature Reserve. It is a fabulous portion of coastline that remains much as it was when Captain cook named the Solitary islands. Abundant with bird life, listen to the surf crashing on rocky headlands and [...]

Coffs Harbour Top Tourist Attractions from Emerald Beach Holiday Park Accommodation

Our Guests Favorite Tourist Attractions (click on the link for more information) Pet Porpoise Pool Day trip to Dorrigo Rainforest Centre Whale Watch with spirit cruises (Information and bookings at reception) The Big Banana for a banana split, a toboggan ride and a fabulous wet and wild time on the water slides The Butterfly house

Coffs Harbour Holiday. Free things to do at Emerald Beach Holiday Park

Enjoy our famous FREE Pancake Breakfast on Wednesday mornings from 8.30am (low season) Cook up a storm on our FREE gas BBQs Take advantage of our FREE wireless internet to catch up on your emails. Ask reception for details. Get competitive and play some Beach Volley Ball, tennis or basketball. No bookings needed. Take the [...]

Top 12 Coffs Harbour Family Attactions

Tabatinga: This is a kids dream-a place completely devoted to fun and play. Glow in the dark mini golf, a Balladium Ball Blaster, jungle gym soft-play and video games and cafe. Bray St, Coffs Harbour. www.tabatinga.com.au 026658 0924 Big Banana Its a whole bunch of family fun with ice skating ,water park toboggan rides and [...]

Shopping – the Detail on Retail!

The Park Beach Area The largest and most diverse variety of specialty stores on the Coffs Coast, Park Beach Plaza has over 120 shops with an enticing mix of national retailers as well as smaller, independent boutiques and stores. The Plaza, as locals call it, is also home to Australia’s largest single-storey surf shop ‘Coopers’. [...]

Shopping tips for the ladies

Let me share with you a few of my favourite places to shop and be papered. My favourite for shoes is Mizabelli in Harbour Drive, great for shoes, boots, Samantha Wills Jewellery and handbags. Just around the corner in the Palms centre is Nic&She, great ladies wear stocking labels like Sass and Bide, Nolita and [...]

Surf lessons with Harpo

I booked in for surf lessons with Harpo at Emerald Beach and apart from being totally nervous about my trying surfing, I got up (standing) almost straight away…and yes, I was amazed!!! I took the lesson with my son and daughter and all three of us can catch a wave standing up. Being from the country, [...]