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Townsville is a fantastic family holiday destination with plenty of suitable family accommodation. Families on holiday usually like to stay in self catering apartment style or holiday home style accommodation as the ability to cater for yourself keeps the price of the holiday to a minimum which means that the family can holiday more often. Most good family accommodation comes with a range of facilities that helps to keep the kids entertained. A good swimming pool is usually a must and a location either on the beachfront or nearby always help to provide extra activities for everyone.

Good family accommodation will also be located close to lots of natural activities like being able to take a tour into the countryside or local hinterland to see local beauty spots and enjoy the wildlife, have a swim or enjoy a picnic or bar b que. Townsville is a great location for this, with the Paluma Range rainforest to the north well worth a visit. Magnetic Island lies just offshore and is a great destination for a day trip from Townsville. This is the home of Australia�s largest Koala colony and has beautiful beaches as well as a challenging golf course and lots of excellent restaurants and cafes. The Great Barrier Reef is an added attraction with tours operating from Townsville on a regular basis. If you like fishing, Townsville is a great destination, with day charters available to take the family out to catch a big one. Similarly, if you family likes to dive or snorkel, then there are plenty of tours that cater for this.

Other family activities available in the Townsville region include the sporting events. Most kids love to go to a football match or to see the car racing. The V8 Supercars visit Townsville every year and there are regular home games for both the North Queensland Cowboys rugby league team and the Townsville Fury, soccer team. On �The Strand� which is the main beachfront. esplanade in Townsville, there are plenty of fantastic family activities. There is a great water park, two swimming pools, two piers with fish cleaning facilities as well as a range of oceanfront restaurants. It really does have everything in family accommodation and holiday activities that you could ever ask for.