Search hotels in Coffs Harbour

With an amazing hinterland and many beaches and creeks, Coffs Harbour is a great holiday for all groups of people. There are abundant activities to engage in as well - markets, drives, carnivals, walks and sports.

Great for kids, especially the Jetty area as the waves are small and manageable. The locals are lovely and friendly. The park close to the motel was great fun for the kids to let off extra steam before the long drive home to Sydney.

A great place to visit. Beautiful beaches, great shopping and some good food around. There are many other towns around that are a must to visit and all are close by. You need a car to get around easily though, as the town is spread out, and the other towns are a drive away

We stayed in Coffs Harbour for three nights to avoid the road closures due to floods on the NSW coast. We were able to head down to the beach while it wasn’t raining and it was perfect! We went to the cinema, zaraffa’s coffee house Had dinner at a Mexican restaurant which was pricey but delicious. We had fish and chips at Sea Salt and it was so good we went back again on our last night! Due to the weather we mainly stayed indoors strolling through the local shops and home maker centre.

Most resort accom in Coffs is from the 1990s, but there are more modern units in town, though not resort style. Charlesworth Bay resorts offer facilities such as golf courses, and multiple pools, but are dated.

We enjoyed leisurely drives and lovely brunches in surrounding nearby towns such as Sawtell, Urunga and Bellingin. Sawtell was very pretty with a lovely beach and rock pool, and the town had a lovely atmosphere. Urunga has an amazing long boardwalk that is nice to do. The drive from Bellingin to Dorrigo along the Waterfall Way was very pretty. Coffs Harbour was in a good location for us to do these drives and the roads were well sign posted. The people in the area were very friendly. There are also some lovely walks in the national parks. A few of the things we would have liked to do in Coffs Harbour or surrounds were no longer available to do or were temporarily unable to be done eg. Dangar Falls temporarily closed for work to be done, (This could not be avoided as it was a safety issue being corrected, and was only going to be temporary). Camels no longer available, tubing not available, water paddle bikes not available and Foreshore markets had very little there. Covid may have been partly to blame for some of this. Overall we enjoyed our time there and found the Dolphin Conservation Center enjoyable, also visited the Clog Barn and found the miniature displays lovely. We visited a really great lookout called Forest Sky Pier. The Big Banana had amazing Banana Sundaes. Our accommodation was at Opal Cove Resort and we were really happy with our stay there. All staff very friendly, rooms clean, restaurant served lovely food, parking good, lovely surrounds and pool was great.