Seamlessly blend the wonders of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland with the leisurely elegance of Mooloolaba’s award-winning seafood lunch cruise across two unforgettable days. Savour fine wine, gourmet cuisine, and breathtaking scenery with ease Scenic Food & Wine Day Tour + Mooloolaba Cruise Lunch
Escape to the heart of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, where lush landscapes, charming towns, and world-class wineries await. Here’s a glimpse of what you can expect:
After an enriching morning in the hinterland, we transition to the tranquil Mooloolaba canals for a different delight. Here’s what’s in store:
Duration: Full-Day Tuesday & Friday
Glass House Mountains Lookout Your first stop is Mary Cairncross in Maleny, on the aptly named Mountain View Rd. It looks east off the Blackall Range towards the coast where you will enjoy the gorgeous National heritage-listed Glass House Mountains.
Dairy town of Maleny Our next stop is Maleny, a picture-postcard dairy country town. Located 436 m above sea level on the southern edge of the Blackall Range, Maleny attracts painters, craftspeople, and potters. During this time, you will enjoy cheese tasting and explore the town at your leisure.
Maleny Food Co Enjoy a true cheese experience while you sample the finest Australian and international cheeses made by artisan cheesemakers. You will be provided with a cheese tasting board which will include a selection of cheese plus condiments including quince jam, baby pickles, figs, muscatels on the vine, dried fruit and crusty sourdough. Maleny Food Co has a reputation as one of the premier cheese shops in Australia with a selection of more than 250 cheeses.
Clouds Vineyard The Barrel (Fri, Sat & Sun) & Clouds Montville Accommodation (Tue) Our next stop is Clouds Vineyard cellar door which offers a flight of award-winning wines. Here you’ll smell and taste Queensland wines produced from the different grapes grown in Queensland.
Gerrard’s Lookout One of the two scenic lookouts we stop at will be Gerrard’s Lookout, high on the hill. This lookout offers coastline views to Coolum, Maroochydore, Caloundra and Bribie Island.
Lunch at Secrets on the Lake Your gourmet lunch will be at “Secrets on the Lake” which is set in the rainforest on the side of Lake Baroon. a popular foodie destination near Montville enjoying panoramic views of Lake Baroon
Montville Village When we arrive at the hinterland village of Montville, you can spend your free time checking out the delightful shops and boutiques and enjoying this picture-postcard village and its fresh mountain air.
Chocolate Country, Montville Chocolate Country has been specialising in making and serving handmade chocolate to locals and visitors alike since 1993. Here you will select a luxury handmade sampler box (one per couple) of five chocolates which you can take with you to enjoy in your accommodation.
Mapleton Falls Lookout The Mapleton Falls lookout for some is a highlight of their day, a hidden treasure in the Hinterland region, this scenic lookout offers amazing views over the Obi Obi Valley and the top of a lush rainforest canopy.
It’s late afternoon and you’ve bought yourself a couple of bottles of local wine to take home now it’s time to head back down to sea level where you will arrive back at your accommodation in time for a rest before dinner.
Welcome to an unforgettable adventure along the pristine Mooloolah River, where we invite you to indulge in the freshest local seafood while immersing yourself in the scenic wonders of this stunning coastal paradise.
Duration: 90 minutes Daily 11 am or 1 pm
*Select your preferred date and time for the cruise during check-out
Cruise Through Maritime Marvels: As you step aboard our vessel, you’ll be greeted by the captivating sights of Mooloolaba Harbour. Cruise effortlessly through the picturesque river and intricate canals, where you’ll witness our renowned ‘Fishing Fleet’ in action, alongside Pilot Boats and Recreational Vessels, painting a vibrant maritime tapestry.
Riverside Serenity: Venture out to the river mouth and savour panoramic vistas of the breathtaking Mooloolaba Bay. This tranquil spot provides the perfect backdrop for your seafood feast.
The Freshest Catch: Your journey isn’t complete without tasting the bounty of Mooloolah River Fisheries. Savour the freshest seafood offerings on the coast, carefully prepared to tantalize your taste buds.
Millionaires Row: Meander into the main river and canals, where you’ll be awestruck by the opulent Minyama mansions adorning Millionaires Row. Gaze upon the lap of luxury and waterfront living.
Inclusions:
Lunch Choices Galore: Select from a delightful array of seven lunch options, all thoughtfully included in your ticket price.
90 Minutes of Enrichment: Immerse yourself in the local area with our informative commentary during the 90-minute cruise, delving into the rich history and fascinating stories of the Sunshine Coast.
Upgrade Your Feast: Peruse our onboard menu for delectable meal upgrades, including seafood platters, oysters, scallops, salads, and more. The choice is yours to enhance your culinary adventure.
Libations at Your Fingertips: Visit our fully licensed bar and quench your thirst with a diverse selection of beverages, from refreshing cocktails to fine wine, beer, spirits, and soft drinks.
Unparalleled Atmosphere: Unwind in a relaxed, scenic environment, surrounded by friendly and helpful staff who are dedicated to ensuring your experience is nothing short of spectacular.
What to Bring:
Camera & a Smile: Capture the memories and the beauty of the Mooloolah River to cherish forever.
Weather-Ready: Our fully enclosed vessel operates in most weather conditions, so you can embark on this adventure with confidence.
Punctuality Matters: Please arrive 30 minutes before departure to ensure a seamless start to your unforgettable journey.
Bus Tour + Lunch Cruise
Bus Tour + Lunch Cruise
Tour + Cruise
Magic is the only way to describe the experience. From the ginger factory, macadamia nuts to the sweeping views of the hinterland, glass mountains. It was a magnificent tour. The... read more rainforest was a special highlight
An all day adventure with detailed, interesting and entertaining commentary from Geoff. An experience Lisa and I will never forget.
Corporate Team Buidling - What an amazing team building day! We experienced a day filled with local hospitality, team challenges and making memorable moments. With Coast to Hinterland Tours, the booking was easy,... read more they were on time, professional and had planned our day perfectly to incorporate the little touches that were important to us. Their local knowledge, flexibility and amazing suggestions resulted in a fun filled day that was relaxing. Our friendly tour host Dave was outstanding – passionate, informative, engaging and entertaining, and was amazing at keeping us on track. Everything was taken care of, right down to our favorite things. We highly recommend this company, and we definitely will be back for another tour soon!
Exceptional service - We were looking at celebrating our wedding anniversary and I wanted to surprise my wife with something different. That is when I found the Coast to Hinterland Tours offering private... read more tour of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. From my first contact enquiry with the front line staff, I found the business very professional and helpful. The tour I chose afforded me the opportunity to select the experiences I was interested in from a supplied list. I couldn’t fault any part of our experience from the initial communication to the actual tour on the day I selected.
Great knowledgeable driver - Our driver was cheerful, knowledgeable and punctual. Her driving was careful and skilful. Would highly recommend
Great trip up to Eumundi Markets - Recently went on this minibus return trip up to the markets. Picked up from my accommodation spending plenty of time at the markets to shop and explore. Very friendly crew... read more who made the journey enjoyable sharing their knowledge of the local area. Highly recommend this company.
A spoil for our girls - Picked up on time. Delivered on time and returned on time. Just does not happen every day. Dave was our driver. Very polite and caring and very knowledgeable. Great trip.... read more Highly recommended
Fabulous experience. Peter was great and very knowledgeable. It was a very relaxing and lovely afternoon seeing the Everglades and spotting some wildlife.
We enjoyed the experience very much... read more and would highly recommend it to anyone who want to have a unique and fabulous tour!
Great tour to the markets - We were taken right to Eumundi Markets and given three hours to do our browsing, shopping and eating. Mark and Geoff were very informative about the Sunshine Coast, and were... read more able to answer our questions.
Enjoyable tour of the hinterland - This tour included a lot of sightseeing in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast. We had a lovely view of the Glasshouse Mountains at our morning tea stop, then a... read more cheese tasting stop in Maleny where we could taste several local cheeses. Our next stop was to taste three local wines, still in Maleny. Our lunch was at an excellent venue in Montville. We were collected at our accommodation in the morning and taken back in the afternoon. Although we saw such a lot of the beautiful hinterland area, the tour never seemed hurried. Our driver, Rob, was courteous and friendly. It was an enjoyable trip for the five passengers on the bus.
A great day out - My sister and I loved our day out. The safe comfortable coach picked us up at our hotel. Our driver was friendly and informed, and we enjoyed chatting with our... read more fellow passengers. Three hours at the market was the perfect time to enjoy the various offerings in full, and it was great to be able to look forward to the pleasant trip back. Very good value for an easy and enjoyable day out.
Great - Excellent service. Mark is a great driver and told history of the surrounding areas. Comfortable and prompt ride. Would highly recommend
Great tour - This was a great tour. We booked it for my sister’s hens party. It was excellent value for money - they filled the day with so many places. The venues... read more we went to were really good, with excellent food for lunch and great service. Our guide, Dave, was very attentive and helpful. He made sure everyone had a great day.
Most enjoyable day on our trip to Eumundi Market with a very informative commentary. Loved the atmosphere
This tour is highly recommended! Lucas is an amazing host. We where well entertained by his great personality! - Lucas was an excellent host! This tour is highly recommended. We had an absolutely beautiful day with views of Glass House Mountains followed by cheese tasting and wine with very... read more generous servings then on to Secrets by the Lake for an amazing lunch followed by a visit to the chocolate factory where we each received a beautiful box of chocolate!
Lucas was very knowledgeable about all of the points of interest.
Broken by interesting variety - The package of accommodation pickup and drop off, a small 11 seater bus, excellent guide, time in small towns, confectionary ginger production factory, macadamia nut factory, rolling countryside, food, lookouts,... read more vistas of the coast and the Glass House Mountains, waterfalls, rainforest walks, native birds and animals, local produce, was perfect. The variety, the pace of the full day, and the opportunities to learn, were excellent.
We are a group of golfers on tour from New Zealand. - Excellent and reliable service for our golf group. Pick up was from several areas and return trips were on time with pleasant service. I would recommend Coast to Hinterland Tours... read more for small or large groups.
Ladies Day Out - We were a group of 8 ladies (early 70's) and chose to do a private tour.
Choosing what we would do was made very easy with help from Mark... read more who tailored the tour to suit our interests.
Dave was our driver on the day and he could not do enough for us. Thank you Dave.....you are the best.
The coach was very comfortable and clean.
We visited Montville, Maleney & Kenilworth, did a number of food tastings, toured the Ginger Factory and managed to spend money everywhere including a bit of quick retail therapy here and there.
On behalf of our ladies I would like to thank you for a great day out and we would thoroughly recommend your Company to anyone.
Our tour experience was absolutely sensational. Jeff was an amazing guide with a wealth of knowledge to share with with us. The food, wines, cheese and towns were fantastic! A... read more must do if visiting the Sunshine Coast!
Excellent service - the driver called us with an ETA prior to arrival a we were the last pick up, and he could not have been any more helpful. We... read more had a great trip to the market and would definitely book again.
Eumundi minibus - Our driver, Dave, did an excellent job. Spot on with times, engaging, relaxed drive to & from markets. Bud was cleans & well presented.Markets were packed 9:30am, but still room... read more to move
Good day out
We had a delightful day with our guide, Jeff. We planned an itinerary, which visited the Mary Cairncross Rainforest Reserve, the Maleny Botanic Gardens and lunch at the Secrets... read more on the Lake. Throughout the entire journey, Jeff explained history of each area and provided tips as to what we should pay particular attention. When we wanted to change what we did on the fly, Jeff accommodated us and substituted another venue for visiting. We highly recommend Jeff and the tour operator.
We have just done the Sunshine Coast Private Wine tour with Coast to Hinterland, to say we had a sensational day is an understatement. We had an absolute ball,... read more what a great day. Being a Monday quite a few of the places on the itinerary weren't open, so Mark rehashed our itinerary with other venues, we stopped at the Sunshine and sons Gin distillery where Ash and Michael ran us through the making of and then the drinking of the gins, it was fabulous and beautiful Gin. After many laughs it was time to head back to the bus with our tour leader Jan, she was wonderful, nothing was too much trouble, she was funny, lighthearted and incredibly friendly. We visited the Barrel winery and lunch at the Montville Bar and Grill, which has a lovely alfresco eatery. Overall I would not hesitate to recommend this tour but also this company, they were wonderful to deal with.
Dave the bus driver was fantastic, his easygoing relaxed nature with excellent commentary made for an enjoyable trip.
Plenty to see at the market with heaps of food options, a... read more great day.
This tour was sensational and we highly recommend both the tour, tour guide Ngaere and the company, Coast to Hinterland Tours. This tour allowed us to find places that we... read more would have never found on our own. The lunch at Secrets was to die for with the most spectacular view and the very helpful staff. Make sure you check out all the wooden cravings on the property. The tour took us to some very special places with the best views of the Sunshine Cost and beyond. Can't rate this tour highly enough.
Amazing tour full day of sights and beautiful food. Our guide Geoff was the best. Our extensive cheese platter was so good, wine tasting was very generous, excellent wine,... read more our 2 course lunch at Secrets I won't forget for a long time, it was perfect, we all received a box of yummy Belgium chocolates, we picked 5 slabs each!!
Between the food stops we visited lookouts, waterfalls and spent time in Melany and Montville, two gorgeous little towns full of treasures.
We had a lot of fun..
Raelene & Chris
Day trip to the Markets : ) 26th October 2022
our driver was awesome, he remembered everyone's names and was polite and friendly at all times and happily shared his... read more knowledge I have been to the markets previously and normally drive, however i would not hesitate to book these guys again. We had plenty of time at the market and didn't feel rushed at all.
Peter was a very courteous, friendly and informative driver. Our trip was in a clean, modern and refreshing minibus. The time given was generous and we even... read more got the scenic route back. The office girls were most helpful with calls and confirmation.
We started early which meant we could enjoy the markets before all the crowds started to arrive. Our driver, Mark, was very accommodating and pointed out several places of... read more interest and gave us facts relating to the markets along the way
Jan did an exceptional job as our tour guide. The range of stop offs were just right, interesting and Jan's commentary was perfect. Our lunch was scrumptious and we loved... read more having time to explore each destination. We had a wonderful group of people on our tour group, which added an extra special element! Many thanks!
Marissa
Day Tour Element Only
With 24-hours notice
Bookings Transferrable
M-F 8 am-5 pm | S-S 9 am-4 pm