Yulara

Yulara is a town near the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia.

Understand

Yulara is essentially a service city for Uluru, acting as an accommodation base for visitors to the park. It was constructed in the 1980s and its location is just outside the park boundaries.

Get in

The following airlines operate flights to Yulara's Connellan Airport (AYQ):

Qantas flies from Cairns, Sydney and Melbourne.
National Jet Systems operates QantasLink flights from Alice Springs and Perth. These flights are booked through Qantas but operated under a codeshare system.

The airport is variously referred to as Yulara, Ayers Rock and Uluru.

Sleep

Yulara offers a variety of accommodation from camping through to 5 star. The village is split up into sections depending on the accommodation type. All the hotels, the campground and the lodge are managed by Voyages, under the heading of Ayers Rock Resort. ph 08 8957 7888. fax 08 8957 7615. email travel@voyages.com.au.

Sails in the Desert is the 5-star hotel. Room rates are about $500 per night. http://www.voyages.com.au/destinations/uluru/sails/
Desert Gardens Hotel. Room rates are about $400 per night for a double standard room and $480 for a double deluxe room. http://www.voyages.com.au/destinations/uluru/desert/
Emu walk apartments. These fully serviced apartments can cater hold about six people. Nightly rates are about $500 per apartment. http://www.voyages.com.au/destinations/uluru/emu/
Lost Camel Hotel. Room rates are about $400 per night. http://www.voyages.com.au/destinations/uluru/camel/
The Outback Pioneer Hotel and YHA Lodge. An excellent place to stay - cabin accommodation all newly decorated, clean, nice linen, and they think of every last detail. Staff are friendly and helpful. Cost is $33 for a bed in a large dorm room or $37 for a bed in a 4 person room. http://www.yha.com.au/hostels/details.cfm?hostelid=130
The Ayers Rock Campground has tent sites, powered sites and cabins. A cabin is $150 per night and sleeps up to six people. A campsite for two people is $15.50 for a powered site and $13 for a tent site. Each additional person on a campsite is $11.50 per night, or $6 per for children. http://www.voyages.com.au/destinations/uluru/campground/

Cope

There is a shopping centre which has the following: IGA supermarket, restaurant, take-away, a couple of gift shops, a newsagents, an ANZ bank and ATM, and a post office. There is a petrol station.