Over the past year, NRMA Holiday Parks, in conjunction with the Starlight Children’s Foundation, has donated 100 holidays to Australian families with seriously ill children.

One of NRMA Holiday Park’s many community initiatives, the program offered 100 Starlight kids and their 147 siblings and 211 parents / carers a chance to escape from the medical routine of hospitals and doctors and enjoy some great family fun in a Holiday Park.

NRMA Holiday Parks received such positive feedback that they have extended the program and also their disability services; ensuring beach wheelchairs are now available for use at Treasure Island Holiday Park, Darlington Beach Holiday Park and Ocean Beach Holiday Park.

"From the minute we arrive at Darlington Beach Holiday Park just outside Coffs Harbour, it becomes clear that our relaxing family holiday has been turned into an action-packed week, planned with military precision by our seven-year-old son, Josh".

Read the full article from the Summer Travel Special in Woman's Day here

Source: www.womansday.ninemsn.com.au - Written by Erin Craven in the 14 Dec 2009 issue - out now!

Coffs Harbour developed from a timber-producing town and banana growing region to be a cosy holiday destination.

The Coffs Coast region has more than enough fabulous accommodation to suit all budgets, whims and ‘styles of stay’.

Caravan holiday parks in the area have taken the humble ‘camping ground’ to new levels of excellence, where comfort rules! Get Up & Go road-tested a variety of accommodation, one of them Darlington Beach Holiday Park.

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Darlington Beach Holiday Park has recently been named the 7th Best Holiday Park in Australia by Holidays with Kids magazine. Blue Dolphin Holiday Resort came in at number 1! Please click here to read full article from the Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne). The article was also featured in the Sunday Tasmanian on 30 Aug 2009.

Source: Sunday Herald Sun, Escape Section, 30 August 2009, Melbourne Circulation
Source: Sunday Tasmanian, Escape Section, 30 August 2009, Hobart Circulation

When it comes to saying "I do", it seems increasing numbers of people are adding "and I'll have a holiday while I'm at it".

Accelerated by the financial crunch and the challenge of getting time off for a holiday – combined with the complications of modern families – destination weddings have become a huge business.

The editor of wedding website i-do.com.au, Victoria Van Brugge, says more than three-quarters of intending couples are using a civil celebrant rather than getting married in a church. And with the cost of a traditional wedding hitting the $40,000 to $50,000 mark, a destination wedding can become "an obvious choice".

Others are inviting guests but keeping the venue modest: the NRMA Darlington Beach Holiday Park has had a "sharp rise" in wedding bookings this year, with couples booking out multiple cabins and making their wedding a weekend with family and friends.