Working Holiday in Brisbane?

Question

Hi, I am traveling to Brisbane sometime next week to start my working holiday visa, and am in a ditch about which hostel to stay, and their location in terms of convenience, etc. Is anyone familiar with the location? I have 'Manly', and 'New Farm' to choose from. Which would you say is the best location to have easy access to fruit picking jobs and transportations, etc?

Answer 1

New Farm is probaby more convenient, as it's closer to the city, but I don't think it has a train station (Manly does). It has plenty of buses, though, and the ferry.

But neither are particularly close to any fruit picking that I am aware of. You'll probaby be travelling for at least an hour for fruit picking. I am on the far Northside, and I know there are these kinds of jobs in Narangba and Caboolture, possibly parts of Deception Bay (the more rural areas). Most of the fruit picking is on the Sunshine Coast, a bit further north of me, Nambour would probably be a good base for that (but it's a smaller town, I think it's nearly two hours (on the train at least) away from Brisbane).

But, I don't know much about Manly or that area, maybe there are some fruit-picking opportunities around there that I'm unaware of.

Good luck :-)