Marine Environment Museum

Welcome to North Star’s Marine Discovery Centre Hastings Point, one of Australia’s largest, privately funded museums. Its primary focus is teaching people how they can play a role in protecting and safeguarding our precious marine environment for future generations.

The recently refurbished Centre is a showcase of state-of-the-art light and sound technology, fitted with interactive digital terminals and world-class marine and coastal science displays designed to enhance the learning experience. The Centre also has purpose-built space for lectures, seminars, business events, gatherings, school camps and excursions.

The Marine Discovery Centre is open to resort guests, the public and school groups. See www.marinediscovery.com.au for opening times.

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Visit the Marine Discovery Centre

General Admission

Visit all year round including school holidays

$13

Adults

Children (3-12yrs)

1x Entry to the Marine Discovery Centre
Open every Saturday between 10am -12noon
Additional session times during May and school holidays
Open to the public
Two-hour immerse marine presentation

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Family Admission

Visit all year round including school holidays

$34

Two adults & two children

1x family entry to the Marine Discovery Centre
Open every Saturday between 10am -12noon
Additional session times during May and during school holidays
Open to the public
Two-hour immerse marine presentation

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Admission + Lunch

Visit all year round including school holidays

$26

Adults

$14

Children (3-12yrs)

1x entry to the Marine Discovery Centre
Open every Saturday between 10am -12noon
Lunch is served at the onsite Ripples Licensed Café
Lunch excludes beverages. Kids meal selection made from ‘Little Rippa’ menu.
Two-hour immerse marine presentation

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KIMBERLEY H

This is possibly the best Holiday / Caravan Park ever! We had the most wonderful family holiday over Easter 2018 and have booked to return in Easter 2019. The park has everything, it is ideal for Kids of all ages with a Kids Club, Arcade room, outdoor play area, water park, water slides, pool and quiet roads for the kids to ride bikes and scooters around. Adults have their own private area with a lap pool and spa's, gym, hairdresser and massage.
TENILLE L

This holiday park IS next level AMAZING! The facilities are like no other park. We travelled for 4 months and stayed in dozens & dozens of holiday parks but nothing compared to this park. The kids absolutely loved it. They always had something fun to do. It was so great to have the kids club, hard for parents on holidays to get child free time!!! The positioning of the park was brilliant, only a two minute walk to the beach, 25 mins to Byron and still close to the Gold Coast. The staff were VERY helpful and always friendly. Thank you for a memorable stay. We will absolutely be back soon.
KIMBERLEY K

We will definitely be back! We just came back from our first family holiday with our 2.5yr old and we loved it!! We stayed in one of the cabins which fitted the 3 of us in perfectly! And it was great to have a full working kitchen so we were able to cook/make all our meals instead of buying takeout every day. There was so much for us to do and our daughter was exhausted after every day!! Weekends were crazy busy so it was nice during the week to have spare space to play ball and even better when we had the whole pool/splash Park to ourselves!! We will definitely be back!
NICKI F

Definitely one of the nicest places to stay on the Tweed Coast We stayed with a friend who is a resident at the park, and it is a beautiful location. The facilities include a water park, private swimming pool for residents, laundry, communal kitchen, spa and lap pool and Ripples Cafe which serves a very good breakfast. There is also a wonderful marine museum which is open to the public on Saturday mornings and the curator, Ted, is incredibly informative.