Backpacker Tours from Sydney with Coast Warriors

What is Coast Warriors?

Coast Warriors is a young Australian tour company that focuses on backpacker tours from Sydney. We travel at an enjoyable and slower pace. We aim to show backpackers travelling the East Coast of Australia the best spots and hidden gems in a unique, personal, affordable, and fulfilling way.

How did the idea come about?

After extensive travel, one night in 2015, the three of us sat down over some cleansing ales in London. We talked about what we would do when we got back home to Sydney and about travelling the east coast of Australia ourselves.

We decided not to return to our boring jobs and to start a tour company that is fun, affordable, and chilled out, oriented to the youthful traveller.

After many months of study and red tape, we are happy to say we are a fully accredited tour operator! We have and will continue to do tours all over Australia.

I look forward to the future when we can turn a few more of our plans into reality and transform Coast Warriors into what we envisioned.

There are already so many coach trips. What makes you different?

There are a few reasons that make us stand apart from our competitors.

Coast Warriors is a young business in terms of operation and ideology. It’s owned and staffed by only two Aussie guys, me and I. We’re all in our mid-20s with 7+ years of backpacking experience under our collective belts. From all that time abroad, we have developed an understanding of what people desire when travelling, so we aim to make Coast Warriors as backpacker-friendly as possible.

One way we do this is by personally going along on every Coast Warriors trip. Being our own bosses really helps us give our customers the freedom and flexibility of choice with their tour, helping them get the most out of their time in this great country.

We try our hardest to spend the most time in all the good places where people want to be like Byron bay, Magnetic Island, Cairns etc. And pretty much avoid places like Bundaberg where there isn’t a whole lot going on unless you are doing farm work.

We have also decided to run a “Bloody Legends” promotion to reward the good people on our tours and give back to the community. If our backpackers decide to donate blood or buy a sandwich for a Homeless person and can show us evidence of their actions, we will offer them a discount on any of our tours.

We only use our 22-seater bus, Trudy. It also keeps things more connected and intimate, and aids in people making friends. With our bigger tours, we have seen some very close friendships develop, and the whole group is almost like family by the end of it.

The accommodation on our tours is a mix of camping (equipment provided) and dorms. So people get to camp out in the middle of nature but also get to mingle with other travellers at hostels.

I don’t see many other companies offering camping, which I don’t understand because it’s great fun, and some people have never had the chance. Camping amongst nature is one of the best ways to experience Australia, so we include camping in all of our overnight tours.

We have a few more plans down the road, and I think in time, it will become increasingly clear that we are unlike many of these other companies and are unique.

Who’s a typical Coast Warriors Passenger?

We have had a wide variety of people on our tours from all different countries and walks of life. We have had awesome slack jawed texans who endeavoured to drink their entire body weight in goon, to a french aristocrat who had been travelling for over 11 years.

We tailor our tours towards young adults, so we have an age restriction of 18-35. With our big multi-day tours, such as Sydney to Cairns, we try to ensure a 50/50 ratio of guys and girls, so we don’t end up slack-jawed Texans hat seems like a travelling rugby team or a 22-day-long hens night. French works better with equality, and nobody is left out.

What locations do you visit? Is there any place off the typical tourist run?

We have been all over Australia, including the Blue Mountains, Port Stephens, Jarvis Bay, Cape Tribulation, Fraser Island, Whitsundays, Magnetic Island, Cairns, and the Twelve Apostles.

Some lesser-known places we have visited that spring to mind are an abandoned hotel in the middle of a rainforest, Social Nigeria Placeradley’s Head, a drive-in cinema, a natural waterslide in the middle of the bush in far north Queensland, and sandboarding, which was pretty unreal as well.

What does a typical day for a Coast Warrior look like?

Depends. On our multi-day tours, you might start by rolling out of your tent in the morning and hitting a beach or having breakfast while staff pack up camp. Then we usually make the most of the day by spending it in a city/town, visiting national parks, waterfalls, and beaches, depending on the day’s plan. Then we drive towards the end of the day and use big lights to set up camp in the darker hours.  Night times usually consist of having a family meal, hitting the town, doing a movie night, or just unwinding after a long day.

How do you book?

People interested in doing a tour can book online at our website www.coastwarriors.com.au or shoot us a message on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/coastwarriors

what plans do we have for the future?

During the colder months, we operate tours to the Blue Mountains and Sydney-to-Cairns roadtrips. Winter is the best time to travel up north because it’s the dry season. It’s still warm, the sun is shining, but there is no humidity or daily rain. It’s also not jellyfish season, so you can get into the water without fear of impending doom from 9-meter-long box jellyfish stingers floating translucently in the water.

This summer, we are planning on adding a few more tours, including Hunter Valley and getting our Port Stephens tour back up and running. We are also looking forward to revamping our Royal National Park tour with the addition of the Figure 8 Pools. Also, getting our Summer Blue Mountains is a lot of fun.

Ideally, we would like to have a bus that does day trips in Sydney, day trips in Melbourne, and one that does the East Coast, but that won’t be for a while, unfortunately.

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