NORTHERN LIVING DINING, ENTERTAINMENT AND SHOPPING Dining Options Boasting four main dining precincts, Townsville offers the same dining experiences you could expect in any of Australia’s capital cities. Palmer Street, located adjacent to the city’s centre is home to a number of award-winning international restaurants, and is considered the ultimate place to wine and dine. For the coffee lovers, both Gregory and Flinders Streets are ideal places to indulge your senses. Cannon Park Dining and Entertainment Precinct offers family friendly dining and entertainment options, featuring 10 restaurants, a cinema complex and a bowling lounge.
Extensive Retail Townsville is well equipped to cater to one of everyone’s favourite pastimes – shopping. With three major shopping centres – Willows, Castletown and Stockland – Townsville offers shoppers a wide variety of retail choices in air conditioned comfort. The city is also scattered with trendy boutiques including cutting edge and vintage fashion. Markets are held regularly throughout the region, offering access to locally grown fresh fruit and vegetables, home made sweets, baked goods, crafts, flowers, jewellery, pottery and artwork. Regarded as Queensland’s largest bulk goods and outlet shopping centre, Domain Central offers over 60 of Australia’s best brand name retailers, 1,800 car parks and a variety of facilities. With stores such as JB Hi-Fi, Bunnings, Freedom, Nick Scali, Harvey Norman, BCF, The Good Guys, Trade Secret and Snooze, you’ll find everything you need in one convenient location. For furniture, homewares, hardware, gifts, fashion, food, hair care, outdoor, fishing, boating and more, Domain Central has it all. The surrounding regions are known for their local produce, delis and artefacts and each offers a unique shopping experience well worth taking the time to experience.
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Nightlife As Northern Australia’s largest city, Townsville offers a wide range of sophisticated bars, classically-styled Queensland pubs and modern restaurants. Flinders Street East is the heart of Townsville’s vibrant night life, with a full suite of nightclubs and entertainment venues. The city has come of age in recent years and is now home to funky cafes, laneways and boutique bars. Contemporary street art mixes harmoniously with heritage buildings and facades that remind you of the city’s roots. The Casino is superbly located on the Townsville Breakwater, set amongst tropical landscaped gardens overlooking Cleveland Bay and Magnetic Island. It’s a destination in its own right, drawing on the region’s natural surrounds of the Great Barrier Reef, tropical rainforests and beaches. Movies Catching the latest movie is easy with four cinema complexes in Townsville and theatres and drive-ins in Charters Towers, Burdekin and Hinchinbrook. Townsville offers Reading Cinemas located at Cannon Park, Event Cinemas and BCC both positioned strategically in the CBD and Warrina Cineplex, a family owned independent cinema located in Currajong. Each of the centres is close by to dining options making a trip to the movies a very enjoyable experience.