Pick the perfect campervan or motorhome for an unforgettable road trip

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Is there anything better than a road trip holiday? The call of the open road beckoning you onwards, another discovery around every bend, and your day-to-day worries evaporating into wide-open spaces. Whatever the adventure, Apollo has the vehicle to suit your next holiday.

Choose your style of holiday to find the right vehicle:

1. The Foodie Fanatic

2. The Outback Adventurer

3. The Coastal Escapee

4. The Festival Goer

5. The Family Clan

6. The Romantic Couple

7. The Nature Seeker

The foodie fanatic

Australia’s fabulous food and wine regions include WA’s Margaret River, the rolling Hunter Valley near, and South Australia’s best culinary getaway, the Barossa Valley. On a road trip, it’s easy to stop at roadside stalls, cellar doors and markets before finding a scenic spot to enjoy your local produce.

Your Apollo vehicle: 2-berth Euro Tourer

Foodies favour indulgence and this deluxe campervan with its own shower and toilet provide plenty of comfort at an affordable price. Featuring full kitchen facilities, including a three-burner gas stove, fridge-freezer and microwave, you can cook up a tasty meal with great local produce you’ve found along the way, pour yourself a wine and relax.

Kitchen amenities, Euro Tourer 2 Berth, Apollo Camper Vans, Australia
Cook up a tasty meal with great local produce you’ve found along the way.

The outback adventurer

Among Australia’s bucket list destinations are the rust-red Flinders Ranges, stunning gorges and waterfalls of the Kimberley, and the Stuart Highway between Darwin and Alice Springs. There’s no better way to immerse yourself in the sights of the outback than by road tripping while sleeping in your own camper.  The rewards are immeasurable but you will not forget one incredible outback sight: the stars.

Your Apollo vehicle: 4WD Adventure Camper

This 4WD campervan, which has extra fuel capacity for long distances, suits couples looking for a proper outback adventure. Set up the external awning, get your gas stove going and enjoy dinner under the stars. Air conditioning and heating in the driving cabin provide comfort on the road.

4WD Campervan, Apollo Camper Vans, Australia
This 4WD campervan has extra fuel capacity for long distances.

The coastal escapee

Everyone should see Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, relax in Coffs Harbour in NSW and soak up Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Beyond the obvious, discover SA’s Fleurieu Peninsula and Tasmania’s Cradle Coast. The beauty of coasting along is that you can find your own headland, pocket-sized beach or little slice of paradise all for yourself.

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Your Apollo vehicle: 2-berth Euro Tourer

This top-level campervan is easy to drive thanks to its automatic transmission, and has all the comforts and convenience you need for a coastal getaway, including a fully equipped kitchen, air conditioning and heating. Choose your scenic spot, put the kettle on and let the water views work their magic.

Beach, Apollo 2 berth Euro Tourer campervan
Explore remote and not so remote beaches at your own pace in a 2 berth Euro Tourer.

The festival goer

With its year-round schedule of festivals celebrating everything from music to theatres, cabaret to food, you can’t beat Adelaide for festival fun. You can also let loose in Byron Bay (Splendour in the Grass is a must), while Brisbane has polished its reputation as one of Australia’s great festival towns. Why not enjoy hopping from one memorable festival to another in a camper?

Your Apollo vehicle: Hitop Camper

Young couples will love the compact, cost effective and functional Hitop Camper, which packs in a kitchenette and dining and sitting space, as well as plenty of storage. Automatic transmission makes driving easy, and who doesn’t love some additional head height

Hitop Campervan, Apollo Camper Vans, Australia
Enjoy hopping from one memorable festival to another in a camper.

The family

Keep the whole family happy with an endless variety of water sports, adrenaline activities and theme parks on the Gold Coast. For more low-key getaways, try Cairns, Jervis Bay in NSW and Victoria’s Murray River region. A motorhome gives you the flexibility of stopping whenever it suits for a break, whether you want to plunge into a waterhole, hit the surf or spot some local wildlife.

Your Apollo vehicle: 6-berth Euro Deluxe

With power steering, automatic transmission and a reversing camera, you’ll find this 6-berth motorhome an easy drive.

Family, Euro Deluxe 6 Berth, Apollo Camper Vans, Australia
A motorhome gives you and your family the flexibility of stopping whenever it suits for a break.

The romantic couple

Romance is an attitude, but you can encourage it in lovely spots such as Rainbow Beach or the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, Victoria’s Yarra Valley or the Blue Mountains in NSW. On a road trip, you can travel at your own pace to suit your mood, whether you’re ready for a cellar door, want to wallow beneath a waterfall or steal a seductive sunset moment.

Your Apollo vehicle: 2-berth Euro Tourer

This top-of-the-range air-conditioned campervan keeps the mood romantic with the creature comforts of home, including a large double bed and back doors that open out to make the most of those stunning sunrises and sunsets. The kitchen is fitted out with all the cooking equipment you need, so you can whip up a romantic meal to enjoy under the stars.

Bush, Apollo 2 berth Euro Tourer campervan
Create some special moments with a top of the range Apollo campervan.

The nature seeker

Hit the Top End and camp out in Kakadu or Litchfield National Parks amid giant termite mounds,      or head into the Daintree Rainforest north of Cairns to explore Cape Tribulation, home to cassowaries and crocodiles. Road tripping allows you to take it slow and easy while enjoying magical wildlife encounters.

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Your Apollo vehicle: 4WD Adventure Camper

You can’t immerse yourself in nature more than in this 4WD campervan; it’s rugged enough to explore remote landscapes yet roomy enough so you don’t feel confined. Featuring a full kitchen kit, fridge-freezer and solar hand-held shower, it won’t feel like you’re roughin’ it even though you are in remote Australia.

4WD Camper van, Apollo Camper Vans, Australia
Explore remote landscapes with this 4WD camper van that is roomy enough so you don’t feel confined.

Why Apollo motorhome holidays?

Apollo’s fleet of motorhomes and campervans has kept passionate travellers on the road since 1985. Having a hotel on wheels allows you unbeatable freedom and flexibility: stay an extra day when you find the perfect spot, sleep in without having to check out, take everything you need without having to cram it into a suitcase or car boot, and cook your own meals when the mood takes you.

Euro Deluxe 6Berth, Apollo Camper Vans, Australia
Apollo’s fleet of motorhomes and campervans has kept passionate travellers on the road since 1985.

The quality vehicles are easy to drive and Apollo offers great support and maintenance, including how-to guides and videos and 24-hour roadside assistance. The ApolloConnect app makes booking campgrounds, finding sights and getting discounts on tours and attractions simple. Go where you want, when you want. Take the road less travelled. And most of all, enjoy.

Euro Deluxe 6Berth, Apollo Camper Vans, Australia
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The Macedon Ranges is Victoria’s best-kept food and wine secret

    Emily McAuliffe Emily McAuliffe
    Located just an hour north-west of Melbourne, the largely undiscovered Macedon Ranges quietly pours some of Australia’s finest cool-climate wines and serves up some of Victoria’s best food.

    Mention the Macedon Ranges and most people will think of day spas and mineral springs around Daylesford, cosy weekends away in the countryside or the famous Hanging Rock (of enigmatic picnic fame). Or they won’t have heard of the Macedon Ranges at all.

    But this cool-climate destination has been inconspicuously building a profile as a high-quality food and wine region and is beginning to draw serious attention from oenophiles and epicureans alike.

    The rise of Macedon Ranges wine

    liquid gold barrels at Kyneton Ridge Estate Winery
    Barrels of liquid gold at Kyneton Ridge Estate Winery. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    With elevations ranging from 300 to 800 metres, Macedon Ranges vineyards are among the highest in the country. This altitude, combined with significant day/night temperature swings, makes for a slow ripening season, in turn nurturing wines that embody elegance and structure. Think crisp chardonnays, subtle yet complex pinot noirs and delicate sparkling wines, along with niche varietals, such as gamay and nebbiolo.

    Despite the region’s natural advantages – which vary from estate to estate, as each site embodies unique terroir depending on its position in relation to the Great Dividing Range, soil make-up and altitude – the Macedon Ranges has remained something of an insider’s secret. Unlike Victoria’s Yarra Valley or Mornington Peninsula, you won’t find large tour buses here and there’s no mass marketing drawing crowds.

    Many of the 40-odd wineries are family-run operations with modest yields, meaning the wineries maintain a personal touch (if you visit a cellar door, you’ll likely chat to the owner or winemaker themselves) and a tight sales circle that often doesn’t go far beyond said cellar door. And that’s part of the charm.

    Though wines from the Macedon Ranges are just starting to gain more widespread recognition in Australia, the first vines were planted in the 1860s, with a handful of operators then setting up business in the 1970s and ’80s. The industry surged again in the 1990s and early 2000s with the entry of wineries, such as Mount Towrong, which has an Italian slant in both its wine and food offering, and Curly Flat, now one of the largest estates.

    Meet the new generation of local winemakers

    the Clydesdale barn at Paramoor.
    The Clydesdale barn at Paramoor. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    Then, within the last 15 years, a new crop of vignerons like Andrew Wood at Kyneton Ridge Estate, whose vineyard in 2024 was the first in the Macedon Ranges to be certified by Sustainable Winegrowing Australia; Geoff Plahn and Samantha Reid at Paramoor, who have an impressive cellar door with a roaring fire and studded leather couches in an old Clydesdale barn; and Ollie Rapson and Renata Morello at Lyons Will, who rapidly expanded a small vineyard to focus on top-shelf riesling, gamay, pinot noir and chardonnay, have taken ownership of local estates.

    Going back to the early days, Llew Knight’s family was one of the pioneers of the 1970s, replacing sheep with vines at Granite Hills when the wool industry dwindled. Knight is proud of the fact that all their wines are made with grapes from their estate, including a light, peppery shiraz (some Macedon wineries purchase fruit from nearby warmer areas, such as Heathcote, particularly to make shiraz) and a European-style grüner veltliner. And, as many other wineries in the region do, he relies on natural acid for balance, rather than an additive, which is often required in warmer regions. “It’s all about understanding and respecting your climate to get the best out of your wines,” he says.

    farm animals atKyneton Ridge Estate
    Curious residents at Kyneton Ridge Estate. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    Throughout the Macedon Ranges, there’s a growing focus on sustainability and natural and low-intervention wines, with producers, such as Brian Martin at Hunter Gatherer making waves in regenerative viticulture. Martin previously worked in senior roles at Australia’s largest sparkling winemaking facility, and now applies that expertise and his own nous to natural, hands‑off, wild-fermented wines, including pét‑nat, riesling and pinot noir. “Wild fermentation brings more complexity,” he says. “Instead of introducing one species of yeast, you can have thousands and they add different characteristics to the wine.”

    the vineyard at Kyneton Ridge Estate Winery
    The estate’s vineyard, where cool-climate grapes are grown. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    Most producers also focus on nurturing their grapes in-field and prune and pick by hand, thus avoiding the introduction of impurities and the need to meddle too much in the winery. “The better the quality of the fruit, the less you have to interfere with the natural winemaking process,” says Wood.

    Given the small yields, there’s also little room for error, meaning producers place immense focus on quality. “You’re never going to compete in the middle [in a small region] – you’ve got to aim for the top,” says Curly Flat owner Jeni Kolkka. “Big wineries try to do things as fast as possible, but we’re in no rush,” adds Troy Walsh, owner and winemaker at Attwoods. “We don’t use commercial yeasts; everything is hand-harvested and everything is bottled here, so we bottle only when we’re ready, not when a big truck arrives.” That’s why, when you do see a Macedon Ranges product on a restaurant wine list, it’s usually towards the pointy end.

    Come for the wine, stay for the food

    pouring sauce onto a dish at Lake HouseDaylesford
    Dining at Lake House Daylesford is a treat. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    If wine is the quiet achiever of the Macedon Ranges, then food is its not-so-secret weapon. In fact, the area has more hatted restaurants than any other region in Victoria. A pioneer of the area’s gourmet food movement is region cheerleader Alla Wolf-Tasker, culinary icon and founder of Daylesford’s Lake House.

    For more than three decades, Wolf-Tasker has championed local producers and helped define what regional fine dining can look like in Australia. Her influence is palpable, not just in the two-hatted Lake House kitchen, but in the broader ethos of the region’s dining scene, as a wave of high-quality restaurants have followed her lead to become true destination diners.

    the Midnight Starling restaurant in Kyneton Ridge Estate Winery
    The hatted Midnight Starling restaurant is located in Kyneton. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    It’s easy to eat well, whether at other hatted restaurants, such as Midnight Starling in the quaint town of Kyneton, or at the wineries themselves, like Le Bouchon at Attwoods, where Walsh is inspired by his time working in France in both his food offering and winemaking.

    The beauty of dining and wine touring in the Macedon Ranges is that it feels intimate and unhurried. You’re likely to meet the winemaker, hear about the trials of the latest vintage firsthand, and taste wines that never make it to city shelves. And that’s worth getting out of the city for – even if it is just an hour down the road.

    dishes on the menu at Midnight Starling
    Delicate dishes on the menu at Midnight Starling. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    A traveller’s checklist

    Staying there

    the accommodation at Cleveland Estate, Macedon Ranges
    Stay at the Cleveland Estate. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    Soak up vineyard views from Cleveland Estate near Lancefield, embrace retro charm at Kyneton Springs Motel or indulge in lakeside luxury at the Lake House.

    Eating there

    Enjoy a four-course menu at the one-hatted Surly Goat in Hepburn Springs, Japanese-inspired fare at Kuzu in Woodend or unpretentious fine dining at Mount Monument, which also has a sculpture park.

    Drinking there

    wine tasting at PassingClouds Winery, Macedon Ranges
    A tasting at Passing Clouds Winery. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    Settle in for a tasting at Boomtown in Castlemaine, sample local drops at the cosy Woodend Cellar & Bar or wine-hop around the many cellar doors, such as Passing Clouds.

    the Boomtown Winery and Cellar Bar signage
    Boomtown Winery and Cellar Bar. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    Playing there

    a scenic river in Castlemaine
    Idyllic scenes at Castlemaine. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)

    Wander through the seasonal splendour of Forest Glade Gardens, hike to the summit of Hanging Rock, or stroll around the tranquil Sanatorium Lake.

    purple flowers hanging from a tree
    Purple flowers hanging from a tree. (Image: Chloe Smith Photography)
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