About Great Outdoors
Great Outdoors is where you build your own adventure trip through Australia and New Zealand. Where planning sparks excitement rather than causing choice fatigue.
Stressless for the restless
Great Outdoors is TravelEssence's adventurous younger sibling. The one restlessly chasing the beauty of nature by moving through it, rather than sitting beside it.
Backed by twenty years of traveling Australia and New Zealand, our bunch of seasoned travellers and local partners have curated a pool of their favourite activities, small-scale accommodations, and hidden gems you can build your own holiday around.
No endless scroll of interchangeable places. Only the best options genuinely worth your time. Whatever you pick, it'll be good. Word.
Glad you ask
Restless excitement. Love it.
Honest answer: we're not ready to roll just yet. We've got some practicalities to sort first, like this website. But don't let that stop you. Get in touch and we might be able to help you build your itinerary anyway. Not through a fancy platform just yet, but through good old conversation. With real people.
If that sounds too intense, just sign up for updates and you'll be the first to know when we launch.
We sure are. And yes, we know what you're thinking.
But hear us out. What we do is pretty simple: combine local knowledge, a network of small-scale independent businesses, and modern technology to help you build the best trip possible.
No middleman markup with zero accountability. No endless scroll of mediocre places with "1 room left".
We've cut the crap for you.
Every place we send you to, we know personally. Every activity, tested. We connect the right travellers to the right locals, in places where nature does the rest.
And when nature has other plans, or life does, we're there too. Not hiding behind a chatbot. Actual people, picking up the phone.
So yes, we're a travel agency. Proudly.