Jenolan Caves Information

Jenolan Caves

This year, during Easter, our friends Greg, Julie and their 5 year old and us decided to spend a couple of days at the Jenolan Caves. On Good Friday morning, at approximately 7:00 a.m., we left our home on the Central Coast, by car, to travel for 3 hours South to the Jenolan Caves. The Jenolan Caves are located approximately 1.5 hours inland from Sydney and where we live, The Central Coast, is approximately 1.5 hours north of Sydney.
We had, during the previous week, booked 2 rooms for Good Friday Evening at the Caves House Resort so we could actually stay there the night and do a couple of cave tours.
Book in time at the resort was 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon so, as we got there prior to lunch, we decided to go on a couple of the shorter walking tracks that took you around some of the scenic spots in the area.
The tracks are free and the ones we went on were:
The River Walk - This track allowed you to walk along both banks of the river that flows on the Sydney side of the Main Archway, which is the entrance to the Jenolan Caves.
This walk can take you approximately 1/2 hour to 1 hour depending on whether you decide to go to the Dam or not. The difficulty of the track is moderate.
We also went on the track that took us through the Devils Coachhouse - along the valley floor - up the Carlottas Arch and then back down to the resort.
This walk took us approximately 3/4 hour. There were a number of stairs to scale on this walk and we were breathing hard at the top.
There are numerous other walking tracks in the area that lead to many different places and that are of varying grades of difficulty.
After our couple of treks we bought lunch at the Bistro, a sandwich and a can of drink - expensive at $5.00 for the sandwich and $1.50 for the can. That's the problem when your options for purchasing food are limited to one shop.
By this time it was 2:00 p.m. so we checked in at the resort and put our bags in our room and scoped out the resort to locate all the facilities available.
Please see the accommodation entry for more information about the resort.
After booking in we went and bought tickets for the Ghost Caves Tour. Tickets for all the cave tours can be purchased from the booking office located on the right hand side of the road after you enter the resort precinct via the Main Arch.
This tour is conducted at 8:00 p.m. at nights and runs for 2 hours. On the tour the guide takes you through a number of caves by miners torchlight and all the time he is telling stories about ghostly and unexplained happenings that have gone on within different areas.
The cost of the tour was $27.50 per person and the tour was very interesting.
The following day, after a peaceful nights sleep, we had a buffet breakfast at the resorts restaurant, booked out of the resort and went and purchased tickets for a couple of other cave tours.
The guys wanted to do the River Tour and us girls and the 5 year old went through the Lucus Cave - there was a age restriction of 6 years for the River Cave and the route also entailed people to climb a vertical run of ladder.
The price of the River Tour was $27.00 per person and the Lucus Cave was $15.00 per person.
The guys thought the River Tour was excellent and thought it was well worth the price. This tour took them through the underground caves to the underground river. The photos look great.
The Lucus Cave was great too and the guide was very informative and had all the answers to the questions that he was asked. There was also a coloured light show in the last cave.
Hard to believe that the pioneers in the 1800's used to venture down in the caves in what they used to wear - especially the ladies.
After this tour we got into the car and headed back to our respective homes. Didn't realise how exhausted we were after the couple of days of exercise we had had.

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