Creative Tours acknowledges the Sunshine Coast Country, home of the Kabi Kabi peoples and the Jinibara peoples, the Traditional Custodians, whose lands and waters we all now share. We recognise that these have always been places of cultural, spiritual, social and economic significance.
Creative Tours was established in 2016 with the idea of showcasing the local produce and local stories of the region.
We are a small, locally owned and operated business and pride ourselves on delivering authentic local experiences and tours that focus on local food and produce including local farms and restaurants, wineries, distilleries, breweries, cheese, coffee roasters and scenic tours.
Join us behind the scenes to meet the local growers and producers of the amazing food and produce that the Sunshine Coast, Noosa and Hinterland have to offer. We proudly support local farmers and producers and encourage guests to buy local!
Our small, personalised tours take you to explore the hidden gems of the local region in a private or shared group in a modern, air conditioned vehicles.
We specialise in creating unique itineraries and custom tours. Contact us so we can create amazing local experiences and memories to suit your group.
2023 – GOLD Excellence inf Food Tourism
2023 – GOLD Tours & Transport
2023 – GOLD Experiences – Sunshine Coast Business Awards
2022 – GOLD Excellence in Food Tourism
2022 – GOLD Experiences – Sunshine Coast Business Awards
We proudly support the following charities and groups who support our local community.
We are currenlty working with the following organisations to ensure we can offer accessible options to as many guests as possible. This includes updating our website and tour itineraries.
Thanks to the below organisastions for assisting us on our accessible journey
*Cerge
*Spinal Life
*Vacayit
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We strive to lessen the environmental impact of our business, while at the same time increase social and economic benefits to our community.
Creative Tours is committed to providing quality services
to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of
how we manage your Personal Information.
We have adopted the
Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
(the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose,
store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.
A copy of the
Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of
the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/.
Personal
Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual.
Examples of Personal Information we collect includes names, addresses, email
addresses, phone and facsimile numbers.
This Personal
Information is obtained in many ways including [interviews, correspondence, by telephone by email, via our website www.creativetours.com.au,
from media and publications, from other publicly available sources, from
cookies and from third parties. We don’t guarantee website links or
policy of authorised third parties.
We collect your
Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you,
providing information to our clients and marketing. We may also use your
Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary
purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or
disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by
contacting us in writing.
When we collect
Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to
you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.
Sensitive
information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion
about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political
opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical
beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal
record or health information.
Sensitive
information will be used by us only:
• For the primary purpose for which it
was obtained
• For a secondary purpose that is
directly related to the primary purpose
• With your consent; or where required
or authorised by law.
Where reasonable
and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from
you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by
third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you
are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.
Your Personal
Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the
following:
• Third parties where you consent to
the use or disclosure; and
• Where required or authorised by law.
Your Personal
Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and
loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.
When your Personal
Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we
will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal
Information. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in
client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.
You may access the
Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject
to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please
contact us in writing.
Creative Tours will not charge any fee for your access
request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your
Personal Information.
In order to protect
your Personal Information we may require identification from you before
releasing the requested information.
It is an important
to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable
steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and
up-to-date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is
inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our
records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
This Policy may
change from time to time and is available on our website.
If you have any
queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us at:
07 5499 3477
We organised a private tour recently for 4 of us as part of a team meeting. We had a great afternoon/evening and would recommend it.
Fabulously curated tour that I would highly recommend. A quality experience all the way from booking though to receipt of photos afterwards. There is an obvious care factor in the... read more delivery and every single person involved was absolutely awesome. Can't wait to book another experience with Creative Tours
Great day, lots of fun, would recommend
What a fantastic day! Plenty of laughs, fun and high vibes. Thankyou sooo much!
We booked the tour for 9 of us on a girls/Mum break weekend and it did not disappoint. It was all really easy to book & on the day Zoe... read more our driver was lovely, really friendly, helpful & knowledgeable. We did a winery, a brewery and then Sunshine & sons distillery which for all of us was the absolute stand out of the day. Thank you for making things so easy, having everything planned for us meant we just got to relax and laugh all day!
A very enjoyable day. Lovely to be driven around to some great breweries and distilleries and seeing some places on the Sunny Coast that I wouldn’t otherwise have gone to
Highly recommend Creative Tours. Had an amazing day exploring local brewery's around the Sunshine Coast that I didn't know existed. Josh was great fun and so well organised. Highly recommend.
What a great business. I've had the pleasure of going on a number of tours with Josh over the past few months, and each one has been extremely well... read more planned and thoroughly enjoyed. Each trip was tailored specifically for those attending - you could tell the special consideration that Josh gave to the type of people on the tour. Feedback received from both clients and staff has been overwhelmingly positive. Highly recommended for a great day out. Thanks again Josh.
My wife and I had our 2nd year anniversary with creative tours and loved every minute. Great company and lots of knowledge shared, beautiful scenery and would highly recommend for... read more any wine/beer/cheese fans to book now ☺️
Had a wonderful time visiting the different Vineyards and Brewery’s in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. What topped it off was our brilliant tour guide Jeremy who is a local and... read more very knowledgeable about the region and what it has to offer. Would 100% recommend.
Great day. Marek was as good as you could get. Friendly, funny and knew his job. Thanks for the day Marek.
Had a great day with Dave (our driver) collecting us from Noosa then starting up at Cooroy's Twenty 20 distillery, Brian was fantastic explaining his award winning process of Gin... read more making. Buy a GEORGE while your there, a memorable Gin indeed ?? We all had a great day cruising around the hinterland. Creative Tours really looked after us making sure everyone was having a good time. Dave was very knowledgeable throughout our day he, went out of his way to get us all home safely too. Great time was had by all Creative Tours, thank you ??
Love it Matt is the best your guide and driver
Had such a great day with Creative Tours. Was such a fun to day exploring the Sunshine Coast and Deb was amazing! Would highly recommend
A thorough enjoyable day with the team from Creative Tours. We were unsure what to expect, and it more than exceeded our expectations. The 4 venues on the Noosa Drinks... read more Tour were unique experiences - both the food and drink options were terrific, and the service second to none! This is truely an experience that I would have no hesitation in recommending and I can’t wait to do it all again! A special shout out to Matt, our driver for the day; a fabulous and attentive host who certainly made our private tour one to remember!
Was absolutely fantastic didn’t have to lift a finger all day and found out heaps about wine, beer and spirits. loved the little niche areas through the beautiful hinterland that... read more the tour guides pointed out. Highly recommend!
Thanks for such an enjoyable experience! Wet weather didn’t dampen the day as you’re picked up and ferried between venues on the tour. Deb, our tour guide was so accommodating... read more and we loved that the tours are small making the experience more personal. Being new to Sunny coast, it was the perfect way to visit the breathtaking scenery of Maleny and Montville as well as experience 3 amazing venues, all the while meeting new people. We also met Matt who was in training on the day and he also was a pleasure to deal with. I would recommend this tour with this company for all the reasons above. They go above and beyond to make sure you have a great experience!!
Amazing experience from the creative tours gang! Great crew on board and awesome behind the scenes tour.
Very fun day out for my birthday. Friendly, informative and fun guide. Great locations and plenty of grog! Everyone on the tour got into the ‘spirit’ and we all had... read more a great laugh. Thoroughly recommend! ?
The best winery tour I’ve ever been on. Zoe was so helpful and a lot of fun. Would definitely recommend going on this tour. Huge success.
I did the hinterlands winery tour. Flame Hill winery and Brouhaha were both really amazing experiences. Big barrel was unfortunately a hit and miss as the staff didn't seem... read more to care as much and the wine/beer wasn't as good as the previous. Our driver was super friendly and sociable and helped to complete the experience with his knowledge of the craft distilleries/ breweries/wineries. Overall worth the money and would do again!
Is a great way to explore some of the breweries around Noosa and the included lunch was great.
This was such a great experience. I’ve never done a wine tour before but I couldn’t picture it going anymore perfectly. My friends and I enjoyed the variety of drinks,... read more amazing food, stunning views, all the locations, and the kindness and knowledge from our guide. Thanks again for absolutely everything ☺️
Great tour, customised to suit our Team. We had a private group of 30 for our company social club - everyone raved about what a great day out it was.... read more Thank you.
We had a blast. Our guide Mat was awesome and knew so much about the area, beers and the wines.
Our tour guide Dave is the best! We had so many great beers and the venue were beautiful!
Such a great day! Our bus driver Michael was awesome! We would definitely do another brewery tour!
Deb from Creative Tours was such a wonderful host for our Christmas Party. We absolutely loved the combination of being able to experience The Farm (and the cute pups), learning... read more all about how the local produce is grown and supplied to local restaurants by the amazing Amy. Followed by an incredible lunch at Mapleton Public House where we were able to experience eating the fresh produce from the farm. Followed by a gin tasting experience at Sunshine and Sons Distillery which was so interesting (and yummy). Deb was really relaxed and easy going and even took behind the scenes pics for us all day! Highly recommend Creative Tours!
AMAZING
Josh led our tour of the Sunshine Coast and he was a great guide with lots of local knowledge and good fun along the way. Each place we visited we... read more learnt so much. A highlight was walking around The Falls Farm and hearing from Christina about their processes for cultivating sustainable and ethical crops which are supplied to some of the best chefs and restaurants in QLD. We then got to taste some of this produce at lunch which was definitely one of the best meals I've ever had (pictured). Transport to and from each place was seamless and overall a great day, highly recommend Creative Tours!