Family Getaways are designed for any Camp Quality family to take a break from hospital, or after treatment, and reconnect as a family for a restful stay in holiday-style accommodation. Everything is taken care of, giving you and your family quality time together.
Currently, Camp Quality has 15 Family Getaways are located at:
- Park Beach Holiday Park Coffs Harbour (NSW)
- Salamander Bay Retreat (NSW)
- NRMA Murramarang Beachfront Holiday Resort (NSW)
- NRMA Ocean Beach Holiday Resort Umina (NSW)
- Darwin Free Spirit Resort (NT)
- NRMA Airlie Beach Holiday Park (Qld)
- NRMA Treasure Island Holiday Resort (Qld)
- NRMA Victor Harbor Holiday Park (SA)
- West Beach Caravan Park (SA)
- NRMA Port Arthur Holiday Park (Tas.)
- NRMA Phillip Island Beachfront Holiday Park (Vic.)
- Surfside Holiday Park Warrnambool (VIC)
- Discovery Parks Woodman Point (WA)
- RAC Busselton Holiday Park (WA)
- RAC Karri Valley (WA)
Although there are limited places available for Family Getaways, we always do our best to ensure families in need get this important opportunity. Family Getaways are provided at no cost to registered Camp Quality families to allow the whole family to reconnect as a family and create beautiful memories. Such was the case for the Northey family, whose heartfelt story you can hear below.
![Eli's Story - Retreats](https://www.campquality.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Elis-Story-Retreats-1024x576.jpg)
Video transcript
Jen: Eli was born at 38 weeks. When he was born, he never took that first breath and he needed to be resuscitated and transferred up to the Royal Hospital for Women at Randwick.
Peter: Dr. Lau came and spoke to us again and formally diagnosed that he had neuroblastoma.
Peter: I was breaking down. Poor Jen was breaking down. I reached out to Camp Quality just to let them know how much we’re suffering because we weren’t coping at all. We were falling apart as a family unit.
Jen: We were just at our wit’s end. My husband, Peter, reached out and we were lucky enough to go to a retreat for a week where it was a beautiful house on the water. It had everything that we needed and it provided us with some family time.
Jen: It was life-changing in the sense that we got rest. We got activities. We got to see the kids happy. We played. It was wonderful.
Jen: Fun is so important for kids that have faced cancer because they’ve missed out on opportunities that, if they had a normal sibling, or if they were well, that they would’ve received anyway. They’ve been through the hard slog and they deserve just to have some fun and enjoy themselves.
Peter: Hi. Hi. Come to dad. Hi darling. To have my little boy there with me, it’s just going to be the most special time in the world. Yes, darling. I do love you. Cuddle me.
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If you believe you could benefit from a Camp Quality Getaway, please call us on 1300 662 267 or email our Family Support team on [email protected] to find out more or register as a family today.
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