Ayers Rock Resort

We loved visiting, it's not cheap but nothing is in the outback, there's quite a few different types of accommodation, the tours are great

Great friendly staff.
Always clean and tidy facilities. Tent campsites can get a little cramped. Powered sites have sufficient enough space for your rig.
All tour buses etc will pick you up from the front. Either the bus stop or out front of reception.
There are ample laundry facilities. A pool for hot days and plenty of drinking water.

Really liked it. The room, shops, restaurant, view, service, shuttle on place, professionnalism of every employe. A must. It is worth the price.

Lovely place to stay and relax. They have everything to offer here. Fuel, supermarket, gift shops, restaurants and cafès. We stayed at the campgrounds and it wasn't the best experience. A generator was going 24/7 which made it hard to sleep, bathrooms were quite dirty with hair clogging the drains and poor water pressure and there was rubbish all around our campsite from previous tenants. It was cheap staying here either and I expected more of this place.

Good hotels, clean, friendly staff

Really overpriced and all owned by the same hotel company with no competition. Food is basic and standard unless your willing to pay $360 per person for a 5 course meal.

Pools cold as not heated so freezing after you’ve been in for 5 minutes even if your swimming!

Expensive for what it is.

Would recommend only a short stay (2 days) and cram some tours in.
I would recommend the Kata Tjuta Sunrise and valley of the winds tour (5am-11: 30) and Astro Tour (20: 50-22: 30)

Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) is a magical place! Definitely one of the most distinctive places on earth! For those that are exploring Australia and it's beauty, Uluru is a must if you want to feel Australia's roots! And Uluru itself is breathtaking, this mythical "rock" is proudly standing high, imposing on the middle of plain ground.
This sacred place is located in the Australian Outback, on Aboriginal lands, a beautiful and vast region!
But it id also desert, the closest city around is Alice Springs located at a distance of 450km (5h30min by car). So, if you there, you will need a place to stay while visiting, and Ayers Rock Resort is the place for that.
The resort is situated around Uluru's sight (25km - 30min drive from the mountain) and it offers plenty of different options in lodging and other kind of services for every kind of visitors.
There you can find all types of accommodations that suits you best, plenty of food options, car rental services, bus shuttle to local attractions (and Uluru of course), to the local airport and to Alice Springs as well. The resort infrastructure is great and you can do many things, perfect for families and it's staff members provide an amazing service backing you for anything you need!
Make sure that you book your stay before going because Ayers Rock Resort can get really busy, and you don't want to see yourself with no place to stay in the middle of the desert, unless you want to spend a night out with lovely Dingos.
I hope that you can have a pleasant memorable experience like I had, immerse your self in that sacrated Aboriginal land and enjoy this awesome beautiful place.

My wife and I met here 22 odd years ago. We came back do discover that it's lost something.

Don't get me wrong Uluru, the Olgas and the surrounding territory is still awe inspiring and a must do on everyone's bucket list, IMO. Beautiful, spiritual, humbling places. Amazing.

But the resort itself, there's just some of the magic that's gone.
I know it's not as new as it was back then, but it's a little more than well worn, there are a few things missing and there are opportunities to really tell the story of the place that have been lost;

What happened to star talk at the end of sounds of silence, when an Astronomer would give you their sense of the stars, and then a local person would give you the dream-time story. What about the aboriginal dance troupe & story time? And the food, there used to be award winning quality and variety and boundaries being pushed - bush food, crocodile, kangaroo, interesting local takes on dishes - now it's just standard experiences that are everywhere - we found ourselves eating the same boring pizzas and burgers we get anywhere.

The resort used to be an experience in itself, now it's just somewhere to stay when you're in the park. It's a shame, they've got a captive audience there, they could really do a lot to share the magic of Central Australia.