Lower prices, a $100 dining credit and a million-dollar fishing ‘hook’ are just some of the reasons to visit Kakadu this summer.
Part of Tourism and Event NT’s ‘Best Kept Season’ promotion, Kakadu’s Cooinda Lodge is offering a $100 dining bonus for stays of three nights or more from now until the end of March 2027.
Rates start from $199 per night (total $597 for three nights)*, and the $100 credit can be used at Cooinda Lodge’s Mimi’s Restaurant and Barra Bistro.
With its oasis-style atmosphere, Cooinda Lodge has Kakadu’s most extensive range of accommodation, from luxury villas to quality lodge rooms. The resort offers two shaded swimming pools, alfresco and indoor dining, fuel station, general store, the Warradjan Cultural Centre and extensive touring options including world-famous Yellow Water Cruises.
Yellow Water Fishing tours extended to hook a Million Dollar Barra
Australia’s richest fishing competition kicked off on 1 October 2026, promising another blockbuster season. The 12th annual Million Dollar Fish competition goes through the end of March 2027, with one tagged million-dollar barra waiting to be caught, along with 100 $10,000 tagged barras.
Over the past eleven seasons, 14 $10,000 barra have been caught across Kakadu National Park, five of which were hooked in Yellow Water Billabong in the last three seasons.
To help anglers turn a dream into a million-dollar pay cheque, Yellow Water Fishing Tours– based at Cooinda – will offer private fishing tours until the end of the year.
So many reasons to visit Kakadu during summer
Discounts, incentives and million-dollar barramundi are just some of the reasons to visit Kakadu during the tropical summer.
The season offers remarkably rich experiences for visitors with almost nightly natural light shows, waterfalls at their most dramatic, the dry land turning green, streams beginning to flow, and barramundi filling the billabongs.
And with the savings from holidaying in summer, visitors can enjoy million-dollar views, seeing Kakadu’s remarkable landscape from the air on a Kakadu scenic flight.
Sealed roads make most of Kakadu’s prime attractions accessible year-round.
Spectacular rock art can be viewed at Nourlangie, cooling swims can be enjoyed in waterholes such as Motor Car Falls and Boulder Creek, hundreds of bird species and other wildlife are active on Yellow Water Billabong, and Indigenous art and culture can be experienced at Warradjan Cultural Centre
Details of packages, accommodation, suggested itineraries, and activities are available via www.kakadutourism.com
