We arrived shortly after one and I stayed at The Pioneer Outback Hotel. There are only five hotels in the town. This newtown was built about ten years ago and is about 20K from Uluru which is now a national park and no longer has any accommodation. The airport used to be right beside The Rock but this was also moved. The newtown is just one big circle with hotels, a shopping centre and school, all owned by the one company. Due to its remoteness prices are dear here but without competition everything is even more expensive. It is hard to understand how this company were allowed buy everything up. It reminded me a little of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, where I lived for a while. All built from scratch in the desert. They both even have a free shuttle bus to get from A to B, although in this case you don’t have to go too far down the alphabet.
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