Blue Leaf Rooms - Our story from the beginning

Blue Leaf Rooms was our first step of independence. About 100 individual owners formed a group called Blue Leaf Rooms to rent out to the public. There are about 300 hundred rooms at the Treetops Resort and about 100 of them are privately owned by individuals like my husband and I.

Why Blue Leaf Rooms?

We came up with the name Blue Leaf Rooms because it represented both the blue sea and the green forests of Queensland’s Tropical North. The fact that our leaves were blue rather than the expected green was also meant to represent that we had a point of difference - we had a spirit of independence and we were prepared to make a go of a difficult situation. When we presented the name Blue Leaf Rooms to the individual owners everyone seemed to like the idea and it took off from there.

Blue Leaf Rooms owners were your average Mum and Dad investors who had day jobs and were looking to invest in something small to save towards a rainy day. We lived all across the country and had a heck of a time emailing and ringing each other to try and organise this venture. It was only due to the leadership of some very giving individual owners that the venture took off.

How did Blue Leaf Rooms Operate?

The logistics of having a separate Blue Leaf Rooms reception desk to the main resort reception desk worked well. People who booked with Blue Leaf Rooms through the Blue Leaf Rooms website (www.blueleafrooms.com.au) or through the local real estate agent were able to find us without a problem. The public was also very supportive because our prices were cheaper and because Aussies always support the underdog. Blue Leaf Rooms ran for two years, but eventually Blue Leaf Rooms closed down as key people moved on to other projects due to personal circumstances.

Now that Blue Leaf Rooms is no longer in operation, we are renting our room to the public directly. We are accepting this bigger step of independence and we are travelling fair so far…