{"id":20577,"date":"2013-10-25T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/airlie-beach-makeover-sparks-retro-fabulous-flashbacks-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T03:13:00","slug":"airlie-beach-makeover-sparks-retro-fabulous-flashbacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/10\/airlie-beach-makeover-sparks-retro-fabulous-flashbacks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlie Beach makeover sparks retro-fabulous flashbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tq.com.au\/fms\/tq_corporate\/news_room\/Editorial\/Airlie-photo-in-a-photo_release.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Thing sure looked different in the \u201890s. <\/p>\n<p>Billy Ray Cyrus wouldn\u2019t stop crooning about his \u201cachy, breaky heart\u201d, Hypercolour T-shirts were a wardrobe must-have, and Will Smith was still an up-and-coming Fresh Prince. <\/p>\n<p>And if you were in Airlie Beach in the \u201890s, chances are you would have been wearing neon shorts and carving up the dance floor at Magnums. But the recent $22 million redevelopment of the Airlie Beach main street means the town is looking fresher than a Kardashian post-Botox. <\/p>\n<p>Airlie Beach has long been seen as a backpacker&#8217;s nirvana, and rightly so, but with trendy new cafes that will satisfy any caffeine addiction, upmarket serviced apartments with sweeping views, restaurants worth flying to, and the chance to jump on a yacht and sail around 74 island wonders, it\u2019s obvious the town has had more than a celebrity nip and tuck. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/loveairliebeach\">new competition<\/a> launched today promises to take revellers of the past on a trip down memory lane and offers the chance for one lucky winner and three mates to \u2018flash-forward\u2019 for a Whitsundays getaway. <\/p>\n<p>The #loveairliebeach social media campaign will be highlighting how far Airlie Beach has come in the past 20 years and with the inaugural Airlie Beach Music Festival kicking off on Friday 8 November, 74 bands, including The Hoodoo Gurus, Mental as Anything and Diesel, will have the place hopping like it\u2019s 1993. <\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151927141755349.1073741825.30996700348&amp;type=1\">\u2018then and now\u2019 gallery<\/a> of Whitsundays photos to see how far we&#8217;ve come. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thing sure looked different in the \u201890s. Billy Ray Cyrus wouldn\u2019t stop crooning about his \u201cachy, breaky heart\u201d, Hypercolour T-shirts were a wardrobe must-have, and Will Smith was still an up-and-coming Fresh Prince. And if you were in Airlie Beach in the \u201890s, chances are you would have been wearing neon shorts and carving up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}