The Yulara Resort, owned and operated by the NT government, is like a big display. Of what I'm not sure, but it seems like it was built for some sort of expo festival and never dismantled. It's all mid-80s architecture - steel, pink stone and real grass which looks like fake grass that looks extremely real.
The good thing about the resort is that none of it is more than two or three storeys high, so that from halfway up the Rock you'd hardly know there's anything nearby at all - much less the financial centre of Australian tourism and several cocktail bars. It's frighteningly expensive here. And absolutely every last thing to do is geared around Uluru or Kata Tjuta (the Olgas). And since these are all merely rocks, the resort operators have had to explore every last tourism option.
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