If I'd only decided to start keeping up on this forum a few weeks earlier...I was there just days after your post!

I saw the literature on it, but I figured it was a touristy thing. We were on a budget, and the most basic private accomodations (booking a four-bed hostel room at $42 for each bed...the cheapest way to get a room to ourselves) at any of the Voyages accomodations near Ayers Rock/Uluru (due to monopolistic concession agreements...grr...) was already more than double our standard nightly budget, so we opted to avoid any of the eating options and just make PB&J sandwiches. Still, I now wish we'd have taken advantage of the Sounds of Silence, now knowing that it was actually worth it!