please, please please get a car. It was awful not having one. You are dependent on the & !!$ shuttle bus to and from airport and around the resort and to the rock and supporting rocks whose names escape me now (olgas). You can then decide how much time to spend at each place instead of being forced to stay on someone else's schedule.

I would say stay far away from the backpacker's hostel thing (outback pioneer), we did the cheap route and spent most of night wondering what the noises we were hearing on our roof were.

The emu walk apartments are supposed to be nice, but if you have the bucks to burn, go with the sails. Its geared towards the group tourist - so lots of shopping and expensive bric a brac.

As someone else said, no matter where you stay at uluru, you won't feel you got your money's worth.

Just my 0.25 cents worth.
lala