I went to Byron for Splendour In The Grass earlier this year with a couple friends and I loved it up there. We stayed for the week and even though we couldn't go anywhere because we were all underage we had the best time. We went to the beach, met really nice people and got invited to so many random house parties, everyone was ridiculously attractive
it was so much fun. The only bad thing about Byron was that we had to leave at the end of the week and return to our crappy little inland town lol
I'm planning on going there next year for schoolies with a big group of friends, and hopefully even though i'll be one of the few underage people in my group I'll have a great time again. Also planning to go to Splendour again it was awesome lol
on a side note... the prices do go up for schoolies when we were looking at somewhere to stay during our splendour trip at most of the houses and apartments we looked at online had special schoolies prices which were usually heaps more than usual...or they said that schoolies were not allowed to stay there lol