Category: Accommodation
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How to rebrand and zoosh up a hotel
Furama Hotel, Darling Harbour When is a new hotel not quite a new hotel? When it is rebranded by an international group, zhooshed up to meet the demands and wants of guests and given a total personality transplant. Sounds about right? The Furama Hotel Darling Harbour, Sydney is a welcome addition to the Furama family…
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Stay in a Hobbit Hole New Zealand – NZ Travel Organiser
Can you stay in a hobbit hole in New Zealand? Everyone has heard of the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour, but this is a true Lord of the Rings experience. — Read on www.nztravelorganiser.com/stay-hobbit-hole-new-zealand/
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A Posh Pet-Friendly Stay?
Yes indeed, at Four Seasons Hotel Sydney Up until recently there were only three hotels, one a boutique, in Sydney that invited pets into the hallowed halls of a hotel room to share with their owners. Unlike Britain and Europe, who love to accommodate their guests’ pets, Australia has had a no-paws rule in accommodation…
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How to hotel! Stars & Stripes steal the show
Heading to the Gold Coast for your spring break? Book in to this beauty now. With the ubiquitous hues of taupe, blonde, sand and stone populating fine hotels with a softness that almost prods a guest to shout “show me some colour”, QT Gold Coast has hit the spot and bucks the beige trend with…
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How to go for gold – on Queensland’s Gold Coast
Queensland’s Gold Coast is fixed into the holiday psyche of Australians who love to holiday in a place of variety, charm and colour which displays the aesthetics of a true playground for all ages. Winter is coming! So, make plans now to head north and follow the sun. Always appealing, always evolving, ever the charmer…
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How to embarrass yourself – or myself while travelling
The Princess of Podcasts (but she’s not a ballerina) Amanda Kendle interviewed me and posed the question: have you ever made cultural blunders while travelling the world. Oh, yes, indeedy! I have made many, not deliberately but in my early days of travelling, ignorance, naivete or blundering impertinence sometimes brought me undone. Mea Culpa. Following…
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Travel: Victorian Highlights
I‘m going out on a limb with this post, taking a risk, throwing caution to the wind, heading into troubled waters . . .that’s a bit dramatic. Posting this piece on Victoria today, 1 June 2021, while the state of Victoria is in a state of lockdown feels a little ambitious? Yes? No? Victorians have…
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How to capitalise on the capital
Australia’s capital city is a little different to those of other countries; it is confined to a territory and is surrounded by the bush, with a mountain range in the backdrop. It really began as a rather vast paddock with a view of the Brindabella mountain range to the west, the high country snow fields…
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6 Outback pubs to visit
What a great time to be travelling in Australia – winter is time to rug up and hit the road. No searing heat, no flies and plenty of time to enjoy the pubs and the locals. There’s nothing like the experience of walking into an Outback pub in Australia. You might be greeted with an…
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How to hang out in the Huon Valley, Tasmania
As I said last post ‘How to indulge in Tasmania’, Tassie is hot to trot as borders open up and folk are on the move. Following is more info to fit into the travel plan. This is provided content that I am happy to share as we are all in this together – domestic travel…
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