Crowne Plaza Darwin

Outback September 10-17. Landed in Darwin as planned, secured our rental car and began the engineering of fitting in all the bags. A Rubik cube would have been easier. Eventually everything fell into place and Ali-Kazam, we were on our way. We began our way to the Crowne Plaza Hotel effortlessly as our Garmin GPS took us to the precise location without a single wrong turn. Everyone was exhausted after a full day and we all headed for a good night sleep agreeing to leave the hotel at 8:00am (e...

Welcome to the launch of my mini travel blog - for anyone who has any interest in my dalliance with the Mouse. here's the deal: Currently in Darwin for work but come Saturday I'm leaving on a jetplane - straight through to Orlando! Spending 4 nights at Disney's Wilderness Lodge http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/resorts/ wildlodge.htm and 5 nights at Disney Boardwalk Inn http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/Resorts/ boards.htm whilst at Boardwalk Inn I am going to the Disney Institute "disney approach ...

Created the blog - gave it a name - and the helpful travelblog people automatically stuck an ad for "Rat and Mouse Control" on the top!

I checked out of Aspect Central at about 8:45am and caught a taxie for Cairns International Airport. The airport was a zoo! There were a number of flights to Melbourne and Sydney that were cancelled because of the wildfires down south and there were a lot of people milling around trying to get new flights. Fortunately, I was headed the opposite direction--to Darwin at the North End. My Jetstar flight for Darwin left on time at 12:45 pm. I sat next to an interesting fellow on the flight. He wa...

The Motor Coach picked me up at the Crowne Plaza at 7:20 am. Our driver for this tour was Helen. We headed out of town on the Stewart Highway towards Litchfield National Park. We traveled through a town with a curious name--Batchelor. Gradually the developed areas gave way to the undeveloped and we headed into an area of that Helen termed Dry Tropical Woodland. Our first stop before we got to Litchfield was a little roadside cafe called the Banyan Tree. We had some morning tea and chatted for...

It was still dark as Greg, our driver, picked us up at the Crowne Plaza in Darwin at 6:20 am this morning. We drove around to the other hotels and picked up the other tour participants and just as we were heading out of Darwin on the Arnhem Highway, the sun came up. Kakadu is a good drive from Darwin, so we stopped for some breakfast after we had been driving for about an hour. The roadside cafe we stopped at is called the Bark Hut. I had a coffee with a woman named Clair who is from Melbourn...

Nico's 27th birthd*y (gosh, he's gettin old, ne*rly c*tching up with me!) w*s st*rted with * lovely bre*kf*st in bed, complete with scr*mbled eggs on to*st with * little c*ndle shoved in it! Then we went for * morning swim in the c*mpsite's pool *t K*k*du Lodge, J*biru. Then it w*s present time, so he opened his c*rd from me to find * homem*de voucher for 2 nights st*y in D*rwin's only 5 st*r hotel!
I drove most of the w*y b*ck to D*rwin (*nother 'gift') *nd pulled up in the hotel's gr*...

Today we made it down to the hotel's buffet breakfast just in time to wolf down a full fry up, and then it was back to bed again for the rest of the day! After last night's birthday celebrations we were both feeling the worse for wear, so we slipped back into our bathrobes, closed the curtains on the outside world and put the tele back on- well, we'd paid for the room so we might aswell make the most of it!
The only thing to report today was the fact that we splashed out on room service ...