Outrigger Twin Towns Resort Coolangatta

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Gold Coast

A travel blog entry by gclarke_99

Feb1 - Left Melbourne an hour late so arrived an hour late in Coolangatta, Queensland/New South Wales. We are right on the border between these two states in Australia. It can be confusing as they follow different time zones. Darryl from Gold Coast Family Car Rentals met us at the airport and set us up with a car for the month - a 2003 Toyota Camry …

Great place to start

A travel blog entry by gfiveg

Arrived in Brisbane and caught a bus to Coolangatta. The hotel was incredible...almost a little too nice. The view was spectacular from the 10th floor room overlooking the harbor and ocean. I had a surfboard devlivered which turned out to be a lot nicer than the surf. The wind was howling and the surf was pretty sloppy....allthough I was told it …

The Coolangatta Mattress Fiasco

A travel blog entry by ajohnson

... to block from my mind. I just don't want to see the mattresses anymore! In the end Coolangatta was a sleepy little town in many ways, quiet in the evenings (at least on Monday night) and we did have some delicious fresh food at the Raw Energy cafe and even went to the movies to see Looper (they really did make Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like a young Bruce Willis!) We took a long walk around Point Danger where Capt James Cook was the first European to explore the area in ...

Can we kill a chicken and eat it?

A travel blog entry by noah_and_bree

This is a top pick!

... br> On the way I tell Elwood he is going to get some immunisations. And he is tense and upset straight away, saying how much they hurt. We explain what immunisations are to him, as we have before, but he is really tensing up. We get a park out the front of the medical centre and Woody recognises the place and says over and over again that he is not going in. Unfortunately, he is. It takes much coerces and an ice cream bribe to get him out the ...

Back to Australia

A travel blog entry by ch339

... any way we managed to get out after about 20 minutes and i got taken to my hostel.

I booked myself in for 3 nights and within 10 minutes i got a taxi to the aiport to try and get out of Fiji. Unfortunately i had to wait another night so it was back to the hostel for me. No running water meant that drinking water was pretty limited and there was no food at the hostel so we had to walk down the road to eat at a restaurant (average food).
That evening i ...