Alto Hotel on Bourke

... 's a contrast, blue sky and burning sun quickly changed to thunderstorms with heavy rain showers and vice versa. The hotel, the Alto hotel on Bourke Street, is perfecly located in the city center. With a charming old outside front, this small and quite ...

... down are definitely must haves. The Royal Botanic Gardens are beautiful (even in Winter) and the parks are well manicured. Alto Hotel on Burke provided more than adequete hospitality, and the basic Apartment features are well taken care of. It's a ...

I arrived at the Alto Hotel on Burke at about 10:30 and was warmly greeted by the lady at reception who checked me into a room on the first floor.  When I got to the door, the key wouldn't work (or perhaps I didn't work - difficult to tell) so I ...

... morning to fly to Hobart, Tasmania. BTW, if anyone is looking to stay in Melly, we would highly recommend the Alto on Bourke – excellent central location, main tram-route stop right out front and less than a block from the Southern Cross Station ...

... but we had no idea of this crazy process at that time.  Wayne noticed that the tree trunks on the sidewalks on Bourke Street are surrounded by gravel beds with white pea gravel seemingly 'glued' together.  The girls also want to report that ...

... and decided that china town was the best place to head for some top food.  The Ant Bistro down a side street from Little Bourke St (9 Corrs Place to be exact) served the purpose. Pungent Beef and an Eggplant dish with bamboo shoots, garlic, chili and ...

... ; I poked around St. Paul’s ‘lic church and Ann and Wayne looked around Federation Square.  They went back to the Alto to contact David Byrne (a friend of Ryan’s) to arrange to meet he and his wife this evening while we ate at the ...

... nbsp;open bar as we travel around the city.  It's not cheap, but apparently highly rated.  We caught a tram back to the hotel, but only went a few blocks before the driver said this was the end of the line and we had to transfer to a bus because ...

... ) to completely tear up and replace about a kilometer of the tram-rail lines near Southern Cross Station (about a block from our hotel) so that has disrupted both vehicle and pedestrian flow in this general area and added the noise of excavator concrete ...

... on the line we were on, so we had to get off and walk over a block to carry on.  When we got back to the hotel, Wayne and Ann had gotten back and hadn't eaten, so we climbed on a tram with them to find some supper.  Wayne decided to ...

... for a stair-climb (living in a one level apartment and being away from home since January) so we went back to our hotel apartment and allowed her to climb our stairway to reminisce.  We chatted the evening away, then gave the kids their Easter and ...

Whilst flying to Melbourne I watched a beautiful full moon rise over the desert.  I had forgotten that the moon looks different from the Southern hemisphere - it's rotated thorough about 90 degrees. ...