Legends Hotel Gold Coast

... short hours trip down from Brisbane to Surfers. The sky is clear blue and it is full of the beautiful people. I booked into my studio hotel room on the 15th floor. Gorgeous views over the ocean and a lovely balcony to sit on and have a wee glass of ...

... and head to my 5 star hotel - yes 5 star!! I have bagged this place for about 45 quid a night. Its called Mantra Legends hotel and I walk into air conditioned bliss, a giant foyet with a rather large terrace to the left with a gorgeous swimming pool. I ...

... days, in the meantime the flood crises worsened and Brisbane was under water followed by Victoria, it was lucky we moved to the Gold Coast as a lot of the towns we drove through on the Sunshine Coast later flooded. The weather improved for the last 5 ...

... flying and once at the Gold Coast airport I was off the plane and had my luggage within 15 minutes. From the Gold Coast airport I took a shuttle to my hotel. In the bus, I was trying to remember where I stayed my last time in Surfers Paradise. Just when ...

... short drive from Byron Bay to Surfers which left us the rest of teh day to actually do things apart from drive. We drove along the gold coast highway until we got to Surfers, we were expecting it to be a bit like Blackpool but i think its more like Miami. ...

... what a wonderful place to live February 2007: In Memory of Billy Thorpe Whilst living and working on Queenslands Gold Coast I worked with a guy named Matthew March 2007: The Second Great Aussie Care Package Maaaate, it finally ...

It seems a familiar place to be now, the day before the flight, booked into a hotel down the coast somewhere having packed our bags that day in an almost automatic fashion and as of the last trip having a Mini Cooper S sitting in the hotel car park to ...

... as the hotel is so lar-de-dah i have a feeling they have 'special men' employed to catch the flies at the boundries of the hotel. I relax. I grab a bit of lunch from the room and head back to the pool for a bit more lounging, its great to be out of ...

... gotton off the bus waaaay to early (how am i supposed to know!!) - and had to walk a fair bit, bare foot, back to the hotel. They havent paved those roads with me in mind and some of it was like walking on hot coals and others like walking on pointy ...

... sea but it looked a bit rubbish compared to the london one which i want to do. I left my 'do not disturb' sign on my hotel door as i was drying my undies everywhere. When I got back the cleaning lady had ignored the sign, gone in and cleaned up and put ...

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... . I really appreciated the logical layout of the place, as well as the free bag check and the outdoor displays - including a legends of the hidden temple looking place. AT and I had some interesting discussions about how far from Christianity the ancient ...

... a bus to sydney, followed by waiting at the airport to catch a 10pm flight to Brisbane, then hiring a car to drive to the Gold Coast, finding our crusty motel (arriving at midnight). We managed a few hours sleep and then had to drive in to the airport to ...

... for a Day…. The bus wasn't so bad, he only made one stop at Surfers Paradise so it wasn't too long a journey down the Gold Coast. After a nice fry up breakfast (yet again!) we took a walk toward the lighthouse. Twas obviously up on the headland, so ...

... ; didn't catch the most amazing waves or surf that well, but a good time nonetheless.  In the afternoon drove on up the Gold Coast hoping to surf again at maybe Burleigh Heads or somewhere, but it was windy, a bit rainy, and thus the conditions ...

... up on the vitamins to try to get over this thing before my trip to Brisbane (Australia Zoo … steve Irwin zoo!) and the Gold Coast (beaches!!!) this upcoming weekend. That’s it for me! I hear that you guys have had some very nice amazing hot ...

... his mate Chris were coming to Goa for some R and R after completing some training as part of their physiotherapy studies on the Gold Coast. They had been in Chennai, working with the fast bowlers of the U/20 Indian national cricket team. What a pair!!! ...

... of a rollercoaster really! In the afternoon I rendezvoused with my new dorm-mate, Pia, who arrived the day before. She's from the Gold Coast in Oz (I've met so many Aussie's in Vietnam!) We went over to the famous Water Puppet Theatre which sits by ...

... the legend for each artifact or group of artifacts.  In addition to providing information about the artifacts, the legends included historical information relevant to the artifacts' time period. My favorite legend was information about a series of ...