Mantra 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. ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

tbc ...

... . In itself the temples are magnificent, but just wandering around the buildings, you see well-preserved sculpted gods, scenes from legends, the occasional lovemaking couple (often assisted by other girls - must try that too back home) and lots of sensual ...