Meriton Sydney

... a rushed trip as we only had 2 full days in Sydney so wanted to jam everything in that we wanted to do. We stayed at the Meriton Pitt Street - good central location - just jumped on the trains from the airport and a quick 10 minutes later we were there. I ...

... 't know that well but were still nice.  It felt good to get settled somewhere that we would be staying for a while.  The Meriton is so nice and such an amazing hotel.  It's supposedly one of the most buildings in Sydney.  If you lost ...

... and everyone really enjoyed it.  (Bloody hell are we really becoming cultured in our old age!?).  By the way the Meriton Apartments are lovely, so again Freedom Australia have done us proud - living like Lords and also decided to eat like Lords ...

... low-season and miss the crowds, so we were a bit worried when we discovered WYD was happening. Even before we arrived to Sydney, our fears were being realized.  At the airport in Bangkok, there was a group of some 30 Spaniards who started singing ...

... in 10 minutes, just enough time for the Qantas check in guy to move us to this flight and change our connection from Brisbane to Sydney to an earlier flight- what a nice man, this meant we arrived mid afternoon and gave us half a day extra to explore and ...

... as we were given an apartment on the 55th floor with fabulous views over the City and Darling Harbour. Thanks Noel once again! Sydney is visually a stunning City and we enjoyed the views of the Opera House, harbour and harbour bridge from one of the ...

... to do anything. There were also educational bits on the spiders which was good as Tina had seen a horror story about the Sydney Funnel web the day before. No-one has died for years but it’s painful apparently. There were other interesting critters. ...

... we were really there. 2. The Opera House - we had a brilliant tour with a very camp tour guide. We also saw the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing.\ 3. The ferry - a very relaxed form of public transport. 4. Our lovely apartment - great location, great ...

Day 33 Sydney We were a bit tired after yesterday's walk round Sydney so woke up a bit later than usual then dossed about reading our books for a goodly chunk of the morning. When we finally sorted out breakfast it was at least a step up from ...

Day 30 & 31 Hawaii to Sydney Although only one day we lost a night on the trip going from 11 hours behind to 10 hours in front of the UK. But as it was nearly the whole day on the plane mostly all we did was sit! Plus the trip was about 99.9% over the ...

... to get the lift down at the end of the night, none of the lifts were working.  We were in the highest building in Sydney - 80 floors up!!!!  Can you imagine what Edna's face was like when they suggested that we could take the stairs if we ...

... , back to Cairns airport, this time only slightly faster, perhaps 110mph.  We made it and had enough time for a luxurious Mocha before boarding our flight down south to Sydney, full of magnificent harbour, unexploded fireworks and New Years' ...

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We arrived in the city and I dropped the family off at the 5* apartments in the centre of the city that I had managed to book for a pretty good price then headed to Darling Harbour to drop the car off, a process that involved a lot of driving around ...

... around George Street with Gina, who'd arrived earlier from Kuala Lumpur. Christmas Eve was spent checking in to the Bondi Junction Meriton serviced apartment we would be in until the 3rd of January. Skinner bought a tree which we all decorated to increase ...

... Idee sei, zumindest verriet uns das der nette Herr vom Infodesk. Um ca. 18h sind wir dann im Hotel angekommen, Meriton Serviced Apartments, direkt im Central Business District. Schönes Apartment mit Küche/Wohnzimmer, Bad und Schlafzimmer, alles da was ...