Metro Hotel Sydney Central

... , particularly Dave who had been given a nice birthday present from Sydney of a bright red face and neck. After our extremely long day walking around nearly the whole of Sydney Central we watched some more telly before getting some well earned ...

... we met up with a colleague of Gary's who lives here.  Peter drove us all along the northern coastline of Sydney.  It is nothing but one magnificently beautiful beach town after another with gorgeous hillside homes over looking the water.  ...

I got a plane from abu dhabi to Sydney. It took 12hrs 30mins. I slept for 9hrs. I watched two movies Happy feet and I cant remember the other one. I had lots to nibble but did not really like the meals. When we got to Sydney it was very cold brrr. I ...

... , packed stuff, took some pics of the hostel and was out at 10. Walked to the station to get the 10.24 back to Central...sweated like a bitch carrying the backpack...it was uphill this time :O( Train was on time, pretty quiet too but as we got closer to ...

... to see for ourselves the sights and take in the atmosphere. We walked our way through the various parks and streets from our hotel to get to the harbour area. Sydney is easily laid out, but a bit bigger than either of us had anticipated it being. The city ...

... restaurante donde fuimos la otra vez, una pizzeria en el barrio de "rocks", mas copichuelas en el Orient Hotel bar y a la estacion de metro a despedirnos (todas las despedidas con Nicole han sido en estaciones, curioso) todavia volveria a Sydney una vez ...

... deal - bargain!) over the waters of the darling harbour. Thursday was a wonderful day for me, first thing we headed out of sydney central on the trains into the suburbs.  And there waiting at the train station was my great uncle laurence! so many ...

... this isn't even a communist country! Eventually we did get through customs and headed into the CBD area for our hotel.  Our original plan was to come to Sydney for a day and then get a flight up to Townsville or Cairns to then go out diving to ...

... of the Sydney coastline during the landing. We jumped on the impressive (if not ridiculously over-priced) Sydney metro and took the double decker tube train to central station. It took us no time at all to locate the hostel that we have booked months ...

... junction to the city... we arrive into the city about 8am on a sunday morning...so walking down george st in the central business district was really quiet..no people walking around... we checked into our hotel..for 3 nights courtesy of mr charles bevan ...

... was pretty nice - I think we're both a bit old for communal bathrooms... Whilst we were at the hostel in Central, we went to a great gig at The Metro (The Sleepy Jackson) and then onto an indie club in King's Cross. We were pretty drunk by the time we ...

... who played a mutilingual audience like an melodian. Best shopping was at a great market by the hotel 'Ismaylovo Mkt.' and after a morning there we did the metro station tour as each station is very elaborately decorated, so you can buy your 10 roubles ...

... me.  I am often afraid to build up places in my head, afraid of being disappointed or underwhelmed like I was with the Sydney opera house, but luckily the crazy shapes and colors of the church’s pillars managed to take my breath away like I ...

... government building! A quick crepe later to warm up and we headed back to the subway and back to the hotel (though coming out at the wrong side of the metro station where 4 lines intersected meant a 15min walk in the cold, not so good!). We are planning ...

... road into the town. We drove around a fair bit, shedding passengers, but at no stage did we encounter a definite central stop, such as at the market, where our hotel was supposed to be. By the time we were down to the last few passengers, a couple in ...

... paying for their room and the hotel guy didn't have change so she turned around and shouted "bloody hell, this would never happen in Sydney" (for some reason this really touched a nerve in me and I politely asked the hotel guy for my key and as I walked ...

... as possible to a metro stop - Plan the sights you want to see and base close to them if possible - Study the metro a bit - If you have hotel points, use them in this most expensive city in the world. What Cold War? Moscow, Russian Federation, former ...

... of Sydney as the services are all easily manageable once you get the hang of the more complicated terminals of Town Hall and Central. They are only complicated as they are multi-level stations and the signage is not that good. The attendants are however, ...

... definitely missing we are back on the road again, well sort of ... The European leg of the round the world flight ticket that we bought in Sydney needs to be used up (it's a hard life we know) and it has given us the chance to visit Moscow for five days. ...

... the fourth, or as he is better known Ivan the Terrible. It features nine separate churches (8 small churches arranged around a central core church) all beautifully decorated inside and out and capped with their onion shaped domes of different colours and ...