Novotel Perth

... people, bigger cars, bigger food, bigger country as we found out when we went driving through Margaret river. So we got into the Novotel dumped our stuff and went straight out to walk around Perth - this is a city right with lots of people right? Wrong ...

... in sunny Perthy, Australia, it has been winter for 1 month and it is 25 degrees, come on!!!!! Dumped our stuff at the Novotel and and went straight out to meet our first Australian's, unsuprisingly they all have a funny accent but are friendly which is a ...

... city but a nice change to London! Uncle Wayne and Aunty Karena arrive to pick us up at the hotel to show us the sights of Perth. Eat my first Great Australian Meat Pie and guess what, it was great! Check out the famous parks of the city and the bell ...

... wine tour commencing mid morning in the Swan Valley (for the overseas folk - one of the wine regions just outside of Perth.) We travelled around in a mini van for most of the day hitting various wineries (Baskerville Estate, Sitellas, Carilley Estate and ...

... a 6ft Leopard Shark. Fortunately it was sleeping! After a lunch of baked beans on toast with HP sauce we drank cocktails in the Novotel in Exmouth. Judith had to have a Caprinha - it brought back so many memories of South America! Dan enjoyed a "Fire ...

... ;along St. Georges Terrace to Victoria St, past St. Mary's RC Church restoration, down Hill Street past the Perth Mint, Sheraton & Novotel Hotels to the Esplanade.  Then it continued along the Swan River past the WACA (West Australian ...

The fishing rods are in the back of the Ute and we are down the beach within in 5 mins and have out rods in the sea as the sun sets. We can't work out whether we are ridiculaously excited just to have finally arrived in this amazing country or ...

Drive to Bunbury which will be our home for teh next couple of weeks and stay with Karena and Wayne, Wayne lets me loose on his Kermit the Frog green bad-boy Ute ( pick-up truck), apparently all I need is a dog in the back and a blue vest, then I will ...

... joy of flying with blocked ears and now understand why babies cry so much on takeoff and landing! Checked into our room at Novotel and then went for a wander around the Cairns foreshore.  It's festival time in Cairns so heaps going on.  Street ...

... book (yes, I am to blame for what follows) & made introductions to 2 other couples that were there. One couple was from Perth, the other (John & Gillian) was from Northern Ireland. We all clicked. The Perth couple was off to the casino –we ...

After the interesting start to our holiday, the taxi from the hotel was on time and we arrived at the Perth Airport nice and early. We checked in and went through customs etc, with no problems and quite short time which was nice. After browsing the ...

A whistle stop day in Auckland, pretty tired as we'd flown in on the red eye from Perth, had a couple of hours kip in an airport hotel, then hauled ourselves into the city. We were coming back to the city at the end of our NZ trip so spent the day walking ...

The flight was horrible. The midnight horror from Perth to Singapore was 5 hours of torture in the small Jetstar plan and Matt looked like a contortionist to get comfortable enough to sleep and I was freezing. Cant complain to much because the flights ...

... 't start till the evening so we had the day to go into Sydney and explore the city. We had to change hotels to the Novotel in the Olympic Park....very impressive indeed. The city was just as amazing as the photos promised it would be. The magnificent ...

... Station. We noticed some recently built holiday houses and some pretty high real estate prices in town; they even have an upmarket Novotel resort at the new marina. Apparently the area is dry and warm year long with no wet season but temperatures in the ...

... . However it meant that I had to hang around from 9:30am to midnight to get the next plane. They put us up in the Novotel Hotel at the airport, which is actually pretty posh. Anyway, because of all the delays I will be landing in Melbourne almost 24 hours ...

... . John took some pics (obviously!) and we headed out into the evening for a wander through the Colonial District until it started to rain and we caught a cab back to the Novotel. It’s a tough job, this travel gig, but somebody’s got to do ...

... tip... the stopover is a killer. The airline is awesome, but the stopover is a pain in the neck. My advice, check in to the Novotel at the Airport... it will set you back about $150 for the room, but totally worth it. I was able to chill, watch tele, ...

... we'd now had minimal sleep, we were a little tired but hungry so we found dinner across the road at "Caucus" at the Novotel.  Yes, the entire menu is themed as if you were a piece of legislation, trying to pass through Parliament, including second ...