Ocean Club Paradise Island

... , Switzerland is a converted prison now used as a hotel. The Luxor, a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States is unusual due to its pyramidal structure. The Liberty Hotel in Boston, used to be the Charles Street Jail. ...

... recommendation of another good friend, I take a tiny ferry (a row boat with an outboard)  across Nassau Harbor to Paradise Island. Our boat is dwarfed by enormous, multi-story cruise ships which dominate the scene, towering above the tall, spindly ...

... my way inside as his island tranquil-spoiling engine sped away and I unknowingly walked into some local island family feud. As I was about to enter the social club, a dodgy looking guy came storming out, cursing and looking primed to hit someone. He ...

... kangaroos which you coul pet. Still didn't see a wombat though as he/she was sleeping! The last night in Surfers Paradise I decided to go to the club the hostel was going to and it was RnB night - enough said! So on Wednesday I moved onto Noosa, passing ...

... was buffeted by cross winds as it landed on the short airstrip but we made it in one piece and emerged on the tarmac to an island paradise. The owner of our accommodation picked us up from the airport and gave us a quick tour of the island, showing us the ...

... get there and get some real Spanish cuisine because the ship's food usually is for the birds.  However a little piece of edible paradise came in the form of cheeseburger at the poolside grille.  Tonight was the first time I ventured to the bar ...

... Harbor is not that large - I was amazed that within a few minutes of passing the cruise ships we were going under the Paradise Island bridges and entering the marina at the other end of the harbor.    Nassau is also a hard working harbor ...

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... can't get HOW BIG or HOW STEEP it is from a photo!) But all is good and we're at this fancy-pants marina on Paradise Island and it soo silly - we're the smallest boat by probably 20 feet! we are all cleared into customs/immigration and we had ...

... park and post campbell and back again. Absolutely amazing. The Journey home saw us taking in Loch Ard gorge which felt like a paradise island and the Otway Park Treetops sky walk where you climb 25 meters up to the very top of the forest trees and look ...

... The best place to be is on the lounger on the balcony, taking in the sea views and the sea breezes.  Paradise found. Hamilton Island is one big resort with lots of different pools and activities to pick from.  Only 800 people live on ...

... and welcomed us and introduced themselves. We had never seen anything like it. Everybody looked like they had found their "true" paradise. We sat down while our bags were taken to our room and were presented with a breakfast menu. Half of the menu ...

... side of the island, we could not really see a sunrise, per se, but it was nice to sit out on the balcony and see paradise come alive with light.  I filmed some early morning incoming-tide which I will add as soon as I get it downloaded from the ...

... on our arrival: crystal clear hues of blue and green water, beach huts and hammocks, white sand, pure paradise. Five or six Fijian people on the Island sang a welcome song with a couple of guitars while the small boat arrived onto the Island, they ...

... make it back to the barge on time (unfortunately, only 2 of the 3 trucks made it back!). The trip out to Fraser Island was absolutely amazing - probably our favorite stop on the roadtrip and we were sad to see it end. The sand dunes were ...

... shop. Some are Westerners who now live here and others are Vietnamese. A bunch of us went for dinner and then out to a club called Paradise. Not much different from a nightclub at home just smaller and with a much wider age range. And men, check your ...

... a trip here wouldn’t be complete without a skydive! They day before we booked Beak onto a tandem skydive with a company called Paradise Skydive, (as Willy jumped off one of the highest buildings on the planet, twice, its was her turn to do something ...

The Seychelles are a set of over 100 tropical island splattered in the Indian Ocean east of Kenya.  In addition, they are absolutely perfect.  We left the chaos of Nairobi and flew over blue ocean for 3 hours to get to the Seychelles.  When ...

... we headed out on a ferry across the bay to Straddie. After a quick lunch at the station we went to the beach on the ocean side of the island and went on a walk up on the cliff to enjoy the amazing view. The ocean has the most amazing turquoise color here, ...

... the sea wall in Victoria, British Columbia, to Alaska, the Yukon, across the USA from coast to coast, to the Surfer’s Paradise coast in Queensland Australia (where I did 32 K training runs in 30 + degree C heat in training for my first marathon ...