The Westin Melbourne

Melbourne 1/23/06 Another travel day - this time from the Westin Sydney to the Westin Melbourne, not a bad trip. We made it into Melbourne just fine, picked up our rental car and started to realize the craziness of this city. There was only a huge ...

... from Sydney. All told, about a 20 hour trip door-to-door. I took the city bus from the airport to my hotel. I'm staying at the Westin Melbourne again, just like last time. As I walked through the lobby, I hear the concierge say, "Hey, you're back!" Wow. ...

Spent a very long 24 hours - about 36 - flying from Melbourne to Los Angeles to Dallas Fort Worth to Tampa. Arrived in the evening and settled into the Westin Tampa Harbour Island ...

Hey there, This could possibly be my last entry.  I made it to Melbourne yesterday and have an awesome room at the Westin.  I walked around the Southbank area had some dinner and then went to the Crown casino.  I'm headed to the Queens ...

... Elise was great.  I haven't seen her since December.  Once she joined us we hopped in our cab and headed for The Westin Melbourne.  This hotel in gorgeous and it's right in the middle of the city.  The room was a luxurious suite with ...

... , still burdened with the issue of lack of accomodations due to the Australia Open. Jazz, decided to ever so NON hesitantly book the Westin, Melbourne using his Starwood points. Let's just say it took 10,000 points to cover the cost of a $600 room! I ...

... -city hostels.  First,  don't ever trust Canadians. It was they in Byron Bay who suggested the All-Nations Backpacker in Melbourne. Secondly, clean hostels trump location. And lastly, always check your bed before you go to sleep even at a clean hostel ...

... Dan out for breakfast at a cute little local cafe. Dan lives in the middle of a very eclectic and cultural part of Melbourne, with tons of eateries, art galleries, boutiques and other businesses just a short walk from his door. I've even noticed several ...

... great girls from Melbourne whom we've kept in touch with since then and graciously invited to host us while we were visiting Melbourne.  Anna (although we don’t call her that, her nickname is Macca which is short for McDonalds in Ozzie speak ...

... in less than 10 hours...he's one happy boy but very soon he will know what culture shock is first hand...a lack of maccas!! Looking forward to getting to langkawi, renting a car and driving to the westin, locating a bed and sleeping for a few ...

... ;Opera House with different artwork and spending a rainy afternoon walking the coast south of Bondi; we headed to Melbourne.      Since we have been lax to plan far in advance for anything on this trip ...

Bonjour! I've always wanted to say to a guy "Let's go to Paris for the weekend". Well since Matthew was leaving to go back to Melbourne, I said it as a half joke. And guess what - he said YES. WOW! So within a week he had booked a trip for two to ...

Heading to LA As the LA plane was flying out of Melbourne early we decided to fly to Melbourne from Canberra  the night before. We had booked an upgrade to business class using frequent flyer points but they advised they wont allocate until 5 hours ...

... First Class form and don't budge of show any signs of noticing my boxing match with the portable TV.   Or on the plane from Melbourne to Sydney, the flight attendant had a strong Australian accent.  As I sat with mostly Australians, she came by with the ...

... fun though. Yeah Sydney is pretty cool, but the big questions remained unanswered: 1) Is it best to go West? 2) Sydney vs. Melbourne? Our only answer is: we don't care at the moment because we're hungover. So unless our Feejee hotel ...

On this day we departed from Melbourne on what was to be a huge adventure for us. We flew via Auckland to San Francisco before boarding the Dawn Princess for Alaska. It was a long flight and when we arrived our first cigarette nearly made us ...

... switch planes. On the plane we had a snack and dinner. And then we all had an ice-cream while watching a movie. It is 1:25am Melbourne time we have been looking at shops and checking are self in then we got on the plane and settled into are seats. We ...

... a $400 fine - easier said than done when their website was broken!! Cousin David, having just returned from honeymoon kindly came over from Melbourne to spend Friday night and Saturday with us. We had a super time as he had booked us into a very cool ...

Then on to Melbourne next ...