Tom Beach Hotel

... offered me cold water or coffee and after talking about my origins we touched on Texas and Galveston. I recalled a building on Galveston Beach that I had visited briefly a few year prior. This was on old timber construction that back in the 1950's had been ...

... we arrived around 8:30.  Our original plan was to go over to the Santa Monica Pier (which is right across from our hotel), but we were wiped.  Tom turned on the TV, and after about an hour of relaxing, it was lights out. We had a great day in ...

... from 14000ft....mental! Went over to the local bar with Tom & Adam for a couple of games of pool, actually part of a Comfort Hotel complex. Being a Monday it was pretty dead, just some locals busy watching the greyhound races on the TV. Got back to the ...

... I would have been able to see past the floating feathers. I didn't use to be so feather-phobic, but this was really a hotel that seemed better suited to the birds than the guests. We enjoyed our last dinner of the roadtrip at the adjacent restaurant, ...

... first deep dive of 7m. Boat journey out to Clownfish Reef in Tofo Bay as scary as the anticipation of the dive. Boat launched from beach and has to crash through surf to open water. I have never been able to dive into water and the entry method for the ...

... so we opted for nice healthy Domino's pizza, mixed with MacDonalds fries and a bottle of wine!!!! Classy!!! Whitsundays Trip We left Airlie beach on the Whitsunday Express, and I think today has to be one of my all time favourite trips. Not only did we ...

... mention that the shopping here is fantastic sooo cheap and there are sales on everywhere. Friday 15 July 2011 The Continental Hotel South Beach Miami Weather - Still Hot Enjoying SOBE (South Beach Miami) just relaxing around the pool, feel like we must do ...

... we reached Coral Bay. It was just a small town, one road infact with a couple of campsites, a pub, small shopping centre, beach and of course a coral reef! We set off snorkelling soon after arriving and I went off with Spencer, the corals were amazing ...

... to drive me to Long Beach where I would be meeting Tom, Ricky and the others the next day and booked into the Hyatt Hotel opposite the beach and close by to the Queen Mary which we were booked into the following night. A quick shower and I was asleep ...

... to Lucy, Nick and Tom.   Our final night in Sydney was spent at the Swiss Grand Resort overlooking Bondi Beach, in a fabulous big family room complete with essential black leather sofa.  We soon turned the place into a complete and ...

... at this point we were all ready to start walking back to New Jersey – but we call our charming hostess Dawn (from Tom and Dawn’s Beach House in Carolina Beach) – as it turned out were only a few blocks away.  Dawn met us at the ...

 I started the day with a coffee and cinnamon bun on the pier opposite the Hyatt Hotel in Long Beach where I was staying after the music conference.Talked to a lady who was travelling with her Australian Shepherd Dog from San Fransisco. They were ...

... side to this isolated peninsula but I certainly didn't see it and we were there for 8 days. We had a most beautiful time there.  Beach, sun, sand, sea, food and good company.  It is here that we met the most people that we really want to keep in ...

... beach and got the sunsets (clue is in the name right) but was much more upmarket accommodation wise. East beach was the obvious choice for us and Tom volunteered to head off to see what the story was with availability, price etc of digs. He came back ...

... and before dinner we rolled into Cable Beach caravan and campsite. In just over a day we’d ridden 1100 kilometres. A good beach is always a strong motivator. Broome was a very good place to chill out for a couple of days. Unlike in Port Douglas we ...

... a bbq using the meat pack Sharon and Dennis won in a raffle. a pretty fun friday night at the beez neez in amberley beach. g'day Sharon and Dennis!, haha and after all this partying, st patty's day is tom, haha off to melbourne though for ...

... rays and all manner of aggressive and seemingly unnecessarily toxic creatures. For heavens sake, even just an innocent stroll along the beach collecting shells can prove detrimental to ones life! If you casually pick up a nice looking shell and it happens ...

... gone. That was my first thought as we came in. It used to be a huge tourist attraction and is now tumbled stretches of beach and ruined underbrush, a real tribute to what happened there in the tsunami. There is a police boat, approx. 100 feet long or ...

... . First up is a large pool, surrounded by palm trees and sun loungers, and beyond that a pretty, man-made lagoon. On the beach sits Faith, a blonde attendant with skin so leathered by the sun that you could make a saddle from it. She instructs us at ...

... at our gorgeous hostel. We are staying in South Beach (on the Miami beach peninsula), which is (surprise) right next to the beach, so we spent our morning battling it out with rollerbladers, cyclists and segway riders to walk along the beach. The view is ...

... the heart of Auclkland City Centre at rush hour and locate hotel. With assistance from my trusty navigator and a little luck we locate hotel and finally the parking ramp at 7:00PM. 30 minutes later we are sitting on the balcony of Shakesphere's Pub in a ...