Westin Hotel 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 ...

... flight 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 ...

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 ...

... , 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 ...

... 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 a king ...

... 'The Westin - absolutely gorgeous and sheer luxury. 5 star hotel baby!!! We ARE in Pareee daaaarling. The Westin hotel - luxury. Our hotel was in Central Paris and a fantastic location - close to everything. First stop - The Lourve. This ...

... knew that I was not thinking too clearly. I rented a car with Thrifty.  It was easy and not very expensive.  I tried contacting a Westin hotel that I had free points, but they told me to just come by, there were rooms available.  I got directions to ...

Well Australia it's been fun, we leave today for Fiji - bring it on. 6 days in the Westin hotel getting a true and deep understanding of the Fijian culture and participating in the local economy in a positive non-destructive manner - yeah right!! However ...

... Place (the old general post office turned upmarket mall/eatery) where our friend Nick had very kindly booked us into the very swanky Westin Hotel for the night as a belated birthday/Christmas/going away present. We checked in and were soon on our way up ...

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 ...

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 ...

... they left us one parting gift, a Fiji backpackers guide to help us out over the next few days.  Then they left for Melbourne. The next morning we discussed a tour of the highlights of the west coast of Viti Levu, or "mainland Fiji". We had discussed ...

... , and i had to be up at 10am to catch my bus to the airport.  Andy was staying on for another day before heading back to Melbourne.  It was so sad to leave Andy and all the stray bus buddies behind.  It was truly the best 3 weeks of my trip ...

... nbsp; We splurged for dinner one night with a lovely meal at the nearby St Regis at Princeville.  The St Regis Hotel is the luxury brand for the Westin chain of hotels.  We had the premium sunset viewing table, and both the food and service were ...