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Blue Lake Top 10 Holiday Park, Rotorua

Rotorua is famous for its thermal activity. The downside of all that thermal activity is that the sulphur odour can sometimes be a bit strong! We decide to stay 15 minute’s drive from the centre of town at the beautiful Blue Lake Top 10 Holiday Park.

As the name suggests, this holiday park is on Blue Lake – a very pretty setting. The park is actually across the road from the lake. It is an ideal place to canoe, there are bikes for hire, and a lovely walk around the lake.

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By Admin|2025-03-20T15:43:01+11:00December 30th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, North Island|0 Comments

Remuera Motor Lodge & Inner City Camping Ground, Auckland

Remuera Motor Lodge & Inner City Camping is a reasonably priced and conveniently located camp ground – just a 15-minute drive into the Auckland city centre and 10-minute drive to the beautiful suburb of Parnell.

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By Admin|2025-03-20T15:52:39+11:00December 27th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, North Island|0 Comments

Jet Park Airport Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand

Jet Park Hotel is located about 5-10 minute’s drive from Auckland Airport. It is a 4.5 star hotel that is reasonably priced, clean and comfortable.

This was a convenient hotel for us to stay at the beginning of our road trip around the North Island as it was close to the airport and to where we would pick up our rental van.

We flew from Sydney to Auckland and on arrival at Auckland Airport we used the courtesy phone at the I-Site shop to call the hotel to request a courtesy pick up.

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By Admin|2025-03-20T15:55:28+11:00December 26th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, North Island|0 Comments

Pavilion on Brookes – Brisbane Apartments

Pavilion on Brookes is just 12 months old and features one and two bedroom apartments in a 9 storey building located in the inner city Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills.

The apartments are very good value for money, are conveniently located to the city and Fortitude Valley, are clean, fresh and well equipped. We can highly recommend a stay.

Pavilion on Brookes is a security building: we had a key to get into the building, an electronic tag to access our floor, and an electronic tag to access the garage.

We had a two-bedroom apartment on the 1^st floor.

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By Admin|2025-03-19T17:31:24+11:00October 10th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, Brisbane|Tags: Apartment|0 Comments

Agnes Water Beach Club, Queensland, Australia

We arrived quite late at the Agnes Water Beach Club apartments and had to press the intercom at Reception to contact management. There was a quick and cheerful response, we collected the key, dropped our luggage and went off to have dinner nearby at The Tavern – one of the few places open at that time of night.

The Tavern serves very good pub food. We had the daily specials of rump steak/salad/chips for $15 and Chicken Schnitzel/salad/chips for $20 – excellent value for money.

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By Admin|2025-03-19T17:39:35+11:00October 9th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, Agnes Water|Tags: Apartment|0 Comments

Villas on Rivergum, Emerald, Queensland

Villas on Rivergum is a relatively new development of 1 and 2 bedroom ground floor units on the outskirts of Emerald offering good value for money. We can highly recommend these villas if you are looking for clean, modern and self-contained accommodation.

We checked into Villa 4, a two-bedroom contemporary unit with open plan kitchen, dining and living area.

Bedroom 1 at the front of the villa had a queen bed, an ensuite bathroom and walk-in robe. The room was well furnished with bedside tables and bedside lamps, digital clock/radio. Toiletries were provided in the ensuite, and there was an extra pillow and blanket in the walk in robe.

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By Admin|2025-03-19T17:40:11+11:00October 8th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, Emerald|Tags: Apartment|0 Comments

Longreach Motor Inn, Longreach, Queensland

The Longreach Motor Inn, is a very large motel on two levels. We booked into Room 31, a family room with two rooms and a bathroom, on the upper level.

It was a comfortable room with plenty of space.

In the main room there were twin beds with bedside tables, a couple of luggage shelves and wardrobe.

In that room there was also a long bench/desk with bar-sized fridge, tea-making facilities, a microwave, television and air-conditioning system. A sliding door opened onto a small balcony where there was a small table and 2 chairs.

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By Admin|2025-03-19T17:48:17+11:00October 7th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, Longreach|Tags: Motel|0 Comments

Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg

Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg

After a long day’s drive, we arrived in Johannesburg to check into the lovely Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel.

Reception is located on the 3^rd floor, accessible by lift from either the underground car park or the street level entrance (which is where the Concierge Desk is located).

On check in, the type of room (a double room) we had booked was not available so we were kindly upgraded to a Business Class Room – Room 402 – a spacious room and bathroom on the 4^th floor.

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By Admin|2025-03-20T18:37:12+11:00September 13th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, Johannesburg|Tags: Hotel|0 Comments

41 on Market, Vryburg, South Africa

Room 1

On a recent road trip in South Africa, we had intended to stay at Mokala Game Reserve near Kimberly however taking a wrong turn meant having to change plans and look for accommodation in Vryburg late in the afternoon on a Wednesday evening in September. Who would have thought that the B&Bs we phoned would all be full? There was a car rally in town on the weekend and guests had arrived early in the week and it seemed the whole town was fully booked.

But then we tried 41 on Market – success. We were able to book a double room.

41 on Market has only been opened about 12 months so everything is clean and new. It occupies a renovated older-style building with large rooms, high ceilings and big windows in the main street of Vryburg.

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By Admin|2025-03-20T18:35:44+11:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, Vryburg|Tags: Hotel|0 Comments

Augrabies Falls National Park Accommodation, South Africa

Augrabies Falls National Park Rest Camp

Augrabies Falls

The rest camp at Augrabies Falls National Park is just 3 kms from the main gate.

We drove to the Reception building for a quick and easy check-in. This building also houses the Quiver Tree Restaurant and the Curio & Retail Shop. There are also numerous information boards showing photographs of the Falls in flood, and interesting points about the Park.

We booked into Chalet 25 – very conveniently located close to the main building.

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By Admin|2025-03-20T18:34:43+11:00September 8th, 2015|Categories: Accommodation Reviews, Augrabies Falls National|0 Comments