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[clarkee73, 08/11/2011] I went here some years ago and now have a 300 degree picture of the view.
WOW!
[catsholiday, 02/09/2011] Sydney Wynyard Travelodge
The best thing about this hotel is its location which is within a very close walk of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House and extremely close to a metro station too. We walked all around the area sightseeing and everything was easily walk able. The metro took you further afield and you could also get the monorail from a stop further on the metro. This was how we travelled to find Paddington, Paddy’s market and other areas you might want to explore.
This is a modern rather plain looking building and within the hotel there are 275 rooms and being a Travelodge is part of
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[sameh111, 04/07/2011] it Is not possible to go to Australia and do not visit the Opera House it is very special place that looked like the Egyptian Opera House .it was a very large theater where I saw the great show.We saw a Wonderful concert there. we did not understand very well but we enjoyed a lot of performance. the concert continued for about an hour .But the thing that I did not like is the high price of the ticket it is very expensive for us .But in general it was an impressive place and I hope to go again.
[erini88, 28/04/2011] During my trip I visited in Sydney the Royal Botanic
Garden it was a difficult journey because the hotel was uncomfortable, but I enjoyed when I saw thes garden ...
the Royal Botanic Garden is located near the port of Sydney. the park is very good ... and when i saw this Garden are surprised by the strong culture of people of Sydney. I've never seen so many people do to other muscle activity during my trip. The botanic garden seem to be the most important gardens in Sydney, but I think it's really nice too.
[Umair, 26/04/2011] The Y Hotel Hyde Park has a great, central location on the southern end of Hyde Park and at the beginning of Oxford Street. Many of the city´s main attractions are within walking distance. The staff are extremely friendly and accommodating, quick to help with any concerns or questions, especially the manager, Billy. The lime green coloring of the hotel and walls are a bit unsettling and the rooms are a little on the bare side, but it is an enjoyable place to stay nonetheless.
[deepskisam, 04/04/2011] We stayed here in March 2011. I thought this was a very poor hotel. Although it has a fantastic view and a lovely reception area there were a number of issues with the room. It is over priced for the standard.
1. It was advertised as a king-size bed but was two single beds pushed together. By the time we got into the room and realised it was too late at night to swap things around.
2. We requested a cot but this did not materialise.
3. On check out there was a $7 bill although we had not used anything. When I queried this I was told that I had used the mini-bar. We had not even opened the d
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[nowretired, 11/01/2011] Stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney, for 3 days, in November 2010, Very posh, excellent position by the Wharf between the Bridge and the Opera House, only had breakfast, (included ) as Meals and drinks very expensive as you would expect from a 5 Star hotel, but plenty of bars and restaurants nearby. Staff very helpful and room excellent.
[jl132, 14/12/2010] During new years eve, as you might expect, there are not many options to stay in Sydney. New Years Eve is the happening of the year in Sydney and the hostels, hotels and other accommodation are already booked a full year in advance. When I booked a half year in advance I had little choice. After booking The Eva’s I didn’t know if I was any decent because sometimes you hear some really bad stories about hostels.
Location
Eva’s is located in a quite side street in the district of Kings Cros. The area is mainly known for its extensive nightlife, erotic and excellent pubs. But you'll also find a
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[Helgelar, 16/11/2010] Hotellet er elegant, rommene er rene, lobbyen er fin og restauranten var også veldig elegant.Vi betalte 160 Euro, og hadde et veldig enkelt og bra opphold på de aldrende hotellrommene. Vi var veldig slitne, og endte dermed opp med å ikke benytte noen av hotellets øvrige fasiliteter. Vi fikk uansett en kjapp introduksjon til alt hotellet hadde å by på, noe som vi satte pris på. Frokostbuffeten anbefales da den var rimelig, og hadde et stort utvalg av varme og kalde retter.
[magdadh, 12/11/2010] I can't quite figure out why the Pyrmont Bridge has an own "attraction" entry here on Trivago, as it's not THAT significant, but as it is, crossing the Darling Harbour from the Monorail station to the Pyrmont suburb side (thus the name), the bridge provides an excellent vantage point of the whole Darling Harbour area and is great for photos and just looking at the madness below.
It's free, it's fun and it's one of the best things in the whole Darling Harbour kaboodle.
[magdadh, 12/11/2010] This must be one of the most ridiculously opulent, fussy, over-decorated Victorian buildings in the world. Still, it somehow, for reasons that elude me, works! Have a look, it's on the main drag and bang by the QVB, hard to avoid and worth a photo-stop at least.
[magdadh, 12/11/2010] There is nothing wrong with this tour, but considering that the same (no, MORE) can be accomplished by public transport easily for half-price (by buying all-day ticket for all means of transport) and with some planning for less than that (and if you have a child under 14 with you and are there on Sunday, for 2.50 AUD per person - on a family Funday Sunday ticket), any commercial bus tour has to be a ripoff.
[magdadh, 11/11/2010] Botany Bay is around ten miles from the centre of Sydney: the famous and oh-so-picturesque Sydney Harbour is actually Port Jackson as Botany Bay was found to be too inhospitable for settlement initially. Now the city has stretched to the Bay and way beyond that, and the area around Botany Bay is heavily industrialised, with many large-scale installations including Sydney's main international airport. Despite that, the area retains its historical importance and also some relatively unspoilt countryside and the headlands on both sides of the Botany Bay have been formed into Botany Bay National P
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[magdadh, 11/11/2010] Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney is one of the largest art galleries in Australia, established in 1897, and is a public gallery with free entry to main exhibitions, devoted to European, Australian and Asian art.
The gallery is located in a grand Neo-Classical building at the edge of the Sydney's Domain parkland, although new modern wings have been added (but are not visible from the main entrance) since the foundation.
The gallery has a fabulous collection of paintings, including major European Old Masters and some of the best works by the best Australian painters. These are exhibi
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[magdadh, 10/11/2010] Queen Victoria Building is an ornate upmarket shopping arcade in Sydney, described by the French designer Pierre Cardin as “the most beautiful shopping centre in the world. The building itself is a major attraction, designed as a show-stopping replacement for the market that previously took place at the site and completed in 1898.
Queen Victoria Building or QVB was created in neo-Romanesque style by the Scottish-born and trained architect George McRae and originally housed a concert hall, tradesmen' offices, shops, cafes and showrooms. After a period of decline in the role of council office
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[magdadh, 10/11/2010] We visited the Gardens one winter afternoon, after spending a morning looking at paintings in the New South Wales Art Gallery nearby across the Domain. Being Sydney, winter was rather sunny and warm by most standards, and we had a pleasant time walking about among the trees and sitting on the lawns. Joggers and other exercise fanatics that seem to infest many public green spaces in Australia were mercifully mostly absent, though I am told they like to use the Mrs Macquarie's road, and we enjoyed the plants, the peace and the views, both towards the harbour and to the CBD which rises in a wall
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[magdadh, 10/11/2010] Sydney Tower is a purpose-built lookout tower located in the middle of the Sydney's Central Business District
As far as towers go, the Sydney one is neither spectacularly attractive or particularly high by world standards (although it is among Australia's tallest three free-standing structures at 305. meters above the street level), but it undoubtedly can boast one of the best views of all the lookout towers in the world, providing a panorama the city and the harbour around which Sydney spreads out. Paradoxically, Sydney is so full of great views that the vantage point offered by the Tower is
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[magdadh, 10/11/2010] Sydney's Lunapark stands proudly on the North Shore of Sydney's Jackson Harbour, entered through a huge laughing face of a clown flanked by two fairytale castle towers, colourful in the daytime and glitteringly lit at night.
The current park has been open since 2004, but the character of a lot of what's on offer harks back to the 1930's origins of the Park: there is quaintness about the LunaPark that is missing in the biggest and most modern amusement centres, and it can seem hopelessly lame or charmingly old-fashioned depending on your mindset.
The park has a selection of rides that will
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[magdadh, 10/11/2010] Australian National Maritime Museum is one of the prime attractions of Sydney's Darling Harbour, taking up extensive area on the northern (Pyrmont) side of the development.
The permanent exhibitions in the main building (rather attractive structure itself, a wavey-roofed giant boatshed) are moderately diverting and quite educational, with varied displays devoted to diverse subjects. A gallery on Eora, the first people is concerned with indigenous Australians' maritime traditions. They were better sailors than one would suspect from the usual desert-people imagery, but one needs to remember t
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[magdadh, 10/11/2010] Darling Harbour is a newly (in relative terms) regenerated area located in the heart of Sydney Harbour, on the opposite side of the Miller's Point from Sydney Cove, between Sydney's CBD and the still working-class area of Pyrmont.
For many years a semi-derelict industrial site, Darling Harbour was eventually developed as a bit glitzy, a bit tacky entertainment and tourist area and an attempted focus of commercial activities for Sydney's visitors and, to perhaps lesser extent, locals.
This aim is at the root of Darling Harbour's success and failure alike: as all pre-designed and re-developed
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