My wife and I are looking for lodging recommendations for our visit in November.
The financial planner informed us that if we are going to travel to Australia once in our lifetime it won't make much difference to our retirement if its' now or later (due to being old already). This has been a lousy year for me financially, but our daughter is currently an exchange student at James Cook U. in Townsville, so we have decided to tap our retirement now.
We'll be visiting Cairns, Townsville to collect our daughter, then Brisbane and Sydney. We've made decisions about lodging for Cairns, gotten advice re Townsville, have researched Sydney and have not researched Brisbane.
Looks like serviced apartments are the best choice for us in Sydney. We will not have a rental car. If one of you had to choose between serviced apartments on Bridge St. or Kent St. in downtown Sydney would you have a preference? How about districts further away like Darlinghurst, Haymarket, Potts Point or Chippendale? Too inconvenient without a car or are the buses and trains a good way to get about?
For the Brisbane folk - do you have lodging recommendations for your fair city? Currently we are unsure how we are splitting our time between Townsville and Brisbane. We haven't made a decision whether to fly or use ground transport to Brisbane, which would affect the allocation of days.
Thanks a lot for your help. We are really looking forward to coming and hopefully meeting some of you.
LarryT
Larry Tompkins
N544WB RV-6A purchased flying
W52 Battle Ground, WA
The financial planner informed us that if we are going to travel to Australia once in our lifetime it won't make much difference to our retirement if its' now or later (due to being old already). This has been a lousy year for me financially, but our daughter is currently an exchange student at James Cook U. in Townsville, so we have decided to tap our retirement now.
We'll be visiting Cairns, Townsville to collect our daughter, then Brisbane and Sydney. We've made decisions about lodging for Cairns, gotten advice re Townsville, have researched Sydney and have not researched Brisbane.
Looks like serviced apartments are the best choice for us in Sydney. We will not have a rental car. If one of you had to choose between serviced apartments on Bridge St. or Kent St. in downtown Sydney would you have a preference? How about districts further away like Darlinghurst, Haymarket, Potts Point or Chippendale? Too inconvenient without a car or are the buses and trains a good way to get about?
For the Brisbane folk - do you have lodging recommendations for your fair city? Currently we are unsure how we are splitting our time between Townsville and Brisbane. We haven't made a decision whether to fly or use ground transport to Brisbane, which would affect the allocation of days.
Thanks a lot for your help. We are really looking forward to coming and hopefully meeting some of you.
LarryT
Larry Tompkins
N544WB RV-6A purchased flying
W52 Battle Ground, WA