Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
25 January 2025 - Sandy is taking a four day cruise - Sydney to Hobart and return.
April 2025 - Not a cruise! - instead a trip to Brisbane to watch the Panthers vs Dolphins game, and of course to see the family.
August 2025 - And again, not a cruise! - a weekend in Sydney to see Star Wars: A New Hope, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music live.
27 September 2025 - Slightly early celebration for Paul's 70th birthday - 7 day Barrier Reef cruise on the Carnival (ex-P&O) Encounter.
August - September 2026 - 12 day "British Isles with France and Belfast" cruise on the Majestic Princess then a stay in the UK afterwards.


Monday, 12 September 2016

UK and Med Cruise - Day 1 - 5 September - Canberra to Sydney

Monday morning - the taxi arrived right on time. We had an inauspicious start in Canberra when the Greyhound bus left late because of a flat battery. However, once we got underway it was all good- trip to Sydney was comfortable and we were dropped off at the airport pretty much on time.
Because of all the earlier changes to our flights we stayed overnight at the Rydges Airport Hotel which is right at the international airport. As I've said before, you get your best picture of how well a hotel operates when things are going wrong for them, and Rydges did a good job here - their computer system was down when we arrived but fortunately we had already automatically checked in and they managed to do all the other bits and pieces without an issue.
The room was pretty much what you'd expect for what's effectively a business hotel, clean and comfortable with a good sized desk, nice comfortable lounge chair and a good sized bathroom.  This hotel of course is all about the location - very convenient for leaving the next day - they advertise the distance to the international terminal in steps!

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