Well, we just couldn’t face another 230 days without a break and as our only break so far this year was back in April, we decided to head back to Broadbeach (the southern end of the world famous Surfer’s Paradise, south of Brisbane, for those of you in the UK who are less aware of the local geography...).
We stayed at the Meriton Apartments just over a year ago with two other couples and Paula got really good value out of the superb heated indoor pool and I enjoyed the spa. We only managed one session in the heated outdoor pool, on our last night, as they were working above it during the week, but we were impressed with it and the large spa too. Needless to say, a return visit to the same place was an easy decision, even though we’ll be without our usual travelling and dining companions and partners in crime.
Thanks to the Cruise Critic message boards and our involvement with the Dawn Princess roll call for May 2011, we are in touch (albeit at a distance) with several fellow cruisers, so once we announced our intentions, very quickly, we were in a position to be involved in an opportunity to meet two or maybe three other couples whilst in Broadbeach. So, early November, we’ll have something to add to this travel/holiday/cruise blog and maybe a couple of fine weather photographs, just as the UK starts to get those horribly grey creeping cold evenings and early mornings. Shudder....
The Meriton is only a two minute walk to the hub of Broadbeach where there are some great restaurants so we’ll be having a meal with four 2011 cruisers, possibly an Italian meal and we can just pretend we are in Europe for a couple of hours.
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