Aabon Holiday Apartments, Brisbane

Advantages: Good customer service, good price
Disadvantages: Product didn't live up to the name

...I booked a trip that consisted of Belfast-London-Los Angeles-Brisbane-New York-London-Belfast through the British Airways travel shop. The price was good considering the trip. The lady who dealt with me was excellent-no request was too much trouble. Being very tall i had asked about thepossibility of extra leg room and she duly put in a request. She explained and arranged everything and i have to say that part of it went smoothly. My only downside was the legs of that flight that were oerated by BA didn't live up to the high standard set my the shop-but thats for another review! All in all a good experience. If you're happy to fly on BA then i would certainly advise using their travel shops... Read review

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Advantages: Great weather, some good clubs and restaurants, a place to just 'hang out'.
Disadvantages: A bit 'sleepy', not as exciting as the larger cities

...If you’re into sunshine, rugby and drinking loads of beer, then Brisbane is the place for you. Though perhaps not an obvious destination for the short-term tourist, this city is certainly a more accurate depiction of Australian culture than Sydney or the Gold Coast. Being the closest I have to a ‘home town’, I have a kind of love-hate relationship with Brisbane – when I’m there it annoys me and often bores me to tears, while when away I often miss it profoundly. Though nowhere near as exciting as London, Edinburgh or even Melbourne, it still has its merits. The City is pretty much like any other – a big mall (by the way, by mall we mean a big paved street with shops on either side, not an indoor shopping centre), loads of department stores, food courts, pubs, high rise apartments blocks and so on... Read review

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Advantages: Wide range of Activities available
Disadvantages: Long Distances to travel

...New Zealand Earlier this year me and my family visited New Zealand, we spent 3 weeks there and we cannot wait to return. The key to New Zealand’s individuality is its remote location in the world, situated to the East of Australia’s coast it requires a 2 hour flight from Brisbane or Sydney across the Tasman Sea to reach Auckland Airport. New Zealand was once apart of the Australian continent but over millions of years the two land masses have drifted apart. In the vicinity to New Zealand are many Pacific island groups Tonga, Samoa & Fiji are few you may have heard of, these islands were formed by volcanic eruptions caused by the shifting of the Earths plates and many hundreds of island groups exist in this part of the world. One of the things I was presently surprised about was the travelling, I know some people don’t like flying... Read review

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