Holiday Inn Potts Point, Sydney

Advantages: Excellent City, Clean streets, Great Transport, Loads to do
Disadvantages: Changable and Blustery in Winter, A Bit too far from Ireland

...I stayed in Sydney for over 10 months in 2003 and the hardest thing I had to do was to leave the place. Sydney is an amazing city, with so much to do you will never get bored. From the Harbour area to the beaches of Bondi - theres something for everyone. When we arrived we did the usual tourist trips, Opera House, Harbour Bridge, Trips on the Harbour Ferries, Centrepoint Tower but as time went on we found a hidden Sydney. These are areas or items in Sydney which are not on the usual tourist trail. Places like Suzannah Place in the Rocks which documents early life around 1830, and how the working classes lived. It is a living museum. Other areas of interest included Balmain, Manly, Paddington and Potts Point. We were lucky enough to be there for the New Years Eve fireworks and they are as amazing as people say. However if you... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap and easy to use
Disadvantages: none

...if you prefer tickets are available at CityRail suburban stations, most newsagents on bus routes, Sydney Ferries ticket offices and Transit Shops “TravelPasses” are available for weekly, quarterly or yearly travel. These offer the best value for tourists as they allow unlimited travel on Sydney’s trains, ferries and buses. The pass covers different colour coded zones, the most popular for visitors are the Red and Green zones. Maps showing all zones are readily available from ticket offices. Purchasing a Green zone pass at a cost of A$40 for 7 Days (or A$52.50 to include return Airport Link transfers) gives unlimited travel in all Red and Green zones. Here are some trips you can make using this pass - ferries to Darling Harbour, Watson's Bay, Manly and Tarronga Zoo and buses to Bondi and Potts Point. We found all public transport to be clean... Read review

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Advantages: beautiful scenery, much of the city is accessible and it's quite cheap and very easy to do a tour
Disadvantages: can get rather blustery

...As far as Australian landscapes go, the Sydney Harbour goes down as being one of the most iconic and familiar, close behind Uluru and of course, the Sydney Opera House, which goes hand in hand with the harbour. The Harbour is a natural wonder and is undeniably the jewel in the crown of Sydney, and is basically the centrepiece of the city upon which all else is focussed open. The famous Bridge crosses it, the Opera House faces it, and hundreds of thousands of people live along or near it. And until now, I had never really experienced it. The problem I face with Sydney is getting there. It?s a good 2000 kilometre round-trip whichever way you decide to do it. This time around instead of driving, we took the train (we being Valerie and I, since she was down for a holiday just very recently) from Melbourne to Sydney, which was ultimately... Read review

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