tropical beach coastline in Palm Cove village, 'Australia's Cleanest Beach 2003'. Select from a variety of spacious, well appointed room styles nestled in various locati...
Palm Cove is renowned as the premier beach destination of the area. Just 25 minutes north of Cairns, Palm Cove is the beachside village that captures the very ...
tropical beach coastline in Palm Cove village, 'Australia's Cleanest Beach 2003'. Select from a variety of spacious, well appointed room styles nestled in various locations around the Resort. The low rise buildings are surrounded by beautiful landscaping and all rooms have their own outdoor terrace or balcony overlooking one of the Resort?s seven swimming pools.
Palm Cove is renowned as the premier beach destination of the area. Just 25 minutes north of Cairns, Palm Cove is the beachside village that captures the very best of Tropical North Queensland. The palm-fringed golden sandy beach beckons as majestic melaleuca trees stand tall against a striking backdrop of magnificent rainforest covered mountains. Situated on 100 acres of tropical gardens at beautiful Palm Cove in North Queensland, the Novotel Palm Cove Resort is equipped to take care of our guests every need, with a choice of resort rooms, suites or self contained apartment; an excellent restaurant and a cocktail bar overlooking the largest of the seven swimming pools. With the Dolfi Club for Kids and day care for the tiny ones, 2 supergrass tennis courts, basketball and squash courts, a fitness centre, cyber-net centre, health and beauty parlour, and a 5 minute stroll to the beach, there is something for everyone. Things to do include Resort activities such as tennis, squash, dive shop and school, bike riding, sauna, table tennis, gymnasium. Fees apply on some activities. The resort has a tour desk which can provide an excellent range of local tourist attractions.The tour buses pick up from the resort reception. Visit Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, Kuranda Train and Craft Village, Horseriding, Wildlife and Crocodile Park, Green Isalnd, Daintree River Cruises, White Water Rafting Scenic Flights also fly over the Reef.
Advantages: Price, station location, popular late bar Disadvantages: Packed with smokers, Modern plastic feel
...If you imagine that hotel chains can be like food chains, the Novotel group would hover somewhere around McDonalds in terms of its ethos and approach. I've stayed in one or two over my time, including those located in London and France, and the occasion in Leeds left me without any illusions.
Overall, Novotels hover around the 3/4-star mark, with facilities usually pushing them into the 4-star category. However, I reckon that once you take the quality of what's being provided into account, the experience is definitely more basic. In fact, the Novotel chain is doing its own bit to push 3-star hotels into the category of 'bloody waste of time for the price you end up paying - better off upgrading to 4'.
The context? My work apartment access key had been left at home in London and cue realisation of this after office hours, when...
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Advantages: Clean, decent rates, nice hotel Disadvantages: Far from the station (but easy to get a bus)
...organizes a few free "cultural" events and classes for tourists as well as many other attractions - which this review isnt about.
As long as you stay for less than 180 days and have a passport valid for six months after you leave most countries don't need a visa.
I had an early flight back to the UK out of Hong Kong so we decided to move locations from where we had been staying for the week closer to Hong Kong train station so I could get the first airport train of the morning.
We left the place we had been staying in and arrived at Sheung Wan station, which is the closest station to the Novotel Harbour View. Debating amongst ourselves for a short while we decided to take advantage of the Airport train bag advance check in and then head to the hotel. By debating amongst ourselves I mean I argued we should go straight to the hotel...
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Advantages: Close to shopping centre/ city centre Disadvantages: Shops close early, rooms slightly pricey
...One one of my many visits to beautiful Trinidad, I decided to try the Royal Palm Suite Hotel in Maraval. Having stayed in quite a few hotels and having heard positive reviews from family members, I decided to give it a shot and hopefully have an enjoyable stay. The hotel is mid sized with 70 or so rooms or suites, and is a family run local hotel. The staff were very helpful and friendly and always had a smile or a kind word.
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The hotel is a 20 minute drive from the Piarco International airport and taxis are readily availabe at the airport at a cost of around £15 (guests can make prior arrangements to be met at the airport by the hotel's in-house taxi service as well). Maraval is a fairly affluent area in the city with some very beautifu, large and expensive houses nearby. Nestled between the Maraval hills, the hotel...
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Novotel - had a birthday party to go to in Milton Keynes recently. The person who's birthday it was put forward four hotels to stay in. I looked on the net at the hotels that were put forward, just to see what the hotels were like and what they... more
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