The Menzies, Sydney

Advantages: Value, Weather - in summer
Disadvantages: Olympics

...personal favourite - skip the inland harbour when you arrive on the Jet Cat and walk a few hundred yards across the Spit to one of the most scenic beaches in the world. The row of restaurants on the Steyne at the front are great value and good quality - Rimini in particular. Accomodation is cheap enough with a great deal of variety. I have always stayed at the Menzies at Wynyard - very central - but it seems to have gone right downhill in the last year and I will not be back. I suspect that the hoteliers think they are going to make a fortune out of the Olympics - no doubt they will but many hotels in Sydney caught a cold when they went overprice for the Millennium and generally they have not done a lot to improve their facilities in advance of the Olympics (captive audience). Finally, spend and hour or two in the Botanical Gardens... aside... Read review

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Advantages: great shopping, great weather
Disadvantages: none

...sydney is a great city it has wonderful sites n great shopping malls and markets the people are really friendly. the ways to get around sydney are v-good there are tour buses that take you all the way around sydney and when you want to stop of somewhere that u find intresting you can just hop of the bus and jump on another with the same ticket you used before. the shops are great in sydney there is a wide variety of shops and some are the same brands that we get out here + they are reasnably cheap aswell. i dont think you could go wrong in visiting sydney its a great place and i recomend it to people who enjoy the city beci xxx... Read review

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Advantages: sun and surf what more can I say!
Disadvantages: There are many tourists

...I am originally from Sydney and I want to tell you all about it. Sydney iss very popular as it is a cross between the sun and surf and the working city. What I mean by that is that the city is quite close to the beaches but it doees not impose. Some people get the impression that Sydney is full of palm trees etc. but it isnt. The beaches are usually full of Japanese tourists (no offence!) onm the boardwalk but Australians are not a ffected but t his at all. What I am writing is my unbiased opinion and I have learnt a lot of what people actually think it is like from living in London ( no we do not have kangaroos in our back garden!) So I do reccommend sydney for holidays but to realize that is not a Tahitian Paradise!... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful