Vandilicious: Sep 24, 2014

Gold Coast September School Holiday 2014! Part 3

Day 3!

Went Currumbin Zoo, is about 30mins drive from our apartment. Zoo is not huge, is not very crowded (thankfully) and you can take picture with the Kola but of course you will have to pay. We took the train rides and watch the sheep show. The Kangaroo is huge and relax and isn't afraid of the humans unlike S'pore which is all protected! Hahaha...

And than we hopped opposite to the Honey World, nothing much unless you paid for a tour. Manuka honey is the same price as S'pore. I got myself a small floral honey which taste good! We went to Oasia to walked but due to Sunday, most shop are either closed early or not opened and the mall is pretty small and we ended up in the supermarket again LOL

Is was my bestie birthday so I reserved Hanazono which is a teppanyaki restaurant. Food is pretty nice but a little too salty. We had a nice dinner, service was good and fun, the chef is friendly and joker. I requested for the 'salt art' for the birthday girl! We paid about $150 for our dinner and we went to walked around to 'digest'! We found this souvenir shop which sells nougat which is so hard to find in Gold Coast but after purchased and back to S'pore, I realized it was much cheaper than Aussie

Today itinerary:
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
Super Bee Honey World
Oasia Shopping Mall (waste of time)
Dinner - Hanazono

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

Hanazono

Gold Coast Trip

Gold Coast September School Holiday 2014! Part 2

Day 2:
The reason I get a apartment is because of my little one as I need to prepare porridge for him daily. The marketing in Aussie is pretty worth it! I got a huge chicken breast for only $2AUD and a huge pumpkin for $1AUD! Due to the cold weather my baby face got red and crack and the worse part is I didn't expect it to happen and never bring his baby cream. So do take note when you are going to travel to a cold places with a little ones!

We went Canberra Market since it was a Saturday! And that's where I got my 'best buy'! Their fruits and vegetable is fresh & cheap! When we use our selfie stick they see us as 'aliens'! Hahaha... one actually asked where I got it and thought the market sell one. Than I realize only us tourist used it!

Went wet & wild but it was to chilly to swim! And we went Robina Town to walked around, is a very huge mall and we went to their 'food court' to grab lunch. And lastly, we went to Fisherman Wharf for dinner with my brother who also went there for holiday with his families.

Ps: Fisherman Wharf is near sea world and the parking is quite limited. Food portion is 'Gigantic'! We ordered 5 mains, oyster, sides, drinks, beer and kids meal all in total is less than $250AUD! Is really a nice place to go for dinner, especially the weather. So chillax!

Today itinerary:
Canberra Market
Wet & Wild world (our theme park ticket comes with 3 worlds)
Robina Town Centre
Dinner at Fisherman Wharf

My best buy! LOL

Canberra Market

Wet & Wild

Fisherman Wharf

Fisherman Wharf - Spaghetti in white wine sauce

Fisherman Wharf - Fish & Chips

Fisherman Wharf - Pork Ribs

Fisherman Wharf - Oyster

Fisherman Wharf - Calamari

Gold Coast Trip

Gold Coast September School Holiday 2014! Part 1

Yeah I am back from my Gold Coast trip last September school holiday! Brought my elder girl who is 10 and my little one who is 9 months old. Travel with my bestie, 2 girlfriends and their families.

Booked Qantas in March, paid $2100 for 4 of us and I saw SQ promo in June for $1900!! I almost bang my head against the wall!! Club myself

I am keeping my finger cross that Qantas will turn out good as I called up Qantas previously about the seat arrangement and was left with unpleasant impression of them.

Finally our trip has come! We checked in at the airport at 5.30pm for our flight at 8pm. Qantas really surprise me, I never expected to receive such good services from them (ps: I am not getting any benefits or commission commenting on this). One thing I dislike is their bassinet because is damn high! Even my hub who tries to put my boy in after he slept also failed! He got the 'fall' feeling and wokes up! So I got to carried him till his last feed at midnight than I successfully place him in for few hours. But I am a person who can't sleep on the plane, I was so damn tired when we arrived at Brisbane. The steward and stewardess really took care of me, seeing I am carrying my boy and couldn't eat, they offer to warm up the food if I am hungry. Really nice lor

Day 1:
Brisbane - 5am Aussie time (SG 3am!)

Arrived, declare my milk powder, clear custom and waited till 7am to collect our rented car from Apex.

Apex opens at 7am, if you want to collect early you got to pay $30 AUD extra for after hours. Their van could picked the 9 of us, no issue. Everything was a breeze on the reservation but somehow regretted not getting the KIA Carnival or Imax to shared as we took 2 cars worrying that it will be squeezy to just get 1. I called up Apex when their open and they came within 10mins, Everything was good! All thanks to my brother to reco me to this company.

Off we head to Dragonfly Cafe in Brisbane for breakfast. FYI, we shared every meal among 3 couples and the kids shared among themselves. The portion is big enough for sharing except Movie World fast food chain.

Baby food on Qantas!

Kids meal!

Kids breakfast!

$19AUD for this breakfast

After breakfast we went Woolworth which is right opposite. My girlfriend wants to go to the CBD area to get this gold coins. Beware of they slit throat parking fees! We paid $45AUD for less than an hour!!!

And we head to our apartment after that....

I forget to take the picture of our apartment which we stay for 5 nights at level 2, no 6, the 1st unit of your left. Is a 2 bedrooms apartment, is cheap and I regretted totally for not choosing Wyndham which look so much nicer when we chance upon it. Our apartment is spacious but quite run down and I saw a wooden safe box cover with webs!