We're here in Australia! We went from Quebec to Vancouver to Japan to the Philippines to Australia. It took five days to get here, but I'm sure it's all worth it.
The city we visited was Port Douglas (Queensland). We stayed at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, it's four stars and it deserves it. When we arrived, we were welcomed with delicious home-made cookies. Our room was on the 7th floor, and compared to other hotels I've been to, it's really nice. The beds are the right size (for once), the bathrooms were really nice (and BIG!), and it was all nicely furnished.
Our little tradition that my family does is to right away go to the hotel's pool. The pool turns out to be pretty clean, and there was almost no one there, so we pretty much had it all to ourselves. But the hot tub was disappointing; it wasn't very hot, and the bubble things you turn on didn't even work! But it didn't matter, we are down the road from the beach, and unless it's bad weather (which the forecast said it wouldn't be) we will almost never be here.
Since we got there around three in the afternoon, we just stayed at the hotel and chill-axed ;D. The breakfast in the morning was pretty good. You got to choose what you wanted, kind of like a buffet, and it was so good! I recommend you stay here.
While we stayed in Port D., we just HAD to go snorkeling! Where? THE GREAT BARRIER REEF! I never thought I would actually see it, and it's bigger than you think. You are under there and all you can see for miles is coral reefs and fish!!! It was beautiful. (I even took a picture,with my water proof camera, it's posted under.)
As for restaurants in the area, my personal favorite was the Salsa Bar and Grill. We all shared garlic toast, and I had the so called 'Sand Crab Cakes' and it was AMAZING! Well it kinda has to be, the seafood off of the reef is expected to be extraordinary.
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