For our final two weeks in Australia we returned to Sydney. I had been wanting to stay at a Meriton Serviced Apartments since we started planning for this trip. They looked great online and got great reviews, but were pretty expensive. At last we were checking in to one in the suburb of Zetland (about 30 minutes by bus from downtown and pretty much everywhere else we wanted to go). It far surpassed our expectations. It was spacious, clean, modern, and best of al...

We arrived in Sydney about 5pm on Saturday, after traveling for an exhausting 24 hours - Phuket, to Bangkok, to Singapore, where Scoot added a 4 hour delay to our 3 hour layover, then on to Sydney at last. Since we will be visiting Sydney twice on our trip, it will be the last stop on our Australian tour, we decided to focus on the CBD (Central Business District). We stayed at the Mantra hotel, which is walking distance to pretty much, everything. We unpacked a...