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Souvenirs / Shopping Sydney
17 Reviews Watch out with souvenir shops. Some shops charge 3 times as much as other for exactly the same item. Usually the shops in the main streets and fancy shopping malls are expensive, but you really need...
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Parents Brisbane
1 Review if your a parent and your on the gold coast well look out as there are so many things the kids will wantot see and do which will cost you heaps of cash.such as dream world,seaworld ,wet and wild and...
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Surfers Paradise. Gold Coast
10 Reviews "I always thought of the Gold Coast as a place of harmony, sunshine, partying and surf but while on our recent holiday there I witnessed a lot more. Sure they have the surf, the partying and the...
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Public Transport Canberra
1 Review Public Transport in Canberra looks good but can be quite difficult. We wanted to Visit Telstra Tower but without a car it was almost impossible. Either a 1 hour uphill walk or a $20 return taxi fare....
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Bridge Climb Sydney
4 Reviews You've heard about it. You've seen the photos. You're all psyched about doing the bridge climb!! Well, it's about time you cooled off a bit. The climb, unfortunately, isn't all it's drummed up to be....
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Tours Canberra
1 Review The Canberra Tours! This Canberra tourist bus service is what you can call a real tourist trap. All things they offer you can do by foot or by public transport. Its amazing they don't even offer you...
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AMP Tower / Centerpoint. Sydney
9 Reviews O K so you have figured out the food is disgusting, not even prepared on site, the view wonderful if the clouds part and if it's race up the Sydney tower day or worse still only 1 lift is operating...
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Transport Sydney
7 Reviews Several guidebooks mention the Sydney Explorer Pass as a tool to reduce the expenses of getting around Sydney. You can buy these passes online (www.sydneypass.info) or at booths at the Circular Quay....
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Tours Sydney
9 Reviews I think it really is a waste of money to tour "3 Sisters Mountain" There aren't anything so spectacular about it as you can see in the pictures I'm going to show you. It' pretty expensive tour just to...
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Opera House Sydney
6 Reviews The fourth stop was the Sydney Opera House. Because I don't give a hoot in hell about opera, I refused to go in there with resolve equal to that which I refused to have my film x-rayed in Tahiti. I...
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Beaches Sydney
6 Reviews If you're going to be at the Beaches try to bring things you will need with you for the day. One of the biggest tourist traps are the little shops that line the beaches. true that sometimes they have...
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Darling Harbour Sydney
6 Reviews When you look at Darling Harbour on a city map, it will look like the alcove, horse shoe-shaped land around that part of the harbour. Let's clear up what part exactly is Darling Harbour (let's call it...
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The Monorail Sydney
5 Reviews If you are staying at a hotel next to a station then I guess there is some point to this, but if not do yourself a favour and just take a picture of it as it passes overhead. We made the mistake of...
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Kings Cross Sydney
3 Reviews KINGS CROSS: Be careful as some people (including locals) may recommend that you visit this place at night time. Some locals tend to think that King Cross is the only red light district in the whole...
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The Rocks Sydney
3 Reviews Right at this location the first Europeans settled themselves in Australia. Therefore you will see a lot of old and historical houses, churches, etc. Also the oldest building in Sydney, Cadman's...
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Olympic Park Sydney
4 Reviews If you must see them, then be warned they are a big tourist trap......located just ouside Sydney, these stadiums must have been something when the Olympics were here in 2000, but now there just empty...
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If you're at the markets, especially Victoria Market for souvenirs, don't just buy the first things you like - chances are those goods will be duplicated - over and over - in other stalls, and the prices could vary surprisingly for exactly the same item. Take note of where you see things you like, then shop around. You can always come back if you don't find that thing again cheaper.
Don’t buy any alcoholic drinks and cigarettes for people under age. The penalties on this offence cost you a lot of money.
Camooweal - this is the first small town that you will come to as you cross the border by road from the Northern Territory into Queensland .. stay away when it even remotely looks like BECOMING the wet season!!! You will be stuck in Camooweal for God only knows how long - and believe me .. there NOTHING to do! Camooweal has one service station, one backpackers and one pub! Asides from this they are very flat and narrow roads which the water flows over very easily and if you have to move over for Roadtrains .. believe me .. you are going to get bogged!
If you go to Surfers Paradise watch out for people trying to sell you property. We got hassled alot by lovely looking ladies asking for us to fill out a survey. They then take you into an office and a high powered sales person comes over. They were doing this several years ago. We would have lost money if we listened to them. Nothing much has changed since. It's a rip off.
King's Cross is Sydney and therefore Australia's dodgiest place and yet there seem to be so many backpackers who stay there. If I was a visitor to Australia I would not want to see the seedy side. Why not stay near the beach, like Manly, Coogee or Bondi?
I live in Sydney. We have a beautiful harbour here but for the average traveller it is not worth paying a lot of money for a cruise. Our ferries are go just about everywhere, are a fraction of the price and have everyday Australians on them!
Dont know if this really classes as a tourist trap, but before we came over to Aus one of the beaches we intended visiting was Bondi Beach (how can you go to Sydney without visiting it we thought) but my Father advised me against it with the children and after watching Australia uncovered on the television over here he was probably right. Best left to the young free and dependentless!!!!
The party-backpackers.Not only the hostels (some of them are rather filthy and expensive), but some the people. Heaps of people are moving up or down the east caost in busses, stopping everywhere, where it's said to be cool, without really knowing 'where they are. All they do is getting drunk at some party place and bore you to death with telling you how good the party was in (quote) '...I don't remember the name, but it was really cool! ...How far away? I don't know, the bus took us there, but the next day we went to... ahh.. I forgot -but they had a beach, too!'
I hate to say it but Cairns is terribly touristy, and Kuranda has become a bit of a tourist trap too. A few of the islands off the Cairns coasts have turned into resort havens too, which is a bit of a shame.
Don't touch these . This should be obvious as the sharp end of these does actually look like a trap.Several years ago a female German tourist did touch one of these at Palm Cove beach and the croc snapped at her.
Park Hyatt Sydney Sydney
5 Reviews and 286 Opinions A luxurious setting, conveniently close to the city centre without the hubbub. You can have it both,...
Crown Towers Melbourne
10 Reviews and 303 Opinions We arrived by limousine , the doorman opened the door with a flourish, a Casino representative...
Novotel Langley Perth Perth
4 Reviews and 528 Opinions My partner and I just spent an anniversary night at the Novotel Langley. While the rooms were clean...
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