December 2014 holiday - Gold Coast

After a wintery holiday in Korea last December, this year, we decided to go somewhere summery - Gold Coast in Australia.

Scoot flies direct to Gold Coast, but 7 hours is really too long to be on a budget airline with absolutely no service, unfriendly crew and expensive food. Plus, our midnight flight was delayed to 3am, eating up half of our 1st day in Gold Coast. Not worth the "budget"!

But the rest of the holiday was great. We rented an apartment at Mantra Circle on Cavill at Surfers Paradise. Our apartment was on the 46th floor, giving us a fantastic view. The following 2 photos are Daddy and the kids capturing the view, while I laid in bed to recuperate from the red-eye flight.

This photo was captured on one of the evenings, as we watched the oncoming storm from the balcony.

The kids loved the apartment, especially the bathtub, in which they take hour-long baths every day. It is also conveniently located. There is a Woolworth's downstairs, lots of restaurants nearby, a mall with shops that open till 9pm every night (very rare in Australia!), and it is just a 10-min walk to the beach, 5-min walk to the tram station, and has bus services to the theme parks - which was important because both Daddy and I forgot to bring our driving license and so we couldn't rent a car!

Nonetheless, it turned out to be quite a nice experience taking public transport, and talking to the taxi drivers. Aaron enjoyed himself taking buses and taxis with us, while Nadine happily went around with the Gans in their rented SUV.

So we had to tweak our itinerary a bit, but still had lots of fun, and in fact, thought we could have stayed longer!