Have just spent a beautiful Christmas weekend at Thredbo, we stayed in a posh (read expensive) apartment as a special treat, and found we kept saying things like "wish we could sit out under the awning". Are we mad?
Zoomtopz said
08:00 PM Dec 27, 2011
Onya Gerty.
We cancelled out on Tassie - too long a story .
But , we gave ourselves a treat anyway -
5 nights in a 5 star in Sydney after th new year .
Then up to Dubbo zoo & Coona - Crystal Kingdom &
environs , but we won't let th head get to big , it can be a
long fall from 5 star to th gutter . I've seen it too many times .
Ordering our camper trailer soon though .
Richo
villatranquilla said
10:30 PM Dec 27, 2011
Hi Gerty - no, you are not mad, but I suspect you do have caravanitis :)
Boroma577 said
10:41 PM Dec 27, 2011
Zoomtopz wrote:
5 nights in a 5 star in Sydney after th new year .
Why settle for a 5 star venue when you can have the caravan and 5 billion stars??
Gerty Dancer said
10:45 PM Dec 27, 2011
Boroma577 wrote:
Why settle for a 5 star venue when you can have the caravan and 5 billion stars??
Even better, our tent had a "sky-roof" and we could look straight up at the stars from bed.... ah! Memories of the Simpson desert, billions of stars all brighter than I'd ever seen before.
Ma said
06:00 AM Dec 28, 2011
Gerty Dancer wrote:
Boroma577 wrote:
Why settle for a 5 star venue when you can have the caravan and 5 billion stars??
Even better, our tent had a "sky-roof" and we could look straight up at the stars from bed.... ah!
That's one of the reasons we bought a Jurgens Lunagazer
Pam said
08:14 AM Dec 28, 2011
It reminds me of comments around the BBQ in the caravan park in Maroochydore last July. One gentleman had been reading the real estate windows and made the comment that for the same price as his caravan ensuite site he could have rented an apartment. His next comment was that if they had done that the only person he would have to talk to would have been his wife. You don't get the friendly chatty neighbours in apartment blocks.
Boroma577 said
05:08 PM Dec 28, 2011
Gerty Dancer wrote: Even better, our tent had a "sky-roof" and we could look straight up at the stars from bed.... a
My van had a large Heki hatch above the bed and I can do the same thing Gerty...it is great.
Rip and Rosie said
11:26 AM Dec 29, 2011
My preference is the van.
For all of the above, plus I know who slept in the beds, dribbled on the pillows, and "excercised"on the sheets (sorry).
I know how clean it all is, cause I clean it. I know the pillows are as I like them, not to heard or too soft, and the mattress won't give me backache in the morning.
Rosie
Boroma577 said
03:15 PM Dec 29, 2011
Rip and Rosie wrote:
My preference is the van.
For all of the above, plus I know who slept in the beds, dribbled on the pillows, and "excercised"on the sheets (sorry).
I know how clean it all is, cause I clean it. I know the pillows are as I like them, not to heard or too soft, and the mattress won't give me backache in the morning.
Rosie
AND....you'll have more money left in your wallet at the end of the week too Rosie......Bonus all round IMO.
cannylass said
03:59 PM Dec 31, 2011
Just be careful while at the zoo in Dubbo pay cash if you can The only time we use our credit card was at the zoo, we took our grandchildren as a treat and when we got back the bank rang us to ask if we had been to the in the USA, twice someone had tried to get into our account They were trying to get cash our over our limed and it was the only place the card was used
Have just spent a beautiful Christmas weekend at Thredbo, we stayed in a posh (read expensive) apartment as a special treat, and found we kept saying things like "wish we could sit out under the awning". Are we mad?
Onya Gerty.
We cancelled out on Tassie - too long a story .
But , we gave ourselves a treat anyway -
5 nights in a 5 star in Sydney after th new year .
Then up to Dubbo zoo & Coona - Crystal Kingdom &
environs , but we won't let th head get to big , it can be a
long fall from 5 star to th gutter . I've seen it too many times .
Ordering our camper trailer soon though .
Richo
Why settle for a 5 star venue when you can have the caravan and 5 billion stars??
Even better, our tent had a "sky-roof" and we could look straight up at the stars from bed.... ah! Memories of the Simpson desert, billions of stars all brighter than I'd ever seen before.
That's one of the reasons we bought a Jurgens Lunagazer
One gentleman had been reading the real estate windows and made the comment that for the same price as his caravan ensuite site he could have rented an apartment.
His next comment was that if they had done that the only person he would have to talk to would have been his wife.
You don't get the friendly chatty neighbours in apartment blocks.
My van had a large Heki hatch above the bed and I can do the same thing Gerty...it is great.
For all of the above, plus I know who slept in the beds, dribbled on the pillows, and "excercised"on the sheets (sorry).
I know how clean it all is, cause I clean it. I know the pillows are as I like them, not to heard or too soft, and the mattress won't give me backache in the morning.
Rosie
AND....you'll have more money left in your wallet at the end of the week too Rosie......Bonus all round IMO.