Early of this week,i went to grocery shopping at calamvale central. I found grocery shopping is also ready to open. All interior refurbishment is done. This is very shiny. Also, i found there is a takeaway store inside. A poster said around for Japanese teriyaki chicken rice. The price is fair.Lastly, i found a post in their facebook. The store will open tomorrow and almost every thing storewide 20% off. That is great.
Address
Calamvale Central
662 compton road
calamvale
QLD 4116
Last week, we brought a night of Mystery Hotel deal from Wotif for our stay in Gold Coast. This kind of Mystery Deal is very interesting, the website won’t tell you which hotel you will have before the payment is completed. Only the roughly location, such as Sufers Paradise South or Boardbeach, star rating of hotel, some facilities details are listed with the deal. Buying this deal sounds like playing lucky draw, that is fun.
We spent $111 for a 4.5 star Mystery Hotel deal at Surfers Paradise South. End up, we got a night in Crowne Plaza at Surfers Paradise. That is quite good, we got a big room, it got double beds. I think this room can accommodate up to 4 people, but the bed is double size, not king size. If you choose to have 4 people, may be that is a bit small. We got 2 people, that is very good enough for us. This room is already a Superior Room(Normally, $151 per night,save $40 per night), which is bigger than a standard room.
Also, it got a balcony which has a view of surfers paradise, although, that is not a ocean view room, I was still able to see the beach front.
For bathroom, that is very clean. The floor sounds like making of marble. That is very very good.
Apart from the room, the hotel got some facilities, such as tennis courts, pool and gym room. That is a 4.5 star hotel!
Also, I got their reward club. Then I got a free wifi too. It got 3Mbps download, that is not too bad. If you are willing to $19 per day, you can have a better speed wifi.
The club rewards included a late check-out! Instead of a standard 10am, we can checkout before 11.30am without any charge.
That is only one disadvantage, which is not free car park. You need to pay $15 per day for parking, but that is a undercover and lock-up car.
Lastly, you have to pay attention when you enter the room. You will see a bottle of wine sounds a free Complimenting wine. That is a free with terms and conditions. That is only free if both of you go to the Four Winds 360° restaurant at the top level and have their seafood buffet, then it is free. Unless you open it, then you need to pay $30 for this.
Generally, we had a very very enjoyable stay in this hotel!
Address:
2807 Gold Coast Highway
Surfers Paradise
QLD 4217
New Extension of Garden City brought a lot of new stores, such as Myer, H&M and Nike. Last week, when I and my wife was doing our weekly night shipping. I found the old spot for Noosa Chocolate Factory in the new extension will be Zara which is a international fashion chain. I think that is not a small store. It has two levels. That will be a good news for my wife. She will have another place to shop, not just H&M. However, Zara is not my cup of tea, their clothing sounds more formal. I like UNIQLO more.
Address:
Westfield Garden City
Logan Rd and Kessels Rd,
Upper Mount Gravatt
QLD 4122
Last Sunday, I went to Hanaro Mart, which is a Korean Grocery Store, in Sunnybank. I saw there was a poster placed in front of that store. That poster said Hanaromart in Calamvale Central will have a grand opening on 9th July 2016. Pre-opening will be on 6th July 2016. That is great. I am waiting for that a while, I saw the store in Calamvale Central has covered by the wooden boards for at least a month. Finally, it will open two week later!
Address:
Calamvale Central
662 compton road
calamvale
QLD 4116
These few days, Antarctic blast is pushing the cold air up to north. This makes the temperature cooling down. That sounds good to play with some ice. This may be the reason I saw there are a few people to attend Winter Festival in King George when I was in City few days.
I saw the giant ice-skating rink has a number of people. Moreover, I saw the European style market had a few people to have some hot food. In additional, I saw a few kids were playing the real snow in Powder Pit.
That sounded fun too!
I think there is a joyful place to have a icy winter!
In Brisbane, our winter is only about 10-15 degrees. That is not really, of course, there won’t be snowing at all. That doesn’t looks like a “real” winter for me.
Fortunately, from Today to 10 10 July 2016, Brisbane has the Winter Festival. During this festival, a giant open-air ice-skating rink is placed in front of King George Square. I think if you can have ice skating in opened air and behind a Italian Renaissance style Brisbane City Hall, that sounds very “Europe”. However, this is not free of charge. For adult, the fee is $28, Child from 5 to 15 years old is $19, under 5 years old child is $11. For family pack(2 adults and 2 children) is $60.
For this year, there is a new feature, a gain real snow Toboggan Slide. You can feel like sliding a real snow hills.
This ride will cost $7 each times.
Besides of excitements, there is a traditional style European marketplace. You can get some warm delicious foods, such as hot chocolate , from there, after the playing time.
I think that should be a fun family activity, we have not a real snowing winter, but we can play with the real snow during this festival. The school holidays are coming, you can consider to bring them there!
A lot of my friends said taking a bus from home to city is very expensive, even a colleague told me the fares of public transports in Brisbane is the 3rd highest in the world. I believe that is truth, I live in Zone 5. I need to spend $5.96 for the bus fare from my home to Brisbane city. That is a lot. Fortunately, Queenlsand government will restructure their Translink fares. New structure will be activated on January 2017. I think most of people will pay less included myself. According to the Translink website, there are the few key points as followings:
I love these changes which saved a lot of travel expense for our family!
This Saturday(18/6/2016,2pm to 8pm), Sunnybank Plaza and Sunny Park will hold $2 Food Trail again. Similar with previous years, 41 restaurants will take part of this event. During this event, they sell some small tasty dishes for $2. These dishes are various styles, such as Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese style. Of course, Boost Juice will provide my favor, $2 Kids Size Juice!
Also, there will be some live performances, suc as loin dance and live music.
That sounds attractive, for further details,please visit their website
Sometimes, I and my wife go to some farmer markets for shopping fresh food. The food in those sorts of markets are fresher and cheaper than super market in the most of cases. Today, we went to Rochedale Markets. I found that market is very good. I can find some good value of vegetables, such as Asian Vegetables and Mandarin. This pack of vegetables is only 48 cents. That is very good, I cannot find such good value vegetable in other markets.
I love this Rochedale Markets! And it opens 7 days per week too!
During these few days, Calamvale central is getting a bit quieter than before. The asian supermarket is closed a few months ago. Also, last month, Dick Smith in there closed. Fortunately, when I did my grocery shopping last week. I found there will be a new asian grocery store, Hanaormart. I like Hanaromart in Sunnybank. That store got a lot of asian goods. Almost, I can find most of groceries I want in that store. And I found that store is quite neatly too. It will open at the same block which is the chinese grocery store. I wish it can attract more people to be there.
Calamvale central
662 Compton Rd,
Calamvale QLD 4116
