A five day trip to Cairns was all I could manage this year.
The flight is a little over three hours, but without daylight savings you get a bonus hour on the way there. The airport was pretty empty compared to Melbourne, not a lot of flights coming into the domestic terminal at the same time. There was some bus options from the airport to the city but the information was pretty poor, so I just got in line for the taxi instead of wasting any more time trying to find out about it. It was funny that there was about ten groups of people in line and one car would turn up about every minute.
The hotel was a couple of kilometres north of the city centre, not ideal as it turned out, but it was about the best option for a late booking. There wasn't a lot of food options around, even the local Subway had incredibly closed after lunch on Christmas Eve, but there was at least one pizza shop still going. After dinner I found out there was a few more options in the opposite direction, so at least that was good information for the following days.
The room had a few Foxtel channels, about four of them were Fox Sports but no ESPN - I think one channel was dedicated to darts for the entire week, one to rugby and one to some useless cricket matches with either Bangladesh or Sri Lanka involved.
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