Just back from our weekend on the Gold Coast. We had great fun visiting the theme parks.

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I can thoroughly recommend our accommodation – we spent a night in the Legend Hotel. It was modern, clean and the rooms were non-smoking.

I still cringe at a night we spend on a stop-over in Hong Kong at the Panda hotel. The skirting boards around the rooms looked like they hadn’t been dusted for years and there was a persistent smell of stale cigarette smoke in the room – eugh.

At the Legend the wife and I stayed in an en-suite studio room for $135 (£54).

The Hotel’s just about on the beach and we had a great view of the ocean from the balcony. It had a king bed, and a kitchenette with microwave/convection oven and a private balcony.

There was an interactive TV and the usual kettle and tea and coffee facilities. The trouble with a weekend away is it comes to an end all too soon and it’s back to work again tomorrow. I’m looking forward to the next break already.