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The Honeymooners Down Under: Popping into the Westin Sydney

February 28, 2007 at 2:00 PM | 0 Comments

HotelChatter's Senior Editor Juliana borrowed a page from vintage Britney Spears' 2004 playbook and got hitched after a brief engagement. However, there were some differences. One, Juliana dated this guy for four years as opposed to three months. Also, Juliana's now-husband is neither a background dancer, nor baby daddy, nor a failed white rapper. Lastly, Juliana and spouse went a little further than Brit and K-Fed's honeymoon in Fiji by spending their first few weeks of newlywed bliss in Sydney, Australia with a sidetrip to the Whitsunday Islands. For the rest of the week, she'll be telling you where she stayed and whether or not it was honeymoon appropriate. So, if you have any questions about honeymoon or Australia travel, send 'em our way.

Here's another amateur video we shot while on honeymoon in Sydney. This was our first day in town and we were in search of a spa since both the spas at the Park Hyatt and the Four Seasons were all booked up.

Walking into the Westin Sydney in the city's Central Business District was the furthest thing from a honeymoon stop. Everyone was conducting business meetings at the lobby's little atrium bar. Also, you need to have a serious business job to pay the starter cocktail price of $18.

So the hotel is definitely not honeymoon appropriate but is, as most Westins tend to be, a great business travel hotel. Recently, Travel+Leisure picked it as the #1 hotel in Sydney on their 500 List for 2007. And as we reported this morning, you can apparently take a tour of the hotel's historic lobby which used to be a post office.

In the end, we did find a pretty cool spa in the Westin Hotel building, but not affiliated with the Westin, called Endota which was full of young and happy people eager to rub our feet. Well, maybe not that eager.

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