Two Oceans Meet at Augusta Hotel
Starting out in 1912--that's pretty old for an Australian hotel--the Augusta Hotel has been housing holiday-makers on the south-west tip of Australia for almost a century. The town of Augusta has quite a big geographical claim to fame, since it's at the very spot where the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean meet. Therefore the Augusta Hotel makes quite a big deal about having views "where the oceans meet":
Almost all rooms and suites have outstanding views of the ocean at Flinders Bay or the Blackwood River.
But do note that they only say "almost". The hotel has a number of different rooms, suites and self-contained cottages with a range of prices from A$85 to A$125 (US$70-$105). Apart from the views, this price gets you a fairly standard range of comfort, although they are quite proud (overly so, perhaps) of the free films:
Our comfortable suites feature all the amenities one would expect from a first-class establishment, including free in-house videos with all the latest release movies.
Not sure if they've thought about updating to DVDs yet. But surely the point of holidaying in Augusta is to have somewhere decent to sleep and then to enjoy the great outdoors and those two oceans.
[Photo: fotogrefer]
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