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When Camping Turns Luxury Down Under
February 16, 2007 at 9:58 AM | 0 Comments
We've already whet your appetite for an Australian luxury tent holiday with our daydreaming about a stay at Longitude 131: a relaxing stay with the best views in Australia. Luxury tents seem like the best of both worlds to us, since you can do the whole communing with nature thing but without having to, well, commune with nature too much. It's the fresh air and great views without the ants in your sleeping bag (or worse).
It seems like these luxury tents are starting to sprout all over Australia, as there are a number of advantages, not least that they don't require such environmental destruction as setting up a regular hotel does. Plus:
New safari-style camps come with few worries ... Instead they deliver king and queen-size beds, ensuite bathrooms, mini-bars, airconditioning and sometimes canapes at sunset. Australia has a handful of upmarket tented resorts, often in wild and beautiful places where bricks and mortar would come between the visitor and what they've come to see.
Other Aussie "tent" hotels that come recommended include the Gawler Range Kangaluna Camp properties in the outback north of Adelaide, the tented Wilson Island on a bird sanctuary at the Great Barrier Reef and the creekside Paperbark Camp in New South Wales. Check them out if you want to sound tough enough to "go camping" (but don't show your friends back home the photos if you want them to believe the camping thing).
[Photo: Chela & Damian]
Related Stories:
· Aussie Tents a Luxury [The Australian]
· Cubicle Dreamin': Longitude 131 at Ayers Rock [HotelChatter]
Hotel Reviews:
· Longitude 131
Australia Hotels
Cubicle Dreamin': Longitude 131 at Ayers Rock
December 27, 2006 at 9:25 AM | 0 Comments
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K lets us know where she would go in her homeland of Australia. Enjoy.
Take me right into the dead center of Australia, where you have to be careful of heat, snakes and thirst so that you don't end up dead yourself, and then give me luxury. Put me in front of the totally enchanting Uluru (Ayers Rock) and this'd be heaven. That's why I spend wintry nights dreaming of staying at Longitude 131 luxury Australian outback experience.
With a maximum of 30 guests, and no children under 15 allowed, a full window on the rock side of your luxury tent-shaped room gives you a sunrise view of Uluru without leaving the air-conditioning. You can eat in the restaurant or take the typical Uluru "eat under the stars" exerience to a new level of luxury. Add the swimming pool, 24-hour bar and even a library and you have heaven for me, even before I read this:
As far from anywhere else as you can be. As close as possible to serenity. Rejuvenation for the body. Stimulation for the mind. Liberation for the spirit.
I know it's advertising, but I believe it, and I really, really want to go!
[Photo: iPhotograph]
Related Stories:
· Longitude 131 reviews [TripAdvisor]
