I'm potrentially looking to visit Canberra on the Fri and Sat of Easter weekend. I've never been before so am looking for any advice on reasonably priced, reasonable quality hotels/motels to stay at. Don't really want to have to pay corporate/business rates and it doesn't need to have lots of stars/luxury. Just clean and safe would suffice

Venue will need to allow 5 month old mini-me to stay

Looking to take in the NGA, but will have the car, so anything that is around the area would probably suffice.

Thanks in advance
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Upmarket - go to the Hyatt

Normal - Mantra (has 2 rooms in each "room")

Hi 2nd,
SWMBO & I find The Diplomat Hotel (cnr Canberra Ave & Hely st) to be nice. We like it. See:
http://www.diplomathotel.com.au/


Do not stay at this place:



It smells of self importence. It is really more of an assylum where the majority of Australian people send these poor wretched souls (guests) to yell at each other, make derogitory claims about each other, pat themselves on the back and consume & make more taxes.The guests are useless & hopeless. Parasites abound in every room.
The staff are slow, mostly incompetant and at best rather dim. Everybody there speaks utter .

The old hotel, just across the park:



was not much better, in the past. That has been rectified in that the rubbish was moved and the place cleaned up.














The old place has a beaut statue and portrait of someone whom I would not be here today had it not been for this man. (nor my Father or Grandfather) (No not the King) --------------------------------------------------------
I love Boobies, Tits, Blackbirds & Sparrows.

09 MY10 Santorini Black TDV6
05 Disco3 S (gone) (Red Disco)
08 Disco3 HSE (gone) (White Disco)
07 RRS Umbrella.(one of only 3 in the Country)
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Not A Red RRS
Your ancestor's writings and the philosophy he used at the set up of our Constitution should be compulsory reading for every school child and as revision for all adults.
Perhaps then, we would not be rushing headlong into the Communist Commonwealth of Australia as a result of ignorance and apathy !
Meanwhile, 2nd.
I've asked around without any joy on your accommodation in terms of preferred venues .
Perhaps if you go to www.wotif.com.au or check the packages from the ANG you'll find what you're after.

ivery, Stephenw said you may be able to help, and nothing to do with Hotels in Canberra, i would actually recommend one, its a 3 hour trip to Sydney though

Any idea where i could possibly get one of the bulb retaining clips, Steve mentioned you may have had some after the light change

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Zilch
Not like you to let anything slip through your fingers !
I don't have any spare clips at the moment.
I put the standard lights back into the vehicle when I went to trade it but then backed away from the $65k changeover price. I think I might persist with the old girl until the LRX is released.
In the spare set of modified high wattage HID light units the clips have been modified beyond recognition for the larger 55w HID bulbs. I don't think they'd retain the standard bulbs. I'll probably put those units back into the vehicle (or give up night driving ). When and if I do the reverse changeover I'll have a spare set of bog standard halogen lights but time is the problem at the moment.
Not much help I'm afraid.

ivery819 wrote:

Zilch not like you to let anything slip through your fingers !

i wish you were right there ivery but that's another story

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When and if I do the reverse changeover I'll have a spare set of bog standard halogen lights but time is the problem at the moment. Not much help I'm afraid.

Happy to come down to your part of the world next week and help you, labour free of course you may find however one bulb retaining clip missing  Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

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Got to Canberra with swmbo and mini-me to see the Masterpieces show at the NGA.. Not bad, although swmbo understands it all a lot better than I do!

Managed to drop in on Ivery and Mrs Ivery on the NSW coast en route back to Melbourne. Had a wonderful time in a beautiful little town with great views and great weather!

Thanks again for the hospitality Ivery... Although me and swmbo are now wondering how on earth we can relocate our lives to your idyllic little hamlet!

And the Lemon got you all the way there and back? MLR will be happy

Mrs BKHK went to see the Masterpieces with her Mother back in December.

She asked me to drive but I couldn't bear the thought of spending 7 hours each way in the car with Mother in Law so I bought them plane tickets and paid for the hotel to minimise my pain!

BKHK wrote:

And the Lemon got you all the way there and back? MLR will be happy

Well, the suspension 'clunked' on every undulation; the steering wheel reverberated every time I was at approx 60 km/h; we didn't know which radio stations we were listening to as the RDS doesn't work; couldn't listen to the Ipod as the Aux socket doesn't work, and thank god we had no fog en route with the fog lights not working!!!

Time to dump it 2nd.

Put it up for private sale with some remaining manufacturer's warranty.

Then you can get a Kia Sorrento with a 7 year warranty