My wife and I revisited the Westin in March, 12 months after our first visit. Since then we have travelled to Thailand, Darwin, Kakadu, The Ghan railway, so we are now a little more experienced with travel and accomodation. The Westin was superb once again. To the travellers who do not like the old style, traditional charm of the Westin , then you are staying in the wrong country or at the very least you should consider the Intercontinental on the Coral Coast!! If it is a generic slab of concrete you want, the Westin is not for you. Any way , lets get onto some positives. We stayed two days at the Westin, then 4 days on The Blue Lagoon Cruise back to the Sheraton for two nights and again to the Westin for 5 nights.Our cruise on the Fiji Princess was the very best time we have had in our lives. It is a large catamaran with about 30 cabins. We had 35 fellow passengers on board from all over the world and met some life long friends. Crew, accommodation, food and sites were 100%. Being a catamaran with a shallow draft, we moored right up close to beaches and swam ashore if we didnt take their tender boat. Food was fresh and plentiful (much of the seafood was caught by the crew whilst we had nightly cocktails). Snorkelling was unbelievable- well worth going on this cruise. 3nights/4...My wife and I revisited the Westin in March, 12 months after our first visit. Since then we have travelled to Thailand, Darwin, Kakadu, The Ghan railway, so we are now a little more experienced with travel and accomodation. The Westin was superb once again. To the travellers who do not like the old style, traditional charm of the Westin , then you are staying in the wrong country or at the very least you should consider the Intercontinental on the Coral Coast!! If it is a generic slab of concrete you want, the Westin is not for you. Any way , lets get onto some positives. We stayed two days at the Westin, then 4 days on The Blue Lagoon Cruise back to the Sheraton for two nights and again to the Westin for 5 nights.Our cruise on the Fiji Princess was the very best time we have had in our lives. It is a large catamaran with about 30 cabins. We had 35 fellow passengers on board from all over the world and met some life long friends. Crew, accommodation, food and sites were 100%. Being a catamaran with a shallow draft, we moored right up close to beaches and swam ashore if we didnt take their tender boat. Food was fresh and plentiful (much of the seafood was caught by the crew whilst we had nightly cocktails). Snorkelling was unbelievable- well worth going on this cruise. 3nights/4 days was perfect. On our return we stayed at Sheraton on Denarue for two nights as the Westin was fully booked with a international Chef fair.The Sheraton was a little more modern, the service was ordinary at best, their reservations manager was down right rude whilst trying to fix a mistake they made and the food at Feast was over priced and disgusting. We opted for a seafood smorsgasboard one night, about $60-70 AUS each and the seafood was tasteless, thawed out muck. Breakfast at Feast was not much better. We reccommend the golf club across the road or a $5- taxi trip to Port Denarue. The golf club serves beautiful food/pizza for about $10-Aus per head. Kids love it . We ate there two nights and one lunch. At the port, there is about a dozen restaurants to cater for everbody. A fraction of the price of the resorts. The pizza place serves a family sized pizza about the size of Tasmania for $25-. We saw family of six struggle to eat it!!. My wife, myself and two friends from the cruise tried a full fresh lobster each from the water front restaurant. They were they biggest lobsters we had ever seen. Nothing like it Aus.The were about 50 cm long (body-not including claws) were...More
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