Month: August 2015

Food

$5 Chicken Katsu Curry @ Mr. Curry

Mr. Curry

Last week, I was in City for work. Previously, I heard about Mr. Curry has a deal value. I wish to try that for long time. Well, that was a good opportunity to do that.

This special is only valid until noon every day. The Chicken Katsu Curry costs only $5 before 12 pm! I was in there at 11.50 am. That was close and I found there were a few people lining up! Luckily, the staff made that curry rice in a very effective manner, like a factory line! I only waited less than 5 minutes, then I had this lunch box.

$5 Chicken Katsu Curry @ Mr. Curry

 

For $5 only, that was  a good deal. The lunch box had some salad, rice and some deep fry chicken pieces. I only found the sauces was not enough. Apart from that, I cannot complain anything at all!  The size of lunch box was not too small at all, that was enough for me as a lunch!

That is not bad, I will recommend that to you!

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Attractions Travel

Cairns Day 1: Skyrail

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I and my wife went to Cairns for holidays last week. We took a very early flight from Brisbane, that was 7am. We arrived at 9.30am. That sounds a bit late for a full day tour and that was tired. We woke up at 3.30am.  We chose to take a ride on Skyrail, which is somethings easy.

Skyrail is a cable over the rainforest from Freshwater Cairns to Kuranda. The total length is about 7.5km. You can enjoy the magnificent view of rainforest and Barron Falls.

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Also, during the cable trip, there are two stops, Red Peak station and Barron Falls Station.

At Red Peak Station,  there is a free eco-tour to rainforest. The tutor gave a brief introduction about this rainforest to us.  That was quite informative.

 

Red Peak Rainforest

 

The second stop is Barron Falls Station,  There are a walk trail in there and a few lookouts which can see Barron Falls.

That is quite nice!

 

Barron Falls

 

During this trip, we had a cable car journey and a bit of bush walking too.

Lastly, if you stay in a hotel at Carins City, Skyrail can organize a pick up service.

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Travel

Taxi From/To Cairns Airport

Cairns Airport

Last week, we went to Cairns for holidays. We stayed in a hotel at Cairns City. The first problem we had how to go to our hotel from Airport. We did some research.  Taking a coach bus sounded a cheaper option, the most expensive is $19 and the cheapest one is $10. I travelled with my wife, therefore, that was around $20 which is a reasonable amount. However, I landed at 9:30 am and we booked a pickup service to Skyrail from our hotel at 10:40. That was very rush.  At the end, I chose to take a taxi.

I found that is a better option than by a coach. The taxi trip was around 10 minutes from airport to Cairns City, and only costed $25, which is included $4 airport access fee.  If you travelled with someone, that is a similar price to coach and that is faster. Sometime, coach required to drop off other passengers at a number of hotels. Taxi will drop you off to your hotel directly.

That was a good option for us. As a result, we took a taxi from our hotel to Airport. The airport fee access is only applied all taxi getting out from airport, not entry. So, end up, our taxi fee is cheaper, only $20. If you stay in Cairns city and need to go to/out from Airport, I think  taking taxi will be a good option for you.

(Note that: most of hotel receptionists will help their guests to call a taxi, please note that, there will be extra $1.50 as the call out fee. If you are willing to walk a little bit, there are a number  of taxi ranks in the City)

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