We are going to be in the Brisbane area from the 15th Oct (my birthday!!) - 22nd October. I really really need your help here as the sole purpose for the trip is to decide whether we want to live in WA or QL.Can anyone offer some advice please:
We are looking at spending around the $450'000 on a 4 bed house.We dont want to start a major debate here but we want to live in a nice area not too far (an hour) from the beach.Can we have some recomendations please as to where else to look at? so far we have Jimboomba, burpengary, caboulture, pacific pines and north lakes on our list. If you dont want to post for fear of flack then please PM us with your recomendations, good and bad. I can not stress enough that we need your advice as we have not been to these places.
We only have 7 days in the area so are we better of having one base and travelling each day or are these places a logistical nightmare to get to and so would be better hiring a base north and a base south of Brisbane?
I have asked this before but any recomendations for car hire?
Any recomendations as to where to stay?
And a hotel (good price) near to Brisbane airport for our first night?
We know we are asking a lot but this trip has to be right. This will be our last chance to come to Oz before we move there. We have asked Lisa's parents to come with us when we go for good on a CPV and although her mum has said yes, her dad is adamant that he will not be coming with us to oz when we go.BUT they have agreed to accompany us our on this reccie and we are just hoping that he falls in love with it and says yes!
Thanks again Guys. I have found this site invaluable.
Hi Guys, i can offer a little bit of advice/help on a couple of your issues, When we did our reccie back in Nov i used this site Car Hire Australia | Airport Car Rental | Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Perth Hobart Adelaide Cairns | DriveNow delivers real Car Hire Savings they got us a great deal on a car from Hertz, we are moving out at the end of Aug and i have used them again so we have a car for the 1st 6 weeks again with Hertz, i checked Hertz own site and this company got the car for half what Hertz were wanting to charge, again when we were there in Nov we stayed in a serviced apartment in Kangaroo point and found it a great base to check out all the neighborhoods we wanted to look at, it was 2 mins to you were on the freeway either north or south, also great for jaunts into the city, only slight downside was if you wanted an early start the rushour traffic could be quite busy around there, as for the places you have asked about it is like you say, what may be great for somebody else, it just may not be what you are looking for, what we did was just to have a drive around and see if you get a feel for a place, we found some really nice areas, Bulimba,Hawthorne, Morningside to name a few, Hope this helps a little....
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Hiya guys ,if your headed this way ,feel free to pop in for a brew & chat if im about,down here id look at flagstone estate,teviot downs/spring mountain estate and mundoolun estate,all of which are a few mins from jimboomba centre.good luck with everything ,hope you have a good time,
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when we were there in Nov we stayed in a serviced apartment in Kangaroo point and found it a great base to check out all the neighborhoods we wanted to look at, it was 2 mins to you were on the freeway either north or south, also great for jaunts into the city, only slight downside was if you wanted an early start the rushour traffic could be quite busy around there, as for the places you have asked about it is like you say, what may be great for somebody else, it just may not be what you are looking for, what we did was just to have a drive around and see if you get a feel for a place, we found some really nice areas, Bulimba,Hawthorne, Morningside to name a few, Hope this helps a little....
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Paul
Have you a web address for the apartment please and thanks for the car hire info. Will look into it.
Hiya guys ,if your headed this way ,feel free to pop in for a brew & chat if im about,down here id look at flagstone estate,teviot downs/spring mountain estate and mundoolun estate,all of which are a few mins from jimboomba centre.good luck with everything ,hope you have a good time,
Cal x
Hi Cal and Gary
thanks for the offer! We are arriving on the 15th October at 1950 so will probably spend a night at an airport hotel? Can you recommend any? Then we have a flight booked to Perth on the 22nd October. We want to look at the north and south of Brisbane. How far away are you from the north? Is it commutable? If it is not then we are probably looking at a 3 days south for 4 people and we will try and find a north side rental for the other 3 days.
