1aaa - First off please allow me to welcome you to Flyertalk and our GLBT corner.

Secondly, I thank you for searching out and posting in an existing thread. However, that thread is "older" and would only tangentially be ideal for your question. So, I've split out your post into a new thread which would hopefully give it more exposure.

I'm not much help on the subject itself since we've only been to SYD in Australia and to Tahiti on a cruise.