Originally Posted by Happy

If a 2 bedrooms at only 87.5K versus the standard room at 70K, then by all means go for it.

We had stays in tiny standard room on ground floor facing the tiny tiny "marina" in 2015 when we arrived at a fortnight of some art festival with the hotel full to the gill. 2016 they gave us a nice junior suite at the far end of the 3rd floor with a nice balcony facing the sea - one of our daily activities was to watch the nestling bird in the ground cover growth from our balcony, on how she moved and when the male came back to take turn... really cool. And they were booked before the 2-4-1 was killed. Club Carlson allowed advance booking well pass 12 months, seemed to depend on properties. We cleaned out the existing balance then for bookings 18 or more months in advance in Cape Town and in London. Luckily we managed to use them all.

If you do stay at the waterfront Radisson, check out if their room service menu still has the Sea Bass and the Lamb Shrank - they were crazy good, huge portion and dirt cheap - they only charged a single delivery fee for the whole order. These items were not available on the dining room menu unfortunately. We were sad to only discover these wonderful dishes until the 4th day of stay when we decided we just dined in versus going out.

We will be in Australia in 5 weeks. Only plan to take out a car at Brisbane as we would like to revisit Sunshine Coast. Original plan also includes to revisit Gold Coast / Surfers Paradise - after seeing the google pictures, we axed the plan. It is very overdeveloped from just a few years ago, plus the long stretch beaches have been disappearing... kind of sad as Queensland has long been our favorite part of Australia.