Review of the Angsana Resort & Spa Great Barrier Reef
The longest coral reef on earth looked impressive as we arrived. The sea was a rich blue and the afternoon sun lent a warm glow to the views over Palm Cove, Cairns, where the resort is based.
According to the web, the Angsana Resort & Spa had won lots of awards and recommendations such as H.M. Magazine's Hotel Spa of the Year and winning Conde Nast Traveller's Readers' Spa Award for 2005, so we were expecting to be wowed.
We counted about 50 rooms, and if ours was standard, then the luxury option must have been out of this world. We had large modern TV, a small room safe for passports and valuables, a hairdryer, fluffy bath robes and slippers, tea and coffee facilities, a fridge, mini-bar and even a microwave oven.
The pool was very well designed with quirky touches like boulders placed around the edges. The whole place oozed class and I worried that the staff would be snooty and stand-offish. I needn't have feared that as everyone was fabulously welcoming and seemed really pleased to see us.
Right there by our rooms were the white sands of the tropical beach inviting us to spend days lazing in the sunshine. This really was turning out to be a great Australian vacation.
Of course, the diving on the great barrier reef was perfectection, but going underwater is the real reason why we and so many others came to the great barrier reef after all. We saw all sort of underwater sights including a sea cucumber standing up on one end (never seen that before) puffing out a milky substance into the water. I suppose it was either spawning, giving birth or going to toilet. Whichever it was, it was totally fascinating. That was just one of my oddest memories from the Angsana Resort & Spa.
If you are looking for a vacation resort in Australia I really think you can bet you will fall in love with the atmosphere and experience if you take your holiday at the Angsana Resort & Spa in Cairns.
