The honeymoon trip happened roughly 1 month after the wedding which I thought it was pretty fast. It doesn't felt that long since the previous time we flew but anyway it feels shiok to travel when everyone went back to work/school after the festive season haha!
Anyway, we chose Perth to be the honeymoon destination simply because of Quokka, the happiest animal on earth.
In any case if you are wondering how they look like, Quokka look like this:
They can be found on Rottnest Island which is just a short ferry ride from Perth.
We chanced upon a land tour package by Singexpress which covers Perth and Rottnest Island and we signed up for it without having a second thoughs haha! Since it's pretty much what we want and we just need to book the air tickets to Perth will do.
The land tour was planned by the tour agency and everyday we have different reporting place for the local tour. The first and last day was free and easy day which gave us ample time to explore Perth ourselves.
Our flight was early in the morning and I roughly remember we have to checked in at 6+am. So we will reached Perth in the afternoon. The flight duration is roughly 5 hours.
#welfie before departing..
Our luggage and the bag packs which we brought along with us. Didn't really have to bring much because it's Summer over at Perth.
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R2D2 spotted
We went to have a quite heavy breakfast after checking in which we sort of regretted because not long later we have another round of meal on the plane haha!
Time to board the plane..
Once again, using the customized passport holder from our last year BKK trip.
Can't wait to board the plane already to enjoy the inflight movies
Both of us were still quite full when the in flight meals were served but we managed to eat most of the food down slowly then haha!
We took quite sometime to clear the custom because I failed the face recognition test. If not we can clear the custom within 5-10 mins.
Basically the whole process is pretty automated by going through the smart gate and they will do a face recognition. If the system can't match your face the the passport photo, you will be called to the another counter. Everything is very systematic and automated. Anyway, after some verification we are good to go.
Upon collecting our luggage and done with the custom check, we started looking out for the hotel transfer coach.
Not very difficult to spot because it's so big just right there. The driver is actually holding on to a paper with our names on it.
It was a quick ride to the hotel and the traffic is very smooth in Perth. It's not one of those crowded and congested kind of town. We were the only ones on the bus though.
We were given a list of hotels to choose from. After doing some research, we decide to go with Mercure Perth because of the good reviews and the location is of walkable distance to the shopping malls and also eateries.
They have bikes for you to rent to cycle around Perth. In fact, there's actually a bicycle lane on the road too :)
The reception area
Free drinks for hotel guests
Plenty of sofa around for those who are waiting
Some pics of the room..
The hotel room is generally clean and cosy. Pretty much similar to what we have expected because we did lower our expectation and didn't expect it to be like our local hotel staycation kind of room with nice bath tub lol.
After checking in, we put down our stuffs and quickly went out for our late lunch. We were famished by then.
We headed to a Japanese ramen restaurant called Nao Japanese Restaurant for our late lunch. Yup we can't do without asia food haha. It's located just around the street from our hotel.
While walking there, we spotted lots of asia stores around.
They have the Korea supermarket which sells lots of authentic korean related stuff. Derp bought his spicy cup noodles from there. Just like he always say, a overseas trip/staycation is not complete without cup noodle because eating that in hotel is mandatory.
Japanese restaurant easily found there.
So after some navigation, we finally found Nao Japanese Restaurant. It has pretty good review online so we decide to give it a try.
The restaurant is rather small and can get crowded during meal times.
The drinks we ordered. I can't remember the price of it but not cheap.
Derp ordered the Spicy Miso Spinach Ramen (The noodles is green in color)
I ordered the Shoyu Ramen
#onthetable
The portion was just nice for us but the taste was quite different from the local ramen we always eat. Perhaps it's less salty and less oily too. Defintely a healthier choice haha! Anyway, it was good enough for some comfort asia food. However, we don't find anything special about their ramen.
NAO Japanese Ramen
117 Murray St, Perth WA 6000, Australia
This is actually their post office if I didn't remember it wrongly.
Took a #ootd infront of their post office and I only had few hours of sleep hence the sleepy face.
Their train station.
Jamie's Italian is located opposite Coles Supermarket
During my free time in Perth, I did google and checked out the menu and price of food sold at their Jamie's Italian. Not much price difference hence we did not give it a try.
Anyway, back to Coles Supermarket. We walked around and bought some snacks and drinks only. Learned our lesson from previous trips whereby we usually can't finish what we bought so we try to buy the essentials only haha!
The different Coke packaging they have.
So after some snacks shopping, we went back to the hotel to rest before heading out for dinner again, At the same time, we explore around to see what are the various food option around the hotel so that we can better plan our dinner venue.
Bump into this beautiful church..
Another #OOTD shot..
Spot this at one of their shop selling bed linen and etc and this is really cool haha!
Fyi, those flowers are real. Both of us spend sometime figuring them out and went like O.O when we know they are real flowers and so well groom.
We randomly walk into a shop which sells lots of Asia's collectibles like soft toys/gadgets and even Kpop related stuff.
Rilakkuma spotted even when in Perth.
More Rilakkuma and other characters..
We brought it out with us for dinner and started to 'play' with it. We did took some videos too for keepsake purpose haha! Probably gonna have a good laugh when we look back to those videos when we are old :)
Testing out the GoPro
A random shot..
Another touristy kind of shot to capture the background behind us. It was 6+pm and the streets are almost clear by then. The good thing is we don't feel that shy doing/taking touristy shots lol.
Chanced upon this alley which actually is part of a mall.
Posing infront of this majestic clock and if I didn't remember wrongly, every hour the clock will strike once. I can't remember what came out from the on top (where you can see 2 crusades on their horses) when the clock passed every hour.
Oh well, would have been a #OOTD worthy shot but I was photobomb.
Both of us kind of regretted wearing so 'little' out for dinner because the temperature starts to drop to 20 plus or less than 20 degrees that night. Whenever the wind blows at us, we were shivering badly lol.
Our dinner location that night was Hungry Jack's. Probably a street or two down the hotel. It's one of the popular and commonly found fast food chain around Perth. It's somewhat like our local Burger King.
This is what we ordered.
A fast food meal like such costs us 20AUD. A burger, fries, drinks and chicken fries. And yup, no much difference from Burger King.
After dinner, we head over to the next door Mcdonalds to get ice cream. Okay it must be our greatest regret because it's already very cold and we are still eating ice cream haha!
Hot Fudge Mega Chocolate Waffle Cone
It cost 2AUD. They do have many flavors of ice cream, much more than our local Mcdonalds. However this ice cream is really very sweet. We reckon we can just make do with the normal type of ice cream.
So we ate this ice cream while walking back to the hotel. A unforgettable experience to be doing it in such a cold temperature and wearing so little lol.
Before I end this post, I shall talk about the Changi Recommends Mifi Rental from Changi Airport. Throughout the trip, we were connected to the rest of the world via this Mifi we rented from Changi Recommends.
It allows many devices to be connected to the internet and have wifi everywhere we go.
It comes with a charger, cable and also the mifi itself.
It costs us roughly $40+ for the entire trip which is quite affordable because data sim card is not cheap over at Perth and perhaps the European countries too (unlike the Asian Countries). So getting the Mifi will be a better choice.
That's all for now, will be back to update Day 2 of the trip soon. Stay tuned!