Perth Travel Blog

I know I mention pretty often here that Perth is one of the sunniest places in the world, and has the longest average sunlight hours of any Australian city – which makes it a great place to come visit and easy to get heaps of lovely photos! But this past few days, Perth has been anything but sunny,...

Go Perth! My lovely hometown is creeping up the rankings of the most popular tourist destinations in Australia and is now almost in the Top 5, according to a recent Wotif survey. Moving up from seventh place in 2009 to sixth place in 2010, Perth is clearly becoming a more popular destination as more...

If you’re a bookworm kind of traveller who can think of nothing nicer than spending time browsing some great local bookstores while you’re on vacation, then Perth has just done you a favour by opening two great new independent bookstores. They’re both located in trendy cafe strips...

So unfortunately Oprah decided not to drop in on Perth, despite our petition! She did, however, send a couple of guests from her Ultimate Vacation over to Perth to have a look around.  Michelle and LeWayne Bryan spent a few days both exploring Perth and getting into the south-west of Western Australia...

One of my all-time favourite places to visit while in Perth is Rottnest Island, and with our national day, Australia Day, coming up next week on January 26th, there’s an even better reason to go. To celebrate Australia Day, the newly-renovated Hotel Rottnest (previously known as the Quokka Arms)...

One of Perth’s oldest and most well-respected hotels has had a very big change for the new year: the Sheraton Perth has been rebranded by its owners and from now on the place to stay will be the Pan Pacific. Our local paper featured a lovely story about the hotel’s long term butler recently...

I love the Perth Zoo, and this morning I read about a major plan to make it even better. The Perth Zoo as it stands is located quite close to the centre of the city, in South Perth, just across the river from the main downtown area of Perth (a lovely ferry ride away, in fact). They’re talking...

Happy New Year to all the Perth Local Flavor readers – from a hot and sticky Perth! After a fairly sweltering Christmas, the first few days of 2011 have all been close to or over the century mark, so most Perth people have been sticking near a swimming pool, taking a dip at the beach, hitting the...

As I’ve mentioned before, Christmas in Perth is a lot warmer than the typical snowy Christmas described in the songs. Fortunately that doesn’t make it any less fun – it’s just different. The council in the City of Perth – the central area of the city – are very proactive...

It’s heating up here in Perth and I keep seeing messages on Facebook about local friends of mine who are heading over to Rottnest Island. I’ve mentioned “Rotto” often enough before but it really can’t be mentioned often enough: this is by far one of Perth’s most perfect...