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Melbourne Marriott Hotel Docklands

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Taken from our 7th floor Hotel room. The Melbourne Marriott Hotel Docklands is conveniently located very close to the CBD of Melbourne. There is an excellent free transportation system with the trams that run constantly into the city center. You can pick them up at all of the different stations and be dropped off wherever you like within the city center for free.  The docks are located right behind the hotel and the city is more or less in front of the hotel. It is a very easy convenient walk into the city center which we've walked in and we've walked out. It is a very safe city to walk in day or night.  This is a beautiful city and the Marriott Docklands is no different.   We had a very comfortable stay and we were upgraded to the M-Class level or executive level with my membership.  The room was not overly large, but it had definitely been renovated with a nice wood floor, a comfortable corner chair, a marble table, and two chairs, several closets, a really ni...

Melbourne, Australia

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Melbourne is a gorgeous city. There is always something to look at and to see. It's very large at almost 6 million people in population. We stayed in the Docklands District which is less busy than downtown, which we like.  You could take the free tram ride or walk into the CBD or City Center, for us this was perfect.  We walked day and night and felt very safe at all times.  There was so much to do. Five nights was not enough. Almost every modern high rise that we looked at, it was a stunning design. Traffic was not that bad either. The Yarra River area was very pretty This is a highly progressive city in regards to LGBQ+ people who hold hands all over Melbourne which is very nice to see that people can just live their lives in this city.  We will definitely have to return and see more of Melbourne and definitely the surrounding areas around Melbourne.  I want to check out the Dandenong Ranges and the Yarra Valley. The first morning we got out of the hotel late ...