yeh, we could get a room on wotif.com.au tonight for $99 and tomorrow it was $695 !!!!
i found a place near the mcg fro $300 a night (4 guys) and then just left it up to them to sort it out.
silly buggers, they are in qld and got offered corporate seats and decided 2 days ago to come down.
I tried to book accomm 6 weeks ago and couldn't ! as i was going to go and then stay in the city.
my last suggestion to them was " well a chair at a pokey in the casino is warm".
--------- old stories now ------ in my younger days ----
i went to geneva once and it was booked out, i managed to get into the fire escape of a hotel and thats where i slept.
i was in paris once and no accom so i went to a bar and said to a french girl in my best aussiiieeee accent " so your place or your place " and thats where we went ( back in the days when i had hair ! )
in cairns one summer i snuck into the pool area of the holiday inn and slept on a deck chair, can't believe i didn't get caught
in noosa i went to a backpackers and just walked into a shared (8 people) room and slept on the floor, no one cared.
the list goess on, i'm a one star guy, love the adventure
tim