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I arrived here on the 25th Jan 2012. I realise that none of the dates on these blogs are right because I have been so slack with writing them! oops!
I came here because I had heard it was really nice, plus it would break up the trip up to Cairns. In Byron Bay I was told about the Full Moon party they had here so extended my stay. I also knew that Hayley and Jess would be here for it and arrived the day after me.
I was under no illusion that it would be as good as Thailand's party but thought it would be fun. We all put on the obligatory neon paint, I wore my full moon top and we started illegally drinking in our dorm room. Forgot to mention..Base in magentic island is a really really bad hostel!!! The rooms are like little sheds, no air con and really musty, full of bugs!! The showers are gross, again, I showered with bugs or lizards most nights, and the kitchen was full of ants..maybe their twisted way of getting you to buy food at their bar but their rude miserable old bat that worked the kitchen didn't make that appealing either! The rooms literally were like sauna's, and given that each time you leave a shower and dry yourself, your wet with sweat within 5 mins (yes that hot!) then you need some sort of aircon!
Anyway...back to the party! So we went down to the bar, it was all cleared out of the usual picnic table's and chairs scattered around and full of idiots "dancing". It started fairly calm and everyone was just dancing around and drinking. We didnt touch their overpriced buckets and just had what ever cheap drink was on offer. Thank god for the illegal goon we had in the room! I dont really get how they call this a full moon party, its really not. Its just a bigger night than usual in the Base hostels bar, a few more lights put up and thats about it. The highlight of my night was realising there was a pizza stand..so I made my way over to there and ate whilst watching the morons trying to pull every girl that went past them then went to bed. It was a fun night at first..but nothing to write home about!
I realise that sounded really moody, but it was pretty rubbish. The hostel has a really nice setting dispite my moaning, you can swim/ chill out in/ out the pool and over look the sea, and it is really really pretty..its a shame the rest of the hostel doesn't match that..it would be amazing otherwise!
I am nearly getting through these blogs... :) xxx
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Sairsha Veasey Hey! You're blog is awesome I'm planning my trip for 2013 with pretty much all these places. How long is your trip in total and how much money does it cost including spending money? x