Tornado Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Sydney named world's best city 08:25 AEST Wed Jul 14 2004 Sydney remains a dream destination for global travellers after being named the World's Best City. The United States-based magazine Travel + Leisure gave the NSW capital the award for the eighth time in 10 years. Sydney won ahead of Rome, Florence, Bangkok and Cape Town. Acting NSW Tourism Minister Tony Kelly said the award confirmed Sydney's reputation as a world city and the first destination of choice for international travellers to Australia. "No other Australian city makes it into the top 10," Mr Kelly said. The Great Barrier Reef islands also featured prominently in the awards. The stretch of islands off the northern Queensland coast was named the 10th in the World's Best Islands category, and No. 1 in the Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific islands category. Australia's only island state, Tasmania, was second in that category. Lizard Island, one of the Great Barrier Reef's most luxurious and exotic resorts off the coast of Cairns, ranked 16th in the World's Best Hotels category and topped the World's Best Hotels category for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Australia provided 19 of the top 25 World's Best Hotels in the regional category. The Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards 2004 are based on the evaluations of more than 425,000 readers. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=12440 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khutan Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 I cannot disagree more strongly. How can any city my ex-wife lives in be named the worlds best city. BTW, I was born in Sydney and love the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamdomChances Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Sydney won ahead of Rome, Florence, Bangkok and Cape Town How can it be the best there where only 5 cities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumonster Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 did they take a walking tour through redfern? and I would appreciate if they would stop telling people about far north queensland! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted July 14, 2004 Author Share Posted July 14, 2004 Sydney won ahead of Rome, Florence, Bangkok and Cape Town How can it be the best there where only 5 cities That would be the "top 5" and no Cardiff was not mentioned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamdomChances Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Cardiff is definatly one of the best cities to live in Wales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Cardiff is definatly one of the best cities to live in Wales in Wales ... it would be number one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 With regard to Sydney being the worlds best city: First let me pick myself up off the floor, completely sober I might add ! Did somebody forget to mention that Sydney is the direct entry point for the vast majority of all international travellers? So, if this is measured by popularity, as in people arriving in Sydney, then this may well be accurate. They should also mention the number of people trying to get the ###### out of Sydney as quickly as possible as well. Melbourne must have been excluded from this survey otherwise it would have won hands down! People who voted Sydney must enjoy gridlock traffic, no public transportation system that works properly, unfriendlies, and ghetto type living as mentioned by Stumonster. Well, survey was taken from mainly Americans (probably LA'ns and New Yorkers) so I guess any other city they visit in the world would be a desirable city to live in with lots of friendly people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Sydney won ahead of Rome, Florence, Bangkok and Cape Town. The fact that Bangkok made it as one of the top five cities to live in in the world makes the legitimacy of this survey suspect. Let's face it. Thailand is great in many ways, but BKK is FAAAAARRRRR from one of the world's greatest cities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nat Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Melbourne must have been excluded from this survey otherwise it would have won hands down! People who voted Sydney must enjoy gridlock traffic, no public transportation system that works properly, unfriendlies, and ghetto type living as mentioned by Stumonster. Totally agree esp about the unfriendliness. Melbournians are a lovelier bunch of people and according to Vogue, style and fashion begins there and deteriorates the further north one goes . It also still ranks as the number one city (along with Vancouver and Vienna) for expats to live, well according to the Economist Intelligence Unit survey. ps this post is completely biased as am a Melbournian and cringe that Sydney got one over us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john b good Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Sydney won ahead of Rome, Florence, Bangkok and Cape Town. The fact that Bangkok made it as one of the top five cities to live in in the world makes the legitimacy of this survey suspect. Let's face it. Thailand is great in many ways, but BKK is FAAAAARRRRR from one of the world's greatest cities. Agreed. On a scale of 1 - 10 with 10 being the worst Bangkok would get a 99. But I love it. Bangkok has to be near the top when you are talking about "lived in" cities. To the average visitor/tourist it might be all glam and lights but when you get down to it, Bangkok is where people live, work, play (exist) and ............... In Bangkok what you see is what you get. In that respect Bangkok would (IMO) win hands down as the best city in the world. Sorry it's 'no contest' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Posted July 14, 2004 Author Share Posted July 14, 2004 Im just reporting the news "And the winner is Syd Dney" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Well, survey was taken from mainly Americans (probably LA'ns and New Yorkers) so I guess any other city they visit in the world would be a desirable city to live in with lots of friendly people. Now it makes sense to me. "Darling Harbour, what a romantic name, don't you think so honey..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gentleman Scamp Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 My top 3 favourite cities are Bangkok, London and Sydney... Was that worth mentioning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nat Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 My top 3 favourite cities are Bangkok, London and Sydney... Was that worth mentioning? Shouldn’t it be top 5 (as in High Fidelity) . Bangkok (in a weird way) and London (definitely) are two of my favs – along with a heap of others . Who knows Scamp it may have been worth mentioning as a chain reaction could start . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Up2U Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Naw .... Cambridge (the proper one in UK). Right size, only 100,00 people. Right ambiance - half the population is university age. Only problem, beer is not too good - local brew is Adnams. Abbot Ale is acceptable, but the rest is gnat's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NedKelly Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 I have to ask you Mr moderator what this has to do with Thailand.........??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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