Review - Hotel Grand Chancellor (Surfer's Paradise)

The most important part of any travel for my family and I is the hotel.

Luxurious hotels was not what we were looking for during our family trip to Gold Coast, Australia.

we were looking for a decent accomodation as we will be spending 90% of each day sight-seeing.

Therefore, Hotel Grand Chancellor Surfer's Paradise was the PERFECT choice.

There is a choice of 2 twin beds or 1 king size bed for the main room..
The main room
...while the second (smaller) room had 1 single bed.
Fayrah was SUPPOSED to be sleeping here
A small pantry
The most important section of any hotel..
The TOILET!
The features in this hotel are very basic.

But it was good enough for us.

Personally, I really like Hotel Grand Chancellor - Surfer's Paradise

I mean, the staff were friendly, the overall condition of the toilet was excellent and CLEAN.

The best part about this hotel is the location.

It deserves a 5-star for its location.

It was extremely convenient to find food and public transport was easily accessible.

However, the only downside is the food.

They served ham during breakfast and obviously, that's a NO-NO for us.

Breakfast was just fruits and cereals.

Besides the food, everything else about Hotel Grand Chancellor - Surfer's Paradise was perfecto!

It deserves a 4/5 stars!

The next time you're dropping by Gold Coast, do check out Hotel Grand Chancellor - Surfer's Paradise.

And if you do, let me know of your experience.

Racial Harmony

What are your feelings after reading comments such as the one above?

For me, I felt sad and scared.

No, not fear of the insensitive individual who dared enough to post such comments.

But scared for Fayrah's future.

She IS going to be part of Singapore's future generation.

She and a bunch others.

I wonder how Singapore will be like in the future.

At the moment, we are so blessed to be able to walk down the streets and see all the different races having a decent chat, smiling, being considerate to one another etc.

But if insensitive people (like the one who posted the above comment) are allowed to say whatever they want without a thought for the consequences, will we still be able to enjoy the racial harmony that we have right now?

Spitting vulgarities to counter-attack the above comment would be an easy way out.

But doing that will make me just like him (or her).

Islam teaches me to forgive and also, I want to be an excellent role model to my daughter as well.

Fighting violence with violence will just result in MORE violence - the root problem will never get solved.

And who end up being the victims?

The children.

The innocent, naive minds who have to live in fear each day because the grown-ups just will NOT grow up.

Our forefathers went through a lot of challenges during early Singapore.

Back then, racial riots were a reality.

I do NOT want to go through such torture nor do I want Fayrah to go through that.

Though tempting, I fought any negative feelings that arose from reading that comment by looking at..

My Angel
How can you get angry looking at that face???

Looove!

Anyhow, I pray for the person responsible for the comment.

I pray that he (or she) be shown that spreading violence is NEVER correct - no matter the situation.

There are other non-hurtful and peaceful ways to resolve or voice out your opinions.

I pray too that my Muslim brothers and sisters react to such comments with much patience and prayers because I believe that would be what our beloved Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h) would want us to do.

May the peace we have right now last forever - especially for our children.

Insya ALLAH.