Advantages of 'Direct Booking'

• Personal Service! Personal Service! You are not just a credit card number! Making direct contact with the Front Desk can be the start of a good relationship with your chosen accommodation place. Your personal file can be updated with extra requests right up to the day you arrive.
• Extra! Extra! Many places can be quite flexible in offering better deals to Direct Booking guests. In competitive tourist areas, the comparative online rates are often similar. Direct contact may result in a better deal. Perks such as local freebies and upgrades can be tailored to suit. Their Social Media sites such as Facebook may offer 'Direct Booking Only' deals and coupons, such as discounts or free meals etc.
• Change the date! Changing your travel plans with a Front Desk call can make things easier. The management or desk staff will have instant access to your re-booking dates, and often can offer them without losing the original price package.
• Lost in Translation! One really 'Worst-case' online scenario is booking in the wrong country! Yes this can happen, believe it or not! But what is more painful is discovering there is no refund for the mistake! At least with a Direct Booking, you can check you are really booking into the St. Tropez Holiday Apartments in Surfers Paradise, Australia and not the expensive resort area of St. Tropez in France! (Although – not too bad a scenario either way!)
• Ground Knowledge! If you need some precise information, a direct contact, such as a manager, is likely to have it right in front of them. They can help you with dates and make sure it's the right place for your needs. Personal contact also helps fill in gaps between your accommodations's advertised descriptions and any extras that may be available. Priceless Front Desk resources can include great local deals for car-hire and tourist attractions, upcoming events or how their after-hours operate. So when you arrive, you are ready to holiday!

How we do it!

Here at St. Tropez Holiday Apartments in Surfers Paradise, we are able to offer a very personal Front Desk service when you book Direct with us. Talk your holiday stay through with Amanda and Vic. When you arrive, your comfy apartment will be set up just for you. Booking directly with St. Tropez makes it simple.

But however you have arrived – Online or Direct – we'll make sure it's an easy stay at St. Tropez!

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Our helpful managers, Amanda and Vic, also know lots of other local Gold Coast places that maybe off the tourist maps.

Five secret places right here in Orchid Avenue for you to discover:

The Ultimate Shave

• MODS & ROCKERS – RETRO BARBERSHOP

Located right next door to St. Tropez Holiday Apartments. Everyone knows your name and it’s cutting edge cool. Retro scooters out the front and latest styles inside.Mods and Rockers Retro Barbershop offers old school men’s grooming with authentic barbershop chairs, hot towels and cut-throat razor close shaves. They will take time to talk to you about maybe a new look or updating your old one.Being next-door means you can book yourself a leisurely treat and just take the short walk to your appointment. No parking worries!

35 Orchid Avenue. Surfers

Cool Food & Cool Jazz!

• BLACK COFFEE LYRICS

Down an arcade and up the stairs to a secret local food heaven. Their American style menu is hipster delicious. A chill-out hotspot for great coffee, brunch on weekends, outstanding tapas and cool jazz licks on Friday and Saturday. Many happy wandering tourists say it’s just like Melbourne! We say it’s just across the road from St. Tropez in Surfers!

Shop 34 Centre Arcade. Surfers 0402189 437 http://blackcoffeelyrics.com.au/

Middle Eastern Delights

• THE GOLDI CONVENIENCE STORE

Directly across the road is a convenience store with a difference. Amongst the basics are rows of Middle Eastern delights. The benefit of having a kitchen means you can make up your own feast. Choose from locally made flat breads, authentic yoghurts and ingredients to make delicious dips such as humus. A wonderful way to save, yet provide an exotic experience conveniently in your own apartment.

34 Orchid Avenue, Surfers.

Cosy Cocktails!

• CENTRAL LOUNGE BAR & DINING

Turn left from St. Tropez and a few doors down you’ll find Central Bar and restaurant. It may look like a tourist only place, but in reality it’s a well-known local. Comfy conversation lounges and chairs are perfect for intimate and friendly meet-ups. Their bar is an endless source of amazing cocktails made by award winners. And because it is so close to your apartment you can enjoy a chilled Margarita without worry.

27 Orchid Avenue, Surfers

Local Glamour!

• COLLABORATION +

The surprise about this glamorous shop in the centre under the Hilton, is that it’s not an international resort wear place! The sophisticated range of fashion and jewellery is from local Gold Coast designers! Locals shop here because they know they can find just the right original designs suited to their glamorous tropical lifestyle. Collaboration+ is an interactive design concept store offering customers the opportunity to meet talented designers Joanne Rahn, Lara Hooper and Marilyn West, and to receive professional and personal advice on which styles suit best.

Shop GO8, Hilton Arcade – on Orchid Ave

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