SINCE blogging about being Spoilt on a grand Melbourne holiday (Medina Grand review) and asking Did you know fish eat pumpkin?, there’s been a lot of interest from you, our readers. So, as a way for you to experience exactly what it’s like to live like princesses (or princes), we’ve decided to allow one lucky reader to live like we did.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, let me refresh your memory. Last week the O’Briens went to Melbourne and indulged in three nights’ accommodation in a stunning room at the Medina Grand in Melbourne. This was our room.
Our two-bedroom Medina Grand room
You can visit the review post to see how that room ended up!
There are a few Medina options in Melbourne, but the Medina Grand suited us because it was an easy walk to the Melbourne Aquarium (or pram ride, for Ella and Holly), simple trek home from the MCG for The Bloke in The Shed (or more like a tail-between-his-legs waddle after the Pies’ loss) and quick tram ride to Harbour Town (the highlight for Ella – the tram, not the shopping). Although, if we hadn’t missed the stop, we might have shopped at the new DFO South Wharf instead. But anyway…
And did I mention pancakes?
Ella stuffing her face with pancakes, while Uncle Rick watches on.
What made our holiday was the hotel. There is nothing better after a hard day slogging it out at the shops, than coming “home’’ to comfort. You can read the full review at Spoilt on a grand Melbourne holiday. And Ella hasn’t stopped talking about her big bed
Ella's room
or that big box of toys.
The toy box and kiddie chairs.
The thing that appealed to us about Medina is it’s family friendly – just check out its Facebook page MumSpace. It’s an online mother’s group that Medina created to thank one of its most valued group of guests. Yes, you guessed it, us mamas. The group has been up and running for a year now (it just celebrated its first anniversary) and has more than 10,000 fans!
So, just for a minute, picture yourself here:
Or here…
Or even here.
Well, dream no more. You can have a chance at living it.
To go in the draw to win two consecutive nights accommodation for two adults in a one-bedroom apartment at a Medina Apartment Hotel of choice across Australia, simply tell us which Medina hotel you’d like to stay in? You can find hotel locations on the Medina site.The giveaway closes Sunday, June 5 at 7pm and a winner will be drawn randomly and announced on this blog and via Facebook and Twitter. Australian residents only.
Want more entries? Then here’s how you can up your chances in the draw. Each task is worth one extra entry, but must be included as a separate comment (or it won’t count).
- Click the Facebook button below and share this giveaway with your Facebook friends. Then leave a separate comment saying something along the lines of “I’ve shared this on Facebook’’.
- Click the Twitter button below and share this giveaway with your Twitter followers (Twitter handle is @ThreeLil). Then leave a separate comment saying something along the lines of “I’ve shared this on Twitter’’.
Total Prize Value: $1,000
Terms and Conditions:
Prize must be redeemed at a Medina Apartment Hotel in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Wollongong or Darwin. Prize is not refundable, non-endorsable or non-transferable. Prize is for two consecutive night’s accommodation in a one bedroom apartment for two adults at a Medina Apartment Hotel of choice.
Bookings should be made in advance to avoid disappointment. All prizes are subject to availability. Additional spending money, meals, insurance, taxes, passports, visas, travel to and from the winners choice of Medina Apartment Hotel and all other ancillary costs are the responsibility of the winner. The winner must provide a valid credit card at check-in to cover any incidentals incurred throughout the stay.
In the event that, for any reason whatsoever, a winner does not take an element of the prize at the time stipulated by the Promoter, then that element of the prize will be forfeited by the winner and cash will not be awarded in lieu of that element. The prize will be issued in the form of a gift voucher valid for six months from the date of issue.
Winner announced at Medina Apartment winner is…
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Oh and I would love to stay at the Medina Grand in Melbourne, a beautiful walk to the Aquarium with the kidlets!
And sharing the love with a lot of friends
Ooooh well Im in Adelaide, so unless someone is shouting airfare to Sydney then that’ll have to do 😉
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I cant tag you on my FB page but Ive shared the link 😉
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what an awesome prize. If I were to win I would stay in the Adelaide one. I could find a babysitter for a couple of nights and still be close enough to Maddie if anything were to happen.
Fantastic Giveaway.
I would love to be able to stay at Wollongong!
I have shared on Facebook and twitter.. 🙂
The Medina Wollongong is two buildings down from my office!
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I couple of nights in Melbourne North bank with no children would be bliss.
I would love to stay at Medina Grand in Melbourne please 🙂
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I would love to stay in the Medina Melbourne, it would be a real treat for my girls without being too far outside their comfort zone. 🙂
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I have shared this on Facebook and Twitter :).
Oh, wow!!! This is such an excellent prize! Thank you for arranging it!
Oh and I meant to say Medina Grand Melbourne (got a bit too excited and forgot to add that bit, haha!)…
My husband and I would stay at the Adelaide Medina Grand Treasury. I’ve always loved the look of that building! Plus I think they even have “secret” tunnels underneath from when it was originally built… I wonder if they do tours?
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Joel and I have not been away for even a night without the children in 7 years. Literally. We’re desperate!
Brisbane for us. 🙂
I’ve shared this on FB, twice. Once on my personal FB and once on my Blog’s.
Would love to stay at the Medina Grand Harbourside, Sydney!
I have tweeted!
Have shared on FB and twitter, awesome comp….thanks so much!
I shared this on Facebook too 😉
I’d be a princess at the Medina Grand in melbourne too. Sounds divine 🙂
Medina Melbourne here I come… hehehe Would LOVE this!!
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I would choose the Medina Grand Harbourside. Great comp! And it is being drawn on my birthday, I think that’s a sign.
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Oh what an AMAZING prize! I would choose to stay in Canberra! What luxury!
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Ahhh I’m thinking Melbourne, maybe catch a game of footy? When are the Dogs playing the Crows??? (divided household) Good luck everyone 🙂
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Ooops….forgot to mention, shared on Facebook!
Sorry forgot to say would love to stay in Sydney!
what a fabulous prize. Four of my family of six are travelling to Canberra so that I can attend a conference in October. The registration cost is huge, so winning accomodation in Canberra would be a fabulous saving for our family. As this will be our first trip to the Nation’s capital, not sure if Medina Executive James Court or the Medina Classic, both in Canberra would be in the best position. Hey, winning accomodation at either would be great. thanks so much for the opportunity. smiles
posted on my facebook, now too. thanks for the chance. smiles
Melbourne is the one for us! get to visit some family at the same time… Shared on FB too!
Would love to stay in Sydney….. and have shared on Twitter
I would love to stay in the Medina Brisbane with my husband.
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I would like to stay at Medina Grand Harbourside
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The Medina Grand Harbourside in Sydney would be my pick, a chance to go and visit friends who I miss dearly 🙂
Right at this moment I am looking for a weekend away from it all. In Melbourne cause I can’t be TOO far from my sleepless boy… but just far enough to get a good nights sleep!
*swoon*
tweeted. OMG first time I have ever done this…
I have shared. Great comp. Good Luck everyone. <3
I’ve shared this on Facebook <3
Perth CBD for me could always use a little getaway.
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I would love to stay at the Medina Grand in Perth where I could take my stressed out partner Gaza to see his kids for a couple of days and I have shared it on facebook and twitter.
I’ve shared yr experience on my fb page. I would love to spend time at Medina Sydney as my husband and two boys have never been there and want to check out the Harbour Bridge.
Don’t ask me why, but I’d LOVE to stay at the Medina in… Canberra! GO our nation’s capital! 😉
I’d love to stay at Brisbane Medina!
If I were to win I’d stay in the Adelaide Medina! I’d take my bestie and meet some of our friends who live in SA and WA for a long awaited, very deserved girls weekend!
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This is an amazing prize & would love a holiday away with my precious family.Havent had a holiday in 18 years wow long time.
Medina Executive Northbank
close to the Casino
Woo Hoo
This could be a perfect getaway for my hens night
or with my hubby and two beautiful children for a little family getaway
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Medina Grand in Melbourne would be awesome for a getaway 🙂
sharing on fb now !
What a great giveaway!! I shared this on FAcebook!
Great giveaway and I shared it on Twitter!
ive shared on facebook
I’d love to win this for my beautiful sister, they’re planning on a trip to Melbourne but can’t find any suitable child friendly accommodation. Melbourne CBD would be perfect
i would love to stay at the medina at coogee,i have heard so many wonderful stories from other families and would love to experience it myself
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The Medina Grand Adelaide Treasury – it has to be heaven on earth
I’d love to stay at the Medina Executive Brisbane. I really want the chance for my beautiful family to once again meet my best friend! She and I have been inseperable since Kindy! We live in Sydney and unfortunately she had to move to Brisbane 🙁
I’m pregnant with our 3rd child and my best friend hasn’t the cash to meet even our 2nd child! She has never seen me pregnant! I’d love for her to meet us just before bubby #3 is born in September.
I just love Brisbane and just love MEDINA xoxoxo
Love Amanda xoxoxo
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I’ve shared this on facebook :0) thank you
Id love to stay at Medina Melbourne 🙂
Medina Grand Melbourne pretty please 🙂
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To stay at The Medina Grand Perth would be divine!
I have shared on facebook!
twcourt has tweeted on twitter
Just shared on Facebook. Awesome prize!
I would love to win this at Medina Melbourne and give it to Crystal and Rob to enjoy before the birth of their first baby in August, think they may need it more than me.
I have shared this wonderful prize on my Facebook page.
Medina Grand Melbourne for sure!
Great giveaway! I would love to stay in the Brisbane one, with just my hubby and no cherubs. Bliss! Naomi x
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Shared this on twitter. I’m @phonakins 😀
I would love to win this and stay in Medina Melbourne. My hubby and I had a awesome night in a new medina Melbourne many years ago. Now with child spontaneous nights blowing $$ on random nights away are non existent. This would give us a chance to recharge and revisit the aquarium with our toddler where we had our wedding reception!
I’m in love with Melbourne so it will have to be the Medina Grand!
have tweeted 🙂
Tweeted!
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Medina Grand Harbourside, Sydney
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I’d love a chance at a weekend at Medina Melbourne!
My boyfriend’s been studying for the two years we’ve been together, and we’ve been one one income for the past couple of months… But he finishes uni in a week and a half – I can’t wait to have some spare cash to spend on a weekend away, and a gorgeous hotel in Melbourne would simply be bliss!
I’d love to stay at the Medina Grand Adelaide Treasury please 🙂 Awesome giveaway!
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Ive shared this on Twitter – username ShinyGlitterBug
Tweet is here
http://twitter.com/ShinyGlitterBug/status/71200249653370880
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Wishing all my luck on this competition! I’m going to need it I’m sure with all the entries it is going to garner – what an awesome prize!!
I think I would like to stay at the Medina Classic Martin Place. A couple nights away would be heaven.
I would so love this i need a little getaway with all the crap i have had to deal with atm 🙁
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I would love to stay in the Medina Grand Perth, it looks lovely : ))
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The Sydney CBD location! I’ve been looking for an excuse to go to Sydney 😀
I’d love to stay at the Medina Classic Martin Place, a little getaway would be divine and so over needed and we love heading to Sydney where we can take in the sounds, sights and general Sydney lifestyle for a few days.
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I’ve shared on Twitter also 🙂
Thank you for running this great giveaway!
Shared on facebook (Justine Liane) and shared on twitter (@frangipani_lady).
I live in the Blue Mountains, and can think of nothing better than to take my X-Trail on a run down to the Medina Classic in our nations capital, Canberra. I haven’t been there for years, and apart from the pollies being there, it’s a great place with so much to see and do!
Medina Executive Sydney Central. You like to have a great location and the facilities look absolutely AMAZING! Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Ooo… Medina Grand Harbourside for me!
Definately Canberra, would love to take the kids to the zoo for the first time!!
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I would absobloodylutely love to win and my pick would be the Medina Executive St Kilda because my best friend moved to Melbourne at the beginning of the year and am in desperate need of a night out with her, maybe a big gourmet dinner and a night boogying at the Espy. Oh, and I should take my hubby along …. maybe…..
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Would love to stay at the Medina grand Melbourne, one of my friends has just had a baby boy and it would be lovely to go over and see them 🙂
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Would love to stayat the Medina Melbourne, awesome prize!
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It is official you rock Kellie!! Maybe if I win I will get some sleep for the first time in 2 1/2 years! yays! Medina Executive Northbank is my kind of hotel!
Ooooh! Medina Grand in Melbourne for me!!
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Medina Grand Harbourside, Sydney
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Oh my eyes rolled back into my skull at just the thought.
I’d love to check out the one in Melbourne, but alas – being heavily knocked up does not put me in the best position to fly.
But Sydney…yes, I can definitely rock Sydney. (and by rock I mean totally clean up at the buffet breakfast – I may not be able to fly, but I sure can eat my body weight in bacon).
It would be grand to stay at the Medina Grand Melbourne
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How I would love to win this. The toys and extras for the kids would really make staying away so much more comfortable for everyone!
I would like to stay at the Medina Perth. My big brother and his family live in WA, and we’ve never been able to visit. This way I could scrimp and save for the airfares and get us across to WA for a lovely family reunion.
Thanks to Medina and to threelilprincesses for this lovely competition.
I’d like to stay in one of the overseas rooms but of course have no way of getting there so I will have to pick the Flinders Street one!
Shared on twitter too @astrogirl529
Medina Grand Perth would be pure heaven compared to the places we’d usually stay at.
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I have shared on twitter
I’d love to to stay in the Medina in Brisbane, would be a great birthday getaway 🙂
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Tweeted (@marketraider) 🙂
Would love to stay at Medina Grand Melbourne, would love a holiday :)) Sharing on facebook !
Medina Melbourne is where i would LOVE to stay !
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Would love to stay in Medina Harbourside Sydney with my hubs for a couple of nights sans our little ones ;)! BLISS!! Thanks for the wonderful opportunity!
I am SO in for this.
Okay – shared on Facebook and Twitter. Would like to stay at Medina Grand in Melbourne. Please.
I would choose Melbourne CBD. Never been, and want to go! Tweeted and shared on facebook
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Thanks for the opportunity to win Kellie. I’d love to take a short break down kn Canberra!
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I’ve twittered as well @heyhoewarren
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Also shared on twitter. @lissame
Oh, I could so do with a holiday. I’d go to Sydney I think with my husband. We could do with a weekend away!
I like the look of the MEdina Grand Harbourside!
Oh I would love to win this getaway I would give it to a friend who is recovering from a brain tumour – it would be just the lift she needs
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Medina grand in melbourne! My hubby is turning 30 soon and I would LOVE to take him to Melbourne so we can go to the MCG sports museum and do some awesome shopping! He is a full time uni student so we dot have the money to spend on lavish accommodation so to win this would be fantastic!
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what a fab giveaway! time for mum and dad to relax away with the kids 😉
im loving that idea.
I’d love to stay at Medina Grand Harbourside in Sydney or Medina grand in Melbourne for my up coming birthday !
You are ingenius Kellie.
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medina grand in melbourne please. What an awesome giveaway!
Shared on facebook….thank you
Have Tweeted and Facebooked….I’d love to stay at Medina Grand Melbourne for my 30th birthday treat!
Medina Brisbane- my Mum lives there and I’d love her to spend some precious extra moments with my small children. It’s hard for her to come down on the plane as she has a bad back!
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Charli Frank
ohhh please us- thanks for letting my wee little family dream like this
we have spent ages looking on the website dreaming about seeing my mum again and staying somewhere like that before I grabbed the courage to enter
You are a wonderful person sharing something like this with a complete stranger xoxoxo Have a great Day
Love Charli
Medina Harbourside Sydney. Have never been to Sydney & would love to take my little princess to the zoo. 🙂
The Medina in Coogee looks love-ly! 🙂
I would choose a getaway at the Medina Executive Barrack Plaza in Perth. Looks like a lovely apartment to chill out and relax in.
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Ooh- yes please! A stay in the middle of Perth would be wonderful! Thankyou!!!
I would like to stay in the Sydney one and have a nice family time in the city as we are normally out in the burbs with my fam!
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I’d love to stay in the Medina St Kilda, thanks so much for the chance to win this great prize.
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I haven’t had a holiday in years and I’m dying to see Mary Poppins in Sydney -so the Medina Grand Harbourside definitely!
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Melbourne would be lovely 🙂
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I would be very grateful to be spoilt at the Medina Executive Brisbane!
I would love to spend a quick weekend at Medina Executive James Court, Canberra!
I’ve shared on FB 🙂
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Sydney Harbourside please! 🙂
Oh wow – so many great locations and hotels to choose from.
If I won, I think I’d love to whisk hubby away for a couple of days at Medina Grand Harbourside in Sydney.
Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
I’ve just shared this on facebook with my friends.
I’ve tweeted @sameliasmum
Keeping my fingers and toes crossed 🙂
Oh Lordy this looks like my idea of HEAVEN! I’ve been granted a permission slip from the husband to take leave for a night, so a stop over in the glorious Sydney Medina would mean I dont have to slum it in the local YHA instead!
And now I’ve retweeted for one extra shot at this divine prize!
I’m in love with these rooms. So many locations to choose from but would choose Sydney Darling Harbour.
I have shared on Twitter too 🙂
I would love to stay at the Medina Executive in St Kilda.
For a second entry I’ve shared this on Facebook. 🙂
For a third entry I’ve shared this on Twitter. 🙂
Would love to take hubby to stay at the Medina Executive Brisbane! What a great suprise getaway it would make and what awesome views!!
I’ve shared this fantastic giveaway on FACEBOOK!! Best of luck everyone!!
Medina Executive St Kilda thanks! Off to tweety tweet!
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Brisbane CBD – would love to show my little man the sights and sounds of Qld’s capital city 🙂
I think id like to go to the one in melbourne not too far from home and could visit family, go shopping and go see a footy game hehe
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Whoops the grand medina st kilda x
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Have also shared on my FB page (sorry couldnt tag you im on my phone) but my page is http://facebook.com/mum.ments x
Sydney Harbourside would be divine!
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Having been to Melbourne on a road trip with gastro, 3 kids and the in-laws earlier this year ( seriously, I am not making that up!) I would love to go back to Melbourne with my husband and have a kid-free, in-law free and virus-free getaway! I would happily take any of the locations in and around Melbourne! Off to tweet and Facebook this now….
Medina Brissie may still just be warm hey? Would love it. Thanks Princesses.
I have tweeted this via my blog account @Myhometruths
I have linked this to my personal Facebook too!
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Also tweeted….fingers crossed
Fabulous Giveaway! I would love to stay at the Medina Harbourside in Sydney.
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And tweeted….
Melbourne please, need a kid free getaway.
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i think maybe Canberra!
Hard pick! Maybe ….Sydney Harbourside please!
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Oooooh, I would stay at the Medina on Crown, and re-live my 20’s for the weekend. I stayed there when I first moved to Sydney – about 15 years ago for a little while (on the company dime!). Back then, Surry Hills was a really ‘alternative’ area, and being from Adelaide I remember thinking “I’m not in Kansas anymore!”. Now it is packed with awesome restaurants and bars that I’d be keen to explore without the commute back home. 🙂
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I would love a Medina Harbourside getaway with my 5 y.o. daughter (and hubby!) before our new baby arrives – spoil her before her world changes completely and she’s no longer our one and only…. soon enough it will be all about “the baby”… for now, I want it all about her…. and being a princess in a fancy hotel sounds a great treat!
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Hi, I would love to stay at the Sydney Medina, thanks!
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Melbourne!
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Oh yes please! Northbank looks so lovely and great for a few night out with the dear hubby.
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Medina Grand Melbourne….yes please!!!!
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