Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 2

[Power Raid]

I must watch too many movies but I'd prefer a room, sleeping in the car on hwy like that feels murdery

have you seen psycho? that was a road side motel!

 

[Power Raid]

I must watch too many movies but I'd prefer a room, sleeping in the car on hwy like that feels murdery

oh and I forget the name but there is this fantastic camp site on the Nullarbor

something creek?

 

[Scotland]

Thought you were talking about Vincent - no doubt they’ll be next with the amount of whining about the crime rate from fb posters in the area

Community FB groups make quiet, leafy suburbs sound like West Baltimore.

There (sic) also an English teacher's worst nightmare.

 

[Power Raid]

Per person in the car? $400 a day?

yep

it's only if you drive rather than being a passenger but most guys would put one car on the train and go together in one vehicle. Not only did you get paid but you got extra leave, as your travel days were considered work.

just looking at rates now:
looks like $110 per day for food
$140-$200 for a nights accommodation depending on location
$20 for incidentals
$0.60-$0.75 per kilometre

 

[Power Raid]

This is going to be a solo trip, will be in Perth for up to 3 months spending time with my kid.

As for stopping, it'll be for sleep only and those occasional 20 minute leg stretching stops! I've got to do it as I've promised my daughter. I hate flying sadly so it's the only way im going to get myself there. The more I think about it, the more daunting it is but I do love to drive and I've done Townsville to Melbourne 3 times, bruce highway in comparison?

the bruce highway is an amazing drive as your heading north south with changing climate and environment. the bruce obviously has more traffic and more towns which isn't helpful from a time point of view.

eyre highway unfortunately is going through South Australia, so don't forget to take anti-depressants starting at border town and don't stop taking them until your west of Border village.

 

[tigertigertiger]

the bruce highway is an amazing drive as your heading north south with changing climate and environment. the bruce obviously has more traffic and more towns which isn't helpful from a time point of view.

eyre highway unfortunately is going through South Australia, so don't forget to take anti-depressants starting at border town and don't stop taking them until your west of Border village.

Well that's just great!! how long is that duration? Don't make me dred it any more than I already am unnecessarily

 

[JackOutback]

pretty sure shopping centres here give you an extra hour if you get your ticket validated at the cinema to account for this

An extra hour for a move or $200 receipt (i.e. shopping) and not not in force after 6pm. The real shit move is charging staff...campaigners.

 

[Plugger35]

An extra hour for a move or $200 receipt (i.e. shopping) and not not in force after 6pm. The real shit move is charging staff...campaigners.

Surely staff there would get a free parking permit, no one would want to work there if they were forking out 30 bucks or more for parking each day.

As for customers, if they are spending more than 3 hours shopping they probably deserve to pay for parking, I've never spent more than 3 hours shopping.

 

[JackOutback]

Surely staff there would get a free parking permit, no one would want to work there if they were forking out 30 bucks or more for parking each day.

As for customers, if they are spending more than 3 hours shopping they probably deserve to pay for parking, I've never spent more than 3 hours shopping.

Staff are being charged something like $3 a day; still shit behaviour, milking some of the lowest paid to recoup reno costs. $15 a week is not insignificant to someone on minimum wage.

 

[Off The Couch]

While I get they aren’t highly paid but don’t most people have to pay for parking when they go to work. $3 a day is pretty reasonable - my daughter used to have to pay $20 a day when she worked in Subiaco and she was only on $20 per hour. Public transport and her mother became her new best friend and I pay $12 a day when I choose to drive

 

[Scotland]

Charging for parking when there is a shitload of parking and it's not a central location is a bit rude.

With the new stadium the govt trying to ream spectators, they're trying to get them to use PT because it's more efficient than 60,000 people all trying to drive and park around the ground. Ditto the CBD. 5 rail lines and a heap of bus services all terminate there, they don't want everyone who commutes in and out each day all driving.

With Carousel I reckon 99% of people who go there drive. It's a giant shopping centre with a heap of parking bays. It's not like Mt Lawley or Subiaco or something where almost everyone street parks and it's not going to become something people don't drive to. It smacks of just charging people because they can, like how a bottle of water costs $97 at the airport. I went there on the train as a kid but **** finishing at 9pm then walking to Cannington station to hang around for half an hour waiting for a train.

 

[Nothing]

Well that's just great!! how long is that duration? Don't make me dred it any more than I already am unnecessarily

If you aren't used to country driving I would recommend NOT driving around dawn or dusk. Which probably limits the driving time to 8-10 hours at most. Which conveniently is all you should be doing for 3-4 days straight. Any more than that and the risk escalate quite quickly. That probably leaves stops somewhere around Adelaide/Port Augusta, the border and Southern Cross as the 3 stops. I'd try and get another day in there and reduce the travel down and be able to enjoy it.

A group of us did it in 94 (to Sydney) in just over 3 days. It was a nightmare. Too cramped. Pushed too hard. Tempers frayed. Take the time to enjoy the journey (and make the destination).

 

[Kram]

While I get they aren’t highly paid but don’t most people have to pay for parking when they go to work. $3 a day is pretty reasonable - my daughter used to have to pay $20 a day when she worked in Subiaco and she was only on $20 per hour. Public transport and her mother became her new best friend and I pay $12 a day when I choose to drive

Umm maybe most people that work in inner Perth where space is at a premium, not a massive shopping centre out in a shitty suburb.

Seriously charging workers anything out there is a disgrace.

 

[Off The Couch]

I don’t like the fee but at the end of the day it’s $3 and that will be far cheaper than the parking ticket the rangers will be handing out for parking in the surrounding streets and probably cheaper than public transport

 

[Off The Couch]

Umm maybe most people that work in inner Perth where space is at a premium, not a massive shopping centre out in a shitty suburb.

Seriously charging workers anything out there is a disgrace.

Charging emergency workers to park is a disgrace so I’m not sure why anyone else should be exempt. As far as I’m aware I thought most centres had parking limits anyway and were subject to fines. I recently saw a parking inspector at the Mezz in mt Hawthorn handing out parking tickets to those who had obviously stayed longer than 3 hours

 

[Scotland]

Staff parking fees at FSH are a disgrace.

Not too phased about paid parking at the Mezz because it's not a big parking area. Not sure if it's regularly used by non patrons.

 

[JackOutback]

I don’t like the fee but at the end of the day it’s $3 and that will be far cheaper than the parking ticket the rangers will be handing out for parking in the surrounding streets and probably cheaper than public transport

There is an existing, dedicated staff parking area. It's been free for years. Charging now for it when parking isn't at a premium is corporate assholery at its finest. Charging hospital staff to park at work is worse, but neither are justified.

 

[Off The Couch]

Staff parking fees at FSH are a disgrace.

Not too phased about paid parking at the Mezz because it's not a big parking area. Not sure if it's regularly used by non patrons.

I think people were parking rooftop and then catching the bus in. Tbh I think it’s something that happens quite a bit around all the side streets around here and then catching the bus - can’t blame them really if it saves you money. The interest here will lie with how long it takes Belmont to make streets around the area no parking zones

 

[Off The Couch]

There is an existing, dedicated staff parking area. It's been free for years. Charging now for it when parking isn't at a premium is corporate assholery at its finest. Charging hospital staff to park at work is worse, but neither are justified.

I didn’t realise this was the case. That is pretty disgraceful

 

[Scotland]

I wonder if anyone will actually stop going to Carosuel over the charge or if they'll just rant on FB about it.

I've probably been there once in the last 5 years and it was for under 3 hours anyway. Granted people go to Hoyts but the idea of spending 3 hours at the shops is torture to me.

 

[Beerfish]

I wonder if anyone will actually stop going to Carosuel over the charge or if they'll just rant on FB about it.

I've probably been there once in the last 5 years and it was for under 3 hours anyway. Granted people go to Hoyts but the idea of spending 3 hours at the shops is torture to me.

I've heard of families actually spending whole days there during the Summer for the free air conditioning.

 

[Kram]

I spend often around 2 hours at the shopping centres but I don't live in Perth so it's usually a rare spend up. When I lived in Perth I'd say an hour at most.

 

[Beerfish]

I think people were parking rooftop and then catching the bus in. Tbh I think it’s something that happens quite a bit around all the side streets around here and then catching the bus - can’t blame them really if it saves you money. The interest here will lie with how long it takes Belmont to make streets around the area no parking zones

I remember people getting their tyres slashed by an angry resident for continually parking down Melville Parade to catch the train from Canning Bridge.

 

[Power Raid]

Well that's just great!! how long is that duration? Don't make me dred it any more than I already am unnecessarily

Perth is at the end of the journey, making everything all worthwhile!

Oh and so is your daughter

 

[Off The Couch]

I've heard of families actually spending whole days there during the Summer for the free air conditioning.

Good grief, shoot me now, I’d rather sit in 40deg heat than be stuck in a shopping centre