It’s not often you get a call to say, Hey, you’re going to Palm Cove to stay in a 5 star beach resort for 7 nights and the bad news is, you have to take your best mate with you. My advice is when those calls come, be sure you answer the phone with a smile. We arrived in Cairns, in Far North Tropical Queensland just in time to settle in to our apartment at the Peppers Beach Club & Spa, right on the main drag in Palm Cove before dinner and enjoy an afternoon beside the pool.

As any responsible travel journalist should do, I’d Googled away to my heart’s content about Peppers. While the website had looked really inviting, there were a few reviews on TripAdvisor.com that made us wonder – was it really all too good to be true? Well,