Staycations, remember those? They weren’t all bad, they opened our eyes to what often was hiding in plain sight, like a shining city and nightlife on our doorstep. There’s one Sydney icon that will give you the star treatment and a show. It’s Sydney’s unique horseshoe-shaped 5-star Wentworth Sofitel hotel, host of some of the...
I walk right past it the first time – so well does it assimilate into the busy Surry streetscape. Google Maps yells at me, and I backtrack. There she is. Tucked quietly behind a controlled access door, there’s no blazing signage to indicate that within this smart space lies Surry Hills’ newest urban respite; thus...
If Easter and High Tea had a love child, it would be QTea at Sydney’s QT hotel. This sweet sanctuary in the lush theatrical QT lounge, has been designed by the master of ganache, pâtissier Adriano Zumbo for chocolate lovers favourite time of year. The QT hotel in the heart of Sydney CBD is...
Pressing a lift button to go ‘up’ to a garden seems counterintuitive but all becomes clear when you step out into a light filled room. So many times I have looked up from the street level walking past Chifley Tower and pondered what the circular roof garden at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth was all about....
It may have been in the ‘workshop’ a while, but The Royce Hotel, in Melbourne’s leafy St Kilda Road boulevard, has been fine-tuned into a boutique hotel that channels luxury, elegance, opulence. Not to mention a sense of fun. This 1928 Art Deco–Spanish Mission building began life as luxury car showroom – the original home of...
The VisionVintage never goes out of fashion. Perhaps that’s the secret sauce for Public Hospitality, (led by Jon Adgemis and Peter Crinis) who take this to the next level by uncovering the hidden potential of heritage buildings and reinventing them to a new level of grandeur and grooviness. Oxford House (affectionately known as OH!) is...
I must admit I was a bit apprehensive to try this experience given I am not into 4WDs (I haven’t even driven a 2WD in 10 years!), I haven’t been camping or in the outback for many years and much as I hate to play into stereotypes, I thought this might have been more of...
After a four hour drive from Margaret River, Mr G & I wheel our cases into reception for an overnight stay at the Novotel ahead of an early morning flight back to Sydney. Tonight is our swan songto Western Australia and we have heard great things about Melbourne’s Miss Mi which launches this week! So...
I am having an Alice in Wonderland moment entering the ground floor; there is a Tuk Tuk which doubles as a cafe in the morning, an illuminated cherry tree (which makes Brisbane’s Christmas tree look a bit dull) and then there are the doors. Like a child, my head goes upwards in wonder. These red...
This must be one of our favourite new hotels for 2022. Through the generations we have seen collaborations bringing the old world and the new together from fashion to art and now a hotel. We spend 24 glorious hours here and this is why we loved it. The History Think Ying (young) and Yang (older). The...
