The Best Luxury Hotel in Sydney
The Best Luxury Hotel in Sydney
As Lizzo professes, we are 100 per cent that bitch who deserves a night in an outrageously luxurious hotel once in a while. Thankfully, you don’t need to leave Sydney to find world-class accommodation where you can get your glam on for an evening or two. To guide you in your search for the temporary high life, we’ve tested five-star spa hotels overlooking the city and boutique offerings that provide proximity to a wild night on the town. Stay here, then check out the gigs happening this week, and the best clubs in Sydney.
- Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour
This 590-room five-star beauty is Sydney’s first luxury hotel built in the CBD (central business district) since 1999. Splash out on one of the corner rooms with a view of Darling Harbour. The bedroom has a long wall of floor-to-ceiling windows, but the bathroom has one of the best views in the city with sheer glass on two sides. Enjoy a long soak while watching the city buzz by at its regular frantic pace.
- Shangri-la Hotel Sydney
The hotel was extensively renovated in 2015 with a fresh palette of gold and silver and specially commissioned carpets and artworks. A spectacular chandelier made of three brass rings hangs in the atrium of Horizon Club and can be seen from many points on the foreshore, fulfilling the architect’s original vision of the building as a ‘lighthouse’. The rooms evoke classic luxury with marble bathrooms and the largest windows of any of the city’s harbourfront hotels.
- The Intercontinental Sydney Double Bay
There are 140 contemporary rooms and suites, a rooftop pool with cabanas, several restaurants, bars and retail spaces. In its previous iterations it hosted US presidents, our own Prime Ministers (Bob Hawke famously ran through the area in budgie smugglers), Princess Diana and, sadly, Michael Hutchence on the last night of his life. Now the InterContinental Sydney Double Bay is at its brilliant best after a huge renovation.
- Park Hyatt
The jaw-dropping, close-up vista of both the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge is a major selling point, but you get what you pay for (and that’s a lot) – the cheaper rooms offer just glimpses of what the more expensive suites have framed through their windows. A recent refurbishment has transformed the top-end suites into über-minimalist apartment-style hangouts. Extras include a rooftop swimming pool, deluxe spa and much-vaunted 24-hour butler service.
Source from Time Out editors.