Manly Pacific Sydney MGallery Collection 5 estrelas

This is our fourth stay. Likely our last. Ocean view room. Excellent location and Manly is gorgeous. Endless hours can be spent watching the world going by, enjoying themselves; As well as all other things you can do in Manly. Last year they were refurbishing with jack hammers and no pool, but we were charmed This year the results of the work are revealed. A strangely charmless bar area and a very unwelcome events venue on the second floor, the noise from which - karaoke, manic shouted conversation, DJs - resonates into all the ocean view balconies. As noted in other reviews, the front desk team are lovely but seem to have no ability to record requests or do anything about them. Combined with a silo management, so they don’t know when the conference team have fixed piss ups in the 2nd floor bar, mean the experience is blighted. So, fabulous location, facility and people blighted by feeble management and coordination.

We spent 6 nights in the coastal villa suite with ocean view. With 2 bedrooms (second with 2 twin beds) it was perfect for our family of 4. Location was the best part- 3 minute walk to the Manly corso, filled with shops, cafes and delicious restaurants. Across the street was beautiful manly beach with non stop surfers to watch all day. Within a 20 minute walk in either direction along the boardwalk was a ocean rock pool and swimmable beaches. 10 minute walk to end of corso is the manly warf with ferries all day long to take you to circular quay. The hotel itself was beautiful. I used the hot sauna one evening and it was a nice treat. The pool area had plentiful seats and the water was warm. We very much enjoyed the breakfast each morning. Everything from a granola bar up to custom made omelettes. We had our young girls with us and the staff made us all feel so welcome and taken care of. Would highly recommend for a stay in manly!

I had a pretty good stay in this hotel, but it could have been better. I was in a room at the rear of the hotel, but had a beach view from the balcony. My room was well designed and generally in good condition, and I really liked the beachy theme. The wifi was very fast, but it was irritating to be forced to agree to receive marketing emails as a condition of using it. There are some shortcomings to the hotel building despite the recent refurbishment. Noise proofing from the street isn’t great, and I was woken at 2 am by a reversing truck. I also got some noise early in the morning from a gym below my room. The cold water tap in the bathroom dripped unless it was strongly tightened. The elevator to my room on the 1st floor was also broken throughout the stay, and I needed to carry my suitcase up a set of stairs. The lights in my room also flickered at times. I suspect that the refurbishment was an attempt to extend the life of an outdated building, and the hotel unfortunately doesn’t fully meet modern standards.

I would have rated it 5 out of 5 but we only had 4 days at the hotel. We tried 2 days to go to the pool and we're not allowed - once because they were balancing the chemicals and then other because there were film shoots around the pool. This surprised me given we were paying guests. Told Front Desk and didn't seem bothered

Gorgeous renovated version of an old favourite hotel. Courteous staff , lovely, clean room at competitive rates. It’s in a great spot too, right in the heart of restaurants and shops and who can ignore that glorious beach right at the doorstep? We look forward to our next visit!