Novotel Sydney Central 4 gwiazdki

The pros: 1) Very convenient place with Chinatown at your doorstep and Darling Harbour literally down the road 10 mins away. 2) The service was excellent from the concierge to the breakfast staff. 3) The buffet breakfast, especially the juicer where hotel guests are able to make their own fresh juice. One suggestion though is to mix the breakfast up a bit. We were there for 3 nights and had exactly the same thing. 4) The car park was right next door, at a cost of $35 per 24 hours via the hotel with unlimited entry. The cons: 1) The beds were too soft for my liking. 2) The hotel was a bit dated so probably needs some sprucing up 3) The gym was underwhelming Overall though it was a pleasant stay for my family.

When i entered this hotel,it looked so odd,so different with Novotel Darling harbour or Sofitel darling harbour,where I stayed before. The coridor to the room and its ambience needed to refurbish/renovate..cause it didn't look like 4star hotel. The good point for this hotel is its large bed for twin room,and also its strategic location. If you come from Sydney airport,you can go by train till Central station,and walk cross the street maybe 7 minutes to Novotel. If you want to go to Circular quay,Opera house,QVB,Townhall I usually go by lightrail..you can walk maybe 5minutes to Haymarket stop. And if you want go to Blue Mountain,north sydney,you can go to Central station,and find many trains there. If you are looking for food..wow you can find many places here..just walk 3 minutes to the right of the hotel,you can find many noodle/dumpling restaurants. Or you can walk 5 minutes,just across the street to the UTS building and walk straight .to Paddys/Market city /chinatown/darlingsquare .I love going to Darlingsquare..there are many best and famous modern restaurants like Dopa ,Lilong,Messina,Pancake on the rocks and also you can walk straight 10minutes to Darling harbour. And if you are looking for something,just walk 2 minutes,you can find Metro supermarket there.

Nice hotel but quite far out from Sydney opera house Rooms comfortable Breakfast nice and staff friendly Nice that they had section downstairs in the lobby for kids to watch the tele and play games with all the toys

Average comfortable hotel, reasonable rooms, but they need a facelift - got that tired, yellow, look about them as do the corridors etc. Check in area fine but crowded and probably not big enough for the amount of guest. Situated in China Town, fairly easy to get to the sights on a direct tram once you know the way. The restaurant was closed for dinner whilst I was there so unless you want a Chinese restaurant you are pretty much stumped without travelling as you are in China Town. Breakfast was open in the hotel and was bulk standard hotel buffet so no real problem there.

We stayed at the Novotel while I taught a PG program at UTS which is only a short walk away. When we arrived, the room that had been booked did not have a walk-in shower. My titanium knees no longer do showers over a bath. Changing rooms was no problem which was great and we moved to the recently-renovated eighth floor. The rooms are pretty much standard for this type of hotel but we had the advantage of two double queen-size beds which gave us that little bit extra space. The bathroom was something of an anomaly. Probably the smallest bathroom we have had outside the cramped conditions of French hotels. So small, you can't sit on the toilet and opened the bathroom door. Not that you need to but it is really cramped. The shower is also very small probably about 1 m². Because UTS was paying for some of our stay and we were paying the rest, confusion naturally arose. The staff at Novotel were really tremendous at sorting out the problems including separating out the various bits and emailing them to me. Thank you very much. The hotel is centrally located and many of the good restaurants in Surry Hills are accessible by taxi. There's not much on offer around the hotel and dining room serves what could best be described as basic pub food. The smorgasbord breakfasts are excellent. Our stay of two nights on Friday and Saturday came to $788 which it is easing above the average price for a room so you are paying for the central locality of this until when you book. For people driving in to Sydney, there is a car park next door with direct access to the hotel which is also very convenient. Parking is $35 per and the hotel organises for your payment of the parking fees.