If you're heading for a night out at Eagle Street Pier or Howard's Smith Wharf it's a great location. The rooms are a little tired now and in need of a revamp. Charlotte who checked us in was a little ray of sunshine 🌞

Many aspects of the Mantra on Queen are very good in this Covid time when travel is difficult, however the lack of restaurant facilities in the establishment was not noticed because of the high quality of nearby places to eat. As they say location, location, location. The one word of annpyance however was the actual address of the Mantra on Queen. When driving to the hotel you expect the address given to you was actually where you could drive a car. The car entrance, indeed the front of the Hotel is not actually on Queen Street. An entrance is but not if you're arriving by car, whether personal or taxi etc. The real address is Perry Street if you want to park overnight or indeed alight from the car that brings you. The Queen street access actually a no stopping zone (clearway) from 2-7 pm. When you then from a safe location try to contact the hotel to ascertain the location and entrance you will be given a merry-go-round of annoying telephone tag as you go round and round in circles trying to reacha human you can answer you question - 'where the bloody hell are you?'. But apart from that the room we were allocated, an apartment was all we could have hoped for, for our overnight stay celebrating Bastille Day. Again however there was exception which was not the Hotel's fault but rather a design fault on the mixer unit of the shower/bath combination, but that's probably just being picky, expecting that someone would have designed something functionally before considering the aesthetics of appearance.