Address: 89-113 kent street , Sydney 2000, Australia Show on map
If it's not the marble bathrooms with oversized baths, the sensational day spa, upper-crust service or the feather doonas, it must be the lavish indoor pool with its magical, twinkling starry sky that makes the Observatory special (but it's probably a combo of all of the above).An effortless winner of prestigious awards, the Observatory is opulent to the core. You might have a hard time believing that it's a relatively recent addition to the Sydney hotel scene - the interior designers have gone all-out to make it look as old-fashioned as possible, with a gentlemen's-club-like vibe throughout the front-of-house areas that will have you itching to pull up a Chippendale, don some slippers, fill a brandy snifter and puff a cigar. The astronomical feel isn't just reserved for the night-sky ceiling of the pool either, with the luxurious Globe bar and the highly regarded Galileo restaurant fulfilling the social needs of guests. Business facilities are uniformly impressive, and children are looked after nicely - right down to mini-bathrobes and bowls of goldfish. An array of themed packages lean heavily on the 'you deserve it' side of things.
An effortless winner of prestigious awards, the Observatory is opulent to the core. You might have a hard time believing that it's a relatively recent addition to the Sydney hotel scene - the interior designers have gone all-out to make it look as old-fashioned as possible, with a gentlemen's-club-like vibe throughout the front-of-house areas that will have you itching to pull up a Chippendale, don some slippers, fill a brandy snifter and puff a cigar. The astronomical feel isn't just reserved for the night-sky ceiling of the pool either, with the luxurious Globe bar and the highly regarded Galileo restaurant fulfilling the social needs of guests. Business facilities are uniformly impressive, and children are looked after nicely - right down to mini-bathrobes and bowls of goldfish. An array of themed packages lean heavily on the 'you deserve it' side of things.
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Atmosphere: Opulent and Busy
Check-in / Check-out Earliest check-in: 3:00 PM Latest check-out time: 11:00 AM
US$254.00 per night
(US$127.00per person per night)
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On top of Observatory Hill behind the hotel is the actual Sydney Observatory (tel: 9921 3485; www.sydneyobservatory.com.au). Built in the 1850s, it's a copper-domed, Italianate affair housing a collection of vintage apparatus, including Australia's oldest working telescope (1874). Also on offer are AV displays, an interactive Australian Astronomy exhibition of Aboriginal sky stories, a 3D space theatre and night-sky viewings.
Observatory Hill was the site of Sydney's first windmill (1796), which ground wheat until someone stole its canvass sails and the structure collapsed.
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