Editor Pick
Hyatt Hotel Canberra
- January 4, 2001
- Rated 4 of 5 by
Quan from Seattle, Washington
The capital''s poshest hotel, it is a renovation of the Hotel Canberra, a historic landmark built in 1925. The hotel has a low-key atmosphere of a country club, and the palm trees and green spaces generally manage to convey this atmosphere. There are two wings, an old wing, with 39 rooms, and a new wing with a majority of the rooms. The old wing retains many of the characters of the old hotel with smaller but quirkier rooms (that tend to be a bit dark) but to one whom is extremely allergic to smoke, the new wing is preferable because its non-smoking rooms are truly non-smoking. The bathrooms in the new wings win hands-down as my favorite feature--the beautiful marble, the oversized bath tub is large enough to sleep in, and the large standing shower is as a shower should be, with high-pressure sprouts. Afternoon tea in the lounge is one of Canberra''s great institutions.
From journal Canberra - the gentle Australian Capital