Cardiff Heights Vacations from ￥127,779

Reception staff are fantastic and very friendly. It's centrally located to the CBD, Darling Harbour and a short walk to Chinatown and Paddy's market. The entrance is nice and professional. My only criticism would be that the building is in need of a fresh lick of paint. It's obviously an old building converted into the hotel, and this gives it the lovely period feel, but on fine inspection you start to notice the problems. Things like broken lights, the smell of burnt oil in the kitchen, scuffs, marks, cracks. It's these shortcomings which makes it only a 3 star hotel. If the owner does some light renovations now, it'll easily become 4 star. If left as is and it continues to deteriorate, then it'll slip into a 2 star rating. However, if you like spacious rooms and the central location, you can't go wrong for the price. I'd recommend for the budget conscious and the non-fussy traveller.

The Staff were quite friendly.

Original room was in poor condition and needed updating. We were moved after one night and the remaining stay was more comfortable. Staff was very helpful and pleasant.

The hotel is right across from QVB. The room was as small as you can move around

This hotel is great and the staff were fantastic. Unfortunately it has really weird system for lights etc in the room and I couldn’t figure it out. It was controlled from a phone that wasn’t anywhere near the bed & was not intuitive. Nowhere in the room was it written how to dial reception, so I had to phone the hotel number on my own phone. I was then chided for not reading my welcome letter where, apparently, it was written. Just having dial 9 for reception written on the phone works for every other hotel in the world. That was the only problem. It is in a very convenient and surprisingly quiet location.