Where are you resting your head tonight?
If it's in a Brisbane hotel you'll have found there's plenty of new players in the hotel market and also wide choice. I find it very hard to get a real feel for a hotel, apart from the location and price, from their websites, so I've been sleeping around, testing out hotels to see what they are really like.
Prices for these hotels range from around $190 to $300 a night. Check online booking websites and the hotel's own website to check that you are getting the latest and best deal. Often there are special packages which may offer exactly what you need.
Next Hotel, Brisbane CBD
If you had a hotel traveller's wish list you would find many of your boxes ticked at Next Hotel, Brisbane.
Rising from the carcass of several previous hotel incarnations, including the much-loved, long-standing Lennons, Next Hotel has been designed to offer what you're asking for in a hotel next.
Features include an easy check in app that's about to be released, a smart device to control your room lights, television and air conditioning, and four free mini bar items every day, yes, every day. more...
Capri by Fraser, Brisbane CBD
Wake up to a new morning in Capri by Fraser in Brisbane's CBD and you'll discover there's plenty to like.
From the front entrance it's clear that this hotel is rather an
adventure. Award-winning design specialists, Ministry Of Design, have
incorporated vertical garden walls and art installations which make the
foyer seem more like a club. Best of all the wifi is fast and free, yes, free.
On the ground floor is the new Pete Evans restaurant, Asana by Pete
Evans which offers a mainly paelo menu. Don't worry about the paelo
thing, the food is great. more...
You can't get much more Brisbane than the timber and tin architecture of
Spicers Balfour with a view of the Story Bridge, unless you want the
heritage art deco elegance of the newer Spicers Balfour suites just down
the street.
The newly opened Spicers Balfour Suites are just a couple of houses down
the road. It's almost like visiting the neighbours as you traipse
between the two.
Located in a two story heritage building, this addition to Balfour's accommodation offers an authentic slice of Queensland history with modern comforts. A staircase leads up to a roof top bar that's been carved out of the rafters at Balfour to provide a quintessential Brisbane Story Bridge view.
Known as the Brisbane city hotel with the huge, 26 floor atrium inside, Hilton Brisbane is more than conveniently positioned amongst prime shopping outlets in the Queen Street Mall.
Designed by legendary Australian architect
Harry Siedler, this is a hotel that has stood the test of time and with
recently renovated rooms, offers a more than conveniently positioned base for
visitors to Brisbane.
Following an $8 million refurbishment and restoration program, Inchcolm is a AAA 5-star hotel with 50 elegant room options including Brisbane's first loft-style apartments. It's also the first Brisbane hotel for the upscale MGallery Collection of hotels. more...
Disclaimer: Ed+bK stayed as a guest of the hotels.