Great Southern Hotel Sydney

“Good location”

Very handy hotel for Central station, china Town and Darling Harbour. 24 hour reception is handy as we had an issue weighing our luggage and receptionist helped. Rooms are fine. Arrival and departure was very easy and all amenities worked well

“Comfort and location but room for improvements”

Reasonable Sydney hotel in a great location. Rooms although small provide adequate comfort and all necessary facilities. Our room at the front of the hotel was surprisingly quiet for such a busy location, The limited continental breakfast was good value. the staff come across as friendly and helpf… more

Reasonable Sydney hotel in a great location. Rooms although small provide adequate comfort and all necessary facilities. Our room at the front of the hotel was surprisingly quiet for such a busy location, The limited continental breakfast was good value. the staff come across as friendly and helpful. The reason I am only giving the hotel a 3 is the room floor corridors needed a good clean, we noticed a dead fly on one of the window sills of the corridor on our floor on the day we arrived and it was still there 4 days later when we left the hotel. will gladly stay again but would prefer a little more attention to details

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“Not my best experience with the Great Southern.”

I stay often at the Great Southern Hotel as it's a very convenient base when you live in the Blue Mountains as it's near the Country Train at Central. I've always rated it highly as I love its ambience and art deco charm. This visit was one of the most noticeably lacking in certain areas. The room … more

I stay often at the Great Southern Hotel as it's a very convenient base when you live in the Blue Mountains as it's near the Country Train at Central. I've always rated it highly as I love its ambience and art deco charm. This visit was one of the most noticeably lacking in certain areas. The room service didn't supply all the toiletries for e.g only a conditioner with no shampoo. This wouldn't be a problem at all as I don't use their toiletries but the free internet is shocking, unusable and they may as well not bother offering it. The buffet breakfast which I normally find good value was also poor in that the dining room (which opens very late anyway for a hotel breakfast7.30 am ) was packed to the rafters with some travelling youth musicians. Hundreds of them! A lot of guests like myself were wandering around dazed with their breakfast looking for a seat. It was only the teachers who were helping out guests, getting the children to move for guests and putting guests in front of the queue of children who saved the day. No hotel staff were to be seen. I was also given one fried egg with my breakfast which seemed totally mingy and I would have gone back normally and requested another but couldn't face the queue of children. To top it off, when we checked out we were faced with the most garish looking machines to check out with that didn't match the art deco furnishings at all. Such an ugly last impression and I far prefer a human being to check me out and in of a hotel than an ugly machine. I will always continue to stay at the Great Southern but I do hope they pick up on those little details and if they do have a large party booked into breakfast they could perhaps make a separate arrangement for them so they're not such an inconvenience to other guests.

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