Sydney
Tay Tay touches down: Where the star is (probably) staying in Sydney
Crown’s lavish (and secure) Presidential Suite is the most likely choice, but the superstar might be opting for a private mansion or even renting a decoy property.
- by Katherine Scott
★★★½
Hotel reviews
Clever, Med-style design is just the beginning for reinvented hotel
The former Arts Hotel Paddington’s drab-to-fab makeover has finally brought the complex in line with its fashionable postcode.
- by Katherine Scott
★★★★
Hotel reviews
When people think of Sydney, they think of the view from this hotel
This Sydney hotel may not be an icon itself, but it’s right next door to the city’s biggest ones.
- by Craig Platt
Sydney’s newest boutique hotel opens behind iconic Coke sign
Hotel Indigo Potts Point has arrived, with decor nodding and winking at the formerly and famously red-light area’s colourful past.
- by Julietta Jameson
What does a foreigner recommend doing in Sydney? Tips from an expert expat
Thought you knew everything about the harbour city? Here’s how a tech entrepreneur who moved here from Germany sees it...
- by Belinda Jackson
Star chef leads new eating options at Sydney, Melbourne airports
From the dry sandwiches and bad coffee many remember as on offer in last century’s airports, in-terminal dining has come a long way.
- by Julietta Jameson
Opinion
Air travel
The Sydney-Melbourne route is one of the world’s busiest. It’s also hellish
While nations everywhere offer quick and painless ways to travel between their popular cities, the Sydney-Melbourne commute remains a joke.
- by Anthony Dennis
Seven of the best hotels for a Sydney staycation this festive season
There are few summer holiday pastimes that can’t be elevated with a stay in one of the city’s best hotels.
- by Katherine Scott
★★★★
Hotel reviews
Ten years on, flagship Sydney hotel still feels cool and fresh
It’s been just over a decade since the red-wigged, red-lipped, leather-clad “Directors of Chaos” first enticed guests into the QT Sydney.
- by Jane Reddy
★★★★
Hotel reviews
Brilliant, if expensive: The verdict on Sydney’s giant new W hotel
How’s the serenity on a five-star hotel dissecting four busy arterial motorways? In W Sydney’s case, quite good, actually.
- by Katherine Scott