In an unrivalled location in the heart of Melbourne, the Mercure Hotel Welcome is ... more
perfectly placed to explore all the sights, entertainment and attractions this bustling city has to offer.The hotel’s 330 guest rooms are all well-decorated and contempor...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location. The Mercure Hotel Welcome Melbourne is located in Melbourne, Australia. 400 ... more
meters from Melbourne city center One kilometer from Old Melbourne Gaol Two kilometers from Captain Cook's Cottage Hotel Features. Restaurant and bar...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location. The Mercure Hotel Welcome Melbourne is located in Melbourne, Australia. 400 ... more
meters from Melbourne city center One kilometer from Old Melbourne Gaol Two kilometers from Captain Cook's Cottage Hotel Features. Restaurant and bar...
Information:
Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Central, cheap, free 'breakfast' Disadvantages: Tatty, grubby, impolite staff, very busy at all times
Though I don't like to believe it, some things in life simply are too good to be true. I booked to stay for 3 nights in Melbourne and my criteria were:
· cheap
· my own room (a backpacker hostel was ok, but a dorm room was not)
· centrally located
· preferably with breakfast included
With these things in mind, I surfed the net until I came across the Hotel Bakpak. It had its own website, which I always prefer, and looked reasonable. What's more, STA Travel were offering me a single room there, including breakfast, for a mere $70 for the entire duration of my stay. This is equivalent to 30 GBP, or a mere 10 GBP per night. That's probably the point I should have known something was up, but I didn't want to know, so went ahead and booked.
**- Getting There -**
About 6 weeks later I arrived in Melbourne. The Hotel offers ...
Advantages: Location - easily reached by car and public transport Disadvantages: Cleanliness leaves a lot to be desired, expensive rooms and substandard service
I suppose there's not much point beating around the bush: when I think back to my stay at the HotelMercur in Arhus, it's difficult to find many positive things to say about it. It wasn't my first choice of hotel in the city, but as I had to book at fairly short notice, that didn't bother me unduly. Only when I arrived and told colleagues where I would be staying did their reaction trigger a faintly uneasy feeling: "You're at the Mercur? Oh. Hmm. Well, I suppose you can't change it now". That much was correct - it appears that the hotel capacity in Denmark's second city has not kept pace with the commercial developments, and there is quite a shortage of available beds.
Of course, this means that the hotels have no incentive to mount any sort of pricing war to take business from one another - there is no need to drop prices as high ...
Advantages: The Most Liveable City in the World Disadvantages: A long way away from practically everywhere else!
all the Art Deco treasures to prove it. Things went spectacularly wrong in the 50's and 60's and the area degenerated into a haunt for vice in all the usual forms. It's still a little rough around the edges in places, especially at night, with tranny streetwalkers & the odd junkie begging for change, but all the run-down mansions and apartments have been lovingly restored & the yuppies are well & truly ensconced. St.Kilda's also home to Luna Park, another relic of the decadent 20's, an antique amusement park with an entrance underneath a massive, gaping mouth. The Esplanade hotel, a Victorian monolith opposite the beach, is a Melbourne institution. There's no better place to be on a Sunday afternoon than on the front porch at the Espy, drink in hand, waiting for the sunset. It's also a brilliant live venue, mainly alternative and scene acts ...
