Rydges Hotel Sydney Airport

Has anyone stayed here? The rooms state they have an 'open-plan' bathroom. Doesn't sound very appealing!
Any info would be great.
TIA

An 'open-plan' bathroom usually means that the vanity basin / bench aren't inside the bathroom, but in their own alcove or corridor space, contiguous with the bedroom, while the bath/shower and toilet are located behind the door.

It works quite well ... I expect you'll survive it.

Hundreds of pictures of the rooms here. Nothing than can kill you there other than the decor :-D

Yes - Sydney chain-hotel chic ... about the same as 4-star decor in Munich I expect (and probably everywhere)!

Hundreds of pictures of the rooms here.

What FCG actually means, is one picture hundreds of times.

Just a barhroom missing a wall or 2 and without a door. Becomes an extension of the bedroom.

Just a bathroom missing a wall or 2 and without a door. Becomes an extension of the bedroom.

I rather doubt that ... one of the major challenges for a hotel is extracting hot moist air - so they try to keep the bathroom as compact as possible, and with a door between it and the main space. I think the external vanity area, and enclosed shower/toilet, is what you might find.

i've standard in hotels outside australia, which certainly have open plan bathrooms, incl in expensive hotels on a work trip. its expansive for the mind. its only you to be open!
whether it appeals or not is only a reflection of your background.

I' ve just googled pictures and in a couple, you could just roll out of bed into either the bath or shower. Handy after a hard night on the tiles.

Yes thank you all who replied. I had actually looked at - as far as I knew - all photos/images/web pages, but what I actually wanted was information from anyone who had ACTUALLY stayed in said room with said bathroom!

Not sure how that would help you. Clearly there are several different layouts to the rooms so if you want a specific one, simply request it at the time of booking.

A particularly memorable one I stayed at was in PE,South Africa.

The toilet was in a kind of see through plastic tube.Like those ones you sometimes get around the shower.

Only this was literally in the middle of the room,between the two twin beds....

Even though the windows of the hotel are supposedly double glazed, and its supposed to be quiet, because of the location of the tour bus pick up and drop off zone, it can be quite noisy with the beeping of reversing tour buses.
And the doof doof music can still be heard.
Open plan bathroom, could mean bathroom for the wheelchair bound, ie, you can wheel yourself into the bathroom and then jump onto the fold down seat for the shower.
Does not have to mean a sink that is not in the bathroom.
I have stayed there at that hotel several times, the prices are very high, Aud$265 instead of Aud$290 if you join the Rydges PGR program, even if you have no interest in accumulating points, its the 10% off for members rate that is the sweetner.
Dayuse room availability is also a good thing.
No fuss checkout, if you are a PGR member, they do not ask for that $150 deposit, or the $100 deposit, they just take $1 from your credit or debit visa/mastercard account on checkin, which is reversed.
24 hour checkin, and checkout, walkable from and to the international terminal.
If you don't want to stay there as its expensive, you could walk around the corner, away from the airport/hotel entrance and sit on the ground if overnight, as the other cheaper hotels are quite far away.
And no, I am not spruiking the hotel.
If you want a bit of a quieter room, ask for one facing away from the runway, more towards the car park.
But then on that side, is where they park the road sweepers! Not as noisy as out the front where the bus reverses though.
O, I have also stayed there in rooms that are normal access, ie, not for the disabled.

Also doesn't mean a bathroom for wheelchair bound. You won't find one of them in the middle of a bedroom. Look at a picture of one then look at an open plan bathroom.

Stayed there 3 times and never had a sink outside the bathroom.
Ibis Budget, yes, sink outside bathroom.
Rydges Sydney Airport, never had it when I stayed with them.

And the background of the elderly parent I'll be sharing the room with. Not just my concerns.

Thank you for your extremely detailed reply. Unfortunately it didn't answer my original query.

If you consider taxi, Sydney taxis are the most expensive.
Sydney Dom airport to Sydney Int airport one Fri morning at 4.30am was nearly $30.
Including airport taxi levy.
Only 5kms!
Best of luck in your looking though.

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