City Centre & Haymarket
Fun, sexy and relaxed, this ultra-theatrical, effortlessly cool hotel is located in the historic State Theatre complex. Art deco eccentricity is…
City Centre & Haymarket
Fun, sexy and relaxed, this ultra-theatrical, effortlessly cool hotel is located in the historic State Theatre complex. Art deco eccentricity is…
Sydney
Waking up on an island in the middle of the harbour is an extraordinary Sydney experience. Bring a tent (or just sleeping bags) or 'glamp' in a two-person…
Newtown & the Inner West
One of the University of Sydney's residential colleges, this sweet spot makes a great place to stay in summer. It's a small, genuinely friendly place with…
Circular Quay & The Rocks
Any qualms about the unhostel-like prices will be shelved the moment you head up to the ample rooftop space of this sprawling, modern hostel and see the…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
When reception has a rack of shirts for sale and a beer tap it's not a standard hotel. Rooms are striking, with distressed walls, quirky features and…
Sydney
Often filled with wedding parties, or Watsons Bay locals who are renovating, this personable hotel is a great place to slip into the barefoot-millionaire…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
Modern, catchy and bold, ADGE puts a clever, upbeat twist on the ubiquitous serviced apartment experience. The idiosyncratic but extremely comfortable two…
Kings Cross & Potts Point
Superbly set in Woolloomooloo Wharf, this excellent smart-casual hotel has extremely friendly young staff and very likeable features. 'Superoo' rooms are…
City Centre & Haymarket
By Central Station, this 565-bed mega-hostel has brilliant facilities, including a travel agent, help with organising working holidays, workspaces for…
Sydney
Colourful, chic and appropriately beachy, this apartment hotel is steps from the sand and offers a very appealing combination of facilities, location and…
Sydney
Halfway between the beach and Bondi Junction train station (10 to 15 minutes' walk to either) this pleasantly scented guesthouse is great value. Rooms are…
Kings Cross & Potts Point
This expert conversion of three Victorian-era terraces adds a touch of class to leafy Victoria Street. The charming front rooms have original features and…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
This boutique hotel combines an attractive heritage building with a more modern development to great design success. Rooms range from compact 'crash pads'…
Darling Harbour & Pyrmont
In a heritage-listed wool store, this stylish gem combines industrial minimalism with the warmth of ironbark-wood beams, luxury appointments and engaged…
City Centre & Haymarket
A lovely piece of industrial renovation has converted Central Station's former parcel shed into a really appealing and relaxing hostel, in a great…
Sydney
In a tranquil pocket behind Campbell Pde, this charming place offers a homey atmosphere decorated in beachy-botanical style with rustic-chic furnishings…
Manly
Hidden away in shrubland rolling down to a beautiful harbour beach, the former quarantine station offers a wide variety of accommodation. Minibuses…
Pullman Quay Grand Sydney Harbour
Circular Quay & The Rocks
With the Opera House as its neighbour, the building complex known locally as 'The Toaster' has a scorching-hot location. These large, well-equipped and…
City Centre & Haymarket
In the former Water Board building, this slick conversion has magnificent lobby space with red pillars and glorious art deco details. There's space to…
Newtown & the Inner West
A sensitive brewery-office conversion is now a 69-room hotel in a primo Chippendale location. Rooms are well back from noisy Broadway, high-ceilinged and…
City Centre & Haymarket
In a discreet laneway, this designer boutique hotel in a refurbished 19th-century warehouse evokes Asia with its incense aromas and dark-wood fittings…
Circular Quay & The Rocks
With an old-fashioned ambience a world away from the city-slicker styling of most Sydney hotels, Sir Stamford leaves a grand first impression with its…
Sydney
In a cracking location right across the road from the beach, this relaxed, family-run affair is, thankfully, very inaccurately named. Simple, likeable…
Sydney
Have a back-to-nature experience in the heart of suburbia, staying in this campsite at Lane Cove National Park, 14km northwest of the CBD. There are…
Circular Quay & The Rocks
This deluxe boutique hotel on the site of Sydney's first hospital has undergone a chic and sympathetic transformation from colonial warehouse and workers'…
Newtown & the Inner West
There's a lot to like about this friendly, well-equipped hostel in a top location. Dorms are tight but have very decent mattresses, while bathrooms are…
Circular Quay & The Rocks
This opulent hotel eschews excessive glitz in favour of an antique ambience. It's a true five-star stay, featuring an afternoon turn-down service, an in…
Manly
An easy walk from the beach, this laid-back hostel has a distinct surf vibe. High-ceilinged en-suite dorms have modern furnishings, plenty of room to move…
Sydney
Wake up to a view of Australia's most famous beach, grab your free surfboard, cross the road and jump into the waves…you're in backpacker dreamland, right…
Kings Cross & Potts Point
This colourful hostel is the antithesis of some of the backpacker barns around the Cross, offering a warm, personal experience that feels more like a…
Circular Quay & The Rocks
At Sydney's most expensive hotel the impeccable service and facilities are second to none, as is the location on the waterfront promenade. With full…
Manly
This sumptuously decorated 1880s cottage is perched on a quiet street close to the beach and ferry wharf. The delightful host Jill only takes bookings for…
Sydney
A very cute conversion of a centenarian former Commonwealth Bank branch, this boutique hotel has 30 rooms that look very sleek in shades of grey and black…
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
A bright and breezy, no-frills hostel with a rooftop terrace and a crowded but decent communal area and 24-hour kitchen. Dorms do the job, with lockers,…
Sydney
With its sparkling waterfront, grassy sites and fab amenities, the Basin is a very popular national park campsite. Drinking water, flush toilets,…
Sydney
Set in a grand 19th-century house in a peaceful Kirribilli location very close to the ferry (or a pleasant stroll to the city across the bridge), this…
Newtown & the Inner West
A couple of minutes' walk from Newtown station and surrounded by great bars and eats, this casual hotel in a former RSL Club offers edgy industrial-styled…
Sydney
Smartly appointed and just a barefoot dash to the surf, this is a fine Bondi base on a street packed with restaurants. The apartments all have balconies…
Circular Quay & The Rocks
Offering a stunning location that's harbourside but away from the Circular Quay crowds, this ocupies one of the Walsh Bay piers with the Harbour Bridge…
Newtown & the Inner West
Get your Harry Potter on at Sydney University's first college (dating from 1857), featuring gracious sandstone buildings and well-tended gardens. Single…