It was nice to experience how people used to live in the old days. But without an elevator, it was difficult to carry my luggage up my room. The toilet and shower booth (including a bath tub) were separately located and shared with a different guest. The air conditioner was good but too loud. I had to turn it off at night. The floor was squeaky and could hear my neighbor visit the toilet. Breakfast was nice though. The place was close to the circular quay and the rocks market but hard to find the way back to the hotel. I would have liked the hotel more if I had a small luggage with me!
This is an antique hotel, so there's NO LIFE. Shower room and Loo are also shared with rooms on the same floor. Door lock is old-fashioned, so sometimes if you push it a little harder, you may end up locking the door with your keys inside. The biggest problem is that after office hour(i guess after 5-6PM or so ), no one there to ask for help. I made a phone call to "EMERGENCY CONTACT" numbers in SIGN says "contact for emergency,in non-office hour", but it was a number for office inside the building. and basically THERE IS NO ONE in that room. Of course, there was no second contact. In the early morning, I went out from my room for shower,and Like I said a stupid door locked by itself. So I could do nothing but waiting several hours, for ANYONE with spare key to OPEN it. I wasn't a pleasant experiene.
Booked this because it was included breakfast and got noticed first when We got there that they cancelled that. No one was there during the days so We could not talk about checking out early. Did not even get any compensation for No breakfast, which is WHY You book a B&B..... got very disapointed, Wi-Fi did not work in the room.
Paid double rate for private bath and the room we got. Upon checking in, we found out that our private bath was down the public hall--had to dress to leave our room to get to the "private" bath. Also had problem with the rate we paid which was almost double what was being paid for rooms on the second floor with private baths. We were on the third floor (no elevator) with our "remote" private bath.
The property is very well positioned for accessing by foot Circular Quay, many coffee shops and galleries etc. in The Rocks area and the Harbour Bridge. Unfortunately my shared bathroom and toilet were a floor above my bedroom which made it very awkward to access, via a narrow set of stairs, during the night and this was not mentioned in the description of the room I chose. You could also hear other guests moving around downstairs and in the room above and if they had been the very noisy type, it would have been a problem. The property feels like it is in need of some TLC.
Like how close it was to walk about the Harbor. Breakfast was nice with a nice court yard. There was not a view of the Harbor just a tiny peak between buildings. Was a very old building narrow stairs with noisy doors. There were plumbing leeks in bathroom and tiny flying insects. Not very clean.