I spent a week in Hobart last month and stayed at the Hotel Grand Chancellor. The rooms were nice and comfortable and, with a harbour view room looking out to Constitution Dock, I really could not complain about looking out the window either.
The internet, regardless of whether it is by Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi, is agonisingly slow and extortionately expensive, even compared to 5-star hotels on the mainland. If they had NBN speeds, I can see myself willingly paying the charges instead of using my own 4G mobile broadband, but otherwise the trusty mobile broadband is best.
Three things that I would count as strikes against staying there again:
1/ The room service menu is very limited - not that this matters on sunny days and dry nights with the restaurants and Salamanca Place within close proximity, but on cold, windy, and rainy days and nights (Welcome to Hobart, Tasmania) then this is quite an issue. That said, the Tasman Restaurant had fantastic food and excellent service.
2/ I don't think I have been to an Australian capital city hotel charging more than $200 a night that offers only 3 Foxtel channels (Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, and Sky News). For the first time in my life, I found myself buying a hotel movie to watch at the end of a work day with nothing much to do (and no, not that kind of movie).
3/ The service is not the best. The reception and concierge staff are compulsorily courteous rather than genuinely friendly and attentive.
If anyone has a good suggestion for a good business hotel (unlike the Henry Jones, which is really a leisure hotel) in Hobart, please let me know, for I shall be going back there soon enough.
The internet, regardless of whether it is by Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi, is agonisingly slow and extortionately expensive, even compared to 5-star hotels on the mainland. If they had NBN speeds, I can see myself willingly paying the charges instead of using my own 4G mobile broadband, but otherwise the trusty mobile broadband is best.
Three things that I would count as strikes against staying there again:
1/ The room service menu is very limited - not that this matters on sunny days and dry nights with the restaurants and Salamanca Place within close proximity, but on cold, windy, and rainy days and nights (Welcome to Hobart, Tasmania) then this is quite an issue. That said, the Tasman Restaurant had fantastic food and excellent service.
2/ I don't think I have been to an Australian capital city hotel charging more than $200 a night that offers only 3 Foxtel channels (Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, and Sky News). For the first time in my life, I found myself buying a hotel movie to watch at the end of a work day with nothing much to do (and no, not that kind of movie).
3/ The service is not the best. The reception and concierge staff are compulsorily courteous rather than genuinely friendly and attentive.
If anyone has a good suggestion for a good business hotel (unlike the Henry Jones, which is really a leisure hotel) in Hobart, please let me know, for I shall be going back there soon enough.
