West Hotel, Sydney, a Curio by Hilton hotel

[moa999]

Have an upcoming stay booked, but the Hilton SYD has dropped substantially so considering switching over. Would anyone who has stayed at the Curio say it is worth foregoing exec lounge etc? Considering I've not stayed at Hilton SYD in almost a year, not liking my chances of any considerable upgrades despite staying weekly in years passed.

At the same price definitely take H SYD. It's far more of a 5* hotel.
As well as more upgrade potential, just in the base rooms the rooms are bigger, and you have a proper wardrobe (as noted above its an open hanger in most of the West rooms)

Plus as Diamond (and often Gold) you get EL at H SYD.
One caveat on H SYD is that Glass is closed for renovations until mid-Feb... For the last 2 wks breakfast has been in the conference rooms on Lev2 - which is actually a bigger space than Glass used to be and quite good, but from today it moves upstairs to Lev 4 in the Zeta Bar area (and I expect it might be a bit cramped)

 

[turtlemichael]

At the same price definitely take H SYD. It's far more of a 5* hotel.
As well as more upgrade potential, just in the base rooms the rooms are bigger, and you have a proper wardrobe (as noted above its an open hanger in most of the West rooms)

Plus as Diamond (and often Gold) you get EL at H SYD.
One caveat on H SYD is that Glass is closed for renovations until mid-Feb... For the last 2 wks breakfast has been in the conference rooms on Lev2 - which is actually a bigger space than Glass used to be and quite good, but from today it moves upstairs to Lev 4 in the Zeta Bar area (and I expect it might be a bit cramped)

And from January 20 breakfast in HSYD moves to the meeting facilities on Level 4. It is a case of follow that breakfast!

I agree that with lounge access I would go for HSYD over WSYD. It would take a big price differential to make me opt for WSYD. Having said that, I did like WSYD though, for a lengthy stay, the lack of wardrobe and cupboard space would annoy me. I have a one night stay next month where the price strongly favours WSYD and it will probably win out for that reason.

 

[QF WP]

Wow, I was hoping to snag a cheaper price than the HSYD for 24 May, but it's too high for my pockets (West $394 AAA rate versus HSYD $474 with Hilton Disc):

 

[boomy]

At the same price definitely take H SYD. It's far more of a 5* hotel.
As well as more upgrade potential, just in the base rooms the rooms are bigger

Did I read that correctly, are the base rooms in CSYD smaller than HSYD?! I’m surprised because I find the latter to have the smallest base (and exec rooms) than almost any 5* hotel I’ve ever stayed at.

 

[moa999]

Think the smallest Hilton room is 28sqm.

The Curio suites are listed at 46sqm, which would make standard rooms 23sqm