HotelAdelphi Melbourne

This "designer boutique hotel" is only "a minute's walk from the city center". The author recommends it especially for its glass bottomed "top-floor 25m lap pool", which "overhangs the streets below". The "modern" guest rooms contain "colorful leather seating and lots of burnished metal". The Ezard is a "well-regarded" restaurant that offers "modern Australian fare". Although the author suggests that the hotel's service could do with improvement. Frommers has allocated a one star rating to the hotel, indicating that they highly recommend it.

Pedestrians will be astonished if they look up when walking down Flinders Lane and see "one of the most peculiar images" - swimmers 8-floors above them doing laps in the Adelphi's "one of a kind" cantilevered pool. But the pool is "more than an attention-grabbing gimmick" - it's "an appropriate metaphor" for the hotel which is "adventurous and unconventional" without any sign of "compromise". It's a "progressively minded, street smart" hotel that thumbs its nose at hotel conventionality and is located in a converted urban warehouse. The architects are Denton Corker Marsahall - also known as [more]