Published in Global Traveler
With two world-class sights, Sydney’s Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, right outside its windows, it may not be an exaggeration to claim the Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney offers the world’s best hotel views. More than 90 percent of the 565 rooms offer water vistas and those rooms are so comfortable and well-designed they almost give the views a run for the money.
Recently renovated, in satisfying palettes of brown and blue or beige and gray in the upper Horizon Club floors, the spaces are devised “to offer every possible amenity” —giant beds with silky linens, free WiFi, roomy wooden consoles, compartmentalized drawers providing extras from tape/markers/staplers in the desk to wine glasses/openers/cups for refreshments to flashlights in the bed table stands along with copies of Lost Horizon, the book about paradise and serenity that inspired the Shangri-La name. Read More