Our current city-wide picks, chosen from the hotels we have reviewed. The shortlist mixes locations, styles and trip types rather than treating the most expensive properties as automatically best.
CBD & The Rocks
A hotel in a Georgian-style building at 89-113 Kent Street, in the Millers Point end of The Rocks.
Surry Hills & Darlinghurst
A small hotel in a converted 1940s film-studio building at 80 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills.
Potts Point & Woolloomooloo
A hotel inside the heritage-listed finger wharf at 6 Cowper Wharf Roadway, Woolloomooloo.
Bondi
A small historic hotel on the Bondi beachfront.
Manly
A beachfront hotel at 55 North Steyne, Manly, facing the ocean.
Newtown
A small hotel with kitchens in the rooms, a block from the Enmore Theatre in Newtown.
Position is our editorial judgement, not a score. Price is the published level of the area a hotel sits in, not a nightly rate: this site quotes none. There is no sort by rating, because we issue no rating and do not republish anyone else's. Property facts come from authoritative sources; no hotel pays for a place on this list.