Sheraton Four Points Sydney
TRAVEL COMMENT, Sydney — Tonight I am in the glamorous Sydney, in the Four Points Sheraton at Darling Harbour (actually the old Hotel Nikko).
After having spent my day in the not so glamorous suburban Parramatta.
Tonight I had an evening meeting in the city, so am staying in the Four Points. This is near Darling Harbour which is a leisure precinct backing onto a part of the Town Hall are business district of Kent and York St, where my meeting was.
I have a harbour-view suite, so it is rather nice, and also a bottle of wine waiting for me. Just got back from dinner with a colleague and a friend.
I have attached some photos. Actually the rooms here are mostly rather nice, as are the amenities. Suites and executive rooms are better of course.
The main issue I have with Sydney is the vast amount of pretentious wankers, and the lack of service. Service in hotels in Sydney is like in London (ie. they are more important than the guests).
Sydney-siders and big-city Australians are becoming amongst the worst pack of wankers (if you don’t know what that means it’s slang for pretentious.) anywhere in the world.
A flight steward today commented to me how rude people are getting in Australia. How nobody has any manners any more.
Thankfully Australia still has country (not city) people to redeem it from total pretentiousness.
Anyway, this is the hotel. It’s nice enough. I stay here every now and then.
The hotel is well designed, being a single corridor all the way long, reducing guest noise. And also has easy access in and out of the city, as well as nice views of Darling Harbour.
So by Sydney standards, a nice place to stay. If you don’t notice the wankers.
Sydney is Not easy…
Had the nicest Syrian taxi driver on the way over.
Like most honest people I meet, he was struggling with how to support a family in Sydney, in the face of rising costs every week.
I barely had the heart to tell him that he’s not alone, judging by the many nice migrants who find Australia an expensive place to live at current.
Sydney is not a value for money place to live. Even when compared with so-called expensive cities like Paris. But more on that later.
Take care
Christopher
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