Mercure Canberra

“Excellent”

I’ll start by saying we have been here before many many years ago, primarily to see the war memorial.. which again was the main reason for coming. This time, however we knew that it was just up the road from the hotel, which was fabulous.. and speaking of position, we were just up the road from th… more

I’ll start by saying we have been here before many many years ago, primarily to see the war memorial.. which again was the main reason for coming. This time, however we knew that it was just up the road from the hotel, which was fabulous.. and speaking of position, we were just up the road from the main shops in Canberra as well so that was perfect and an easy area to get to & from the main highway coming from Sydney. So the hotel, its old and there’s no getting away from that fact ,but the room inside ,well certainly ours was -pristine.. I ordered an executive King balcony room and was certainly happy with what we got. It was very large and it looked out onto a beautiful courtyard and it was a very short walk to where breakfast was held and the bistro etc.. it has a very large parking area which is fantastic at the back of the hotel.. just as well -because just about everywhere in Canberra charges for parking. We were checked in so quickly from the two lovely girls at the front desk.. and the short walk to the room ,which as I said, was very large in a good position and just pristine. And all the amenities and toiletries that you could possibly need.. now this hotel apparently ,you are allowed to bring your animals. And we had a few dogs in our area.. which was great because we love dogs and we were able to pat a few as they were being taken out for a walk. We occasionally heard a bark as the owners must’ve been going out for their breakfast or whatever, but it certainly didn’t worry us.. the breakfast was perfectly adequate with the usual toast and hot breakfast items pancakes, eggs, bacon etc, fruits and yoghurts and tea and coffee and more. Very pleasant room to have breakfast in. There’s also a lounge close by ,that then leads into a bar and bistro which we enjoyed meals at both nights we were there.. the staff were very nice and the building is very nice and I think slowly being done up. Definitely the curtains in our room seemed new , the carpets seemed fairly new.. inside all the areas was pristine and you could see everybody working on them. Beautiful gardens.. I did see a lot of scaffolding stacked to the side of the building -now whether they’re going to repaint the outside ? I’m not too sure.. but those sorts of things don’t affect my stay.. comfort in a room, nice staff and nice food is all we need and a great position in the town. We would definitely definitely stay there again.

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