Overlooking Sydney’s beautiful harbour and set within Double Bay’s designer fashion boutique, restaurant and cafe precinct, the hotel is an oasis of tranquillity just 10 minutes from the city centre.
The first level reception area immediately reinforces the Stamford Plaza Double Bay’s credentials. It’s here that the guest first really appreciates the hotel’s magnificent collectionof antiques, conservatively valued at more than $3.5 million. Nineteenth Century china is subtly lit from within antique mahogany sideboards, and the reception area boasts a magnificent Louis XV style Fleur de Perle marble fireplace, above which a certain Captain Shipton frolics in a gentlemanly fashion with his decorous family.
The display of fine art throughout the hotel’s public areas doesn’t end there – the rooms and passageways also boast beautiful artworks that give the hotel a unique ‘home away from home’ feeling.
Many of Stamford Plaza Double Bay’s guest rooms also have floor to ceiling French doors opening onto spacious balconies that are the perfect vantage point to gaze at the yachts and sailboats drifting across the harbour. Stepping out into the beautiful internal courtyard, onefinds one’s self in what feels like a miniature version of Kensington Gardens, complete with paved paths, fragrant flowers, large urns and box hedges. In summer, the stone benches and colourful flowers in the courtyard beckon for evening aperitifs. Manly, Bondi, The Botanical Gardens, Watsons Bay, Taronga Zoo, Darling Harbour and much more are all short ferry trips fromthe newly renovated wharf in Double Bay. Great day trips from Sydney include the Blue Mountains and the Three Sisters, the vineyards of The Hunter Valley and Dolphin watching at Port Stephens. Stamford Plaza Double Bay is the perfect location for a weekend escape.
There’s no need to leave the hotel if you want to dine like a king in Baygrill Restaurant, renowned for its mouth-watering menu that combines great classic traditions with a crisp, clean and contemporary edge.
Stamford Plaza Double Bay is also unsurpassed as a conference venue. With eleven rooms to choose from, the hotel is able to accommodate events from a small meeting to a gala dinner for up to 400 guests in the magnificent Raffles Ballroom.
Stamford Plaza Double Bay is the ‘home away from home’ of business leaders, showbiz celebrities and American Presidents. And it’s at the famous Winstons Lounge, named after the cigar-loving British Prime Minister, that they’ll be found at the end of the day, or at the sumptuous afternoon tea served daily.
The Walls of Winstons attest to the calibre of its guests, with photos that are a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of world celebrities, including Joan Sutherland, John Travolta, Elton John, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, the late Princess Diana, Shirley MacLaine, Nicole Kidman and many more. A walk through the room for this reason alone is rewarding, and enriches any visit to the hotel.