The Hughenden Hotel, Sydney, NEW SOUTH WALES
Airing Date: Jun 20th, 2005
The Hughenden has been many things - a Masonic Hall, a guest house, nurses home, a dance hall and even a college. It has 36 boutique rooms and some of the rooms even cater especially for pets.
To complete this experience Shelley sat down to enjoy the traditional colonial High Tea.
The Woollahra Paddington area of Sydney has the largest expanse of Colonial Victorian Architecture in Australia. Visitors to this area can now stay in one of these lovely buildings - The Hughenden.
The buildings varied past - a Masonic Hall, a guest house, nurses home, a dance hall and even a college, add to the character of this eccentric but charming boutique hotel.
This gracious Victorian Manor was built in 1870 by Dr Frederick Harrison Quaife and was named after British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli's home in High Wycombe England.
Guests are encouraged to walk the corridors and rooms to discover the hidden treasures the Hughenden Hotel offers, such as the wrought-iron grand staircase, black marble fireplace, the servants' bell, grand pianos, rocking horses and other eccentricities of the past.
To complete the experience of yesteryear, you can sit down to enjoy a traditional Colonial High Tea.
The Hughenden has 36 boutique rooms, each offering a special experience but with the comforts of today.
The Manor Room, Dr Quaife's original bedroom overlooks Centennial Parklands.
The hotel is also one of the few pet friendly hotels in Sydney with pet rooms where pets are treated as special guests with their own patios.
Further Information:
Rooms at the Hughenden Boutique Hotel start from $148 a double & $128 a single.
Includes breakfast.
The hotel is located at 14 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW
The Hughenden Boutique Hotel Ph) 1800 64 24 32
www.hughendenhotel.com.au.
