This is one place where it's worth paying extra for an upper-floor, sea- and sunset-facing room. The rooms are modern, if starting to show their age a little; they get mixed reviews from travellers, but they're still stylish. Breathe the sea air on your balcony or descend into the kidney-shaped swimming pool, one of the best-looking puddles in Darwin.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Darwin attractions

1. Crocosaurus Cove

0.14 MILES

If the tourists won't go out to see the crocs, then bring the crocs to the tourists. Right in the middle of Mitchell St, Crocosaurus Cove is as close as…

2. Bicentennial Park

0.17 MILES

Bicentennial Park runs the length of Darwin's waterfront and Lameroo Beach, which inhabits a sheltered cove popular in the '20s when it housed the…

3. Lyons Cottage

0.22 MILES

Just across the road from Bicentennial Park, Lyons Cottage was built in 1925. It was Darwin's first stone residence, formerly housing executives from the…

4. Lameroo Beach

0.25 MILES

Darwin's only downtown beach, unless you count the sliver of sand at the waterfront precinct… It's sheltered from the city on the hill above by vegetation.

5. Cenotaph

0.34 MILES

Commemorates Australian servicemen and women.

6. Aquascene

0.4 MILES

At Doctors Gully, an easy walk from the north end of the Esplanade, Aquascene runs a remarkable fish-feeding frenzy at high tide. Visitors, young and old,…

7. Parliament House

0.47 MILES

At the southern end of Mitchell St is the elegantly boxlike Parliament House, which opened in 1994. Reminiscent of Southeast Asian colonial architecture,…

8. Chinese Museum & Chung Wah Temple

0.49 MILES

This excellent little museum explores Chinese settlement in the Top End. The adjacent temple has a hushed interior, punctuated by scarlet lanterns and…