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 | Best Western The Astor Metropole Hotel: Good Accommodation, Walk to City Centre
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 Astor Metropole Hotel, Tower
Apartments at Rear by Mikebb, 4 more photos
rated 4 star. Room cost was AU$140 per night
Character hotel ( original section), 5 minute walk to the City's central business and shopping area.
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| Best Western The Astor Metropole Hotel: Worst hotel ever!
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Some of the "fun" that we encountered:
1) Slow lifts (that we believe were operated by arthritic monkeys pulling on ropes and pulleys).
2) No assistance in locating our room (the building is like an evil M.C. Escher painting).
3) No free champagne / chocolates (as advertised with our booking) and when my girlfriend asked about them, she was ushered back and forth between two reception areas, and was finally abruptly told "will you just take a seat and wait?".
4) The rooms were appalling, with: chipped paint; exposed chipboard in the bathroom; leftover "hair" from a previous guest in the bathroom; a wall-mounted hair dryer that appeared to be a relic of the cold war; a television (with woeful reception) on a cupboard (you could watch by raising your head to about 75 degree angle) with no remote control (you could change channels on tippy toes; a brilliant window view of a wall; sounds of other guests all around (we shared their love); Cracks in the window glass; stains in the carpet (actually stains everywhere).
5) Had to pay to park our car on-site (this was a new one for us), in a car-compactor (which was operated by a rude non-English speaking Eastern European).
6) The free champagne / chocolates, which did eventually arrive, weren't worth the hassle (faux "maltesers" and some "one step up from a cask wine" champagne).
7) The corridors were so small, that upon trying to leave the building on the check-out day, we were trapped behind a staff member who was removing luggage from a suitcase trolley into a storage area - he didn't even stop to let us by, or apologise for keeping us waiting.
8) The car compactor operator on the morning came to help me retrieve my car, and informed me, that: they sometimes get cars stuck in the machine for up to 2 days; that he had finished his shift at 5am that morning, and was back because several of the staff called in sick (he informed me that "heads would roll").
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