Best Hotels in Newcastle: Boutique Stays, Beachside Accommodation and the Hunter's Finest Hotels
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From the QT Newcastle to the Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley, the Crystalbrook Kingsley, and the city's finest boutique and beachside hotel experiences, here is the guide.
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Newcastle's hotel market has improved significantly alongside the city's urban renewal, with the QT Newcastle (in the heritage Rydges building adjacent to the Newcastle Railway Station), the Crystalbrook Kingsley (the city's newest full-service hotel), and the growing boutique hotel and guesthouse sector providing accommodation of a quality that the pre-renewal Newcastle market could not support. The Hunter Valley wine country boutique lodge sector (the Lodge at Hungerford Hill, Spicers Vineyard Estate) provides a luxury accommodation alternative for visitors seeking a wine country experience.
QT Newcastle (Cnr Scott and King Streets Newcastle CBD) — the QT Newcastle is the city's most design-forward hotel, housed in the heritage Rydges building adjacent to the Newcastle Railway Station, with the QT brand's commitment to art, design, and distinctive hospitality service creating a Newcastle hotel experience of metropolitan quality. The Ethel restaurant and bar, the heritage building architecture, and the proximity to the Hunter Street CBD revival precinct make the QT Newcastle the preferred address for the design-conscious Newcastle visitor.
Crystalbrook Kingsley (26 Bolton Street Newcastle CBD) — the Crystalbrook Kingsley is Newcastle's newest and most complete full-service hotel, with 170 rooms and suites, the Botanica restaurant, the Bobby Bar rooftop, and the Crystalbrook group's commitment to sustainability creating a hotel experience of contemporary luxury in the Newcastle CBD. The rooftop Bobby Bar views over the Newcastle CBD are among the finest elevated views in the city.
Hunter Valley wine country accommodation (Pokolbin) — the Hunter Valley boutique lodge and guesthouse sector (the Lodge at Hungerford Hill, Spicers Vineyard Estate, the Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort) provides Newcastle and Sydney visitors with luxury wine country accommodation within 45 minutes of the Newcastle CBD. The Lodge at Hungerford Hill (De Bortoli Wines' Pokolbin property) and Spicers Vineyard Estate are the most acclaimed boutique wine country stays in the Hunter.
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