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Frommer's Exceptional

The Stamford is one of Brisbane's most beautiful hotels: Brocade chairs and sofas, enormous still-life oils, gilt mirrors, and palms dot the marble lobby. It's also one of the few city hotels with river views from every room -- especially stunning from the southern rooms at night, when the Story Bridge lights up. The plush rooms are not enormous, but all fit a king-size bed or two twins. What must be the biggest bathrooms in Brisbane sport small TVs. A riverside boardwalk leads from the hotel to the Eagle Street Pier restaurants, and the Brisbane City Gardens abut the hotel. In a historic 19th-century sandstone building adjacent to the hotel is one of Brisbane's grandest fine-dining restaurants, Siggi's, which also boasts a wine and tapas bar. Facilities: 3 restaurants; 3 bars; small outdoor heated lap pool; health club; Jacuzzi; sauna; bike rental; concierge; tour desk; car-rental desk; business center; salon; 24-hr. room service; in-room massage; babysitting; dry cleaning; 24-hr. butler service (for a fee); nonsmoking rooms

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Australia 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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