PRICE:
Frommer's Recommended

It may be worth staying in this designer boutique hotel, a minute's walk from the city center, just for the experience of taking a dip in its top-floor 25m (82-ft.) lap pool, which juts out from the end of the building and overhangs the streets below. The pool has a glass bottom, so you can watch pedestrians below as you float. The rooms are similarly modern, with colorful leather seating and lots of burnished metal. Deluxe rooms differ from the Premier rooms in that they come with a bathtub. Executive suites have a separate lounge. There is high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity in all public areas, as well as Internet access in all rooms. Within the hotel is Ezard, a well-regarded restaurant offering contemporary Australian fare, and Adelphish, which claims to offer the best breakfasts in Melbourne.

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

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