Name: Crest Hotel
Address: 111 Darlinghurst Rd, New South Wales 2011, Australia, Sydney, Sydney, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Rating: 5

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Crest Hotel

Have never been to this pub before in Sylvania. Food was nice and good value for money. Great specials the burger and beer for $10 was great. Nice atmosphere and plenty of room. Friendly staff and great facilities. Will be back when next in the Shire.

The Crest Hotel was a good comfortable place to stay. If you are a budget traveller and you want a SAFE place to stay, this is a place I would recommend. Its in Kings Cross which is in a red light district, but the GOOD side to this is the food. THe food is amazing on Darlinghurst Street. You can get pizza, kebabs, indian food, thai, malaysian, chinese - you  name it. And very cheap prices! Best of all,
they are open all night. The street has peddlers who ask for money and
you might see some red light workers on the streets in the early hours
of the morning or late at night but having stayed here twice I had no problems. 

The views were incredible, the bed although it was old was comfortable
and clean. The sheets were clean. I took off the main cover. The bathroom was clean. It came with a table and a basic tv, an alarm clock that worked (this is very important). 

Overall, for 80 dollars or so and for its central location close to Elizabeth bay and the harbour views to the opera house I would have to say I was satisfied. What more could you ask for on such a cheap price? Seriously you get what you  pay for and a little extra here. IF you can handle the fact that the hotel is old 70's style hotel and needs a renovation then you will be most pleased. 

Sydney hotels this close to the harbour dont come cheap, and I guarantee you that no place, no matter hoe expensive does not come with the range and diversity of food choices as this place. Take a step out of the hotel and you will be amazed. For $10 dollars I got 2 curries, 2 tandoori chickens and 2 slices of pizza.

You go anywhere else and you will pay almost $20 dollars for that.
Also the hotel is within walking distance of the botanical gardens. I stayed at Manly once, and it required a ferry and a bus and cost me almost 50 dollars return. 

With regards to safety in Kings Cross - this is my advice for you. The
only way you might get into problems is if you actively look for this kind of thing. If you walk down the street  at a brisk pace and dont stop like I did, you can avoid any troubles.

Hopefully some people out there will be agreeing with me. As with anything - you get what you pay for - THIS PLACE - you get what you pay for and extra.

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Crest Hotel - Cheap and Reasonable

The Crest is inexpensive compared to most Sydney hotels and you'll soon see why: it's located in the heart of King's Cross, the red-light district.  True the area is more unsavoury than dangerous but criminality is usually comcomitant with these types of locales.  They also suffer from neglect by the municipal authorities e.g. the state of the footpaths was lamentable in King's Cross.  The street the hotel is on can be noisy and chaotic at night, my sleep was frequently interrupted.  This can be countered by earplugs, what a shame the smell of must in the room couldn't so easily be cancelled out.  I found reception staff to be rude and unhelpful and breakfast was below average although there is a nice cafe called 'The Fountain' just up the road and the 'Bourbon Hotel' is good for food too.  Despite the apparent slew of 'entertainment' options in the area, there actually isn't any decent bar to drink in and we often resorted to bringing off-licence to our room or better still, frequenting cool bars in the Rocks and Harbour Districts.  There is a bus that goes from King's Cross down the the Harbour but it can be time consuming during daytime traffic.  
Try to get a hotel nearer Darling Harbour/The Rocks/Downtown and take a trip to Manly rather than wasting half a day going to the overhyped Bondi Beach

A knockin shop!

I stayed at the Crest hotel for two nights in April. I had a room on the 14th floor. And indeed it looked nothing like the photos on the hotel-website. There were stains in the carpet, the in-room fridge did not work. Some of the light switches were cracked. In the bathroom there was mold in the shower and plaster peeled off the ceiling...so far so bad. 

But the hotel is in a great location, good restaurants and bars nearby, excellent train and bus connections to all major city-attractions. And since I only  needed the room to sleep and not to hang out all day, I must say the room smelled surprisingly fresh, the beds were clean and comfy, and I got an unbeatable rate considering it was easter-weekend.


Yes, the place is run down....but...

The service was appaling. They were not at ll interested in serving guests and when one person in our party told the bar man that he was perceived as being condacending he couldn't care less, he even told us so!

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