Rydges Hobart in Hobart

It seems to be a national trust protected building. Place has has been recently touched up but standards of are slipping.
Staff in the dining room and bar were lovely.
Strange that there is no dinner in their dining room or room service on Sundays or Mondays. Not 4 star by any means.

The only real question is; would I stay there again? Erh, no.
I have said repeatedly, do not let architects design rooms, particularly bathrooms. A nice big room with high ceilings(+), large bathroom (+), bench with sink (+), but (many negatives),
bed with huge foot end which obscures the TV,
the TV is cheap & really not worth even trying to use so woeful is the menu,
NO powerpoints either side of the bed head (how can any serious hotel not have phone charging points near the bedhead),
the room is not private because the windows open out to pedestrians, even the bathroom (no frosted glass, only hard to use blinds),
there was a great opportunity to screen off the dunny easily, but no, full excrement smell is there for all to enjoy,
the bench is too high and the sink is very "architectural" meaning it is too small and wrongly oriented,
another guest welcome not used is the electric kettle in a cupboard and not on the bench. (Why make it hard for tired guests),
I could go on but will finish with the shower, aah the shower, yet another example of design by an architect - looks impressive but practicality nosedives; no shelf for your own soap, crappy tile work, mould on the grout, an ineffective fan that doubles for dunny duty, a useless towel rail, ...........

Like so many hotels, it falls short by poor design and execution. The staff were good, the restaurant nice but food taste experience pedestrian (but so are the tastes of many guests, to be fair), but the bed was comfortable.

Were on second floor of main hotel and there were no lifts so had to carry everything up the stairs. Room was very spacious but the shower drain was slow and the main shower would overflow due to this. Also, when the room was refreshed the tea bags were not replaced. Great position and quiet but just a few oddities.