The Hotel Realm

c_c™ said :

thebrownstreak69 said :

Expensive and generic. A good environment for posers.

How is it expensive? Most night a ‘Realm Room’ is $275. I can tell you interstate you’d struggle to get a 5 star at that price on a weekday unless you book far in advance . Which brings up another thing, where as a lot of 5 star places have a bell curve for their rates which favours very short notice and very far notice bookings, Realm’s rates remain fairly constant regardless of the amount of notice.

I’m not saying Realm is perfect, but let’s not just make stuff up.

Really? It’s pricey for what it is I reckon.

thebrownstreak69 said :

Expensive and generic. A good environment for posers.

How is it expensive? Most night a ‘Realm Room’ is $275. I can tell you interstate you’d struggle to get a 5 star at that price on a weekday unless you book far in advance . Which brings up another thing, where as a lot of 5 star places have a bell curve for their rates which favours very short notice and very far notice bookings, Realm’s rates remain fairly constant regardless of the amount of notice.

I’m not saying Realm is perfect, but let’s not just make stuff up.

Expensive and generic. A good environment for posers.

We went and had some Sunday afternoon drinks there about a month ago, and the place was overrun with screaming children (some sort of christening / baby related thing) Not the sort of thing you really want in a bar environment.

A family friend stayed at Hotel Realm this month. Her tip from the experience is: Order your breakfast the night before.

Unlike a normal 5-star hotel, you can’t wake up in the morning and choose your breakfast via room service.

But who decides and places their breakfast order the night before when staying at an upmarket hotel? Isn’t that one of the luxuries of a ritzy place?

Patrons might be less disappointed if they are actively forewarned of this strange practice.

I MC’d a function there a couple of months ago and they were pretty good. The food was great, the service was friendly, and they were pretty responsive to extra requests. A couple of technical hitches, none of them overly major. I had the sense they were still a tad new at the game then, but trying hard to make up for lack of experience.

The decor’s a bit hospital-clean-white-surfaces for my liking, but the ballroom’s a ballroom. Good acoustics and A/V facilities.

From the ashes of the Macquarie Hostel rises Realm. Ah the Macquarie…. memories.

boring!

hmmmm somewhat – not exactly painting a picture with your words, but that’s ok because it allows me to sample it without too much prejudice.

Duke said :

@peterh – instead of just telling us how great the food and service was, why not make an attempt at a proper restaurant review? Where exactly is Konoba (address?), what is the theme, what dishes did you and the group order??? – descriptions please!

How much for entres/ mains approximately? Decor? Ambience? Did you tip?

For somebody who had “never had such a great culinary experience” this post is awful scant on details.

right.

the food:

I had an oven baked eye fillet on a bed of baked mushrooms, one of my guests had the same, the other had the fish of the day.

there was a lunch special, 1 course and a drink for $18.00. the fish was extra, but I did not mind.

it was a bit loud, being packed out, but after our meal, over a good cup of coffee, we found that we were the only ones in there, the staff were in no rush to kick us out. They explained that there were several patrons that continued into the afternoon, with coffee and discussions.

new / modern decor, no tip, konoba is on national circuit in barton in the Hotel Realm.

better?