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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Melbourne Prince Hotel luxury five star accommodations: Travel Melbourne Today in Luxury Style
A five star hotel that is unpretentious but has attitude, the Prince Hotel Melbourne located in the Victoria Province of Australia is one of the leading hotel retreat destinations in the country. With a great selection of fine dining, parking, events, bars, public rooms and decks, the Melbourne Prince Hotel is exceptional in every way.
More about the New Prince Hotel Melbourne Five Star Luxury Accommodations
Located in the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia, The Prince Hotel is a five star boutique accommodation hotel that provides style, substance and the most incredible services and facilities you have ever experienced in a resort hotel along Australia’s incredible coastline. From views of both Melbourne’s destination attractions as well as the pretty Port Phillip Bay, there are many things to do even within the Prince Melbourne 5 star luxury hotel that is not found anywhere else in Victoria. These include exceptional dining experiences at one of two restaurants called the iL Fornaio or the Circa or you can take a stroll among the public guest arcades at the Prince Hotel Melbourne boutique accommodation complex through the Mink, open decks, The Prince Bar or the bandroom. In addition, the Melbourne Prince Hotel is a five star Spa Retreat at the Aurora as well and you can also order room service twenty four hours a day. Much like a high-end cruise, everything is taken care of for you, the guest, at the Prince Hotel in Melbourne Australia. So if you are planning your travel trip to Australia, consider Melbourne’s Prince Hotel as your destination resort.
Clean and modern are the boutique guest rooms and suites at the Prince Hotel Melbourne accommodations
If you are looking for aethestically pleasing guestrooms and pampering suites, the Melbourne Prince Hotel in Australia’s most amazing area of Victoria province will provide you exactly that. All hotel rooms and suites at the Prince Melbourne are completely unique, so no two floor plans or layouts are the same. With the most modern of amenities and hotel room features, the Melbourne Hotel Prince in Australia will provide Bose WAVE radios and Loewe televisions and DVD players for your boutique hotel room experience. In addition, all guest suites at The Prince Melbourne Australia will have high speed internet access for those business travelers as well as for Australia travel goers who want to stay in contact with friends and family through email and the boutique five star hotel guestrooms and suites also come with modems and the most comfortable bedding and bathrobes for your enjoyment. Amazing views out to the ocean and surrounding skyline are part of your hotel experience at the Prince Melbourne boutique accommodations, so spoil yourself and book your next trip to Australia now.
Guestroom and Suite Rates and Packages at the Melbourne boutique Prince Hotel
There are four room types and suites at this prestigious 5 star hotel in Melbourne, Australia starting with Single Rooms which have a double bed and ensuite with shower. They are perfect for single occupancy and are only two hundred Australian dollars per night. The Deluxe Room at the boutique Melbourne Prince Hotel luxury accommodations is a double room that can either have a double or queen size bed for you. Alhtough some of the Deluxe Suites face inside, there are many boutique five star guest suites that face the vistas. The Prince Hotel Deluxe Rooms are three hundred and five dollars per evening. The high end Superior Rooms at the Prince Hotel Melbourne guest rooms have expansive balconies that overlook the exciting Fitzroy Street as well as the Port Phillip Bay. These luxury guest rooms start from three hundred and sixty AUD per night. Last but not least are the Premier Suites at the boutique Melbourne Prince Hotel which are six hundred and thirty Australian dollars per evening and host designer appointments, open plans with lounge areas, king bed and the most impressive balcony views of the bay. A Phillippe Starck bath and ensuites are also featured at the Premier Suites at the Melbourne Prince Hotel in Australia travel vacations. The packages offered by this 5 star hotel in Melbourne, Australia change regularly, so please visit the Prince Hotel website for more details by clicking on ‘packages’ here: theprince.com.au/flash/start.html. Currently, the Melbourne boutique Prince Hotel is offering a Circa or Stokehouse Dinner Package, Aurora Spa Package and the Spa & Circa or Stokehouse Dinner Package. For reservation booking to the Melbourne boutique luxury Prince Hotel five star accommodations in Australia, either email them at thedesk@theprince.com.au or visit the online booking agent for the Prince Hotel website at https://agent.synxis.com/bar/BarServlet?stage=start&cid=LE&hid=PRINCE&url=http://www.theprince.com.au&hea=frontoffice@theprince.com.au&bookingSource=HOT. You can also find a map with directions online by visiting the Prince Hotel web site and the physical location of this Melbourne five star retreat hotel and boutique accommodations is at 2 Acland Street, St Kilda Victoria 3182 in Australia and their phone number is 61 3 9536 1111.
Aurora Spa Retreat at the Prince Hotel in Melbourne Australia
If you are traveling or looking for a spa getaway, the Melbourne Prince Hotel presents the Aurora Spa Retreat that rejunivates the body, mind and soul. Form the most comprehensive treatments for spa and massages in Australia, the Prince Hotel boutique Aurora Spa is calming and provides individual thermal water therapies, skincare treatments, bodycare, wellness retreats and special packages for all hotel guests. The incredibly boutique Aurora Spa Retreat Prince Hotel Melbourne is open every day at ten in the morning (except on Saturdays, the Prince Aurora Spa opens at nine) and they are closed on public holidays. For the official Melbourne Prince Hotel Aurora Spa Retreat website, please visit aurorasparetreat.com.
Labels: Australia Travel, Five Star Accommodations, Luxury Hotels, Melbourne Cuisine, Melbourne Travel, Prince Hotel Melbourne
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Melbourne on the Menu
Long touted as Australian’s food capital, Melbourne is also making its mark on Hong Kong. Published in Discovery – February 2007.
With the opening of chef Geoff Lindsay’s Pearl On the Peak restaurant, Hong Kong has been enjoying a taste of Melbourne in a truly stunning location. Lindsay’s innovative approach and his commitment to the art of food and interior design are typical of the current crop of chefts who are reshaping and reinventing Melbourne’s restaurant scene.
Over the past few months, Australia’s most cosmopolitan city has seen an explosion in exciting casual and fine-dining options. It’s no surprise that British TV chef Jamie Oliver chose the city to open his first restaurant in the Asia-Pacific region. Fifteen Melbourne (Tel +613 8648 6000).
Among other newcomers, award-winning chef George Calombaris has opened his lnog-awaited restaurant. The Press Club (Tel: +613 9677 9677) at the former Herald & Weekly Times newspaper building in Flinders Street. The beautifully designed basement space features an open kitchen from which Calombaris sends out traditional Greek cuisine with a modern twist.
Teage Ezard, well known to Hong Kong diners for establishing the Opia restaurant at the boutique Jia Hotel in Causeway Bay, has opened a second restaurant in Melbourne; Gingerboy (Tel: +613 9662 4200), in fashionable Crossley Street, dishes up Ezard’s take on hawker-style Asian dishes such as taro dumplings with minced porl, deep-fried oysters and caramelized Wagyu ox cheeks.
Wagyu steaks feature on the menu of Neil Perry’s new Rockpool Bar & Grill (Tel: +613 8648 1900), along with King Island chicken, wood-fired tuna and whole abalone. The former Cecconi’s site at the Crown Casino Complex can accommodate 200 people with an informal bar and separate dining room and an outdoor terrace.
Over in the revamped Melbourne Central shopping complex, restaurant entrepreneur Paul Mathis has surprised diners again with SOS (Tel: +613 9654 0808), a “veg-aquarian” diner serving seafood and vegetarian dishes. All the seafood is “ethically harvested and sustainable, taking environmentally friendly eating to new heights – or depths”.
Well-loved Barcelona style tapas bar Mo Vida now has some serious competition in the form of Bar Lourinha (Tel: +613 9663 7890) in Little Collins Street. Beautifully decorated with elaborate light fittings and cosy tables, this atmospheric bar is the place to sip a glass of Spanish red and nibble on snacks like thinkly sliced kingfish, confit rabbit pastries and orange blossom crema.
There’s more European Style to be found at Commer Kitchen (Tel: +613 9631 4000) in Alfred Place, where southern French and Spanish food is on offer, as well as a serious list of 350 fine wines. Expect fantastic steak bordelaise, braised, pork belly and rare grilled ocean trout. The luxurious Comme Wine Room is perfect for an after-dinner drink.
Lastly, excellent modern Thai/Asian food is behind the success of Longrain (Tel: +613 8671 3151) which has opened into a converted warehouse at the corner of Little Bourke Street and Punch Lane in Melbourne’s Bustling Chinatown. The large, communal tables create a welcoming banquet atmosphere and the menu from famed chef Martin Boetz is a unique blend of modern Asian cuisines. Artworks decorate the space and include a giant sea anenome sculpture.
If all this is not a great reason to visit Melbourne, next month the city will be hosting the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival from 16 to 30 March, a must-do experience for gourmets, which showcases the best of all Victoria’s food and wine regions at more than 150 statewide events.
For full details, see www.visitmelbourne.com.
Labels: cafes, Casual Dining, Formal, Hip, Melbourne Cuisine, Melbourne Travel, Menu, Restaurants, Trendy, Where to Eat


