Australia Independent Travel | Perth City Accommodation | Citadines St Georges Terrace Apartments Perth | The Most Convenient Business District in the City Center | Three Room Types Reviewed
The lively part of central Perth isn't all that big. When searching for hotels, the options roughly break down into the Northbridge area, the stretch between Elizabeth Quay and Perth Station, or the eastern area, which also has plenty of accommodation.
- Northbridge area: Lined with shops; many restaurants, bars and most of the nightlife are here.
- Elizabeth Quay to Perth Station: This area has the famous tourist attractions, and it's very convenient for getting to Hay Street or Elizabeth Quay. It's also the closest area to Kings Park.
- Eastern area: Hotel prices here are usually a bit more affordable and there are quite a few to choose from, but it's a little far from the attractions. It's only close to Heirisson Island (Kangaroo Island); otherwise you need to take a bus to reach the busier areas.
📜 Information
- Length of stay: seven nights (including the weekend)
- Room types booked: Deluxe Studio, Executive Studio, Premier Studio (all without breakfast)
- Price: NT$34,072 (total for all three room types)
- Payment: credit cards accepted
- Address: 185 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA
- Phone: +61892263355
- Booking site: https://www.booking.com/hotel/au/theterrace.zh-tw.html?aid=8003516
- Official website: Citadines St Georges Terrace
📍 Location
Citadines St Georges Terrace Apartments Perth is a four-star hotel on St Georges Terrace. From the outside it looks just like the surrounding office towers and isn't especially eye-catching. If you're coming from the airport into the city, Elizabeth Quay station is the closest station to the hotel — only about a five-minute walk.
Although this looks like an office district and gets very quiet at night, the lively Hay Street and Elizabeth Quay are really only one block away, and the supermarket is just a 5-minute walk. Overall, the location is genuinely ideal.
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| The hotel entrance is also very understated and simple — easy to walk right past |
🏢 Hotel Facilities
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| The reception desk on the ground floor |
Citadines St Georges Terrace Apartments Perth feels a bit like a business hotel. The ground-floor lobby has only a small reception desk and a sofa area — basically nothing else, and the space isn't large. There are 4–5 steps at the entrance, so if you have big luggage you may need to carry it up yourself. There's a small accessible lift beside them, but it looks like you have to contact a staff member to come and operate it for you.
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| The corridors on each floor aren't very wide either |
Laundry Room
For travellers staying a while, being able to do laundry is a pretty important amenity. Although Citadines St Georges Terrace Apartments Perth doesn't provide washing machines in the rooms, there are laundry rooms on the 2nd & 6th floors offering free washing and drying for guests. Laundry powder is also provided in the room, so you can just bring it along and use it here.
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| The laundry room has one washing machine and one dryer |
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| The laundry powder provided in the room |
One thing to note is that the laundry room has restricted hours — it can only be used between 7am and 9pm each day, and it's locked at other times. A staff member comes to lock the door daily, so if your clothes are still inside after 9pm they'll lock the door anyway and you'll have to go to reception and ask them to come open it again.
🛏 The Rooms
This time we stayed in three room types: the "Deluxe Studio", the "Executive Studio" and the "Premier Studio". Staying in three different room types in just one week was rather unexpected — the main reason was that we'd originally planned to join a Pink Lake tour for three days in the middle, so we booked the same hotel before and after, and only different room types happened to be available. Then the Pink Lake tour didn't go ahead as planned, so we booked last-minute for the middle days too, which turned out to be a third room type. That's how we ended up staying in three room types in one trip.
Deluxe Studio
The Deluxe Studio is the most basic room type. This time we stayed on the seventh floor. The main drawback is that there's no induction cooktop, so you can't really cook, but it does have the basics like a microwave and toaster, so buying some microwave meals or bread at the supermarket works fine.
The Deluxe Studio also has a chaise longue, and the space overall isn't small. The bed is large too — the size of two single beds pushed together — so it's quite comfortable.
The bathroom isn't very big, especially the shower — it's so small that even turning around feels a bit cramped. That said, it's clean, simple and bright.
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| Toiletries and amenities |
Executive Studio
The Executive Studio costs a little more than the most basic Deluxe Studio. This time we were again assigned a room on the seventh floor. The main additions are an induction cooktop and a larger kitchen area; everything else is the same. But I actually felt this room was smaller — you can tell from the bed, which drops to a standard double — and there's no chaise longue either.
The bathroom is about the same size as the previous room, but the shower is a bit bigger, so you don't get that cramped, closed-in feeling.
However, the natural light in this room isn't great — there's only one very small exterior window — and the room has a (locked) connecting door to the room next door, which makes the soundproofing even worse. I'd say it was the least ideal of the three rooms.
Premier Studio
The last one was the Premier Studio, and this time we were given a room on the first floor. It's a step up in class: besides a very large bed, a sofa and a really spacious layout, it also has a big spa bath.
But because the room is on the first floor, the curtains on the exterior windows have to stay closed. (The "first floor" here is the equivalent of the second level, since the bottom level is the Ground Floor.)
The only thing is, the tub is right there in the bedroom...
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| The spa bath in a rather baffling spot |
The Premier Studio also has a kitchen counter and induction cooktop, though they're slightly smaller. The bathroom, on the other hand, is huge — it even has two sinks.
Overall, the main downside of the stay is that the soundproofing isn't great — you can hear the neighbours running water and their alarm clocks. Everything else was good. Even with our complicated set of three separate bookings for different room types, the front desk handled it very well. Before our first room change, staff even took us to see the second room first so we could decide whether we wanted to move, and our luggage was delivered to the second room automatically.
In the latter half of our stay we happened to meet a staff member from China who was very warm and helped us a lot, so we didn't have to keep discussing room types in English — it made everything much faster.
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