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10 Best Luxury Hotels in Melbourne, 2023 Edition
Urban List
“This luxury hotel in Melbourne combines sustainability with all the modern sensibilities one could ask for.”
United Places Botanic Gardens: Telegraph Review
The Telegraph
“With United Places, Melbourne gets the smart, sexy and stylish sanctuary it’s long deserved. It takes the typical apartment hotel up a level with highly considered interiors, enticing dining options and truly personal service. Plus there’s absolute privacy, oodles of space and a brilliant park-side locale.”
A Home Away from Home – United Places Botanic Gardens by Carr Design Group
The Local Project
“Step inside the discreet entrance of United Places Botanic Gardens and one discovers a level of unparalleled architecturally-designed sophistication that offers guests an immersive hotel experience in a city where style is everything.”
Review: United Places Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Luxury Travel
“An interesting reimagining of the boutique hotel experience, United Places’ small physical footprint means the hotel forgoes the five star amenities luxury travellers often expect – a spa, gym, restaurants – and instead relies on the design, comfort factor, service and location for its impact.”
United Places Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Hotel Review
Conde Nast Traveller
“Grown-up modernist hangout in the city’s greenest spot, which ramps up the whole apartment-hotel concept and is quite unlike anywhere else in Melbourne.”
Review: United Places Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
SilverKris
“A clandestine refuge from the city with perfect garden vistas.”
United Places with Katya Wachtel
A Hotel Life
“This is a no-expense-spared situation, with designer furniture, luxe finishes, custom light fixtures and the mirrored bath pod that’s like an in-room art installation. It was kind of mind-blowing. Every minute element has been considered; every surface is sublime.”
United Places Botanic Gardens Hotel: Luxury Redefined, from $650 a Night
Financial Review
“When the scaffolding came down a few weeks ago, the United Places hotel emerged as a sharp, modernist grid amid the froufrou of Victorian terraces on Melbourne’s tiny Domain road. If it doesn’t shout “posh accommodation” that’s because it was designed to insinuate itself gently into its Royal Botanic Gardens setting. And to whisper to those in the know, “Shhhh, 12 suites over four floors: this is the new luxe.”
A New 12-suite Designer Hotel in Melbourne
Broadsheet
“Opposite the Botanic Gardens in leafy South Yarra, you’ll find a hotel with spacious luxury rooms and a new restaurant by one of Australia’s top restaurateurs.”
United Places Botanic Gardens: Melbourne's Newest Boutique Hotel Atop the Matilda Eatery in South Yarra
Traveller
“When Darren Rubenstein, a Melbourne property developer, formed a united front with Scott Pickett, one of the city’s leading chefs and restaurateurs, the result was a case of Upstairs Downstairs meets the uber-hip set.”
United Places Hotel Opens in South Yarra
Broadsheet
“With just 12 suites, this new luxury accommodation might be highly refined – and obsessively designed – but it’s all about allowing you to slow down and make yourself at home.”
