- Well located and close to entertainment, theatre, public transport and shopping centres.
- A variety of good restaurants just outside its door along the Yarra River.
- Reasonable room prices, with occasional specials.
- The hotel does not have its own carpark.
- The hotel restaurant serves only breakfast, cafeteria-style, and not lunch or dinner.
- Hotel rooms and facilities are pretty basic.
- The hotel is in an 11-storey building serviced by two lifts (elevators).
- Hotel guests with cars must find parking elsewhere. Paid parking is available in another and nearby hotel.
- Hotel rooms include a queen-size bed, small refrigerator and coffee-making facilities.
- The hotel is located in Melbourne's Southbank at the corner of Southgate Ave and Riverside Quay, telephone 613-8696-9600.
In front of Federation Square or Flinders St Station, you can, of course, catch the free hop-on-hop-off City Circle tram to view a number of city attractions.
I stayed at Travelodge Southgate in April 2007 in fully paid accommodation on a National Roads and Motorists Association travel special offer with free breakfast and free parking included in the hotel rate.
While breakfast was indeed free (normally $15 per person at the time), parking was across the street at the Langham Hotel parking facility and free parking was restricted to overnight parking.
If you parked in the daytime and left the carpark later in the day, you would be up for the carpark fee. If you did this several times in a day, it could cost you a relatively substantial amount.
Travelodge Southbank provided fairly standard hotel accommodation. Internet broadband access, for an hourly charge, was available in the hotel rooms; coin-operated Internet-linked computers were also available on the ground floor.
Hotel reception staff were friendly, courteous, helpful.
