The Windsor’s Legacy in Melbourne
A ‘Fancy’ Melbourne Hotel
By: Phoenix Arrien
Luxury hotel rooms are an enviable opportunity to indulge and feel just a little, well, superior and the opulent suites of the Windsor Hotel on the edge of the Melbourne’s CBD is just too easy to make certain friends envious.
The hotel has had 125 years to perfect the fine art of envy and it does it well. So stay in an opulent suite, invite friends to tea, walk them under the dining room’s higher-than-heaven, art-deco ceilings and begin with the finger sandwiches at the top of the three tiered silver stand on your table, work your way through the little rich pastries and finish with Devonshire Tea.
Next lead the way to the top of this grande olde dame of regal hotels, throw open the door to your suite and bow graciously. The ooh’s! The aaah’s! Or at least grunts of appreciation (surely) as friends take in the golden rooms decorated with swish drapes, plush carpeting and period furniture.
Wave them to the mahogany seats, pour tea into gleaming china cups or nonchantly produce drinks in clinking crystal glasses from the bar, then let them gaze through the bay windows at views of Parliament House and parks.
Carelessly drop a few previous guests’ names - Kylie Minogue, John Howard, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Muhammad Ali and Katherine Hepburn - then shoo them out. ‘You will excuse me of course; the butler needs to run the bath - that clawfooted one in the marble bathroom. Do come again next lifetime’.
www.thewindsor.com.au
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