The hotel is close to Albert Park golf course so we went to play mini golf.

Located close to Albert Park and a short walk to the Alfred Hospital and the popular Chapel Street.

Hotel is situated close to Albert Park Lake and only minutes away from tram stop to take you into the  Melbourne CBD.

Easy tram in both ways and walking distance to Albert park.

Close to Albert Park Lake and Albert Park Golf course.

We also like the closeness of Albert Park Lake for exercise.

We stayed here for a week and enjoyed its proximity to Albert Park and Lake, with St Kilda, Prahran and the CBD an easy tram-ride away.

Handy to tram stop and close to Albert Park lake walk opportunities.

Friendly staff, close to Albert Park and a short drive or tram to the CBD.

The hotel is located very close to Albert Park, where I enjoyed jogging in the morning.

Close to Albert Park, the Shrine and the Botanical Gardens.

Also, for Formula 1 fans, the hotel is walking distance to Albert Park.

It's proximity to Albert park lake makes it a great stay if you enjoy an early morning jog or walk.

the location is close to Albert park golf course and walking tracks around Albert park, short walk to St Kilda restaurants and beer garden, easy access to public transport to visit the City, art centre and a walk along the Yarra river and restaurants along the Yarra.

The city view was amazing and the room was very comfortable. Thankyou!

Spectacular view from a City View room and a blissful night's sleep at a price tag that didn't break the bank.

We were able to upgrade without any problem to a view of the city skyline from our room.

They also gave me a nice city view that overlooks the park and Albert Park lake.

Beautiful views of the city from my room.

I'd totally recommend City View hotel, lovely friendly staff.

Enclosed roof top pool and spa overlooking the city and Albert Park!

we were very happy with our stay in melbourne close to everything we needed .the room was clean and we had a great view of the city skyline we enjoyed the spa on the top floor .

A city view room gives you a great view of the city both during the day and night.

but convenient with great views of the city skyline.

but useful none the less) it offers fantastic views of the city.

Comfortable quiet room, great city views.

The view of the City is great by night or day, especially the mornings when the hot air balloons are aloft.

We used the rooftop spa which has great views of the city and there is free parking on the surrounding streets on the weekend.

The hotel lived up to its name because we had a beautiful view of the city looking over the cricket ground.

The room was nice - great view of the city.

Our stay here was excellent, good size room, great location with a city view, close to trams and Albert Park Lake friendly staff, easy parking on site, two restaurants on site, wouldn't hesitate staying here again.

The location of the hotel was great with a view of the city, and an uber to the city was cheap.

Well=appointed room with a great view of the City Skyline.

Everything is old and worn out including carpets, rooms, bathrooms, facilities, lifts and carpark.

Unfortunately on arrival issues with lift from basement carpark that required us to walk up the car ramp with our luggage.

Room also located right next to the elevator was very noisy as there was no soundproofing.

Unfortunately my husband was stuck in the lift for an hour.

Lift was broken causing a school of girls to be slamming the stairs doors right through the night, right outside our corner room, this caused me and my partner 4 sleepless nights despite asking to be moved.

One lift is out of service so there is only one lift for the entire hotel.

Unfortunately for us the lifts were not functioning or patchy during our stay and we had to use stairs  several times.

Only one lift operating in a 9 floor hotel, extreme bad experience at check-out where the staff billed wrong cards and put multiple rooms to my card (charged SEK 43,000 instead of SEK 8,500!!

Only one working lift which meant a lot of time spent waiting and apparently no stairs to use (I asked reception).

The hotel has 1 operating elevator which takes a very long time to catch, especially at peak times, like check in.

One of the negative points was that only one lift was working for the 9 floor hotel which meant you either wait long time or use the stairs.

If you like standing waiting for the lift to come with a group of people you don't know,

When I checked in the lady didn't even let me know what floor my room was on, nor where the elevator was.

She only answer: that elevator is moody. Seriously!?

it's actually an insult to my intelligence in saying so, would I stay again , NO they would need to lift their game and fix these current issues, as Melb is a Hotel Mecca and I can just go elsewhere.

The changes in the hotel are really starting to take shape from our previous stay the lifts are such an improvement.

This property is Great value for money,  with friendly staff, very comfortable beds, good size rooms and a dressing area.

We had a short stay at this clean and friendly hotel.

Helpful and friendly staff, great location for that area, very clean, fantastic coffee and happy staff at the cafe.

Shower unsafe, water went over the tiles making it very slippery, sauna out of service, cable machine in gym broken and no water in pool, otherwise room was very nice, good location and staff very friendly.

Super friendly staff they were incredibly helpful, room was lovely, I had a lovely view of the cricket field.

The staff were friendly, the room was big and clean, not to mention the size of the bed!

Staff were all friendly and welcoming, the place is very clean and very well presented.

Apart from that rent stay was amazing - staff were friendly and helpful and the hotel is in an excellent location.

Perfect location for what I needed..check in and check out  easy & staff friendly and accommodating to my request of leaving a day early.Tram stops a short walk to go in either direction be it the city or suburbs.

Hotel is always clean and staff are always friendly
I will always stay here

Staff are helpful and friendly, rooms are quiet, easy parking options and a perfect location to all attractions in Melbourne CBD and surrounds.

Staff were very friendly and helpful, rooms were very comfortable.

Staff were very friendly and attentive though.

Wonderful experience,lovely and friendly staff.Great environment and ambience.Superb cleanliness and have, gym,sauna,spa.I would love to visit again to this lovely hotel and I would revommend my friends to stay at your hotel.I love the buffet breakfast.. Amazing experience..

My family and I stayed here over Mothers Day weekend, The room was great, the restaurants were fantastic and the staff were very accommodating and friendly.

Access to tram on the main road that leads up to the city centre or even a cheap and quick Uber ride also.

10min tram ride into cbd makes it easy to spend the day in town and travel back in the evening.

Great staff with short tram ride to Melbourne CBD.

This hotel was a short tram ride from the Rod Laver Arena and the convention center.

A short tram ride from the heart of the city.

l would recommend "The View Hotel" to anyone for its price and location (still very close to the city/CBD which is just a 10 min tram ride away

We stayed at View Melbourne whilst I did the Around the Bay in a Day bike ride.

Perfect location with just a short tram ride to the centre of Melbourne.

You can’t beat the location as your so close to a lot of the tourist areas like Chapel St shopping and Chadstone Mall is just a short uber ride away, there’s also an IGA right across the road for all your essentials if need be.

It's a short tram ride into the city and a ten dollar uber fare into St Kilda.

Very nice hotel in a great location close to Trams, a 10 minute ride into Melbourne CBD.

A little bit out of the CBD made it better value and much better views than central hotels and an easy tram ride into the CBD.

The location is a nice 15 minute tram ride from Flinders Street and the room I stayed in offered a lovely view over the cricket field and tennis court along with some partial city views.

Wonderful location, easy walk to St Kilda and  quick tram ride to CBD.

View Melbourne is located in Prarhan, a short tram ride from the city with fantastic views of the city skyline.

pleasant hotel, well located opposite Albert Park, easy tram ride into city, or toward St. Kilda.

The location is great just a short tram ride, which come on a regular basis.

Only a 10 minute tram ride into the city with the tram stop almost next to hotel ..

Lastly, my sink area remained disgusting.

Hotel rooms smelt of cigarettes, I also found an acrylic nail next to the phone and everything was dusty.

The damaged iron in the room burned my new trousers.

however nothing a little bleach couldn’t and didn’t fix.

but next to a fire escape that stank of cigarette smoke.

Dirty spa very dirty spa, brown frothy foam on top, strong chemical that it was burning eyes without being in water and rubbish everywhere.

No tip no clean room
Cigarette smoke enters room by ventilator system
It is come all other room
 Some chine visitor come in day night 7 th floor smoking in the room 
You need warning no smoking in the room 
Coz our venti system connect all the room

but still confusing), shared spa area a yuck experience - noisy children, dirty spa, unkept bathroom area.

Needs an upgrade for rooms, meeting rooms, and common spaces, old style and old carpet

Bed sheets and towels need a better wash, they smell really bad and made me feel uncomfortable

Nice personnel and bar tenders, breakfast ok

The fridge was filthy and stained had smearson the inside.

but unfortunately it was in a filthy state with a discarded ice cream punnet on the ground, and ice cream splattered on the glass doors between the room and the balcony.

I can’t believe they get people to smoke by the hotel entry.

We notified reception that someone was smoking in a room near ours,

we dont like people smoking outside the restaurants .

To double check this I thought I would have a smell of it, much to my horror I confirmed it was in fact poo.

There was Hoya slightly strange smell in the room, which was a bit unpleasant.

The only negatives - one of our friends room had an unpleasant smell (wet carpet type smell) and due to hotel being fully booked there was no option to move rooms.

My only complain , pillows are very flat and smelly.

And the hotel service staff can spend some time dusting around the room.

I’m a travelling rep so I stay in a lot of hotels.

The room was extremely spacious, great service and attentiveness by all staff and the Hop Garden was a particular favourite!

Great Location, close to trams, clean hotel and helpful staff
Surprised that rooms weren't cleaned and reinstated mini bar and coffee/tea supplies each day

I showed this paper work to the reception, they didn't comment.

Helping me with everything and make sure im settled and comfortable.

As above I can not praise her professional attitude enough,
Thank you Maddi !! !

They helped so much with their caring and attention to my needs

A Scrooge  breakfast attendant charged extra for my two fried eggs, of which one was inedible.

however the staff were fantastic in responding to the issue.

We were notified the day before our stay which was OK

This is very lousy attitude for hospitality.

the people at the reception desk however were absolutely lovely we got there early

View Melbourne

elevator

smell

city view

albert-park proximity

ride

My check in was terrible - not informed re the services in the hotel, about the need to insert power card, had to ask for my free drink voucher.

Then 1 hr later one invoice for food, then had to chase for accomodation.

I also had my alarm turn off and not wake me nor charge my phone.

My card was also charged $100 as a guarantee.

but when you are charging a six star price with a CBD view that is advertised but non existent, it all adds up.

They required physical sighting of credit cards despite being offered them on our smartphone and our booking service (Booking.com had all our details including the credit card for the booking).

It appears to me that whoever is in charge, has completely given up, and the hotel, is just existing.

Their policy is if you find a lower price they will match
Upon arrival, I showed my card and was told that I would not get an upgrade and my points would not be counted in a very stiff manner,
Usually on departure , i received a late checkout, not on this occasion
Room was adequate
Wardrobe small

This was fixed soon afterwards as they never actually charged us,

Also nowhere to charge a phone - it’s 2021 there really is no reason not to have a USB port.

The only 2 ressons a pre-authorisation on a valid credit card would be in place

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The price on the website was $20.00 less than the actual charge which was $20.00 more.

With the exception of the food and beverage staff, the balance of the staff have the worst attitude of any hotel that i stayed at.

Clients I was with were double charged for dinner, and it was only astuteness that saved the day.

Was not very impressed when I stayed at Olsen firstly the stuffed our booking up and charged us double somehow on 2 different cards then had checked us in before we were even there, the room

Only negative was the swipe card for room deactivated twice.

Instead I was charged a further $50 from the rental company who had to provide my details to the council for the notice to be sent to me, followed by needing to pay the infringement notice.

Be aware that any "extras" on menu had to be paid for outside the package ( a little frustrating on second boring that despite only using one of the two person breakfast packages, an additional charge for extras on one meal still had to be paid!

I was double charged and I’m currently trying to recover my money as it’s theft , I had no towels in my room and the sheets where smelly and I got a rash , I waited 45 for my orange juice at your cafe so I canceled it and went to work !

Took 4 phone calls to get my invoice emailed to me after my stay.

The friendly wait staff made every morning a great start to the day!

Ulia was so friendly during check-in and did well at  recognising my gold status.

I found reception very friendly on arrival.

Excellent location walking distance to excellent restaurants and shopping, spacious comfortable room, friendly helpful front desk staff, nice restaurant, public transport close by, scenic walk along Yarra river to Tennis stadium

Members of staff were extremely friendly.

The staff were very friendly and helpful.

Brilliant hotel
Our suite was spacious and lovey, the location was perfect and the staff were friendly and extremely helpful.

The room was really nice, staff were so friendly and helpful, bed was the comfiest bed I’ve ever stayed in!!

The staff are friendly at reception and in the restaurant which was nice.

Hotel staff are very professional and friendly.

although friendly for the most part lacked the polish of that from previous years.

Staff were lovely and very friendly to children.

Staff are friendly and the restaurant staff go above and beyond.

Excellent stay, lovely room & friendly & efficient staff.

We're very grateful that the staff worked so hard and we're so friendly, despite the circumstances- we'll be coming back!

We loved our stay at The Olsen last weekend, our room was beautifully appointed, the food was lovely and the staff were all very professional and friendly. A great place in a handy location for either a business stay, or a group friend catchup, very nice experience  :-)

Clean, friendly and great art works on the walls and in books to enjoy.

I didn't expect anything opulent for the price I paid

Didn't rate the guys, was too small and poky.

Paid about $30 more a night than if I had booked on the day.

The general conditions of the room can be better, given the price.

but overpriced and lacks parking options on a busy part of Melbourne.

but sadly we felt it was overpriced and went elsewhere.

No refund or better deal considering we didnt get what we paid for.

The mattresses were very old and the pillows very bad I had to go and buy new pillows if I had known I would have bought mine from home another added expense I did not need.

The Como across the road is much better value - slightly less expensive

In fact no parking fee was mentioned at all when they gave us our card to access the parking garage.

For the price of the hotel this is really not good enough.

The hotel does not trust the guest to pay for any room charges they may incur from the mini bar or other food and beverage charges. 2,.

The breakfast is a must have great food options & value!

Great all round 

Really enjoyed the stay 
I’ll go back again for another stay soon
Staff helpful
Food really good
Great rooms 
Was excellent place to stay 
Good for business and holidays 
Was really enjoyable

It’s a really nice, clean modern hotel in a good location with a nice restaurant and great staff in all areas.

Excellent location and very good restaurant.

You have everything at your fingertips with a variety of restaurants, plenty of shopping.

Close to lots of great eateries and cool bars etc.

Highly recommend if you want to stay somewhere close to good restaurants and all the city entertainment.

Great restaurants nearby and good in-house restaurant for breakfast, coffee and afternoon drinks.

There's lots of passages between all the new buildings hiding exciting sounding restaurants.

Very convenient location with lots of shops and restaurants in the area that you can access on foot.

Hotel location is great, very convenient with plenty of nearby shops and local eateries.

Being in Chapel street was great as we were spoilt for choice with lots of great restaurants in easy walking distance.

✨️ After that we travelled by tram to Themeat&Wineco in Southbank for dinner followed by a city stroll and returned to our hotel for a spa & pamper evening.

Forth we had room service come and clean the room on the 3 days we stayed and the rubbish remained there until the 3rd clean.

Food sat waiting on counter warmer ( toast) for 15 minutes while they prepared other breakfast meals from our group.

I just love having the little kitchen so you can get your own food together rather than always having to eat out.

Such an awesome location with all the best amenities and restaurants nearby.

but the choice of room offered this time whereby its looking at the wall of building in front was very unpleasant and on top rooms where not thoroughly and minty cleaned next day.

Studio room was delightful with all the necessary kitchenette accessories.

Room very clean and happy with all services provided.

Amazing hotel, just don’t stay in room 503.

Nice rooms 
clean room 
Great staff 
lovely hotel, fantastic price,  
easy check in and out 
Fantastic location, close to transport and shops
Art work was interesting and well displayed 
Bed was comfortable 
Kitchenette could be better equiped .

comfortable bed, aircon, bedding and room layout.

Bed was super comfy , hotel was clean and tidy great view 
Room had everything at hand # ironing board & iron very handy on the day - hens 
Bonus was the coffee machine with nice coffee each morning

Room was inviting and really clean and well appointed.

Beds are super comfortable and rooms are quiet.

I was ecstatic when I was upgraded to room 608, which had a kitchenette and was located on a high floor.

The easter egg surprise in our room was a lovely touch, Parking very expensive for the stay.

The room was very spacious and the location is excellent for us.

The room was the smallest possible version of the deluxe studio as it was positioned at the join between the two sections.

Wonderful staff, hotel, location & breakfast is 100% worth it.

Really nice accommodation, facility beautiful and well cleaned always, staff were lovely.

The hotel was well-sited and two reception staff stood out as exceptional.

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