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Art Hotels Hit Sydney: The Storrier

Where: 15 Springfield Avenue, Sydney, Australia

The NY Times dropped by Sydney's new art hotel, The Storrier, over the weekend, and gave it a pretty reasonable write-up. The Storrier's the first in a new chain of art hotels being done by the A Hotels Group--they're planning to have seven art-themed hotels up and running by 2010.

For a Sydney hotel, The Storrier is a little out of the way in Potts Point (and verging on Kings Cross), but it's in a great art deco building that kind of makes up for the distance to town. The NYT review doesn't really sell us on the décor, which it describes as "minimalist, vaguel 1980s-style", but cheap and fancy breakfasts definitely appeal to us. Back to the downside, though, WiFi is available but only for the ridiculous fee of A$10 (US$9.50) an hour or A$29.95 ($28.50) for the day.

So why should we stay at The Storrier? Well, the hotel itself has this to say:

The Storrier is the ultimate cocoon in which to chill and the ideal retreat to return to after burning the rope at both ends.

Poetic, and almost convincing. More persuasive is the fact that The Storrier comes at a reasonable price, from A$185 (US$175) a night.

[Photo: 40ish couple]