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Ushering successful a caller epoch of French-inspired luxury and understated grandeur, the five-star Sofitel Sydney Wentworth Sofitelsydney.com.au has officially unveiled its $70 cardinal refurbishment, with last completion acceptable for November. The rebirth of this Sydney, Australia icon coincides with the Diamond Jubilee of the planetary Sofitel brand, celebrating 60 years of embodying French art de vivre each implicit the world.
Created by Qantas Airlines successful 1966, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth has a storied history. Central to the hotel's caller imaginativeness was to reignite the hotel’s archetypal jet-set glamor erstwhile it opened arsenic Australia's premier five-star edifice for an planetary clientele of royals, movie stars, and dignitaries. Modernizing that aureate epoch for the 21st century, the caller refurbishment encompasses 436 impermanent rooms and suites, the opulent Sofitel Club Millésime VIP lounge, wellness and wellness center, nationalist spaces including the expansive entranceway lobby, and state-of-the-art league and lawsuit spaces.
The edifice embodies the essence of what absorption calls “Modern Heritage.” The gathering was primitively designed successful a post-war minimalist style, opening with a modernist interior, and was the largest ceramic operation successful the confederate hemisphere. The redesign seeks to seizure the essence of this modernist epoch done a modern lens, celebrating the building's unsocial practice and re-igniting the hotel's glamorous past.
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Entrance & Lobby
The caller expansive entranceway features a bronze façade that welcomes guests to a revitalized lobby wherever historical charm meets modern elegance. A striking lighting diagnostic illuminates the mode — inspired by the Sofitel ritual of being taken to your country by candlelight. The open-plan crushed level lobby provides subtle nods to the building’s 1960s practice successful a bid of lounge settings. Interactive stations fto guests negociate their enactment and bask a streamlined accomplishment process with conscionable a fewer taps, portion the caller online concierge app puts each edifice services straight astatine guests' fingertips via their phones.
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Sofitel Club Millésime
An exclusive check-in acquisition occurs astatine the Sofitel Club Millésime, an eclectic lounge brushed furnishings. Club members (or those purchasing a time pass) tin relax, entertain oregon enactment with concern and concierge facilities, showers, and all-day nutrient and portion from meal to day tea, to Apéro Chic hors d'oeuvres and evening drinks. Platinum members of Accor's loyalty programme tin entree the lounge during their stay, escaped of charge.
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Rooms & Suites
The essence of Sofitel luxury lies wrong the 436 beautifully appointed rooms and suites, each gracefully curving astir the terrace. MySmart lighting sets the mood, in-room eating manages cravings, a pillow paper and premium Sofitel MyBed™ creates comfort, and the luxurious heritage-listed bath with French Balmain amenities supply indulgence. In-room extras see a Nespresso machine, and a Wellness Bag — a portable question gym implicit with a roller, yoga mat, absorption bands, handles, and ankle straps – for guests to usage in-room oregon astatine outdoor landmarks specified arsenic the Botanic Gardens oregon Opera House, situated conscionable extracurricular the hotel.
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Conferencing & Events
From modern gathering rooms to the iconic Wentworth Ballroom, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth has implicit 15 lawsuit and league spaces. The Wentworth Ballroom has hosted immoderate of Sydney's astir legendary events, and is 1 of the city's largest ballrooms. With an archetypal 1960s mirrored ceiling, it offers a expansive mounting for events of up to 750 guests. The item of the technological upgrade is the installation of 1 of Australia's largest LED screens successful the Grand Ballroom, complemented by integer screens and LED upgrades passim each gathering spaces. New additions successful each lawsuit spaces diagnostic state-of-the-art lighting, presentation, and staging technology. Event eating is guided by recently appointed Michelin-trained Executive Chef Bektas Özcan.
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Restaurants & Bars
A caller eating precinct offers 4 chiseled venues wrong the hotel. The tilda channels edifice has a Australiana vibe, portion barroom tilda revives the hotel’s timeless allure with nostalgia-inspired cocktails and the soulful sounds of a nu jazz band. Delta Rue serves up a lively premix of Vietnamese-French flavors and energy, portion Wentworth Bar provides a rooftop presumption from its all-weather terrace.
Located successful the bosom of Sydney's cardinal concern district, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth is conveniently conscionable 12 kilometres from Kingsford Smith Airport, is adjacent cardinal transport hubs, and is conscionable minutes from iconic landmarks specified arsenic the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, and the manner district. The edifice is besides known arsenic Sydney’s “Hotel of the Arts” aft 20+ years partnering with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, positive Opera Australia, the Australian World Orchestra, and the Australian Youth Orchestra.
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