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The Darlo Bar is conveniently located in Darlinghurst, close to the Kings Cross train station, (just 5 mins walk). It's in the middle of all the action, with Oxford St to the left, Kings Cross to the right and the city just a short train or bus trip away. Perfect place to rest your head after a night out. We have 8 modern, double bed rooms each with T.V, air-con and tea/coffee facilities. Showers and toilets are shared. From the moment you step inside the Darlo Bar, you’ll feel at home in the retro and eclectic downstairs bar inhabited by local musicians, artists, and creatives. There’s a pool table, plenty of comfortable couches and our resident food truck that operates Weds-Sun. We also offer an alternative menu featuring some of our local restaurants at all other times in the pub. Upstairs there’s an open air terrace with a vertical garden bar where we grow our herbs for cocktails, or you can try one of our many craft beers in the sun. Vinyl DJS spin soul, funk or blues on Sundays or try your hand against the locals at trivia on Wednesday nights. The accommodation is situated above the pub and there’s a separate entrance from the street if you’d prefer to retreat to your room for some privacy with a bottle of wine from our bottle shop. Check In: Wednesday - Saturday 1 pm to 11 pm; Sunday – Tuesday 1pm to 9pm Check Out: 10 am Please note: • Darlo Bar opens at 12pm daily. • Early and Late Check-In are not available without prior approval. • Unfortunately you cannot check-in or leave bags before the opening time. If you would like bags stored after check-out, you may leave them packed in the room when you depart and collect them later the same day. There is no charge for this service.
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306 Liverpool St Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales 2010 Australia
Darlo Bar Darlinghurst
3.7 reviews
Getting there
Great for walkers
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The rooms upstairs of Darlo Bar are small, but clean. Unfortunately, somebody must have smoked in the room before my arrival, which I did not like too much - but hey, it's a pub room :-). Bathrooms are shared and pretty small as well, but clean (the miniature sinks in the toilets are annoying, nearly enough space to place one hand under the tab).
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Date of stay: February 2016
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Stayed in the Darlo bar for 3 nights over new year - really not sure what to expect as even their inflated new year rate was only AUS $99 per night - really plesantly suprosed, and would recommend
Clean room, with bedding and towels changed daily - shared bathrooms always quiet, clean and warm!
Bar downstairs can be a little noisy, but is a fab place
Location great - 10 mins walk to kings cross station, but far enough away from the slightly more seedy areas cloase to some fantastic places to eat
would stay again - suppose only things to mention - would not stay with kids, just not suitable, no lift so think about how heavy your bas are - and also - its a quirky area, arriving at night can be a little daunting - but really cool once you see it in day!
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Date of stay: December 2007
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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The check-in bloke and the barman couldn't have been nicer, very friendly and assisted in every way. I was aware that bathrooms were shared, which was fine, but, there's not even a hand basin and water supply/taps in the rooms so you can't wash your hands or clean your teeth, you must leave your room to get to do it. Clean and comfortable rooms, but, not worth the price of $189.00 per night, I think $75.00 or so is about right.
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Date of stay: February 2017
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Trip type: Travelled solo
Room Tip:Top floor, less noise
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Love the Darlo Bar. If you want a bit of authentic Sydney, go on Wednesday nights for Texas Chain Saw Trivia or on Sunday arvo for Viva La Vinyl. Drinks are well priced and food is available from local restaurants (order at the bar). You can also stay at this hotel, but I have not ever done so.
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Date of stay: December 2019
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Love this place. Service is casual n GR8. if in the area - Kings Cross. Please come n see, relaxing as eva. Pet friendly too. Not far from Kings X station, and if you get a bus (311). Just across the road.
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Response from Darlo B, Manager at Darlo Bar Darlinghurst
Responded 5 Feb 2020
Thanks for your review! We look forward to having you back, and your doggo too of course!
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If you want to stay here, do NOT book your room with a guy named Dean. Since you can only book your room online, I submitted the form and waited a few days to be contacted by a hotel "reservationist". Dean contacted me after a few days, asking if I wanted the rooms. In my request, I had asked a few questions (what size are the rooms, can 3 people stay in 1 etc). He never answered the questions in the first email. I emailed him back and said yes I wanted the rooms but needed to know how many to book (my brother and his wife were with me). He finally wrote back that I needed 2 rooms. I told him I definitely wanted them and also wanted to book 1 more room at another date (for my brother and his wife when they came back to Syndey by themselves later that week). He said no problem. I emailed one more time and asked if there was anything else I needed to do and if we were confirmed and he replied back that we were all good and he'd see us when we got there. I was a bit nervous about all the informality but I had done all I could. Right before I left the US, I emailed him, reconfirming. I thought we were good to go. Was I mistaken or what! When we landed in Sydney, we took a cab to Darlo bar and I asked to check in. The guy looked at me and said "huh? we are full." I asked if he was Dean. He looked at me strange and said yes. I said "we've had several email exchanges, please check your book again" (mind you, he had a physical APPOINTMENT book - that's how they record reservations. It was messy and had all sorts of writing in it, like it was a journal/schedule book. Who doesn't record things in a computer at a hotel these days??). He looked at me rather dumbly and said he wasn't sure what I meant. I asked him to go check his email. He did and took 10 minutes to do so. While I waited, I asked the other lady (also very unhelpful and trying to avoid us the whole time) if there was WiFi so that I could pull up the emails for him. There wasn't any. When he finally came back he said "Sorry, this is my mistake" (meaning he saw the emails and the booking but hadn't recorded them) and then looked at me again. I said "so......what does that mean" and he didn't say anything. I finally asked if there were any other hotels in the area. He pointed to a few (one across the street that looked sketchy and a few down the street). We dragged our luggage out onto the street and proceded to walk up and down only to find out that it was Chinese New Year's and EVERY SINGLE HOTEL AND BACKPACK HOTEL in Sydney was all booked up!! He finally had enough sense, after seeing us parade up and down the street, to tell us we could wait in the bar and he would try to help. He didn't help and eventually, I just made him take me to his "office" (small desk in the basement store room) and I made calls and looked on the computer. THANK GOD my company has an office in Sydney. My colleagues there were able to put us up with one of them (who had a spare bedroom) and saved us from having to split up and spend nights in really sketchy shared hostel-type rooms with no guarantee of having room our entire stay. So thank you Dean, for making our first 3 hours in Syndey, living hell. Oh and I forgot to mention the HUGE cockroach that crawled onto my brother's neck while we were sitting in the Darlo bar itself. So my review may be a bit biased because I never actually saw a hotel room but the customer service (or lack thereof) and cockroach are enough for me never to recommend this place to anyone. My advice to Darlo Bar - get rid of Dean.
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Date of stay: February 2010
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Stayed here for two nights last weekend and was appalled at the filth in the bathrooms. Vomit lining the hand sinks and the toilet two nights in a row. If you are ok with staying in accommodation with shared bathrooms resembling frat boy standards then by all means.
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Date of stay: February 2016
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Sorry to write this its the first time I ever given a bad review. Very overpriced for what we got. Very Noisy I had a shower in shared bathroom very small. The light went out after being in the shower for a few seconds very dark would not go back on. Lots of cockroaches. We will not be back.
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Date of stay: February 2017
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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The hotel was not quite what I expected. The room was quite small and dusty and the beds were really hard. Furthermore there was only one wall socket working and one light working. The bathrooms were not very clean; there is mould on the walls and at the ceiling of the showers due to bad ventilation. The towels and bedlinnen were clean and the location is excellent.
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Date of stay: December 2011
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This hotel appears to have been recently refurbished. It was very clean and not particularly noisy, despite being above a bar (we stayed on the top floor). Shared bathrooms really was not a problem and they were all very clean. Staff were extremely friendly and relaxed. Great location for good bars and restaurants! So good that we are even going back this weekend!
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Date of stay: June 2006
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PRICE RANGE
AU$147 - AU$219 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
AustraliaNew South WalesSydneyDarlinghurst
NUMBER OF ROOMS
8
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