What a lovely little hotel. Old world charm with amazing staff. I misplaced my phone on the way to the hotel and they went to all ends to help me find it. Breakfast was included, nice touch and didn't expect this. Room was very comfortable and slept so well.
Definitely my go to place when coming to Sydney.

We'd booked here to be near the lovely Centennial Park and to be close to an old friend who lives nearby - encouraged by the 'boutique' label adopted by the Hughenden.
What we found disappointing was the room: small, plain & poorly lit.
Not enough surface space to make a cup of tea without putting the electric kettle on the floor.
Similarly small bathroom with little space for the contents of our toilet bag.
Breakfast, which was served from the small reception desk, did not involve a lot of choice.
Also, difficult to find a place to park nearby.
On the positive side, they did have a pleasant open-air roof terrace adjacent to the room we occupied, but we weren't there at an appropriate time to make use of it.
I wouldn't book here again.

Encreadibly small room. Insanely overpriced. Very shabby, in this case 'historic ' means ' desperately needs renovation'. The bathroom is the size of the pencil case, have to get out of it into the room to be able to open the shower door. The outside area is dirty, surrounded by the concrete walls and overgrown bushes. The place was riddled with mosquitoes, ants and flies. The worst of all that you can't trust them with your credit card. They charged us $25 dollars for water AND cleaning? No invoice or email or any communications at all ! Just took it off our card. And then made TWO MORE WITHDRAWALS without notification. Sent us an invoice post-factum after being confronted over the phone. The tone of email was very rude, no formal address or apologies or explanations or itemised cleaning services we are being charged for. RUDE, DECEITFUL, DIRTY NOT WORTHY OF ANOTHER CHANCE. BE AWARE!!!