gap master
Google
If you're looking for the Brisbane City Watchhouse experience, this place might be perfect—because that’s exactly what it felt like.
The rooms are incredibly small and shockingly dirty. The floors haven’t been cleaned in ages—sticky underfoot and even breaking apart in places. The air conditioner barely works and drips all night long, making it nearly impossible to sleep.
The pillows? I'm fairly confident they haven’t been changed in 10 years. Underneath the pillowcases, they’re stained and brown. Disgusting.
The in-room safe doesn’t work, and when we asked staff to fix it, they simply didn’t show up. Speaking of misleading, the foyer and rooms shown in the online photos are completely different from what you actually get. The pictures feature the larger front-facing rooms—which face the main street and are so noisy, you won’t get to sleep before midnight. But most rooms aren't even that nice.
We booked for five nights but checked out after just one. Staff told us to contact Agoda for a refund, but that turned out to be a lie. Agoda said they would check with the hotel, and surprise—the staff denied ever telling us that. When we raised all our concerns, the staff claimed there was nothing wrong with the room.
Don’t just take my word for it—check out the many other negative reviews on Google. If you want to be in the middle of the action, yes, the location is central. But that's the only upside, and it’s definitely not worth the tradeoff.