Sebel Playford Hotel

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Truly personalised service, from welcoming smiles to our yes I can philosophy. Broadband Internet access is standard in all suites and rooms, in addition to video conferencing and business centre services, available 24 hours a day. Flexible function facilities, catering for 100 to 500 guests, complete with our team of fully trained professional staff, dedicated to your every need. Conveniently located in the heart of the central business district, opposite the Adelaide Convention Centre, casino and the major retail precinct. Winner Best Luxury Hotel 2001 to 2006 South Australian Tourism Awards.

Reviews of Sebel Playford Hotel

  • Vera Poh
    Vera Poh   13 reviews
    The Sebel Playford Adelaide is the Rolex of accomodation in the genteel city of South Australia: ostentatious, luxurious, dripping with opulence. Pull up outside the stunning facade along North Terrace and step into the Playford Lounge Bar that hums civilly with the lunchtime crowd. Or turn the corner, pass a fountain with a statue of a winged cherubim, and move through rotating glass doors into a lobby decked out in a distinctive Art Nouveau style. Warm reception staff welcomes you with an efficient smile and porters are quick to ease your weight-laden arms.

    On condition of room availability, guests are permitted to check-in before the official time of 2:00pm a flexibility that is generally appreciated by zoned-out travellers who touch down early after agonising long-haul flights.

    The Spa Suite is at once inviting the 21st century insinuating itself amidst the otherwise late-19th-century milieu: flat screen TV (each in the separate lounge and adjoining bedroom), internet connection and cable channels. The bathroom is well-appointed with a separate shower (handheld and tropical) and a corner spa. Worth mentioning too: a couple of golden Ferraro Rochers that sit on the white linen crisp makes for a nice surprise.

    Depending on your tilt after a day of business, sightseeing or exploring this cultural precinct that is Adelaide guests can seek sanctuary here by sinking into the luxurious armchair with a good book, catch up on the days news, savour a red on the balcony or soothe tired muscles in the (less-than) effective spa. Indeed, the energetic will be pleased with the basement gymnasium that is impressive with exercise equipment and assorted irons as well as its good-size heated pool gleaming like glass under down-lights beside a breathtaking Michelangelo-esque mural.

    The Playford Lounge Bar is a stylish bar where shirted executives perch on stools alongside female colleagues in smart tops and black pencil skirts. They talk earnestly about office, state and federal politics over plates of pasta and bowls of soup. The bar menu changes daily but on this day, the Vegetarian Sandwich packs a flavourful punch with a sumptuous melange of spinach, fetta, pumpkin and sundried tomatoes. As does the Vegetarian Farfelle an elegant dish of bow-tie pasta clothed in a delectable red sauce with eggplant, mushrooms and zucchini.

    A Hawkers Kitchen is open on weekdays with tastes that traverse the crustacean world of oysters, neighbouring Asia and the Mediterranean before returning to the local freshness of South Australia.

    The Bar opens up to a cocktail-and-mingle space that doubles up as a dance floor under a discreet (albeit incongruous) disco ball. Everywhere else, heavy and elaborate chandeliers shower a sheen of golden glow on the comfy couches in the lounge and on the dining tables in the Restaurant ricocheting off black marble columns, reflecting from large gold-framed mirrors.

    The (unverified) award-winning Playford Restaurant offers a remarkable buffet spread for breakfast that features fresh fruit and muesli, hot vegetables and meats, breads and freshly squeezed juices, porridge and greens. Ask for eggs to be specially prepared poached, scrambled or boiled.

    Sitting in the plush setting over freshly brewed coffee, watching the first light tap gently on the shoulders of pedestrians who blow white puffs in the icy cold, as soaring arias from Madame Butterfly fill the air, Breakfast like a King suddenly assumes an almost literal dimension.

    Dinner, unfortunately, was far less satisfying. An entree of Beetroot Tart was bland with a gush of foam washing up slices of unusually dehydrated beet; the main of Pan Roasted Mulloway Fillet was dismal and dry; and the Yellow Curry Snapper is really not worth writing home about.

    How did you like the Tart? the serving waiter asked, observing the cutlery that lay beside the half-eaten dish.

    Hm..it is awll right, my dining companion struggled to be polite.

    What is the composition of the foam, if I may ask? I enquired quizzically.

    He looked at me nonplussed, promised to return with more information from the chef, but never did.

    While how and when the Restaurant was conferred any award still perplexes me, the hotel has undoubtedly lived up to its recent awards of Best Deluxe Hotel Accommodation in South Australia as well as the Best Luxury Accommodation in 2009.

    1 year ago

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