Treasury Hotel and Casino
Top of the Queen Street Mall, GPO Box 2488, Brisbane 4001, Australia
Pros
Very Convenient location
Spacious room and bathroom
Cons
Poor soundproofing of rooms
Defective swipe cards
I stayed at the Treasury Hotel and Casino last May 2011 for two nights during a business trip. The hotel is conveniently located in Queen Street close to my office as well as near the shopping and dining hot spots of the city. It used to be the old treasury building so it had a very Old World feel and ambience which wasn’t really the style i expected. On Checkin I was given my swipe card but by the time I was in front of my room, the card wouldn’t work. For this to happen once was forgivable, twice can still be tolerated but I had to change my swipe cards 6 times during my 2-night stay. Every time I went out, the card would not work when I got back. I was told to not let it touch my mobile phone but even so, the cards still turned out to be defective all the time.
Anyway, the room was spacious; same with the bathroom, which was newly renovated at that time. No free WiFi and similar with other hotels, I paid Internet costs of $25 per day which i find unreasonable. The beds were comfortable but despite that I wasn’t able to sleep soundly because of the noise coming from the nearby club which played loud music until the early hours of the morning. I do not believe that it should be the neighborhood’s problem. Knowing this situation, the hotel should have made their rooms more soundproof. This was one of my other major complaints. I probably wouldn’t stay at The Treasury again.
