Cool hotel - Review of Alto Hotel on Bourke, Melbourne

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We spent 4 nights in a Studio Queen room on the first floor and we were very happy with our stay. The staff, from Jackie on arrival at midnight to Gary, Melissa and Sylvia among others, were all extremely helpful and friendly and could not do enough for us. They printed out tickets to the footie for us, took care of our broken suitcase and made recommendations for nearby restaurants. Our room was a reasonable size for two, clean, felt "new", comfortable bed, small bathroom but good sized shower. Our room overlooked a quiet alleyway down the side of the building and we didn't hear much noise including on Friday and Saturday nights. There was no view to speak of but then we were not in the room for long, we didn't even make much use of the 130 Foxtel channels. The breakfast room is small but we never had a problem getting a table. The buffet had a good selection and the cooked breakfast choices were good too (and better still, included!). We liked all the Green aspects to our stay including the recycling bins, reusing towels and linen, the rooftop honey. The location is excellent, a hop, skip and a jump from the Skybus and Southern Cross station and the free tram zone and of course only about 5 minutes walk to Etihad stadium.
The building itself has a bit of history, read the notes in the Compendium in your room and take a look for yourself at the terrazzo floor in reception.
There are newspapers in the breakfast room that you can take to read as well as a small library if you want a book to read. You can also make yourself tea and coffee there at any time.
We would happily stay here again on our next trip to Melbourne and would recommend it to anybody else.