Royal Derby Hotel — Restaurant in Melbourne

Quite a nice room at a nice location. Plenty of bars and restaurants nearby. Around 15 to 20 minutes to Parliament station by tram or 40 to 45 minutes by foot. The entrance might be a little hard to find, especially at night. There's no wardrobe or anywhere to hang your clothes. Toilets do not have the ventilation duct so the corridor can smell nasty after someone used it. There are bars downstairs and nearby so the place can get pretty loud on Friday and Saturday nights. Earplugs are provided. Hair dryer is provided. Washing machine and dryer and washing powder provided. Nowhere to hang dry your clothes. The place uses PIN code access so no need to hold on to a key card. 1H street parking outside. 4H parking if you walk north a few minutes.

If you stay more than a week, they change your linen, although I would prefer to be given notice at least the day prior before they came knocking while I was still in bed in the morning. They did give notice but it was just very early in the morning itself.

One thing I cannot get over is the lack of recycling bin. I've stayed for quite some time and spent so much time separating my recycles from my regular thrash just for the cleaning lady to say "No worries just give it to me" and then throw the bags of recyclable items I collected into the bag with...

The Bar Manager is absolute PIG! had a booking in December for a large group. There was severe traffic and I received an email 8 mins after the time we had booked saying “You are not here, we are giving away your table. Regards the manager.”We ended up arriving 15 mins late which I advised by reply after receiving that email. At approximately 2pm there were a group of middle age men absolutely blind smashing glasses, spitting on each other, regurgitating drinks, fighting and tackling each other. The table was full with spilt drinks and food that had been throwing at each other. They were getting continually worse and the young family next to them were getting hit by food and bumbed by the group not to mention the swearing and yelling. I discreetly went over and said to the manager “Can you just keep an eye on them, that young family are coping it”. His reply was “well I’m not going to kick them out for just the family”. Shocked I walked away and shortly after the bar assistant came and started picking up their multiple broken glasses. She cut herself badly and the poor girl may have required stitches. She was not happy with the manager and apologised to us. I would love the owner of the premise to read this and I’m happy to follow up with any...

The Bar Manager is absolute PIG! had a booking in December for a large group. There was severe traffic and I received an email 8 mins after the time we had booked saying “You are not here, we are giving away your table. Regards the manager.”We ended up arriving 15 mins late which I advised by reply after receiving that email. At approximately 2pm there were a group of middle age men absolutely blind smashing glasses, spitting on each other, regurgitating drinks, fighting and tackling each other. The table was full with spilt drinks and food that had been throwing at each other. They were getting continually worse and the young family next to them were getting hit by food and bumbed by the group not to mention the swearing and yelling. I discreetly went over and said to the manager “Can you just keep an eye on them, that young family are coping it”. His reply was “well I’m not going to kick them out for just the family”. Shocked I walked away and shortly after the bar assistant came and started picking up their multiple broken glasses. She cut herself badly and the poor girl may have required stitches. She was not happy with the manager and apologised to us. I would love the owner of the premise to read this and I’m happy to follow up with any...