Rydges Esplanade Resort Cairns

Easy walking to city & esplanade!

I know we are going through different times at the moment but they could have changed our bins when we were out! Especially since we had heaps of takeaway containers because we could only do room service!

The room was great, the location fine. The hotel is maintained well enough for its age.

We were staying at the hotel while our new born child was in the special care nursery at the Cairns base hospital. We stayed a total of 3 nights. Whilst in the hotel, a heap of COVID-19 isolation guests checked in. We were accessing a vulnerable section pf the hospital, which the hotel staff were well aware of as they asked us often how it was going. The COVID-19 would be devastating to the many infants at the hospital special care nursery and hospital staff instructed us to get out ASAP. Rydges did not inform us that the hotel had taken in multiple high risk guests. I don't blame the hotel for taking in the business, but a courtesy note would have been well accepted.

Good location and nice pool

Expensive parking, lots of mold on the AC vents

The rooms were spacious, and the staff were nice.

The rooms, especially the bathrooms are a bit dated. It would be a good idea for the hotel to go through a remodel. But it was clean and everything worked, just needs to be brought out of the 90s.

The staff are extremely friendly and helpful and the location is ok. The view is pretty good as well.

Evidently the room had just been "refreshed" however the bathroom was extremely dated with cheap metal fittings that reminded me of my early days in the Army. The layout of the room was bizarre to say the least so much so that you would have to turn your head 90 degrees to watch the TV from the bed. The air conditioning is pre-set to 25 degrees Celsius which in the wet season is not sufficient and the room is hot, this is not an acclimatization issue as we are from North Queensland and we found it oppressive to the point we had to have both the fan and air conditioning on at the same time to be comfortable.