Honeysuckle Executive Apartments

The apartment was fantastic! Comfy bed, a balcony, fully equiped, and lots of space. The only downside to the room was the bathroom. There was no shower screen so water went all over the toilet, which was right next to the shower, and over the floor, making it a serious slip hazard. Even though our room wasn't cleaned while we were there, Pauline the cleaner asked if we had everything we needed and if anything needed topping up. She was lovely. We got return airport transfers and our driver Michael was brilliant. Great guy, friendly and helpful. He drove us in a cool black electric Lexus SUV. We felt very special and the transfers worked out cheaper than taxis. Sadly, the reception staff seemed disinterested and not very helpful with being forthcoming about details. The hotel runs on a series of codes (no keys/key cards) for after hours entry, pool and gym entry, and even our room door. If all this had of been communicated to us clearly at reception, and not by SMS, it would have saved a lot of confusion. There's no phone in the room so keep your SMS because it has reception/hotel numbers if you need them. The SMS also told us to download an app that we didn't end up needing.The hotel is close to everything including the light rail (you can take it to the beach) and beautiful walks along the wharf where there's lots of cafes and bars. Newcastle is a beautiful city and we had a fabulous stay. I would have given 5 stars, but the reception staff and bathroom brought it down.

Absolutely disgusted and disappointed with my dealings with this place. I never even got a chance to stay. I tried to change my booking 48 hours prior to my stay only to be ghosted by the venue. Then they tried saying I stayed in the apartment. I live 4 hours away. No empathy given. I will never stay at this apartment. Just greed!

Great location and good size apartment. It was noisy through the night due from other guests in the building.

The Chifley Executive Apartments are well placed between the beach and the harbour ammenities.

Keypads not working properly noisy work going on in units next to ours in the mornings

Good but they charge you $50 if you don’t take your garbage to the bin room. They do have cleaners too! I’ve never seen such a request before in all my more than 70 nights in hotels! Seems really petty to me. I won’t be going back just because of this.

Receptionists could give a better explanation of codes for entry.

The rooms were modern and clean

Extremely rude and unhelpful customer service, dirty room, terrible parking situation.

Not a lot of explanation of how things work. 3 different codes needed to access your room and room code is 7 digits, 2 different keypads at each entry only told after asking which colour was correct. Noisy work carried out during day 3 without notification so you could have arranged during the time it was carried out.