The Olsen Hotel, Melbourne

637 - 641 Chapel Street, South Yarra, South Yarra, 3141 Melbourne, Australia (show on map)

Expert reviews

New York Times review:

“The Olsen Hotel, a 224-room property in South Yarra, is dedicated to the 91-year-old landscape artist, John Olsen, one of Australia’s most accomplished painters, with his works scattered throughout.”
Featured in New York Times’ 36 Hours in Melbourne.

Guest rating

This an aggregated customer review rating of The Olsen Hotel, Melbourne. We have taken customer review ratings from hotel booking sites, search engines, the official hotel website and other travel platforms. This is the average of all those ratings. We only list places that have a customer review rating of at least 4.0 out of 5.0

4.4 out of 5.0

Ranked 10th in Melbourne

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What guests liked

All you need to know

The Olsen Hotel is situated in the famous Chapel Street of Melbourne. There are 224 spacious and elegant rooms for the guests. The rooms are designed with the artistic works of Dr John Olsen. When you enter the Hotel, you will find a sculpture that will blow your mind.

Here are some of the best services of The Olsen Hotel.

Rooms

The Olsen rooms are categorized into different styles to complement every guest. The room types are studio suite with and without balcony, deluxe studio suite single and twin bed, and many more. Here, in The Olsen’s, you also get penthouses to make your stay even more pleasant.

Facilities

The Olsen Hotel is packed with loads of facilities for the guests. The hotel gives you a 24-hour room service. You get the facility to organize an event in the hotel. You are granted access to one of the smart cars to tour the city. The hotel has a gym and massage room to give health benefits during your stay. You get many more facilities such as Valet service, local tours, pools, sun deck and much more.

Meeting Rooms and other events

The hotel has six meeting rooms well equipped for all business presentations. You can go pre-booking the dates for your meeting and then you are good to go. If you have a marriage function, then the Olsen offers beautiful penthouses for such events. They offer exclusive discounts on overall costs as the wedding event offer.

 

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Location

Recent guest reviews

3.5
Mavridis

9 December 2023

Very pleasant stay

Location and staff are fantastic

Rooms were very basic in comparison to their website and very small.

4.5
Shae

29 November 2023

Fabulous

Beautiful room, staff were really friendly and accommodating

4.5
Sally

28 November 2023

great spot & if you get a chance to eat at Spoonbill Restaurant & Bar say hi to Saed who looked after us perfect

great location & great restaurant on a Monday night

taking a $100 hold on my card.

4.5
Nicole

27 November 2023

Excellent facilities and comfortable stay. Recommend for families or a quick visit

Wonderful room very clean and comfortable and spacious for the whole family

Price is slightly high

4.5
Beth

26 November 2023

Relaxing

Bed was so comfortable

2 out of 3 lamps in my room weren’t working

4.0
Kate

8 November 2023

Great hotel in an excellent location with very quiet rooms.

Very comfortable bed. Room was dark and very quiet. Room was well equipped with a kitchenette and a good sized fridge. Location was perfect for us. All the staff we encountered were very friendly and helpful.

The room service menu was very expensive.

3.5
Nadia

31 October 2023

Pleasant

Friendly staff, decent room with a good bed. Quiet room which I appreciate. Great neighbourhood with some lovely cafes.

The room had big cracks in the sink in the bathroom. I found a number of long hairs in the room (not mine) and the front staff seemed a bit confused about me wanting to stay an extra night.

3.5
Joy

16 October 2023

good except for it being for extra tall people

The bed was comfortable, there were plenty of power points and the shower was good.

The bedside lamp didn't work, the fit out was for giants over 6'6' tall. The peep hole was over the top of my head, the benchs were much higher than usual. The overhead cupboards were so high I had to call someone from reception to reach a glass, and a mug and the electric jug to make a cup of coffee. They should supply a stool for shorter people. I travel a lot and have never seen everything so high any where else in the world.

4.5
Rebecca

15 October 2023

Overall good

Location and big rooms

The receptionist was very rude and unwelcoming

3.5
Tamara

15 October 2023

Great, lovely staff and helpful

Location and housekeeping were delightful and polite

When you have 4 people in a room booked and not enough towels and amenities in there to cover 4ppl

4.0
Jade

15 October 2023

Nice, comfortable short stay

The room was clean and modern. Customer service was excellent, we ended up getting late checkout for free.

Room was small but that was as per the description of the room. There was a little bit of wear and tear on some of the facilities in the room like the sink had a hairline crack in it. View was okay, nothing to really rave about.

4.5
Andrew

8 October 2023

We would return but upgrade our room

Too little space around the bed.

3.5
Silvestre

7 October 2023

Overall we made the most of it with everything else.

The room setup.

Had a table but no chairs, kettle that didn't work and a pod machine with no pods. The finishing on the cabinet with the microwave was missing, bare timber.

4.0
Ingo

7 October 2023

Nice room, good reception, excellent location

comfy bed and excellent pillows

4.0
Tara

25 September 2023

Great stay and would happily stay again

Great location, friendly staff, value for money

Very bad lighting throughout the whole room/ bathroom. Hard for when you’re trying to get ready and do makeup.

3.5
Julia

24 September 2023

Comfortable with some room for improvement.

Great location, comfortable bed and complimentary water was appreciated. Staff member on check-out was great.

I was a little disappointed about a few things. On arrival I had to wait five minutes for someone to come to the desk and I could hear laughing and singing coming from the back office. I had to call out for someone. When the staff member appeared they seemed annoyed I had interrupted them. A few other small issues being that the bath was not very clean on arrival and the shower head was broken.

4.5
Helen

24 September 2023

Fabulous

Location. Room size

4.5
Ashley

20 September 2023

great will be back

everything went well from the friendly staff at check in until we left.nice soaps in room,water and very comfortable.relaxing room with enough facilities .

nil

3.5
Shell

13 September 2023

Great location. Lovely vibe.

Great location. Exceptionally friendly reception staff. Great price for a Friday night in Melbourne. Room was well appointed and clean. Shower was lovely. Parking tip - despite reading other reviews advising the hotel carpark is always full, we tried. It was full. Just go directly to the Como Centre carpark opposite the hotel & save the headache.

The sound from the hallway was quite loud in the room. Would be unpleasant if you have neighbours coming and going at odd hours. We would've liked to have spent a bit more time in the hotel bar but it's a terrible set up. The service area of the bar has stools which were all occupied. This made access to the bar to order a drink a very awkward experience.

3.5
Lizete

11 September 2023

Pleasant

The location close to tooraknrd and chapel st

The Olsen is dated has small rooms needs a face lift and even though the staff are good and changed our room l probably wouldn't stay again because it felt poky in our room.

4.0
Dani2201

8 September 2023

Great stay for a business or personal trip

A great little boutique hotel. Great location on Chapel street close to shops, restaurants and opposite an incredible rooftop bar! Great beds, a little gym and heated pool. Nice downstairs restaurant.

The furnishing in our two bedroom was very sparse.

4.5
Alisha

3 September 2023

Fabulous

The comfiest hotel bed I've ever slept in. The facilities were excellent. So clean and spacious. Such great value for money. Staff were very accommodating, check in and check out were easy. The coffee from room service in the morning was great.

Not anything to complain about but there wasn't enough towels for all guests and the room service QR wasn't working. But a quick call to reception fixed that easily. A great hotel.

4.5
Charisma

1 September 2023

A great place to stay with 5 star quality but better value and location than CBD

That it was 5 star quality. That it was located within short distance from many places to have a nice meal or drinks at. Comfortable bed was amazing; low noise; onsite car parking was the reason we actually booked here.

The temperature controls were unable to be changed so we had to open our sliding door to cool down at one stage.

4.5
Zoe

31 August 2023

Beautiful stay at a wonderful art and style accommodation

Great location, great style, very well taken care of, really comfortable. Also, amazing location.

All was good!

4.0
Jessica

30 August 2023

Great night away

The view was lovely and the pool facility was noice though a bit messy

Parking was quite pricey

Hotel facilities

Food & Drink

  • - Restaurant
  • - Bar
  • - Breakfast in the room
  • - Special diet menus (on request)
  • - Kid meals (additional charge)
  • - Wine/champagne (additional charge)

General

  • - Room service
  • - Non-smoking rooms
  • - Facilities for disabled guests
  • - Family rooms
  • - Lift
  • - Safety deposit box
  • - Soundproof rooms
  • - Heating
  • - Non-smoking throughout
  • - Air conditioning
  • - Grocery deliveries (additional charge)

Business facilities

  • - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
  • - Business centre (additional charge)
  • - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)

Reception services

  • - 24-hour front desk
  • - Express check-in/check-out
  • - Luggage storage
  • - Concierge service
  • - Invoice provided

Activities

  • - Fitness centre
  • - Fitness
  • - Bicycle rental (additional charge)

Outdoors

  • - Terrace
  • - Outdoor pool
  • - Sun terrace
  • - Outdoor pool (all year)
  • - Outdoor furniture

Cleaning services

  • - Laundry (additional charge)
  • - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
  • - Ironing service (additional charge)
  • - Daily housekeeping

Parking

  • - Street parking
  • - Electric vehicle charging station
  • - Accessible parking

Pool and wellness

  • - Heated pool
  • - Shallow end
  • - Sun loungers or beach chairs
  • - Fence around pool
  • - Swimming pool
  • - Swimming Pool

Miscellaneous

  • - 24-hour security
  • - Key card access
  • - Security alarm
  • - Smoke alarms
  • - CCTV in common areas
  • - CCTV outside property
  • - Fire extinguishers
  • - Face masks for guests available
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