Notes from the desk
Guides written by the people who book Crown Melbourne every week: the rooms, the floor, the restaurants and the city around them.
Every guide in the journal
Inside the Crown Restaurants: A Dining Guide
Thirty-odd venues, from hatted dining rooms to the 2 am kitchen. Where the real meals are.
High-Limit Gaming at Crown, Explained Plainly
The salons are more paperwork than mystery. What the rooms are and who they suit.
Southbank on Foot: The Riverside Hour
The promenade loop that earns the coffee at the end. Route, timing and the detour inland.
The Crown Spa Day: An Insider's Schedule
A spa day is a sequence, not a booking. The order that actually resets you.
Melbourne's Event Weekends: Planning for the Big Ones
Grand Prix, the Open, finals season. How the city's big weekends change the booking.
A Crown Wedding: Rooms, Scale and Reality
What the ballrooms hold, what the day costs and how the whole thing runs.
Getting to Crown: Transfers, Cars and the River Option
Every way in, priced and timed: sedan, mover, SkyBus, tram and the river route.
Responsible Play at Crown: A Straight Guide
The limits, tools and support that exist, written without euphemism.
Inside Crown Rewards: What the Tiers Actually Buy
Free parking to hosted entry. Where the real value sits in the program.
Our writers have covered Melbourne's dining and hospitality scene for these mastheads. The guides here come from the same field notes.
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Responsible play, written plainly
The limits, tools and support that exist at Crown, without euphemism. Worth reading before any gaming session.
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