Hilton Hotel Review

Hilton Hotel in Sydney was built in 1975. It has 577 rooms and suites. Mass amount of swimming pools, bath tubs, fitness areas and business facilities can be found here.

Overlooking the Queen Victoria Building, the 30-story Hilton Sydney is 100 meters from the Town Hall station and approximately 12 miles from Kingsford Smith Airport. St. Mary's Cathedral, the Opera House, Sydney Aquarium, Chinatown, and the Rocks are within a mile of the hotel. Hotel amenities include Glass Brasserie and Wine Bar, Marble Bar, GAB (cocktail lounge), Zeta Bar, Caffe Cino, and the health center's gym, sauna, spa tub, juice bar, and 25-meter heated indoor pool. The hotel also offers room service, concierge assistance, 23 meeting rooms, a 1,000-capacity ballroom, a business center, currency exchange, parking (fee applies), valet laundry service, and 24-hour front desk service.

All rooms feature PlayStation games, cable TV, coffeemakers, high-speed Internet access, direct-dial telephones, voicemail, hairdryers, bathrobes, separate bathtubs and showers, irons and ironing boards, safes, and air-conditioning.

The Bombing of the Hilton Hotel.

The Sydney Hilton bombing occurred on 13 February 1978, when a bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia. At the time the hotel was the site of the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting (CHOGRM), a regional off-shoot of the biennial meeting of the heads of government from all Commonwealth nations.

The bomb, planted in a rubbish bin, exploded when the bin was emptied into a garbage truck outside the hotel at 1:40am. It killed two garbage men, Alex Carter and William Favell, and a police officer, Paul Birmistriw, guarding the entrance to the hotel lounge died later. It also injured eleven others. Twelve foreign leaders were staying in the hotel at the time, but none were injured. Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser immediately called out the Australian Army to guard the remainder of the CHOGRM meeting.

A new plaque was unveiled in Sydney's George Street on 13th February 2008, at the site of the bomb blast outside the Hilton Hotel 30 years ago that marked Australia's entry into the age of terrorism.

New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma has commended Sydney City Council for restoring the memorial plaque to its original home, and says he hopes there will never be a need for any more.