The top-tier luxury Sydney accommodation in the CBD and city fringe, as picked by GT editors. Of course, this means there’s more to booking a room in a Sydney hotel than choosing a rate and a date.

The reimagining of the historic Art Deco hotel in Sydney's CBD involved so much more than a surface-level glow-up.

Its distinctive brick and bronze semicircular facade remains intact. The hotel exterior, such a landmark in Sydney’s CBD, has not been tampered with. We zoomed up to the top, level 17 ...