Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel Review – Stay In Sydney With Kids

Might you be in need of a family-friendly hotel with amazing views over Sydney Harbour? Of course you are! Well, let me show you around the Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel.

Oh, how good is a room with a view?

What a view to wake up to, gorgeous to go to bed too as well.

Evening light over Sydney Harbour Not bad views in the middle of the day either.

Now then, I must get a grip and wrench my eyes away from the vistas.

Ok then, just one more… this was the view from the window of my room, looking south-west towards North Head. Sigh….

This 32-room hotel on the harbourside at beautiful Watsons Bay is certainly a place I’d recommend for families visiting Sydney (or even for Sydneysiders in search of a gorgeous staycation.)

Here’s why… the family loft rooms are really good. They are well set up with a king bed downstairs and twin singles up on a mezzanine level. So long as your children are old enough to be safe around mezzanines, these rooms are terrific.

Adults bed and bathroom, fear not the blind can be drawn Steps up to the kids’ bedroom Well set up for the little ones I loved the windows in the bathroom!

The second major reason why this hotel works well for families is simply location, location, location.

Watsons Bay has lots of cool kid-friendly things to do itself: Watson’s Bay Tea Gardens, the lovely beach, Robertson Park with its fenced playground, Doyles Fish Cafe, Camp Cove and the South Head Heritage Trail, Watsons Bay Baths and more.

Check out our post on the walk from Watsons Bay: South Head Heritage Trail and Camp Cove Excursion.

Then too, Watsons Bay is close to Bondi and the other Eastern Suburbs beaches. The bustling busy city centre of Sydney with its museums and art galleries and more is easily accessible by ferry, and the journey is most beautiful.

Back to the Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel. In summer time the hotel is all about sitting outside enjoying the views in the Beach Club – this used to be known as the beer garden when I used to come and enjoy beer, views and sunshine here in my 20s. Ah, happy memories…

Here’s the interior dining room where I ate dinner and breakfast. Lovely beachy decor

Weddings and other functions are held here. How divine.

There are actually several different types of accommodation. I was hosted in a Harbour View Deluxe King Suite, which I can highly recommend if you’re a mum in need of an escape from family life. I was and it did the trick nicely.

This room was just gorgeous, with a huge, elegant bathroom, comfy bed, heaps of space and the most gorgeous sliding shutters.

Sun streaming through shutters when I first woke up. I slid back the shutters to reveal this view – glorious! (I set my camera to expose for the outside, so the room looks dark, but of course at the time, the room was light-filled and the outside looked really bright.) Very calm colours comfy chairs, all very calming. Our bathrooms at home look NOTHING like this. One mum and her pyjamas and a king bed = great night’s sleep. My yummy breakfast You can have lunch or dinner at the Beach Club A top spot to visit on warm summer days after a play at the beach