Serviced Apartments in CBD, Southbank & Docklands

Where you sleep in central Melbourne comes down to which edge of the centre your event sits on. These four apartment hotels split three ways: two Brady properties inside the CBD grid, Imagine Marco across the Yarra in Southbank, and Adele Apartment Hotel in the parkland pocket of East Melbourne. Every one gives you a kitchen and room to spread out between the ceremony, the dinner and the recovery brunch.

Two-bedroom layouts sleeping four are offered at all four, so a family or two couples can share one apartment rather than book separate rooms.

How the four compare across the area:

• Southbank: Imagine Marco on Balston Street has one- and two-bedroom apartments with full kitchens, laundries and balconies, plus an outdoor infinity pool, a gym and a free guest cinema room
• Southern side of the CBD: on Flinders Street near Crown and the Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brady Apartment Hotel Flinders Street keeps its pool, jacuzzi, sauna and gym fifteen floors up – From $149 per night
• Northern side of the CBD: up by Melbourne Central Station, Brady Hotel Central Melbourne combines standard hotel rooms with studios and two-bedroom apartments – From $139 per night
• East Melbourne: Adele Apartment Hotel at 166 Albert St is a boutique building beside Fitzroy Gardens, handy to the MCG, with a 20-metre heated outdoor lap pool and an IGA in the complex
• Groups: both Brady properties have a groups team that quotes for wedding or event groups taking ten or more rooms

If the event is at Crown, the convention centre or along the river, Southbank and Flinders Street keep you close; for a game, a concert at Rod Laver Arena or a quieter base among the parks, East Melbourne is the pick. Little La Trobe Street suits guests who want the station, the State Library and Queen Victoria Market close by.