Five-star Martin Place, Sydney
The Fullerton Hotel Sydney
Sydney's General Post Office, James Barnet's sandstone palazzo on Martin Place, with heritage rooms in the old building, a modern tower beside it and a clock tower finished in 1891.
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- Building
- General Post Office, begun 1866
- Rooms
- 416 rooms and suites
- Opened
- October 2019
- From the airport
- About 25 minutes from Kingsford Smith, our estimate
The hotel
The post office on Martin Place.
The Colonial Architect James Barnet designed the General Post Office as an Italian Renaissance palazzo in golden Pyrmont sandstone. Work began in 1866 and went on in stages, and when the clock tower was finished in 1891 it was the tallest civic building in the colony. The carved reliefs of colonial life by Tomaso Sani were so realistic that they caused a public outcry.
The building was refurbished in the 1990s and sold in 2017. The Fullerton Hotel Sydney opened inside it on 18 October 2019, with 416 rooms split between the heritage building and a modern tower. The restaurant looks down into a six-storey glass atrium, a small Australia Post shop still trades on site, and guests can join a free tour of the old post office.
- Heritage tours A free guided tour of the GPO building and its history, run by the hotel.
- Afternoon tea Served daily from noon to 4 pm in The Bar, in the lobby.
- Two kinds of room Heritage rooms in the old post office, or tower rooms with views across the city.
Rooms & suites
The old building or the tower.
The 416 rooms and suites divide between the heritage GPO and the modern tower beside it. Club floors have their own lounge on level 28.
- Heritage Heritage rooms In the old post office, some with marble fireplaces and period details such as an 1870s postmaster's writing desk.
- Tower Tower rooms In the new building, with city views, marble-look bathrooms and a deep bath behind glass.
- Club Club floors Access to the Fullerton Club Lounge on level 28, for breakfast, refreshments and drinks before dinner.
Dining
Under the glass atrium.
Restaurant and bar as listed by the hotel. Shown for information.
- The Place South-East Asian and modern Australian On level one, above the atrium
- The Bar Afternoon tea and cocktails In the lobby, with the Singapore Sling and a Sydney Sling
Good to know
Before you go.
- Entrance The hotel's address is No. 1 Martin Place. The entrance is at 159 Pitt Street.
- Fitness A gym on level 6 is open around the clock. No pool is listed.
- Post office A smaller Australia Post shop still trades inside the building.
Getting there
Flying to Sydney.
Sydney Kingsford Smith is roughly twenty-five minutes away by car, by our estimate. Private jets use the business aviation terminals at Kingsford Smith or Bankstown, which is open around the clock and about thirty-five minutes from the city centre by our estimate.
- Melbourne 1 h 15
- Queenstown 2 h 55
- Fiji 4 h 30
- Singapore 8 h 40 long-range jet
- Hong Kong 10 h 05 long-range jet
Questions
What guests ask first.
- Does The Fullerton Hotel Sydney have a MICHELIN Key?
- No. The hotel holds no Key in the 2026 selection.
- Which building is The Fullerton Hotel Sydney in?
- The former General Post Office at No. 1 Martin Place, designed by James Barnet and built from 1866, with the clock tower finished in 1891. A modern tower beside it holds the rest of the rooms.
- Can guests tour the old post office?
- Yes. The hotel runs a free heritage tour of the GPO building.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Sydney?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Sydney, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Sydney
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Capella Sydney A heritage-listed former Department of Education building, with more than 1,400 works of art and the only hotel in the city with two MICHELIN Keys.
- Park Hyatt Sydney Practically under the Harbour Bridge, looking across Sydney Cove to the Opera House, with new rooftop suites on a fourth floor.
- The Langham, Sydney Regency-style rooms in mahogany on a street above The Rocks, and a twenty-metre heated pool.
- Crystalbrook Albion Thirty-five rooms in a listed landmark and a modern wing, the largest suite lit by Gothic windows.
- Four Seasons Hotel Sydney Five hundred and thirty-one rooms on George Street, many of them facing the Opera House and the bridge.
- InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach On the beach at Coogee, with an infinity pool, a rooftop bar over the sand and Rick Stein's first Sydney restaurant.
- QT Sydney A century-old department store and its theatre, dressed in Art Deco references, with a bar and grill that draws the city in.
- The EVE Hotel Sydney Built where a 1970s shopping centre stood, with a balcony or terrace for every room and a pool on the roof.
- The Porter House Hotel Sydney - MGallery An 1876 tobacco warehouse at the foot of a new tower, with leather details in the rooms recalling its trading past.
- Wildlife Retreat at Taronga Inside Taronga Zoo, where some rooms look onto kangaroos and koalas and others across the harbour to the Opera House.
- InterContinental Sydney Built behind the restored Treasury Building of 1851, with 509 rooms, 28 of them suites.
- Sofitel Sydney Wentworth Between Circular Quay and Martin Place, a short walk from the Botanic Garden, where tilda cooks Australian produce.
- Pier One Sydney Harbour, Autograph Collection A cargo wharf of 1912 beside the southern pylon of the Harbour Bridge, turned into 189 rooms that keep the pier's heritage beams.
- W Sydney On Wheat Road above Darling Harbour, swimming in a heated thirty-metre infinity pool on the roof deck.
Staying at The Fullerton Hotel Sydney?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Sydney, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
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