Now the Ibis Budget Hotel. Entry from Elizabeth St north a bit.
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021, 23:24 David Batho, dbatho@...> wrote:
> Mal and all,
>
> I mixed up Swanston and Spencer Streets. The hotel I stayed in *is* a
> former bank building, on the corner of Collins and Spencer Streets. You can
> sit downstairs in the former banking chamber, which is now the restaurant
> and lounge, and watch the trams (or their pantographs anyway) turn the
> corner from Collins into Spencer Street.
>
> My apologies for any confusion I caused.
>
> David
>
>
> On 23 Feb 2021, at 4:44 pm, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 6:57 PM espee8800 espee8800@...> wrote:
>
> But the Southern Cross hotel is on the NW corner of Collins and Elizabeth
> Sts. I've stayed there in a room overlooking the intersection.
> On 23/02/2021 01:17, Ronald Stux wrote:
>
> There's a Southern Cross hotel on Collins and Elizabeth? I remember one on
> the corner of Bourke and Exhibition long gone now. Is this a new one
> (relatively)?
>
> It's not a hotel I am aware of.
>
> The building on the NW corner of Elizabeth and Collins St is the rather
> bland white office block visible above the first articulation joint in the
> attached pic of 5001.
>
> It has a bank branch on the ground floor.
>
> Mal Rowe - hoping for clarification from David.
>
>
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