TESTIMONIALS - PRESS

Melbourne's ritzy South Yarra has a great new place to stay with the opening of The Lyall, a stylish all-suite hotel offering a "luxury lifestlye" experience in the city's best address".
Andrew Conway, Luxury Travel

The Lyall Hotel is Dazzling guests with it's Day Spa"
Susie Westwood, Australian Conde Nast Traveller,


Raising the bar…The Lyall owners, Rowina and Peter Thomas, have included Madura tea, Melbourne-based Jock's ice-creams in a variety of flavours and Adelaide's renowned Haigh's chocolate. Makes a change from UHT milk".
Delicious, August, 20021

Fashionable people should know about a new hotel, the Lyall in Melbourne's South Yarra. It's perfectly positioned… and the day spa is to die for.
Edwina McCann, Journalist The Australian (August 2, 2002)

Peter and Rowina Thomas were also in Collette (Dinnigan) mode taking some time out from their new Melbourne hotspot, the Lyall, where we camped for the night. This discreet boutique hotel is developing quite a cult following..".
Melissa Hoyer, Sunday Telegraph

The Lyall Hotel, South Yarra…sexy at night, warm reception area,…efficient staff ready to meet your every need. ..excellent cooked breakfast..I was in our room in a wink to find a spunky, comfortable apartment that was the very last word in amenity. Nothing had been forgotten, from fresh coffee and a plunger to generous wine glasses, …lashings of big white towels a separate bedroom with king size bed, and a balcony for fresh air.. You could quite feasibly spend your entire weekend at the Lyall'. Rating 18/20
Kendall Hill - Travel Editor, Sydney Morning Herald (August 3-4 ,2002)

If you seek luxury, consider Melbourne's slickest boutique hotel, The Lyall in South Yarra. The Lyall is Melbourne's hottest lifestyle address. It's a luxury five-star hotel and a holistic retreat all in one. I have never stayed at a more impressive city hotel. The attention to detail has to be seen to be believed here. "
The Daily Telegraph - Arthur Stanley (August 20)

"Melbourne's Lyall Hotel…Owners Peter and Rowina Thomas can be best described as having dared to be excellent…...the hotel can best be summed up as "supremely livable".
The Australian Friday August 23

What's New Around Town
"…the classy Lyall Hotel, champagne bar promises to be the perfect place to mingle with fellow fans of French fizz. The privately owned all-suite Lyall is the only Austalian member of the Leading Hotels of the World, meaning guests are up for "unparalleled luxury on an intimate scale". Expect the same exclusive vibe form the bar".
Dani Valent, The Sunday Age, ( September 8, 2002)

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