MELBOURNE BUDGET ACCOMMODATION

The Pensione Melbourne is a funny place. And we think it will disappoint some people, but keep others perfectly happy. And there is a very good reason why we make such a contradictory assertion. Rooms at the Pensione are small. Very very small. On the plus side the rooms are well presented, and reasonably new. The hotel underwent a substantial refurbishment a couple of years ago. This means great looking images online for you our humble readers. But it doesn’t give you any concept of scale. Or my precisely a lack of scale. Because the rooms at the Pensione are...

AT’s Quentin Long contorts himself into all kinds of weird shapes with a stay in the diminutive (understatement) boutique Pensione Hotel Melbourne. That’s the Pensione in Melbourne. Before you get to your room, a few limbering-up exercises are advisable. This is a room built by contortionists to challenge other contortionists. And I LIKE IT. It’s so goddamn cheap and feels like a funky boutique hotel – well, for the vertically challenged anyway. But, just so you know what you are getting into, let me map it out for you. I stayed in a Double (I can’t even begin to imagine...