Best hotels in Perth | A Curated Visual Guide to Top Stays

Welcome to PressBeyond, the ultimate curated visual guide for design-driven hotels! My name is Will Miller and these are my recommendations for the best boutique and luxury hotels in Perth.

I am the founder of PressBeyond and I am an ultra-meticulous hotel curator who loves clean visuals. I have individually analyzed and tiered each hotel included in this guide based on a variety of criteria (architecture & design, location, brand & brand affiliation, existing reviews, and my own personal experiences), and importantly, I have hand-selected the leading imagery for each hotel to provide you with easily-digestible, yet detailed and complete, like-for-like, high-level visual profiles. I felt this summarization step was a critical missing piece across existing guides, blogs, and booking platforms. My aim is to make it easier for people to identify hotel environments that resonate with them, along with enabling them to visualize the types of social experiences that those environments help foster. My brain doesn't work when exposed to cluttered content, so my goal was to create the opposite.

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An Overview of the Boutique & Luxury Hotel Landscape in Perth

The Treasury Building on Cathedral Avenue is one of the finest examples of Renaissance Revival government architecture in Australia — a mid-nineteenth century sandstone pile that sat derelict for years before COMO converted it into the group's Perth outpost. COMO The Treasury is a strong argument for adaptive reuse done without apology: the vaulted ceilings and heritage stonework are left to do their work, while the contemporary interventions are precise rather than deferential. It remains the most architecturally coherent hotel in the city, and the one most worth understanding on its own terms before anything else. The CBD and Elizabeth Quay account for most of the interesting hotel activity in Perth right now. QT Perth, in the Former Bankwest building on Hay Street, carries the chain's signature appetite for theatrical interior design — bold color, custom furniture, a deliberately unsettled aesthetic that tends to polarize guests along predictable lines. A short walk away, the Alex Hotel takes a quieter position, with a rooftop cafe sensibility and interiors that favor raw concrete and warm timber over spectacle. The Art Series entry, The Adnate Perth, anchors its identity in the large-scale mural work of street artist Matt Adnate, whose portraits of Aboriginal elders cover the building's facade — a gesture that is either the most culturally honest thing a hotel in this city has done recently or a conversation that opens more questions than it resolves. Down at Elizabeth Quay, the Ritz-Carlton occupies one of the development's angular waterfront towers, designed by Kerry Hill Architects before the firm's founder passed away in 2017; the interiors lean into local materials and references in ways that feel considered rather than decorative. Cross the river and the register changes entirely. South Perth is quieter, more residential, and the Quest South Perth Foreshore serves a longer-stay market from its foreshore position — practical rather than atmospheric, but the outlook across the Swan River toward the city skyline is the kind of thing that recalibrates your sense of Perth's scale on a clear morning. The Esplanade-facing Quay Perth occupies similar practical territory. For design travelers, the compelling geography runs between the Treasury end of the CBD and the Quay waterfront, with the river as context rather than backdrop — a reminder that Perth's best architecture has always had one eye on the water.

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The Adnate Perth - Art Series

Perth • Central Business District • OPTIMIZE

avg. $138 / night

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The Adnate Perth - Art Series Design Editorial

Stretching the full height of a 27-storey glass tower on Perth's Murray Street, a monumental mural by street artist Matt Adnate gives The Adnate Perth its name, its identity, and its most arresting architectural gesture — three figurative portraits of Indigenous women cascading down the facade in a wash of teal and ochre that transforms a standard-issue commercial tower into something closer to a civic artwork. Part of Art Series Hotels' long-running model of anchoring each property to a single Australian artist, the 2020 opening made Adnate's large-scale portraiture the governing logic of the entire building, from the street to the guest rooms. Inside, the tower's 223 rooms carry framed photographic prints of Adnate's murals above walnut-toned timber headboards, the palette kept deliberately neutral — charcoal carpet, grey walls, cobalt bed runners — so the vivid blues and greens of the artwork read with full intensity against their surroundings. The ground-level restaurant and pool terrace strike a notably different register: rattan ceiling panels, white-painted grid joinery, ash timber chairs upholstered in cornflower blue and lemon stripe, and fringed teal umbrellas poolside give the hospitality spaces a sunlit Mediterranean warmth that sits in deliberate counterpoint to the tower's more urban gravity above. The terracotta-rendered podium framing the pool deck anchors the whole assembly to Perth's persistent summer light.

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Quest South Perth Foreshore

Perth • South Perth • OPTIMIZE

avg. $153 / night

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Quest South Perth Foreshore Design Editorial

Across the Swan River from Perth's CBD, where the South Perth foreshore stretches along one of the most direct sightlines to the city's glass-and-steel skyline, Quest South Perth Foreshore turns that geographic advantage into its primary design argument. The aparthotel sits within a contemporary mixed-use building clad in layered travertine-effect stone and dark framing — visible in the ground-floor entry, where warm timber fins and backlit signage give the street presence a retail-adjacent polish, with the Dolce & Salato café sharing the podium level. Inside, the interiors follow the considered restraint that has come to define Quest's newer Australian properties — a Calacatta marble-faced reception desk anchors a lobby finished in blonde timber joinery, herringbone-patterned carpet, and modular grey seating low enough to keep the room feeling open. Apartments carry the same palette upward: white lacquered kitchenettes with stone benchtops, charcoal upholstered bedheads, oak-veneer side tables, and floor-to-ceiling glazing that frames Perth's skyline across the water. The studio configurations are efficiently planned without feeling compressed, the mirrored wardrobe panels doing useful work to borrow light across tighter floor plates. On the upper terrace, black wire café chairs and matte steel tables are arranged against a glass balustrade, the river and city towers filling the entire horizon — a view that requires very little design help to make its case.

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The Ritz-Carlton, Perth

Perth • Elizabeth Quay • SPLURGE

avg. $359 / night

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The Ritz-Carlton, Perth Design Editorial

Anchoring Perth's Elizabeth Quay precinct on the southern edge of the city centre, where the Swan River curves toward the Narrows, a pair of curved glass towers designed by Architect One opened in 2019 as the first Ritz-Carlton property in Australia. The taller of the two rises thirty floors above the waterfront, its curtain wall of dark-framed glazing catching the famously luminous Western Australian sky at every hour. With 205 rooms and suites, the hotel was always conceived as the centrepiece of a broader urban renewal project, Elizabeth Quay itself having been completed only a few years prior — the Elizabeth Quay Bridge visible from the infinity pool deck drawing the eye eastward across the river. Interiors by Hirsch Bedner Associates translate the region's landscape into a language of warm oak wall panelling, pale timber floors, and artwork evoking Western Australia's ancient geology — the pink and ochre tones of Kimberley rock formations appearing in framed panels above upholstered linen headboards. Guest rooms carry floor-to-ceiling glazing that wraps the curved floorplan, placing Kings Park's canopy and the Swan River within each room's sightline. In the all-day dining restaurant, generous louvred shutters dissolve the boundary between interior and terrace, bronze-framed cluster pendants overhead giving the double-height space warmth against the deep navy of the feature columns. The palette throughout — sand, blush, warm white — arrives less as a design decision than as an inevitability, drawn directly from the landscape outside.

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COMO The Treasury

Perth • Central Business District • SPLURGE

avg. $596 / night

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COMO The Treasury Design Editorial

Few buildings in Western Australia carry the civic weight of the State Buildings complex on the corner of St Georges Terrace and Barrack Street — a cluster of late Victorian and Edwardian structures that housed the colony's treasury, lands office, and public works department from the 1870s onward. When COMO The Treasury opened in 2015, the challenge for architect Kerry Hill and his Singapore-based practice was not to decorate a heritage shell but to complete it, inserting 48 rooms across the historic fabric while adding a new wing that meets the original without deference or apology. Hill's approach to the interiors sets pale ash timber, woven cane chairs with Thonet-influenced bentwood frames, and fine wool carpets against the buildings' existing masonry bones — the dark-painted panelling and original brick fireplaces visible in the heritage rooms giving way, in newer spaces, to bleached timber headboards and linen-pale walls that carry the same quiet restraint. The restaurant sits in the new addition, its perforated metal ceiling and full-height glazing framing views over the city in a language that is contemporary without being aggressive. The 25-metre lap pool, enclosed in a glass-walled structure slotted between old brickwork and a modern service wing, crystallises what Hill achieved across the whole property: the sensation that old and new have been held in careful, unhurried tension rather than forced into false harmony.

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Quay Perth

Perth • The Esplanade • OPTIMIZE

avg. $144 / night

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Quay Perth Design Editorial

Facing the Swan River from its position on The Esplanade, the building that houses Quay Perth presents a facade of faceted bay windows wrapped in dark anodised aluminium — a rhythm of angular glass bays stepping across the mid-rise tower that gives each room an oblique relationship with the water below. The geometry is sharp and deliberate, the black steel framing lending the exterior a weight that distinguishes it from the glass-curtain-wall commercial towers pressing in on either side. A rooftop terrace runs the full width of the upper level, visible from street level through continuous glazing. Inside, the property splits its register across two distinct moods. Guest rooms carry a Scandinavian-adjacent restraint — pale timber slat headboards, strip lighting recessed behind upholstered bedheads, grey carpet, and floor-to-ceiling windows framing the city or river depending on orientation. Accent cushions in dusty blue and blush soften what might otherwise feel strictly minimal. The all-day dining space works in warm-toned oak, vertical timber batten screens punctuated by a capsule-shaped aperture that frames the open kitchen beyond — a device that creates depth without enclosure. The hotel's bar and restaurant takes a harder industrial turn: reclaimed timber wall cladding, exposed brick columns, chain-hung pendant lights and buttoned banquette seating in charcoal wool, the atmosphere closer to a converted warehouse than a hotel dining room. The tonal gap between those two spaces is wide, but each is well-resolved on its own terms.

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Alex Hotel | Boutique Cafe & Hotel Perth - Image 1

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Alex Hotel | Boutique Cafe & Hotel Perth

Perth • Central Business District • OPTIMIZE

avg. $164 / night

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Alex Hotel | Boutique Cafe & Hotel Perth Design Editorial

Perth's Northbridge precinct has long been the city's cultural pressure point, and the Alex Hotel, which arrived on the corner of James and Milligan Streets in 2016, makes its position in that neighbourhood felt from the street outward. Designed by local practice MJA Studio, the six-storey building presents a composed facade of dark steel framing and warm timber glazing at ground level, the entrance marked by a deep green tiled portal that gives the whole composition an unexpectedly residential gravity. Forty-eight rooms are distributed across the upper floors, each finished with exposed board-formed concrete ceilings left raw against walls painted in chalky sage or dusty rose — a chromatic palette that borrows from mid-century European sensibility without imitating it. Bedded with timber-framed upholstered headboards and furnished with black bowtie wall sconces that carry a clear debt to 1950s Italian lighting design, the rooms feel considered rather than curated. At street level, the ground-floor bar and dining room anchors the building in the life of the precinct rather than keeping it at arm's length. Dark-stained floorboards, bentwood bistro chairs, floor-to-ceiling linen curtains, and a ribbed dark timber bar fronted by a white stone counter establish an atmosphere closer to a neighbourhood wine bar than a hotel lobby — which is precisely the point. Exposed steel trusses and raw concrete soffits carry through the structural honesty of the floors above, while the terrazzo-topped bar table and layered vintage rugs introduce enough warmth to make the space feel genuinely inhabited.

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QT Perth

Perth • Central Business District • OPTIMIZE

avg. $193 / night

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QT Perth Design Editorial

At the corner of Murray and Barrack Streets, where Perth's pedestrian mall gives way to the CBD's commercial grid, a crisp white tower of chamfered concrete fins and stepped terraces announced something new for Western Australia when QT Perth opened in 2018. The twenty-story building, designed by Buchan Group, presents a stacked geometry against the skyline — deep-set windows recessed behind blade-like frames, the facade carrying the feeling of a contemporary resort tower that has been sharpened rather than softened. At street level, warm timber screens and dark metal entries signal a deliberate shift in register from the tower's cool minimalism above. Inside, the interiors follow the QT brand's house approach of theatrical eclecticism, here interpreted through a palette that borrows from Western Australia's extraordinary natural landscape without resorting to literal reference. The 184 guest rooms are finished in deep-stained jarrah-like hardwood flooring, channelled amber velvet headboards, and round ochre cushions stitched with sunburst motifs — a visual vocabulary somewhere between mid-century Australian glamour and contemporary cabinet-of-curiosities excess. One room category deploys bird-of-paradise wallpaper behind a jewel-toned curtain rod in brass, plum leather club chairs pulled alongside a dark lacquered minibar. The ground-floor Santini Bar and Grill layers terracotta pendant lights over teal banquettes beneath a mirrored industrial ceiling, while the rooftop Anda Bar offers hardwood decking and wicker seating across the Perth skyline at dusk.