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If arriving by car the hotel is accessed via Hay Street, short-term parking is available at the hotel entry or for valet parking. Taxi service is available and airport shuttles can be arranged for travel from the airport to the Hotel.
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Perth could be called a text-book capital-city holiday destination: large enough to be thought of as cosmopolitan, but not in any sense overwhelming; packed with attractions, but not so many as to defeat, confuse or disorientate visitors.
Kings Park
Check out the superb views from Kings Park, the lungs of the city centre. The park includes a 17 hectare (42 acre) Botanic Garden and a section of natural bushland, which represents Perth as it was before the white fella got here. In spring, there's a cultivated display of WA's famed wild flowers. The park also has some pleasant bike tracks - you can hire bikes just outside the park - and a coffee shop.
Museum of Western Australia
The museum, in Northbridge, has an excellent gallery of Aboriginal culture, a marine gallery with the skeleton of a 25m (82ft) blue whale, vintage cars, a gallery of dinosaurs and a good collection of meteorites, including the 11 tonne Mundrabilla specimen. In the courtyard, set in its own preservative bath, is Megamouth, one of the largest species of shark. Only about five of these benign creatures have ever been captured.
Berndt Museum of Anthropology
This is one of Australia's finest collections of traditional and contemporary Australian Aboriginal art and artefacts. It combines material from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and the south-west, desert and Kimberley regions of WA. You'll find the museum in the University of WA, in Nedlands.
Underwater World
This is not your run-of-the-mill aquarium. Underwater World, north of the city, has a 98m (321ft) underwater tunnel aquarium displaying 2500 examples of 200 marine species, including sharks and stingrays. If you turn up at the right time you can watch the sharks being fed or, if you're a qualified diver, join in the feeding yourself (hopefully in a not-too-participatory manner). There are also interactive displays inside such as a touchpool and Microworld. Outside, rehabilitated dolphins do tricks and get fed for their troubles.
City Beaches
Perth has some of the best city beaches in Australia, though they can get a bit unpleasant and windy in the afternoon. There are calm bay beaches on the Swan River at Crawley, Peppermint Grove and Como. Or you can try a whole string of patrolled surf beaches on the Indian Ocean coast, including Perth's very popular nude beach at Swanbourne. Scarborough is known for its beachside café society, and is great for experienced surfers and sailboarders. Perhaps the best beach of all is on secluded Carnac Island, frequented by the odd marooned human and some sea lions.
Rottnest Island
This sandy island, 19km (12m) off the coast of Fremantle, is home to small indigenous marsupials known as Quokkas. These were mistakenly identified as rats in 1696 by the Dutch explorer de Vlamingh, who named the island `Rats Nest'. The Rottnest settlement was established as a prison for Aborigines in the nineteenth century, but by 1920 the prison had fallen into disuse and the island had become an escape for Perth society. There is virtually no motorised traffic on the island and bicycle is the main means of transport. The beaches are superb with some of the southernmost coral reefs in the world and crystal-clear waters.
Fremantle
Known as `Freo' to the locals, the port of Fremantle (though a town in its own right with a strong local identity) has been absorbed into Perth's urban sprawl. In 1987 the port was the site of the unsuccessful defence of what was, for a brief period, one of Australia's most prized possessions - the America's Cup yachting trophy. Fremantle has been substantially revamped and is now filled with outdoor cafés, old buildings and lively markets, and is imbued with an arty ambience. It continues to attract hoards of day-trippers on weekends.
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Wireless internet access is available on the Club Floors; a high-speed internet data point is located in each all accommodation rooms.
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Rydges Perth boasts several function rooms catering from 6 to 500 guests. From a small boardroom to a large cocktail function. Please contact our Conference & Events Department for bookings
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| Rydges Perth Hotel offers a secure valet parking service at a daily fee of $25 per car per day for unlimited entry. Guests arriving at the front of the hotel are requested to leave their keys with a porter. The hotel accepts no responsibility for parking fines if the car is parked in the bus zone. This bay incurs a fine of $100. |
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