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Interesting. What is this "Bench" st the SYD Pullman?I stayed there a couple of weeks ago - that gift is better than the zip, zilch, nada that I got as a Platinum, until I brought it up on the last night. At that point they brought us up the ol' De Bortoli Legacy and a cheese platter that seemed to be the same as what was on offer at the Exec Lounge bench - also a new experience since staying there roughly the same time last year. A bit awkward but the food was not awful and the drinks were flowing freely.
This was after having to battle them for being able to book a rate on the ALL website and having the staff 'deconstruct' the Executive Lounge while I was in there (the one that is a meeting room on Level 1 - not the bench). Interestingly, they were not advertising the Level 1 lounge in the letter given to me at checkin, but I was not the only one in there at times using it as an Exec Lounge.
Sounds like trying the railway Mercure might be back on the menu. Although next stay in Sydney is at a non Accor hotel that gladly gave a better rate than their website just by emailing them to ask, rather than telling me on the phone that the rate on the website shouldn't be there and hence I can't book it.
A roped off area in the ground floor restaurant/bar area?
How is service provided?