Hotel Purchase
The property and the adjoining vacant land was acquired by Cienna Group in 2001. In 2003, Cienna took over the management of the hotel.

Cienna Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lee Kim Tah Holdings, a public company listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore.

Market Segments
Our markets are broken up into the following segments: Corporate, government, leisure and international inbound. Our strongest market is the international inbound.

Refurbishment
A multi million dollar refurbishment which took almost 18 months has just been completed. All areas of the hotel including foyer, bar, restaurant, guest rooms, conference rooms and exterior were refurbished. The existing lifts have been replaced with modern high speed lifts.

History of Quality Hotel Cambridge
The Quality Hotel Cambridge (“Cambridge”) first started trading in 1979 and consisted of 137 guest rooms. The Hotel owned and operated Sydney’s first 5 star restaurant known as “Cyranos”. Now known as, 212 on Riley.

When the restaurant opened in 1979, Sydney’s finest Chef Rolf Widmer introduced a cuisine to Australia never seen before except in France, known by the French as “Nouvelle”. This was to the liking of some of Sydney’s most prominent business people and local residents, such as Mr Paul Keating (former Prime Minister of Australia) and Mr Lionel Murphy and his entourage of Judges. This cuisine carried on until 1990. Our famous cuisine was launched in France by a gentlemen by the name, Mr Paul Bocuse.

From 1980 through to 1995, Cambridge was a proud supporter of the famous TV Show “Young Talent Time”. Many talented youths from far and wide indulged themselves in our hospitality.

Cambridge underwent a major addition in 1993 by adding a 4 level podium consisting of 33 additional guest rooms and an indoor heated swimming pool/spa.

Local Area
The hotel is located at 212 Riley Street, Sydney East. The hotel is directly opposite the Sydney Police Centre. It is within easy walking distance to Hyde Park, Central Station, CBD, Darling Harbour, Moore Park, and Fox Studios. Oxford Street, Crown Street and Stanley Streets are also in close proximity to the hotel.

Surry Hills, and neighbouring Paddington is a colourful and diverse inner-city precinct that is well known for its art galleries, antique dealers, cafes, pubs, exquisite restaurants and fashion outlets.

Restaurants/Eateries
Once again Crown Street and Oxford Street is the place to go.

There is an extraordinary range of eateries here – from tiny Lebanese and Turkish takeaways to up market modern Australian restaurants and some excellent pub dining rooms, such as the Dolphin, Clock and Hopetoun, offering meals at very reasonable prices. Oxford, Riley, Albion, Bourke, Oxford and Stanley Streets also feature many places to eat.

Interesting Facts
Hills Reserve at the corner of Albion and Riley Streets, which is almost adjacent to Cambridge, was once a gully known as ‘Frog Hollow’. Filled to the brim with narrow terraces that were overcrowded and had poor light and ventilation, it was a notorious ‘no-go area’ frequented by some of the area’s worst criminals in the 1920s.

Foveaux Street was named after Captain Joseph Foveaux, NSW Corps paymaster, who received a land grant of 100 acres in the Surry Hills area in 1792.

Shannon reserve at the corner of Crown and Collins Streets is the location of the Surry Hills Market – held on the first Saturday of every month, subject to the weather.

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