In which area to stay in Sydney?

During a stay in southern lands, where to sleep in Australia’s largest city? Here are the best areas to stay in Sydney!

Tempacular Capital of the State of the New South Wales ( New South Wales ), Sydney is Australia’s most populous city in front of Melbourne and Brisbane. With 5.25 million Sydnéen(ne)s out of 12 367 km2 – the size of the Gironde and the Yvelines combined – it is also the largest city in all of Oceania. As one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world – millions of tourists spend every year in the megalopolis to visit the many monuments of the city -, staying in Sydney can be expensive.

Located in the historic centre – The Rocks, near the Opera and Harbour Bridge - in Potts Point and the tumultuous Darlinghurst, on the seafront at Bondi Beach, from the Avalon Peninsula in Chatswood, from Parramatta to the suburbs, all neighbourhoods offer a different atmosphere, like cities in the city. Here is a brief description of the areas where to stay in Sydney.

The Rocks

The first inhabitants of Sydney were sailors and explorers from the distant Great Britain. On these lands belonging to the aborigines for millennia, they founded the first British colony in the 18th century. In this historic district, you will find more than a hundred historic buildings, many bars and restaurants along the harbour docks. In front of you, the famous and imposing Sydney Opera and the majestic bridge Sydney Harbour Bridge , tackling the huge rade that takes both the allure of Manhattan and the South Venice. As a bonus, the oldest houses in Sydney: Camden Cottage (1816). A good neighborhood where to stay in Sydney, very central, but rather hupped and bourgeois!

Surry Hills

Located in the city centre, Surry Hills is a gentrified neighborhood that once was a malfamated area. Today, the buildings and outskirts have replaced the art galleries and lounge bars. Surry Hills is one of the most trendy in the city, where the population is both chic and bohemian, cool and clean on it. If you like creative places, arty-hippies and galoping gentrification, this is where you need to rent an apartment, a hostel or a hotel: this is the den of the thirty-year-olds and travellers.

Darlinghurst and Kings Cross

Located in the east of the historic centre and its Opéra, these two neighbourhoods welcome the young people who come and get drunk in the numerous pubs and discotheques. There blows a wind of jet-set where a whole world of noctambules is complacent in a dejanated life, especially at night. Kings Cross is the red district of Sydney, the former fief of the malfrats and gangsters who ruled by drug trafficking, prostitution and violence. To have stayed there, we affirm that its reputation as a "craignos" neighbourhood is now obsolete: backpackers – the hostel in the Australian -, trendy cafés-bars, restaurants and bio markets animate the area during the day while the night resumes its festive and den of the bar. If you like to party, this is where you have to sleep in Sydney.

Bondi Beach

Bondi, it’s surfing paradise, known to all for its atmosphere: here, it smells fierce, cool life, holidays. Tenue in flip flops and beach towels are commonplace, we are far from CBD's tie costumes! We remember the monumental waves watering the sandy beach and the sandy beach, crowded, stormed by the estivants in search of a peaceful and relaxing neighbourhood life within the very heart of a tempacular metropolis: we are indeed forty minutes by bus from the city centre! Bondi Beach and its look on the South Pacific are a good area to sleep in Sydney because the offer of accommodation is abundant and therefore less expensive.

Main photo credit: Flickr – Filipe Castilhos