Novotel Devonport

The exterior and interior premises of the Devonport Novatel are new and extremely masculine and angular. The interior is very dark. It might be suitable for a wake. Everything is black. It has no character, no invitingness in its furnishings. That said the staff are the opposite: helpful, cheery and pleasant. The valet parking vs a 100 metre park away walk with luggage makes life unnessarily difficult. While huge areas on the water front side are given over to green, the valet parking area on the main entrance is a shoe box size making for unnessarily stressful time limits and squeez. So all in all, whilst the staff were terrific, I found the internal ambience sombre and male conference dictated. Arrival and departure by car is difficult. Not a place for the traveler, other than it is close to the interstate ferry terminal. And that's it's pull factor. But its design is strictly from a masculine conference orientation and pitch. A pity. If could have been so much better and so very different given it's water harbour front location.