Our few days in Katoomba were spent at the grand old Carrington Hotel. It has been restored but has retained the old fashioned grandeur of stained glass windows; old fashioned lamps & lounges, beautiful timber and detail on the ceilings and walls & a lot of history recorded in paintings and photos in the bars, lounges and foyers. Our room did not have air conditioning (luckily the heat wave was over by the time we arrived) but we did have an ensuite bathroom. The hotel still had a commune bathing room that had shower and bath cubicles.
In it's hey day it would have been the most upmarket place around.
It was a very quaint place to stay and also very convenient to the local restauarants which was very handy as the hotel restaurant only opened at weekends.
Last Sunday was a heatwave for Katoomba reaching 38 degrees. The gardens were burnt with the heat which they were obviously not used to. The drop in temperature over the next day caused the fog to settle in so by the time we got there on Tuesday we could not see the other side of the street. It is known to stay like this for up to four days or whenever there is a strong wind to move it. That was not good news for us as we had come for a golf holiday. The fog remained for the whole of our stay.
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