Viva Bris Vegas

Despite Brisbane's status as small country town in the capital city stakes, Brisbane is still home to some fashionable lurks. We have the ultra-sumptuous Emporium hotel with its divine bar (and gorgeous, all-male wait-staff), the uber-cool Bowery and of course the dark, funky corners of West End - Sling Bar, Rumpus Room, U-Bar and Lychee Lounge to name a few. Not to mention my favourite little haunt, One Degree, in the CBD. The latest offering in cocktail savoir faire is Limes Hotel - recently opened by Damian Griffiths in Fortitude Valley (aka "the Valley").
Limes combines 21 guest rooms (pitched at the modern, independent traveller) with a roof-top bar (catering for the young, professional hipster with a taste for cocktails). The rooms are sleek pads featuring the modern essentials: big bed + sensuous linen, kitchenette with working bench space, free Wi-Fi , iPod dock, 32inch LCD televisions, L'Occitane toiletries (yum!), complimentary in room beverages (now that's unique!) and brownies on arrival - just like home.

Fancy a sleepover of another kind? If you find your feet too tired to make the trundle out to a cab line, or you've found someone in the rooftop environs you'd like to get to know better, you can book a room for $99 after the dawn of the Witching Hour. Add to that the open-air cinema, currently showing cult '80s film classics, and you'd just about want to live there!