The Most Comfortable Accommodation in Richmond
Alto Richmond is your home away from home. This accommodation in Richmond provides everything you could ever need during your holiday. Our kitchen is well-equipped so that you can enjoy home-cooked meals whenever you want to. Lounge around in comfortable beds covered with clean linens changed regularly as part of our weekly service.
Our guests stay in our three-bedroom Richmond townhouse whenever they are in the Melbourne area because of its proximity to the classy Richmond cafe, bar and restaurant area. A reliable tram at the end of the street whisks you from Richmond into the city centre, via the MCG and sporting precinct.
Melbourne visitors who wish to enjoy all the comforts of home love to stay at Alto Richmond because our sleeping accommodation is flexible – it can accommodate couples or families. For entertainment, we provide free Internet and DVDs and CDs, in case you want to stay inside.
Our al fresco balcony gives you a view of the city with a roof opening that allows you to sit in the sun, or bask in the fresh air protected from rain.
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Alto Richmond is surrounded by dozens of restaurants, cafes and bars – from Wild Oscar’s bar, Grandma Funk’s retro cafe, to the romantic Agapi restaurant. Several of Richmond pubs have been pub of the year.
Richmond’s fashion strip in Bridge Road is just a short tram ride away. Our place is also near the East Richmond train station and Richmond station further down the road, which is the rail hub to Melbourne’s east.
How Richmond Accommodation has changed over the years
Who would have thought in 1950 that Richmond would be the gentrified trendy cafe, bar and restaurant district that it is today?
During Melbourne’s early years, Richmond was a working class suburb dotted with factories. Richmond workers lived in tiny cottages that can still be seen in the back streets of Cremorne, and even in parts of the Richmond Hill, above Alto in Waverley Street.
Some accommodation doubled as speakeasies and brothels in the late 1800s. There were shootouts in the streets as infamous criminals like Squizzy Taylor operated nearby.
On Richmond Hill, the high part of Richmond, stately two storey Victorian terraces were the choice homes for the wealthy.
In the 1950s a wave of migrants came from Greece and Italy – they have become very wealthy and most of them still live in Richmond. These migrants often grew fruit trees and vegetables in their front garden and some of these still exist today.
Hidden in the back lanes is another kind of accommodation – Warehouse conversions – a good example being the Australian Knitting Mills behind Richmond station.
Alto is a different kind of accommodation in Richmond. It is a modern townhouse designed in the early days of the leading architects Neo Metro. When you stay with us you are embedded in Richmond’s history.
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