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The Carrington Hotel

Name: The Carrington Hotel
Address: 15-47 Katoomba Street, Katoomba NSW 2780, Australia, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 2780, AU
Telephone: (02) 4782 1111

Blue Mountains, New South Wales Capacity: Up to 134 From: From $255 p/head

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Overview & Vibe

An 1880s grand hotel on the ridge at Katoomba, and one of the few venues in this campaign where the room does the talking: the Grand Dining Room has soaring columns, vaulted ceilings and chandeliers, and seats 134.

Setting & Style

Ceremonies run either on the Piazza Lawn — “surrounded by The Carrington's beautiful gardens and capturing views of the Jamison Valley escarpment” — or in the Ballroom, a natural-light room that also serves as the wet-weather option. Receptions take the Grand Dining Room or the Ballroom. The hotel runs 65 rooms, a public cocktail bar and lounge, a beer garden and landscaped gardens.

Ideal For

Couples who want a heritage building rather than a paddock, everything including beds on one site, and a fully itemised 2026 price list before they enquire.

The Need-to-Knows

Room hire is separate from the per-head package and the pack says so twice. Grand Dining Room: $2,000 Friday to Sunday, $1,000 Monday to Thursday. Ballroom: $550.
Accommodation is a compulsory package requirement — $1,800 for ten traditional rooms above the Grand Dining Room, or $1,300 for the Ballroom package's suite and two balcony rooms.
A ceremony package is $2,000 and is “only available to couples holding their wedding reception at The Carrington Hotel”. A Ballroom ceremony additionally requires the Grand Dining Room as the reception.
Surcharges: 10% on Sunday, 15% on public holidays.
The Ballroom's capacity is published three different ways — 80 seated, 70 room capacity, 60 with the dancefloor. Confirm which applies to your layout.

Standout Feature

A 134-seat Victorian dining room with columns and chandeliers, in a hotel that has been doing this for more than a century.

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Website

thecarrington.com.au

Phone

(02) 4782 1111

Address

15-47 Katoomba Street, Katoomba NSW 2780, Australia

Amenities

Grand Dining Room
The Ballroom
Piazza Lawn
Internal Veranda
Soaring Columns And Vaulted Ceilings
Chandeliers
Small Stage In Ballroom
Dancefloor
Jamison Valley Escarpment Views
Landscaped Gardens
Beer Garden
Cocktail Bar And Lounge
Onsite Accommodation
Dedicated Wedding Coordinator
Wet Weather Option
Audio Visual Speaker PA And Microphone
Menu Tasting Included
Heritage Hotel
Live Performance Venue

Ceremony Setting

outdoor
lawn
garden
indoor

Dietary Options Supported

No details available.

Nearby Landmarks

Katoomba – The hotel is in the town centre
Katoomba Street – The hotel fronts it
Jamison Valley – The escarpment view from the Piazza Lawn
Echo Point – A short walk or drive south
Three Sisters – At Echo Point
Leura – The next village east
Blue Mountains National Park – Surrounds the town
Sydney – About a 90 minute drive east

On Site Accommodation

65 rooms and suites
Signature Suite for the wedding couple, 2 nights included in the Grand Dining Room package
10 Traditional Rooms with private external bathrooms, above the reception venue
Premier Balcony Rooms
Accommodation is a compulsory requirement of both wedding packages
Additional night in the wedding suite $350

Price Notes

ROOM HIRE IS NOT IN THE PER-HEAD PRICE, and the pack states it explicitly: '*Room hire is not included in package price. Minimum guest numbers apply.' Grand Dining Room room hire: 'Friday, Saturday, Sunday $2000 / Monday - Thursday $1000'. Ballroom room hire: '$550'.
ACCOMMODATION IS COMPULSORY, NOT OPTIONAL. Grand Dining Room package: 'Accommodation (compulsory package requirement): 10 Traditional Rooms with private external bathrooms (Located above reception venue). Rates are based on two adults per room. $1800'. Ballroom package: '(Signature Suite and two Premier Balcony Rooms) Rates are based on two adults per room. $1300'.
THE CEREMONY PACKAGE IS $2,000.00 and is conditional: 'Wedding ceremony packages are only available to couples holding their wedding reception at The Carrington Hotel.' It covers hire of the Piazza Lawn or Ballroom, 2 pedestals with seasonal floral arrangements, 70 white chairs, signing table and 2 chairs, cream carpet runner, and audio visual (speaker, PA, microphone and AUX connection). A FURTHER CONDITION: 'A Ballroom ceremony is only available to couples who have booked the Grand Dining Room as their reception venue.'
SURCHARGES APPLY TO CEREMONIES AND RECEPTIONS ALIKE: '10% on Sunday, 15% on Public Holidays.'
PRICED ADDITIONS, all from the same pack: 'Additional night in wedding suite $350'; 'Menu Tasting (maximum 4 guests) $90' per person; 'Beverage package extension $10 per person / hour'; 'Dancefloor lights $100'; 'Stage $500'.
SO THE REAL FLOOR IS WELL ABOVE $255pp. A Grand Dining Room wedding carries at minimum $255 per head PLUS $1,000-$2,000 room hire PLUS $1,800 compulsory accommodation, before the $2,000 ceremony package. Recorded plainly because the per-head figure alone would badly understate it.
A SECOND CURRENT PACK EXISTS for non-wedding functions - 'Functions-and-Events-Package.pdf', also dated 14 May 2026 - and its numbers describe BANQUET configurations rather than weddings: 'Banquets have a maximum of 138 guests with no dancefloor. 102 guests with a dancefloor'; 'a maximum of 80 guests with no dancefloor'; 'a maximum of 70 guests with no dancefloor. 58 guests with a dancefloor'. It also names small rooms not offered for weddings - the Sir Henry Parkes Room ('an ideal space for small meetings of up to 6 people') and a Board Room ('private luncheons or dinners for up to 10 guests') - plus The Colonnade, where 'All private bookings require a minimum of 80 guests'. None of these is a wedding capacity and none is stored as one.
NO DIETARY POSITION IS PUBLISHED IN THE WEDDING PACK. The functions pack marks individual platters 'gluten free available on request' and flags vegetarian items, and a guest review on the site says the hotel 'catered very well to all dietary needs' - but a review is not the venue's own statement of policy, and the wedding menus publish no dietary note. dietary_options_supported recorded NULL rather than inferred.
ACCESSIBILITY IS MENTIONED ONLY IN A REVIEW, not in the hotel's own copy: 'The Carrington also caters towards various accessibility needs, plus babies and children.' Worth confirming directly.
BOTH PDFs ARE CURRENT: 'Weddings 2026' and the functions pack are dated 14 May 2026 by both the PDF /ModDate and the HTTP Last-Modified header - about ten weeks old at capture. All pricing above is in scope under the two-year rule.
EXTRACTION NOTE FOR WHOEVER RE-CHECKS THIS: both PDFs extract with a space between every character ('W e d d i n g s'). Keyword greps return ZERO against the raw extraction even though the text is fully present. De-space first - a run of two or more spaces is a word break, a single space is padding.