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The facade is rippled and draped in greenery to mimic the waves, a brave conceit in concrete. Inside, the rooms are open plan with floorboards in beach colours, surf artworks, bedheads look like striped towels, a walk in shower beckons behind translucent glass and balconies facing the water.

The pitch is a beach club in the middle of a city, and Perth has the weather to try it. Not sure the hotel delivers on the experience though.

25hours Hotel The Olympia doesn’t try to recreate that exactly, but it does something close enough to matter, tapping into that same looseness and giving it structure again.

The menu reads familiar at first. Dumplings, barbecue, seafood, fried rice, the kind of ordering muscle memory Sydney diners know well, but it doesn’t lean on nostalgia in the way you expect.

Firedoor is not a restaurant. It’s a temple of flame, a shrine to smoke, a cult where everything, including your sense of time, is slowly roasted over sustainably sourced hardwood.