The guide in your hand, and on your phone.
If you're reading this, you're likely staying at one of our partner hotels — and either holding a printed Strictons guide, or following a QR code to its digital companion. Here's what they are, and why they exist.
The same guide, in two forms.
The printed guide is what you were given at check-in. It holds your room key, sits on the bedside table, and travels with you through the stay. It's designed to be held, kept, and even taken home.
The digital companion, branded entirely to your hotel and accessible by QR code from any page of the printed guide. It's the same curation, with deeper detail when you want it — menus, directions, opening hours that update if a place is closed today.
Use whichever fits the moment. The printed thing for the quiet flip-through over breakfast. The digital one for the quick check on a phone before walking out the door.
Your hotel, and the neighbourhood worth knowing.
Each guide opens with the hotel itself — what's available, the hours that matter, the answers to the questions guests usually have to ask twice. The information you'd want before you have to wonder.
Then the local section: a small list of cafes, restaurants, shops, and places worth your attention. Chosen by the hotel, with us, for guests like you. Not everything in the area — the things genuinely worth recommending.
Because the printed page is what stays.
Most hotels send guests information digitally these days — an email link, a QR code on the desk, an app to download. Useful in the moment, but the moment ends. The link is forgotten by morning. The app is deleted on the way to the airport.
The printed object behaves differently. It rests on the bedside table. It's flipped through over breakfast. It's photographed for friends. It earns a place on the bookshelf when the guest gets home, alongside the programs from theatres they loved most.
We chose to make both because both have their place. The printed thing is the experience; the digital thing is the convenience.
A small studio that cares about the smaller things.
Strictons is a small Australian studio that designs and produces guest experience guides for considered hotels. We partner with each hotel directly — learning the brand, walking the property, curating the list of local businesses that fit.
The hotel pays us nothing. The guides are funded by the local businesses we feature inside — chosen for fit and quality, not who pays most. That's how we keep the experience curated, and the guide free to your hotel.
“We make printed and digital guides for hotels who treat the smaller things as the work.”
If you've found something useful in the guide — a cafe you'll come back to, a corner of the city you might have missed — that's exactly what it was made for.