My wife and I stayed for 3 nights and we were unable to sleep every night as we had major disturbances from a group of Aboriginal people who would create a ruckus in the middle of the night outside our room. The hotel is unsafe for travelers and sleep quality is terrible. I believe the management is not interested in the safety of its guests. The washbasin was stained and the room was not vacuumed.

We stayed at Alatai for 3 nights on our weekend trip to Darwin. We are pleasantly surprised with the generous space of the two-bedroom apartments! Each apartment is equipped with a kitchen so that you know you could do some cooking there (utensils, pans, spoons, everything provided! - worry free!) or even washing and drying! So practically saying, Alatai is quite a good option for those traveling with big groups and kinda need cooking during their stay. Mary-Anne was also very nice, she's helpful in giving us information.

However, the location is not that central, it is off the main road of Mcminn street and pretty far apart from the main attraction. Although Darwin is really a small city, it still requires quite a walk to the main attraction. Especially when Darwin has frequent monsoonal rainfalls in February, that really made traveling fairly impossible to do in Darwin city.

Unless you don't mind a bit of walking to the city (consider the weather), Alatai is quite a good option.

Rooms were nice, clean and very spacious. Bit pricey but Darwin is pricey anyway.

The location here is very good. Easy walking into town although if you are going to attempt to carry your shopping back it may be a little far!

The apartment was very basic but had everything you needed. All kitchen equipment was provided, there was a washing machine and pretty good dryer (which I would recommend in Darwin!).
There was plenty of storage space in the rooms and there was a safe in one bedroom.
The rooms were not cleaned during our stay but the towels were changed everyday.

The aircon was very noisy which was a little problem since it had to be on. Also we were on the ground floor and you could hear outside very clearly at night.

I would recommend these apartments if you are staying with family or in a large group. They are by no means luxury but do the job.