Inside England's hotel: Lionesses relax with comforts like Yorkshire Tea & darts

From the luxury games room, 1,040 Yorkshire tea bags and a coffee machine that can print an image of your face, there is one element of the Lionesses’ base hotel that stands out among the many impressive features.

Hanging upon the wall is a special painting of all 23-players from their childhoods. Each member of the squad submitted a picture from their grassroots beginnings, with those images transformed into a piece of artwork by painter Harry G Ward.

‘The significance of this painting is everything that we've been trying to do for many months and years, which is around connecting us back to our history,’ says Kay Cossington, the FA Women’s Technical Director.

‘It's about connecting the players back to their grassroots clubs and it's also honouring how important grassroots football is to the journeys of our professional players and I think we all fell in love with this painting when we first saw it.’

For the first time ever, the Football Association opened up the doors of an England team hotel to the media.

Located in the coastal town of Terrigal, 60 miles north of Sydney, is the Crowne Plaza Pacific Hotel - where Sarina Wiegman’s team moved into on Sunday. This ‘home away from home’ will be their base camp for as long as they remain in the World Cup.

‘We're here in Australia, but what you want to create is that home away from home,’ says England’s general manager Anja van Ginhoven. ‘When you walk in here it feels immediately like England, like Lionesses, like “us”.’

After playing Denmark in Sydney on Friday, England will fly to their final group game in Adelaide and back to their base camp before a potential last 16 fixture. Van Ginhoven and Cossington visited Australia several times in the space of 14 months. The pair