They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this snap from Sydney's Hyatt Regency Hotel will leave you speechless.

A hotel valet has lived to tell the tale after the soft-top sports car he was parking this morning ended up underneath another car.

He drove a Porsche Carrera under the SUV outside the Darling Harbour hotel, where rooms in an executive suite will set you back more than $650 per night.

Emergency services workers cut the driver out of the car — which retails for more than $240,000 — as a large crowd watched on during Sydney's morning rush.

The Porsche Carrera ended up underneath the SUV outside the five-star hotel. ( ABC News )

NSW Police confirmed they had been called to the hotel at about 8:20am.

Matthew Talbot, the hotel's director of sales and marketing, said the staff member was unharmed.

"We've worked very quickly to secure the area. Obviously it's an interesting looking picture," he said.

"We've got the fire brigade and the police on the scene as soon as we could and the vehicle was on the bottom on the other one.

"They had to cut part of the car away and pull the staff member out.

"Obviously the staff member was embarrassed and a little bit shocked, it kind of scooped the other car up, but the main thing is that he's OK."



The valet managed to escape unharmed after being cut from the Porsche. ( Instagram: @jonobozo )

A witness told the ABC: "I heard this revving and this bang and turned around and the Porsche was literally underneath this other car. It was crazy."

Another witness, Jonathon Bayle, said: "When I first saw this I thought it was being shot for a TV show or a movie, but apparently it's real."

In a statement, hotel management said they were conducting a "full assessment" with authorities and the vehicles' owners.

"Hyatt Regency Sydney places the utmost importance on the safety of our staff and guests and a full investigation is being conducted by hotel management over the next few days," they said.

The Porsche is towed away this morning. ( ABC News: David Spicer )

Jonathan Bouzaid, who saw the incident unfold, said "the car ran into the orange car and then wedged itself under it".

"Then they kind of ran it into another white car which hit some bollards," he said.

"It didn't make a big noise, just the odd crunch here and there."