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Top city hotels drop prices by up to 50pc to get bodies in beds

Fiona Carruthers
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Five-star capital city hotels are unleashing a wave of deals up to 50 per cent off luxury rooms in the hope of exhuming tourism in metropolitan centres after the Easter break and ahead of the lucrative July school holiday period.

For several months, regional areas have ridden the “holiday here this year” boom, while city hotels have been largely starved of business other than quarantine stays.

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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com

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