MVP Bundaberg wants to change plans for Qld city’s new Airport Hotel

The developers of a massive project near Bundaberg airport were given the green light in February, but have now made some significant changes to their proposal.

The developers behind a planned multimillion-dollar hotel at the Bundaberg airport are seeking permission to increase the number of rooms on offer in order to make the project “viable and sustainable”.

The developers behind a planned $24 million hotel at the Bundaberg airport are seeking permission to increase the number of rooms on offer in order to make the project “viable and sustainable”.

Developer MVP Bundaberg said in its application the change was needed to meet “specific needs of key hotel operators”, including the prices likely to be charged by whichever company manages it.

“Essentially it was determined that to make the project viable the cost of construction needed to be decreased, and the number

of rooms increased,” the company said in its application to the Bundaberg council.

The developers behind a planned multimillion-dollar hotel at the Bundaberg airport are seeking permission to increase the number of rooms on offer in order to make the project “viable and sustainable”.

The hotel was originally given approval by the council in February 2024.

This latest application was lodged on December 9, 2024.

The original plan included 90 beds spread across 85 rooms, none of which were interconnecting.

MVP Bundaberg’s new proposal would expand it to 102 beds across 97 rooms, 24 of which would be joined.

MVP Bundaberg’s new proposal would expand it to 102 beds across 97 rooms, up from 90 beds over 85 rooms.

Where the original design was broken up into 48 standard rooms, four disability access rooms, and eight rooms with spas, the new plan would increase the number of standard rooms to 78, add two more disability access rooms, and entirely remove rooms with spas from the plan.

Car parking would be increased from 96 to 107.

The hotel’s footprint on Airport Drive would be made slightly smaller by the changes.

Plans to open a new hotel next to the city’s airport have been in the works for years, with a vastly different design at an alternate location on Airport Drive given a green light by the council in 2019.