City style arrives in the ‘burbs as Alexandra Hills Hotel unveils its makeover

A SUBURBAN Brisbane hotel has been given a $15.5 million makeover as it steps away from the motel-style market.

The lobby of the new 52-room 4.5 star hotel at the Alexandra Hills Hotel.

A LEADING pub family has wrapped up its third multimillion-dollar redevelopment of one of its suburban hotels, creating quality accommodation and conference and function rooms.

McGuire Hotel Group recently opened a 52-room new 4.5 star hotel at its Alexandra Hills Hotel, east of Brisbane, along with new conference and function rooms and a soon to be expanded restaurant.

The $15.5 million redevelopment follows the same theme of its Colmslie and Calamvale hotels whose 4.5 star accommodation offerings now boast an 80 per cent occupancy rate.

Inside the new 52-room 4.5 star hotel at the Alexandra Hills Hotel.

Operations manager Matthew McGuire said the redevelopments aimed at “future proofing” the hotels for the next generation of the 110-year-old family business.

He said with greater Brisbane expanding it made sense to offer better accommodation and an eclectic design style in what was usually a motel-style market.

“It’s a step away from the traditional motel offering and its giving people what they see in the city in the suburbs,” he said.

“To take our hotels to the next level, conferencing, accommodation and bigger restaurants needed to happen.”

Part of the $15.5 million refurbishment of the Alexandra Hills Hotel.

Alexandra Hills Hotel sits on a 5.3ha site on the corner of McDonald and Finucane roads in the Redlands council area.

Mr McGuire said the group would take a break from its building program.

“At the moment it’s probably the last one we’ll be doing for a while because you need a lot of land to do them.”