Holiday Inn Express hotel Parramatta to open early 2024

As more luxury hotels make their debut in the booming Parramatta CBD, a budget chain will deliver an alternative because ‘great cities accommodate everyone’. See how it will look.

Guests could save more than $1000 a night to stay at the Holiday Inn Express hotel when it opens in Parramatta compared with some of its competitors jostling for bookings in the CBD.

Fresh images have emerged revealing how the 15-storey, 239-room hotel will look at 37 Smith St once it is completed in early 2024.

Online searches indicate the budget hotel chain will offer visitors affordable alternatives to rest their head for the night.

A room for two guests at the Holiday Inn Express at Macquarie Park is $162 mid week compared with $359 at the InterContinental in Sydney (the luxury hotel is also due to open at the corner of Church and Macquarie streets in 2025).

There is also more bang for your buck at the Inn compared with QT, which is still under construction at Phillip St Parramatta and will set you back a whopping $1322 for a midweek booking if the prices for the QT in central Sydney are a guide.

That is a $1160 saving.

The Holiday Inn Express at Artist impressions for the Holiday Inn Express at Smith St, Parramatta.

Business Western Sydney executive director David Borger welcomed the Holiday Inn.

“Great cities accommodate everyone and there needs to be a few cheap seats in any city,’’ he said.

“They won’t like me saying that but it’s true and Sydney’s such an expensive city for hotel accommodation.

“I think Parramatta’s got to have the full cohort for offer, and this looks affordable but well designed. It’s not going to be a cheap-looking place, it’s going to be an affordable place.’’

There will be two floors of commercial space in the hotel and a 60-bay carpark. A development application was first lodged with Parramatta Council in 2019 but were submitted again this month to amend the number of waiting bays from six to five.

The budget hotel will have 239 rooms.

It will attract business workers and tourists.

Mr Borger expects the hotel to have high occupancy rates.

“In the past Parramatta hotels were busy Monday to Friday and empty on the weekends but increasingly I think those weekends are going to fill up with tourists and people coming for the Powerhouse, the stadium, the new Riverside Theatres,’’ he said.

“There’s real entertainment offer on its way in Parramatta.

“It’s great to see the Holiday Inn survive Covid. With all the hotels in Parramatta, it just shows the confidence in the future tourism industry here.’’

Demolition of the building the hotel is replacing has already started.

Other facilities joining the string of hotels in Parramatta include the Sheraton and Hilton.

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