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The Mid Air restaurant and bar on top of Accor’s new Hyde Melbourne Place in Melbourne’s CBD.

How to make the most of the interest rate cut? Get a room

Leisure travel bookings soared by nearly 15 per cent at one of Australia’s largest hotel chains after last week’s Reserve Bank rate cut.

  • Simon Johanson

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Room upgrades, champagne and cake are among the freebies some travellers are receiving by lying about honeymoons and birthdays.

The ‘unethical’ travel-hack trend hotels hate

Lying about special occasions to get free perks from hotels, cruise ships and restaurants is a new trend driven by social media.

  • Sally Howard
The Hachijo Royal Hotel appeared in 1963 as a Baroque fantasy, all Greek-style statues in the garden and fountains tinkling in soft salute to the rising sun.

Once the pinnacle of luxury, these 10 hotels now sit abandoned

The great and the good were once lured to these five-star hotels, but now they’re eerily derelict – though some could yet be reborn.

  • Chris Leadbeater
An artist’s impression of the new Marriott hotel and residential tower being constructed at Church Street, Parramatta.

The unlikely location of Sydney’s newest five-star hotel

The Marriott will open a new hotel with a specific clientele in mind.

  • Anthony Segaert
Arthur Laundy at his Red Lion pub in Rozelle.

Pub veteran Laundy sells $30m proposed hotel site at Cobbity

Arthur Laundy has sold a greenfield development site in Sydney’s south-west that will eventually become the Oxley Ridge Tavern.

  • Carolyn Cummins
10 Queens Road has sold in the high $20 millions.

Carnage on leafy St Kilda boulevard as property values crash-land

Basketball tsar Larry Kestelman sold a Queens Road tower for $59 million in 2019. Now it’s changed hands for less than half that sum.

  • Nicole Lindsay
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Plans for former AC/DC house

It’s a long way to the top of the tower replacing AC/DC family home

A 143.9m, 38-storey building featuring a 120-room hotel is planned for the former Sydney home of Angus and Malcolm Young, which was knocked down in December.

  • Michael Ruffles and Megan Gorrey
Residents evacuated after multiple fires break out early today at the Hilton Surfers Paradise hotel on the Gold Coast.

Hilton in flames at Surfers Paradise as ‘fiery explosion’ forces evacuation

More than 100 guests were standing by the roadside in the dark for at least an hour after the fire broke out.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Jerry Schwartz: We need to give people a reason to come to Sydney.

Hotel billionaire flies high, buying out Sydney Seaplanes

Jerry Schwartz is purchasing a majority share in the business from former owners Aaron Shaw and Ken Gaunt.

  • Carolyn Cummins
The 15-storey hotel would include 92 suites.

Council, developer taken to court over plans for a new Brisbane hotel

The owners of the Soho Brisbane are taking legal action over plans for a 15-storey hotel that would overlook their establishment, Roma Street Parkland and the CBD.

  • Sean Parnell

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