INTERCONTINENTAL SYDNEY
Built around the restored Treasury Building, the five-star InterContinental Hotel has recently undergone a US$25.5 million refurbishment with new guestrooms and the addition of a rooftop Club InterContinental Lounge, which has glass doors opening onto a timber deck with views
of Sydney Harbour.
Club members can use it as a private retreat, or a place to catch up on business, taking advantage of the personalised business and concierge service.
The 509-room hotel at Circular Quay has 14 function spaces including the all-white loft-style meeting space on Level 31 called the Harbour Room. It has been the venue for parties, intimate dinners and boardroom meetings with a capacity for 90 people cocktail style and 40 people seated.
www.sydney.intercontinental.com
SHERATON ON THE PARK
Opposite Sydney’s Hyde Park in the CBD, the Sheraton on the Park is close to fashionable Oxford Street, a popular tourist destination with restaurants, designer label shopping, bars and cafés. With 557 guestrooms and suites, there are 16 meeting rooms including the Grand
Ballroom boasting natural light, outdoor terraces and meeting concierge services.
The Hyde Park Suites, which have views across Hyde Park, have recently been refurbished. Featuring contemporary furniture, the master bedroom has a plasma screen, bedside DVD player, Bose Wave stereo and iPod docking station. The lounge areas are high-tech havens with plasmascreen televisions and a Bose audio system.
Also, a big timber dining table can be used for entertaining or conferencing.
www.starwoodhotels.com
STAR CITY
Star City is a glitzy 24/7 gaming and entertainment venue housing Sydney’s only casino, a 351-room five-star hotel with 130 serviced apartments, 13 restaurants and bars, a conference venue with a capacity of 1,500 people and two theatres.
Set on a 3.3-hectare site next to Darling Harbour, it has hosted a range of events including ceremonies welcoming Chinese New Year, the 2007 season launch of the V8 Supercars motorsport tour and a Night of Nights party with a three-course sit-down meal to celebrate 50 years of television which was telecast live. Star City has recently won a bid to host the Australian Tourism Awards that are held every six years.
www.starcity.com.au
HILTON HOTEL
Located in the heart of the business district, overlooking the stylish QVB shopping precinct, the Hilton has enjoyed a resurgence after a US$170 million refurbishment that saw it reopen in July 2005. Adapting the theme that it is the place to eat, meet, sleep and play, it has the largest convention and meeting space of any hotel in Australia at 4,000 sqm and can accommodate up to 1,200 delegates at a time in its grand ballroom.
It also boasts a 100-booth exhibition space, 11 event rooms and nine meeting rooms.
The showpiece of the 577-room hotel is the 20m-high lobby which has Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver’s coiling spiral art as a centrepiece.
www.hiltonsydney.com.au
High-end properties in prime CBD locations
The Harbour City has a range of business-minded hotels to suit international convention and incentive groups.
