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Melbourne, Victoria
Brady Hotel Elizabeth Street
Brady Group's sixth Melbourne CBD hotel, a 211-room tower with a Level 8 sky lobby, designed, built and run by the developer itself.
From AUD 150
Open · August 2026
Brisbane, Queensland
The Alva Hotel Brisbane
IHG's Vignette Collection debut in Brisbane, in the former Hotel X, with a rooftop pool and two suites fitted with record players.
From AUD 240
Open · July 2026
Brisbane, Queensland
The Merchant Hotel, a member of Radisson Individuals
Queensland's first Radisson Individuals hotel, with 58 rooms at 63-65 Turbot Street in Brisbane's central business district.
From AUD 180
Open · July 2026
Byron Bay, New South Wales
The Bonobo by Raes
The owners of Raes on Wategos have moved off the headland and onto Byron's main street, with a brick-and-concrete hotel built around a subtropical courtyard
From AUD 355
Open · June 2026
Darwin, Northern Territory
voco Darwin Suites
Apartment-style suites on Mitchell Street open a new premium chapter for Darwin's Top End.
From AUD 230
Open · May 2026
Mooloolaba, Queensland
Avani Mooloolaba Beach Hotel
Sunshine Coast's first internationally branded new-build hotel in over 40 years.
From AUD 320
Open · May 2026
Townsville, Queensland
Victoria Street Boutique Hotel
A 1970s motel became a 21-room hotel at 19 Victoria Street, Townsville, opening in May 2026 beside the heritage villa Kardinia.
From AUD 180
Open · May 2026
Perth, Western Australia
Hyde Perth
Ennismore's music-led party-hotel brand touches down on Pier Street, its first purpose-fitted address anywhere.
From AUD 280
Open · April 2026
Melbourne, Victoria
Crowne Plaza Melbourne Carlton
IHG's Crowne Plaza brand has landed in Carlton for the first time, opening a 107-room hotel overlooking Lincoln Square's fig trees: the inner-north suburb's first internationally branded stay, anchored by an Italian share-plates restaurant named after the square's own trees.
From AUD 250
Open · April 7, 2026
Perth, Western Australia
Owston Hotel
An Italian locanda spirit fills an 11-room heritage conversion in Fremantle's West End
From AUD 250
Open · March 16, 2026
Sydney, New South Wales
InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach
The former Crowne Plaza on Coogee Beach, converted by Woods Bagot into a 198-room InterContinental with a Rick Stein restaurant.
From AUD 610
Open · December 2025
Noosa, Queensland
Elysium Noosa Resort, MGallery Collection
The former Sofitel Noosa Pacific Resort, redesigned by Mitchell & Eades as an MGallery wellness resort with plunge-pool suites.
From AUD 310
Open · December 2025
Melbourne, Victoria
Hannah St Hotel
A triangular new boutique hotel has slotted into the podium of Southbank's Queensbridge Building, pairing Flack Studio interiors with a 25-metre glass-roofed pool and a European bistro from The Mulberry Group: Collection by TFE Hotels' most design-driven debut yet.
From AUD 180
Open · December 2025
Sydney, New South Wales
25hours Hotel Sydney The Olympia
25hours Hotel Sydney The Olympia opened on 9 October 2025 as the German lifestyle brand's first Australian address, taking over the heritage-listed site of the old West Olympia Theatre and Grand Pacific Blue Room on Oxford Street.
From AUD 400
Open · October 2025
Sydney, New South Wales
Caption by Hyatt Central Sydney
Hyatt's community-first lifestyle brand lands in Australia, four minutes' walk from Central Station
From AUD 170
Open · October 2025
Sydney, New South Wales
The Brighton Hotel Sydney, MGallery Collection
A three-year renovation moved a beachfront Novotel up two tiers, into Accor's boutique-luxury label.
From AUD 350
Open · October 2025
Perth, Western Australia
Garde Hotel
Fremantle's old Police Headquarters becomes the port town's first five-star hotel.
From AUD 190
Open · September 2025
Melbourne, Victoria
Hotel Indigo Melbourne Little Collins
IHG's boutique Hotel Indigo brand has opened its second Melbourne address behind four preserved heritage facades on Little Collins Street, part of the group's first dual-branded Australian development, paired with a separate Holiday Inn a block away.
From AUD 200
Open · September 11, 2025
Melbourne, Victoria
Hyatt House South Melbourne
Hyatt House South Melbourne opened on 1 July 2025 as the Hyatt House brand's debut property in Australia and the Pacific, occupying a new 19-storey tower on Palmerston Crescent.
From AUD 175
Open · July 2025
Brisbane, Queensland
InterContinental Brisbane
The brand's first Brisbane address, in a 25-storey Harry Seidler tower at 190 Elizabeth Street, opened on 1 July 2025.
From AUD 320
Open · July 2025
Brisbane, Queensland
The Star Grand Brisbane (Queen's Wharf)
The Star Grand Brisbane opened its doors on August 29, 2024, as the flagship hotel of the AU$3.6 billion Queen's Wharf Brisbane precinct on the Brisbane River.
From AUD 560
Open · 2025
Melbourne, Victoria
1 Hotel Melbourne
1 Hotel Melbourne opened on June 19, 2025, marking SH Hotels & Resorts' first Australian property and the nature-forward 1 Hotels brand's debut in the Asia-Pacific region.
From AUD 350
Open · June 2025
Gold Coast, Queensland
Mondrian Gold Coast
Mondrian made its Australian debut in June 2025 with a 208-room hotel on the Burleigh Heads beachfront, Ennismore's first outing for the brand on the continent.
From AUD 750
Open · May 2025
Melbourne, Victoria
Hyde Melbourne Place
Ennismore's first Hyde hotel in Australia, a 191-room red-brick tower on Russell Street with a rooftop bar and a basement speakeasy.
From AUD 220
Open · May 2025
Adelaide, South Australia
The George Glenelg
A boutique beachside debut named after the owner's dog.
From AUD 150
Open · April 2025
Sydney, New South Wales
lyf Bondi Junction Sydney
Ascott's second Australian lyf property turns a Bondi Junction transit hub into a 197-unit co-living address built around a shared kitchen, coworking zones and a ground-floor restaurant open to the street.
From AUD 190
Open · April 2025
Sydney, New South Wales
The Eve Hotel Sydney
The EVE Hotel Sydney opened on February 13, 2025, bringing TFE Hotels' newest boutique property to Wunderlich Lane, a fledgling lifestyle precinct at the junction of Redfern and Surry Hills.
From AUD 470
Open · February 2025
Sydney, New South Wales
The Grand National Hotel by Saint Peter
Fourteen rooms built into an 1890s Paddington pub, entirely in service of the seafood restaurant downstairs.
From AUD 600
Open · January 2025
Adelaide, South Australia
Crowne Plaza Adelaide Mawson Lakes
Northern Adelaide's first true premium hotel lands in Mawson Lakes.
From AUD 150
Open · December 2024
Hobart, Tasmania
DoubleTree by Hilton Hobart
Tasmania's first Hilton hotel, a nine-storey, 206-room DoubleTree on Macquarie Street that replaced a planned Novotel.
From AUD 150
Open · October 2024
Melbourne, Victoria
Lanson Place Parliament Gardens
Hong Kong's Lanson Place chose a 1901 Salvation Army printing works on the edge of East Melbourne for its first Australian hotel, restoring the heritage-listed building into a 137-key property with more than 450 commissioned artworks tracing the site's printing-press history.
From AUD 190
Open · September 20, 2024
Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide Marriott Hotel
South Australia's first Marriott, built inside a 152-year-old post office.
From AUD 210
Open · August 2024
Melbourne, Victoria
The Standard Melbourne (Fitzroy)
Standard International brought its rebellious lifestyle-hotel playbook to Australia for the first time in August 2024, opening The StandardX Melbourne on Fitzroy's Rose Street after a rocky, multi-year path to launch.
From AUD 230
Open · 2024
Townsville, Queensland
Ardo
Townsville's first five-star hotel, an AUD 88 million waterfront building at The Ville with a rooftop pool and two signature restaurants.
From AUD 235
Open · May 2024
Newcastle, New South Wales
Little National Newcastle
A 181-room harbourfront tower gave Newcastle its highest room count of any hotel and its third five-star property in a single opening.
From AUD 160
Open · 15 April 2024
Cairns, Queensland
Cairns Harbourside Hotel
A Holiday Inn since 1991 sheds its flag to relaunch as Cairns' own independent waterfront hotel.
From AUD 190
Open · February 2024
Sydney, New South Wales
W Sydney
Marriott's largest W hotel worldwide, built on the site of Sydney's demolished IMAX cinema
From AUD 370
Open · October 2023
Perth, Western Australia
Oaks Perth Hotel
The 190-apartment tower at 305 Murray Street, formerly Mantra on Murray, joined Minor Hotels' Oaks brand in August 2023.
From $180
Open · August 2023
Melbourne, Victoria
The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne
Occupies Australia's tallest hotel tower
From AUD 470
Open · 2023
Sydney, New South Wales
Capella Sydney
Capella Sydney opened on March 15, 2023, installing 192 rooms and suites inside the heritage-listed former Department of Education building on Bridge Street, the Singapore-based group's first Australian property.
From AUD 800
Open · 2023
Peregian Beach, Queensland
Essence Peregian Beach
An independently developed 32-room resort that opened in 2023 as the Sunshine Coast's first new resort in years, on the edge of Noosa National Park.
From AUD 350
Open · June 29, 2023
Adelaide, South Australia
Vibe Hotel Adelaide
TFE Hotels' new flagship, wrapped in South Australian art and raw concrete.
From AUD 170
Open · March 2023
Adelaide, South Australia
TRYP by Wyndham Pulteney Street Adelaide
Wyndham's lifestyle brand touches down in Adelaide for the first time.
From AUD 130
Open · March 2023
Perth, Western Australia
Wonil Hotel Perth - Handwritten Collection
A boutique hotel on the Swan River whose profits fund university research, not shareholders.
From AUD 180
Open · February 2023
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
The Sebel Canberra Campbell
A 63-key apartment-hotel in leafy Campbell, steps from the Australian War Memorial.
From AUD 140
Open · September 2022
Brisbane, Queensland
Hotel Indigo Brisbane City Centre
Hotel Indigo made its Queensland debut in July 2022 with a 212-room boutique property on Turbot Street, at North Quay in the heart of the Brisbane CBD.
From AUD 185
Open · July 2022
Sydney, New South Wales
Ace Hotel Sydney
Ace Hotel Sydney opened on May 18, 2022 in Surry Hills, marking Ace Hotel Group's first property in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere.
From AUD 270
Open · 2022
Brisbane, Queensland
Miss Midgley's
A 160-year-old New Farm heritage house, once a private school, restored into a five-suite pink-toned guesthouse by a mother-daughter architect duo
From AUD 300
Open · 2022
Brisbane, Queensland
Voco Brisbane City Centre
voco Brisbane City Centre opened on June 3, 2022, bringing IHG's voco brand to the Queensland capital with 194 rooms on the banks of the Brisbane River in North Quay.
From AUD 200
Open · June 2022
Newcastle, New South Wales
QT Newcastle
QT's first regional Australian hotel, in the heritage-listed former David Jones department store on Hunter Mall.
From AUD 200
Open · June 2022
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Langham, Gold Coast
The Langham opened its first Gold Coast address in June 2022 inside the central tower of the Jewel development: the first hotel built with direct beach access on the Gold Coast in more than 30 years.
From AUD 290
Open · June 2022
Sydney, New South Wales
Kimpton Margot Sydney
The 1939 Art Deco former Sydney Water Board headquarters became Australia's first Kimpton on 14 February 2022, with 172 rooms.
From A$270
Open · February 2022
Hobart, Tasmania
The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Hobart
A 152-room hotel in three linked buildings on Parliament Square, from the 1847 St Mary's Hospital to a 2021 pavilion.
From AUD 280
Open · December 2021
Brisbane, Queensland
Hotel X Brisbane
Hotel X opened in Fortitude Valley on February 22, 2021, as Queensland developer Pointcorp's independently branded answer to a boutique-lifestyle gap in Brisbane's nightlife district.
From AUD 240
Open · 2021
Newcastle, New South Wales
Crystalbrook Kingsley
Crystalbrook Kingsley, 130 rooms at 282 King Street, opened in June 2021 and won Hotel of the Year in the conversion category at the Australasia-Pacific Hotel Design Awards.
From AUD 180
Open · June 2021
Hobart, Tasmania
Mövenpick Hotel Hobart
Mövenpick's first Australian hotel, a 221-room tower on Elizabeth Street designed by Jaws Architects, opened in January 2021.
From AUD 150
Open · January 21, 2021
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
A by Adina Canberra
TFE Hotels' hotel-living debut lands in Canberra's new civic precinct.
From AUD 150
Open · January 2021
Perth, Western Australia
DoubleTree by Hilton Perth Waterfront
A waterfront tower that extends out over the Swan River, wrapped in a Perth artist's light installation.
From AUD 220
Open · December 2020
Hobart, Tasmania
Vibe Hotel Hobart
A 142-room, 15-storey Vibe hotel on Argyle Street, opened in November 2020 on the site of a former Art Deco dance hall.
From AUD 160
Open · November 2020
Perth, Western Australia
Vibe Hotel Subiaco
Australia's first purpose-built Vibe hotel lands in Subiaco's café-and-theatre strip.
From AUD 190
Open · October 2020
Cairns, Queensland
Oaks Cairns Hotel
A former retail block on Cairns Esplanade rebuilt into a 76-room hotel with a rooftop restaurant.
From AUD 190
Open · September 2020
Cairns, Queensland
Crystalbrook Flynn, Cairns
A waterfront hotel on the Cairns Esplanade with Coral Sea views, three bars and restaurants, and glass-walled pools.
From AUD 150
Open · 2020
Hobart, Tasmania
Crowne Plaza Hobart
A 235-room new-build on Liverpool Street, the first Crowne Plaza in Tasmania, with harbour or Mount Wellington views from every room.
From AUD 155
Open · July 1, 2020
Perth, Western Australia
The Ritz-Carlton, Perth
Australia's first Ritz-Carlton, standing tall over Elizabeth Quay's riverfront.
From $450
Open · November 2019
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Midnight Hotel, Autograph Collection
Marriott's Canberra debut, a moody Braddon boutique wrapped around an art-filled atrium.
From AUD 190
Open · September 2019
Whitsundays, Queensland
InterContinental Hayman Great Barrier Reef
The Whitsundays' flagship private island reopened under IHG after Cyclone Debbie, ending decades under the One&Only name
From AUD 600
Open · July 2019
Perth, Western Australia
Quay Perth
A waterfront address reinvented: the former New Esplanade Hotel relaunched as Quay Perth.
From $210
Open · June 2019
Hobart, Tasmania
Moss Hotel
Two Georgian sandstone warehouses on Salamanca Place, built in 1832 and 1841, became a 41-room independent boutique hotel.
From AUD 260
Open · June 2019
Whitsundays, Queensland
Elysian Retreat
Ten solar-powered villas on a private cove of Long Island, capped at twenty adults and run entirely off the grid
From AUD 1,100 all-inclusive
Open · April 2019
Perth, Western Australia
DoubleTree by Hilton Perth Northbridge
Hilton's first new-build DoubleTree in Australia, on Northbridge's nightlife strip.
From $190
Open · December 2018
Gold Coast, Queensland
voco Gold Coast
IHG opened the very first voco hotel anywhere in the world on the Gold Coast in November 2018, converting the former Watermark Hotel and Spa into a 389-room oceanfront property for owner Salter Brothers.
From AUD 120
Open · November 2018
Sydney, New South Wales
Four Points by Sheraton Sydney, Central Park
The last building of the Central Park precinct in Chippendale, with 297 rooms, a street-level restaurant and a bar named for the Kent Brewery.
From A$220
Open · August 2018
Brisbane, Queensland
Adina Apartment Hotel Brisbane
TFE Hotels' conversion of the heritage-listed 1922 Queensland Government Savings Bank into a 200-plus-room apartment hotel on George Street
From AUD 130
Open · July 2018
Perth, Western Australia
The Westin Perth
Western Australia's first Westin, anchoring the revival of Perth's historic east end.
From $350
Open · May 2018
Sydney, New South Wales
West Hotel Sydney, Curio Collection by Hilton
First Curio Collection address in Australia, a 182-room new-build at 65 Sussex Street wrapped around an open-air botanical atrium and its Solander bar.
From A$220
Open · December 2017
Sydney, New South Wales
Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour
Sydney's first international luxury new-build in the CBD this century, wrapped in glass above Darling Harbour.
From A$310
Open · November 2017
Perth, Western Australia
Tribe Perth Kings Park
Accor's design-led Tribe brand lands next to Kings Park.
From $150
Open · 2017
Perth, Western Australia
Crown Towers Perth
Perth's largest hotel, a $568-million tower crowning the Crown Perth resort.
From $270
Open · December 2016
Sydney, New South Wales
Hyatt Regency Sydney
A Four Points overnight became Australia's largest full-service upscale hotel, and brought Hyatt Regency back to Sydney.
From A$180
Open · November 2016
Whitsundays, Queensland
Heart Hotel and Gallery Whitsundays
A Queenslander-inspired boutique build beside the Airlie Beach lagoon, with a working art gallery on its top floor
Open · November 2016
Perth, Western Australia
COMO The Treasury
COMO's Australian debut, inside Perth's restored 19th-century State Buildings.
From $340
Open · October 2015
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Little National Hotel Canberra
Australia's first compact-luxury hotel, born in the heart of Canberra's Parliamentary Triangle.
From AUD 140
Open · September 2015
Sydney, New South Wales
The Old Clare Hotel
A brewery boardroom and a corner pub, stitched together into Chippendale's first boutique hotel.
From A$230
Open · September 2015
Perth, Western Australia
Alex Hotel
A brewery consortium's boutique bet on Northbridge.
From $180
Open · May 2015Hotels that opened in Australia in 2026
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