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Brisbane, Queensland
The Alva Hotel Brisbane
IHG's Vignette Collection debut in Brisbane, tuned to Fortitude Valley's music scene.
Open · July 2026
Darwin, Northern Territory
voco Darwin Suites
Apartment-style suites on Mitchell Street open a new premium chapter for Darwin's Top End.
Open · May 2026
Mooloolaba, Queensland
Avani Mooloolaba Beach Hotel
Sunshine Coast's first internationally branded new-build hotel in over 40 years.
Open · May 2026
Townsville, Queensland
Victoria Street Boutique Hotel
A 1970s motel fully reimagined into a 21-room boutique hotel on historic Victoria Street
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.
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.
Open · April 7, 2026
Perth, Western Australia
Owston Hotel
An Italian locanda spirit fills an 11-room heritage conversion in Fremantle's West End
Open · March 16, 2026
Sydney, New South Wales
InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach
Sydney's first beachfront luxury hotel debuts on Coogee with an ocean-facing infinity pool.
Open · December 2025
Noosa, Queensland
Elysium Noosa Resort, MGallery Collection
Sofitel Noosa reborn as a wellness-first MGallery resort on Hastings Street.
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.
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.
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
Open · October 2025
Perth, Western Australia
Garde Hotel
Fremantle's old Police Headquarters becomes the port town's first five-star hotel.
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.
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.
Open · July 2025
Brisbane, Queensland
InterContinental Brisbane
IHG's luxury flagship reclaims Harry Seidler's modernist Brisbane tower.
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.
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.
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.
Open · May 2025
Melbourne, Victoria
Hyde Melbourne Place
Ennismore's Hyde brand debuts in Australia inside the reimagined Melbourne Place, in the heart of the CBD
Open · May 2025
Adelaide, South Australia
The George Glenelg
A boutique beachside debut named after the owner's dog.
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.
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.
Open · February 2025
Adelaide, South Australia
Crowne Plaza Adelaide Mawson Lakes
Northern Adelaide's first true premium hotel lands in Mawson Lakes.
Open · December 2024
Hobart, Tasmania
DoubleTree by Hilton Hobart
Tasmania's first DoubleTree by Hilton, a new-build 206-room hotel
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.
Open · September 20, 2024
Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide Marriott Hotel
South Australia's first Marriott, built inside a 152-year-old post office.
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.
Open · 2024
Townsville, Queensland
Ardo
Townsville's first five-star hotel, an AUD 88 million foreshore build at The Ville precinct
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.
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.
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
Open · October 2023
Perth, Western Australia
Oaks Perth Hotel
A CBD stalwart rebadged: Mantra on Murray becomes Oaks Perth Hotel.
Open · August 2023
Melbourne, Victoria
The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne
Occupies Australia's tallest hotel tower
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.
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.
Open · June 29, 2023
Adelaide, South Australia
Vibe Hotel Adelaide
TFE Hotels' new flagship, wrapped in South Australian art and raw concrete.
Open · March 2023
Adelaide, South Australia
TRYP by Wyndham Pulteney Street Adelaide
Wyndham's lifestyle brand touches down in Adelaide for the first time.
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.
Open · February 2023
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.
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.
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
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.
Open · June 2022
Newcastle, New South Wales
QT Newcastle
QT's first regional Australian hotel, inside a heritage-listed, 113-year-old former David Jones department store
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.
Open · June 2022
Hobart, Tasmania
The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Hobart
The Luxury Collection's Australian debut, spanning three eras of architecture from 1840s Georgian to a 2021 pavilion
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.
Open · 2021
Newcastle, New South Wales
Crystalbrook Kingsley
A five-star hotel in the heart of Newcastle's CBD, walking distance from the Civic Theatre and light rail
Open · June 2021
Hobart, Tasmania
Mövenpick Hotel Hobart
Mövenpick's Australian debut, a 221-room new-build on Elizabeth Street in Hobart's waterfront precinct
Open · January 21, 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.
Open · December 2020
Hobart, Tasmania
Vibe Hotel Hobart
A 142-room new-build on Argyle Street, TFE Hotels' Vibe brand opposite Hobart's hospital precinct
Open · November 2020
Perth, Western Australia
Vibe Hotel Subiaco
Australia's first purpose-built Vibe hotel lands in Subiaco's café-and-theatre strip.
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.
Open · September 2020
Cairns, Queensland
Crystalbrook Flynn, Cairns
A five-star Esplanade flagship, with a signature steakhouse and five dining venues
Open · 2020
Hobart, Tasmania
Crowne Plaza Hobart
IHG's Crowne Plaza brand debuts in Tasmania with a 235-room new-build on Liverpool Street
Open · July 1, 2020
Perth, Western Australia
The Ritz-Carlton, Perth
Australia's first Ritz-Carlton, standing tall over Elizabeth Quay's riverfront.
Open · November 2019
Perth, Western Australia
Quay Perth
A waterfront address reinvented: the former New Esplanade Hotel relaunched as Quay Perth.
Open · June 2019
Perth, Western Australia
DoubleTree by Hilton Perth Northbridge
Hilton's first new-build DoubleTree in Australia, on Northbridge's nightlife strip.
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.
Open · November 2018
Perth, Western Australia
Tribe Perth Kings Park
Accor's design-led Tribe brand lands next to Kings Park.
Open · 2017
Perth, Western Australia
Crown Towers Perth
Perth's largest hotel, a $568-million tower crowning the Crown Perth resort.
Open · December 2016
Perth, Western Australia
COMO The Treasury
COMO's Australian debut, inside Perth's restored 19th-century State Buildings.
Open · October 2015
Perth, Western Australia
Alex Hotel
A brewery consortium's boutique bet on Northbridge.
Open · May 2015Hotels that opened in Australia in 2026
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