Hotels opening soon in Australia
Announced and confirmed — next opening first.
Gold Coast, Queensland
AC Hotel Gold Coast
Marriott's AC Hotels brand is taking over Vibe Gold Coast in Surfers Paradise, converting the 202-room property into the brand's Queensland debut for a mid-2026 reopening.
Announced · Mid-2026
Gold Coast, Queensland
Andaz Gold Coast
Hyatt's lifestyle brand debuts in Australia atop The Star's second tower.
Announced · 2026
Adelaide, South Australia
Veriu Adelaide
Adelaide's first Veriu turns 5,000 square metres of empty CBD office floors into self-catering studios built for stays longer than a weekend.
Announced · 2026
Adelaide, South Australia
The Westin Adelaide
A 33-storey glass tower rising directly out of a century-old Freemasons hall gives Adelaide its first true skyscraper hotel.
Announced · 2026 (exact month not yet confirmed)
Brisbane, Queensland
Dorsett Brisbane
The last unopened tower of the Queen's Wharf quartet, a 387-room 4.5-star hotel inside Brisbane's newest riverside precinct
Announced · 2026
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Ritz-Carlton, Gold Coast
A three-storey luxury low-rise anchors a A$480 million Gold Coast waterfront.
Announced · 2026
Wolgan Valley, New South Wales
Emirates Wolgan Valley, a Ritz-Carlton Lodge
The world's first Ritz-Carlton Lodge, reborn from a shuttered Emirates conservation resort
Announced · August 2026
Sydney, New South Wales
The Sebel Sydney Parramatta
Accor's extended-stay Sebel brand is opening a 51-suite, new-build hotel on Victoria Road in Parramatta, pairing self-check-in and residential-style studios with a rooftop bar and an all-day Italian restaurant in one of Western Sydney's fastest-growing districts.
Announced · August 2026
Adelaide, South Australia
Little National Hotel Adelaide
Affordable-luxury specialist Little National heads west for the first time.
Announced · September 1, 2026
Hobart, Tasmania
Adina Hobart
TFE Hotels' Adina Apartment Hotels brand debuts in Tasmania with a 48-key apartment tower beside Vibe Hobart
Announced · October 2026
Palm Cove, Queensland
Hilton Palm Cove Cairns Resort & Spa
Hilton's beachside debut in Palm Cove, a refurbished 140-room resort near Cairns.
Announced · October 2026
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Manuka Hotel
A 192-room five-star hotel rising on Manuka's long-contested former Capitol Theatre site, with persistent but unconfirmed rumours of a Hilton operator.
Announced · Late 2026 (expected, per developer)
Brisbane, Queensland
Rosewood Brisbane
Australia's only six-star hotel crowns the AU$3.6bn Queen's Wharf riverside precinct.
Announced · Late 2026
Perth, Western Australia
Radisson Perth at SCQ
Radisson's Western Australian debut anchors a new 'connected village' precinct in West Perth
Announced · Expected later in 2026
Adelaide, South Australia
Crystalbrook Sam
Crystalbrook's design-led five-star formula arrives in Adelaide for the first time.
Announced · Late 2026
Adelaide, South Australia
Treehouse Hotel Adelaide
Barry Sternlicht's Treehouse brand makes its Australian debut at Market Square.
Announced · Late 2026
Melbourne, Victoria
Richmond Square Hotel
A 57-room hotel taking over the first two floors of Carmine House, built into Fortis's AU$330 million Richmond Square precinct so guests and the building's 107 residents share the same concierge, housekeeping and dining staff.
Announced · Q1 2027Gold Coast, Queensland
LXR Hotels & Resorts Gold Coast
Hilton's ultra-luxury LXR brand is making its Australian debut on The Spit, taking over the building that opened as Palazzo Versace in 2000 and most recently traded as The Imperial Hotel.
Announced · Early 2027
Sydney, New South Wales
Waldorf Astoria Sydney
Australia's first Waldorf Astoria crowns Circular Quay between the Opera House and the Bridge.
Announced · Early 2027
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Crystalbrook Aurora
Canberra finally gets an international-grade luxury hotel in its city centre.
Announced · Early 2027
Sydney, New South Wales
Sydney Marriott Hotel Parramatta
Marriott's flagship brand plants its first flag in Western Sydney, a ground-up five-star tower on Parramatta's Church Street due to open in mid-2027.
Announced · Mid-2027 (targeted)
Gold Coast, Queensland
St. Regis Gold Coast Resort
Marriott is bringing St. Regis to Australia for the first time, inside the first tower of GURNER's AU$1.7 billion La Pelago resort.
Announced · 2027Gold Coast, Queensland
Marina Mirage, a Luxury Collection Resort
Mainland Australia's first Luxury Collection resort anchors a roughly A$500 million rebuild of the Gold Coast's 1980s Marina Mirage shopping centre.
Announced · 2027 (one source cites 2028; timeline not fully settled)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Canyon Hotel
A canyon-inspired wellness hotel and spa proposed for Braddon's former Bowls Club site, still facing resident objections.
Announced · 2027
Wollongong, New South Wales
Avani Wollongong
Minor Hotels brings its design-led Avani brand to New South Wales for the first time.
Announced · 2027
Gold Coast, Queensland
Marina Mirage Gold Coast, a Luxury Collection Resort
Marriott's first mainland Luxury Collection resort in Australia, rebuilding a Gold Coast marina precinct the Makris family has owned since 2013
Announced · 2027
Perth, Western Australia
Pullman Perth Airport
Perth Airport's first-ever on-site hotel, and Accor's first Pullman in the city, rises as part of a $5 billion capital works program
Announced · Targeted for 2027
Melbourne, Victoria
The Hoxton, Melbourne
Ennismore's The Hoxton is coming to Australia for the first time, taking anchor position inside a $600 million redevelopment of Cremorne's former Bryant & May matchstick factory — a 198-room hotel still years from opening but already signed to one of Melbourne's most ambitious heritage-industrial precincts.
Announced · 2027
Sydney, New South Wales
AC Hotel by Marriott Sydney Hyde Metropolitan
Marriott's design-led AC Hotels brand debuts in Sydney on the podium floors of a 55-storey tower facing Hyde Park, with construction under way for a late-2027 opening.
Announced · Late 2027
Sydney, New South Wales
Courtyard by Marriott Sydney Crows Nest
Courtyard by Marriott is returning to Sydney after years away, taking the first three levels of Deicorp's AU$640 million Falcon & Alexander tower in Crows Nest, a 100-room hotel opening beside the new Crows Nest Metro station in late 2027.
Announced · Late 2027
Melbourne, Victoria
The Como Melbourne
COMO's east-coast Australia debut brings a full-floor Shambhala spa to St Kilda Road.
Announced · Early 2028
Perth, Western Australia
The Bennett by Ovolo Perth, a Wyndham Hotel
The first Wyndham-Ovolo franchise hotel, planned for East Perth.
Announced · March 2028
Brisbane, Queensland
Kimpton Hotel Teneriffe
Queensland's first Kimpton, rising inside the Teneriffe Banks riverside precinct with a level-14 restaurant and an infinity pool over the Brisbane River.
Announced · 2028
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Westin Gold Coast
The Westin brand's Gold Coast debut climbs the middle floors of a Surfers Paradise skyscraper, five years from completion
Announced · Late 2029
Adelaide, South Australia
Hilton Adelaide East End
Hilton's return to Adelaide comes as a 27-storey flagship on a former blood-donor centre site, with a 2031 opening that gives this one an unusually long runway.
Announced · 2031
Perth, Western Australia
Anantara Perth Hotel
Minor Hotels brings its Thai-inspired luxury Anantara brand to Australia for the first time, anchoring a AUD 3.8 billion Swan River masterplan
Announced · 2032
Adelaide, South Australia
King William Street Hotel
A vacant brutalist transit office a block from Victoria Square is being rebuilt into a 129-room boutique hotel — a scaled-down second attempt after an earlier 39-storey tower on a related site never got built.
Announced · TBC
Brisbane, Queensland
Victory Hotel Tower
A proposed 51-storey, 284-room tower rising behind Brisbane's heritage-listed Victory Hotel pub, still at the development-application stage
Announced · TBC
Brisbane, Queensland
Aria South Brisbane Hotel
A 216-room hotel inside a newly approved three-tower masterplan that also restores two heritage buildings on Melbourne Street
Announced · TBC
Brisbane, Queensland
Hyatt Place Brisbane, South City Square
Hyatt's return to Queensland after a decade away, an 18-storey new-build inside a $700 million Woolloongabba precinct
Announced · TBC
Sydney, New South Wales
Florin Hotel
A AU$275 million rebuild is turning the 1936 former Australian headquarters of Universal Pictures at 499 Kent Street into a 228-room, 20-storey hotel for EVT's Independent Collection, complete with a glass-floored 'vertigo suite' and a rooftop infinity pool.
Announced · TBC
Gold Coast, Queensland
Trump International Hotel & Tower, Gold Coast
The Trump Organization's first Australian project, a proposed 91-storey Surfers Paradise tower, still lacks development approval and faces a 26,000-signature opposition petition.
Announced · TBC
Wollongong, New South Wales
The Globe Wollongong
Described by council and press as Wollongong's first five-star hotel, this 236-room tower is under approval on a demolished RSL club site — with no name, brand or opening date confirmed yet.
Announced · TBC
Gold Coast, Queensland
Palm Beach Hotel
A $120 million hotel approved for a former Centrelink site in Palm Beach has no confirmed construction start more than three years on.
Announced · TBC
Brisbane, Queensland
Hilton Garden Inn Brisbane City Centre North
A Spring Hill new-build that switched brands from Wyndham to Hilton before construction even began, still under way years after its original 2024 target
Announced · TBC
Brisbane, Queensland
Howard Smith Wharves Hotel
A 106-room boutique hotel approved for Brisbane's riverside dining precinct, part of a $500 million "HSW 2.0" expansion ahead of the 2032 Olympics
Announced · TBC
Perth, Western Australia
Dorsett Perth
A glass-and-gold tower rises in Perth City Link as Far East Consortium's Dorsett brand makes its Western Australian debut
Announced · TBC
Adelaide, South Australia
Grote Street Hotel
A vacant Australia Post sorting building anchors a $1.25 billion, five-tower precinct where its red-brick facade is slated to become a hotel lobby, though no operator has signed on yet.
Announced · TBC
Melbourne, Victoria
voco South Melbourne
A 171-room voco announced in 2020 for the northern end of St Kilda Road has yet to open, missed its original 2023 target by years, and still has no confirmed date.
Announced · TBCMelbourne, Victoria
So/ Melbourne
Accor's So/ brand is making its Australian debut in a heritage cannery building on the northern edge of Melbourne's CBD, with construction under way years behind the project's original 2023 target.
Announced · TBC
Mooloolaba, Queensland
Aria Mooloolaba
A 16-storey, 201-room foreshore tower approved as the Sunshine Coast's first international-standard 5-star hotel, still awaiting a builder and an operator
Announced · TBC
Townsville, Queensland
Hilton Garden Inn Townsville
Hilton's first branded hotel in Townsville, a modular build next to the 25,000-seat Queensland Country Bank Stadium
Announced · NC
Maroochydore, Queensland
Crowne Plaza Maroochydore
IHG's second Sunshine Coast project with developer Felix Capital, a 180-room conference-focused tower approved for Ocean Street.
Announced · TBC
Noosa, Queensland
The Calile Hotel Noosa
The Malouf family's Brisbane favourite gets a second, larger site in Noosa Heads, approved as the town's first five-star hotel development in 30 years.
Announced · TBC
Noosa, Queensland
Noosa Springs Boutique Hotel
A 69-room wellness-focused hotel approved for the grounds of the existing Noosa Springs Golf & Spa Resort, after nearly four years of council review.
Announced · TBC
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Hotel Indigo Canberra
IHG's fast-growing boutique brand joins Canberra as the lifestyle half of the 'One Binara' redevelopment.
Announced · TBCCanberra, Australian Capital Territory
InterContinental Canberra
A rooftop InterContinental lounge with Parliament House views, replacing Canberra's Crowne Plaza.
Announced · TBCUpcoming hotel openings in Australia
Openings listed here are either announced by the operator or confirmed by our editorial team. Dates move — we update them as they do, and we say so when they slip.