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Our New Mantra Down Under is Mantra Hotels

March 28, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

In the wink of an eye, there's a new leader in the Australian hotel industry when it comes to hotels in the four to four-and-a-half star category. As of March 31, there will be more Mantra hotels than any other brand in that category--so we'll probably start to hear a lot more from them.

From April there will be over 50 Mantra hotels operating, a lot of which have led former lives as Saville and Pacific International properties. And there are plans for Mantra to expand even further. The CEO reckons that the rebranding will create "more choice" for customers, and while he means that there'll be more Mantras to choose from, it kind of sounds like less choice to us.

In any case, we'll be keeping an eye on the new Mantras and will let you know what changes we see. In particular, there are a bunch of downtown Saville hotels in cities across Oz that we've always quite liked, and we wonder if having a new Mantra (yep, bad pun intended) will make them even better or not.