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Sydney's Loading Up On Hotel Rooms

September 18, 2008 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments

We heard a rumor at Jaunted that Melbourne is the new Sydney but judging by all the new hotels in the works, the Sydneysiders seem pretty confident their town is tops.

The brand new Pullman Hotel just opened this month at the main site of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Homebush. It's a five-star joint with 212 rooms and more of a focus on business people than tourists, given that it's not exactly in the sightseeing hotspot.

Speaking of sightseeing, Darling Harbour is one of the ideal places to hang out in Sydney and hotels are going up there by the bucket load. There's the Hotel Ibis at Darling Harbour due to open later this year, and the Novotel Sydney Darling Harbour has applied for permission to add 232 rooms. If approved it'll be a 757-room hotel which would make it the largest hotel in the entire country.

And that's just the tip of the Sydney hotel iceberg. We're hoping this will make it easy to find a reasonably-priced room next time we drop by Sydney but we're not holding our breath--most of these are likely to be pricey places to stay.

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