Style: July 06, 2018

Post Restaurant, COMO
The Treasury Hotel
STYLE | report 27
Raw Heritage Room at The
Melbourne Hotel, Perth
- PERTH -
The mining boom drove a swag of swanky new hotels, both
high-end and hip, and a host of new shopping and restaurant
precincts. While mining has waned, the hotels and visitors keep
coming to a revamped city boosted by new non-stop flights
between Perth and Europe. Much of the city’s transformation
stems from the $580-million redevelopment of a huge CBD
block around Cathedral Square where several heritage State
Buildings had sat unused for 20 years. Then, COMO The
Treasury took up residence in three of the 140-year-old
buildings and promptly won every award going, including #2
Best Hotel in the World on the prestigious Condé Nast Traveler
Readers’ Choice Awards 2016. It remains the only Australian
hotel on the Top 50 list, but Perth travellers are spoilt for
choice when it comes to luxury lodgings. The design-driven
Alex Hotel in Northbridge was another trendsetter and has
since been joined, among others, by The Melbourne Hotel
– another boutique heritage revival; the Westin Perth and
InterContinental, along Hay St from The Treasury; and Crown
Towers Perth across the Swan River. More international
heavyweights like Hilton’s DoubleTree and Ritz Carlton open
later this year and big investment is now planned to re-energise
idyllic Scarborough Beach and Fremantle.
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King Street Precinct in the city’s West End or Northbridge.
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