DEVELOPERS of Hobart’s newest high-end hotel say it will provide a unique experience telling the stories of some of Tasmania’s most iconic characters.
The $35 million, 114-room MACq 01 development will help fill a void in the Hobart CBD’s critical accommodation shortage when it opens by early 2017.
But Federal Group chief executive and managing director Greg Farrell said it would be different to any other hotels being proposed.
“There’s not a hotel like this that we’re aware of anywhere in the world,” he said.
Rooms will range in size from 50 to 100sq m in the 4½ star hotel and range from $315 to $950 a night. “So they will be amongst the largest of any CBD apartments in Australia.”
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• Greg James in Comments: Farrell plans on naming the rooms after Tasmanians. Perhaps he could set up a suitable memorial to the gamblers who have died in creating his wealth. Surely someone remembers the name of the first person in 1976, who after suffering crushing losses at the Casino, took his own life. Maybe the Poker machine addict, who lost their house, embezzled the company they worked for, bankrupting that company, creating forced job losses just to keep jobs at the casino. It was you and I who paid for their imprisonment, social services to all the families who lost their jobs and extra school services to the kids of the person imprisoned. Farrell kept the money, became the wealthiest family on the island and his kids get a new horse. Should he name the convicted embezzler or be benign and name the room after the horse. Maybe Farrell will name his rooms after great Tasmanians, like Rene Hidding, who agreed to the extension of the poker machine license and got nothing for it or Paul Lennon, who while in opposition opposed poker machines and as soon as he became Premier gave Farrell everything the state had to offer. Room Lara Giddings has a nice attachment called the scream room, where every day the Edvard Munch horror dream is realised as another punter realises how absolutely stupid they have been and what follows.
