Places Well Travelled

Industry projects have travelled far & wide in a business that always excites the senses....


ELEGANCE & PRIVACY
Raffles Hotel Singapore
Memories of elegant doormen & breakfasts that linger
An oasis of style in a tropical landscape
Crossroads of culture in a city so driven to perfection

A Hotel Is A Place

I remember well the feeling of entering the lobby of a fine Hotel for the very first time - an intriguing feeling of both promise and escape.

A fine residential Hotel can be a place of dreams, a place of exciting new relationships that promise much, and sometimes deliver. Around every corner can be something new.

The working day ends but a Hotel begins. Time for laughter, the company of friends, and strangers too. Time for romance, a short time to be free.

An oasis to pause, refresh, recharge. A place to spend some time with a familiar face.

A Hotel can be all these things.

I recall my first experience with a real Oasis in the deserts of Arabia. The calm was overwhelming. I thought this is what my own Hotel will be - a place to revitalise yourself away from the life that brought you here.

Clipped heels on marble floors. Efficiency, purpose, everyone going somewhere. The afternoon dusk brings glances of chance. Softening lights, cocktails, romance.
Careful, it can become a complete lifestyle.


Reef House Hotel,
Port Douglas, Far North Queesland, Australia
The first night was sleepless. Subsequent nights the same. Warm ocean breezes, continuous waves on the beach. Tropical nights. I've never been to Casablanca. This will surely do til then.

Four Seasons Hotel,
Sydney, Australia
A Hotel of this quality with this location truly an Australian showcase. The Rocks precinct on Sydney Harbour - in my top ten. A super example preserving the past. Bravo to those responsible. This Hotel has always oozed class & style. This is one of my two favourite Hotels in Sydney. Four Seasons and Taj Blue. But, never forget where you came from. The Regent of Sydney. Love That Lobby.


Sheraton Mirage Resort,
Port Douglas, Far North Queenslad, Australia
Creation and bravery to build this but what a result. A legacy to Scase's pioneering spirit, albeit it at the expense of others. Like so many things in life, he almost pulled it off. Few have the courage to go over the line, but this is well beyond it.

Fresh water pearls, cold beer & live music at the Courthouse. This just could be the real Australia. Adventures in paradise.


Hayman Island Resort
Whitsunday Passage, Far North Queensland, Australia
Am I dreaming? Cruising the Whitsunday Passage Champagne in hand. Are you kidding? Sir Peter Ables had a vision like Scase. Brave corporate Australians. High risk in a lucky country. A silence surely washed over the Endeavour. I'd be certain Captain Cook was impressed. He hadn't seen his family for such a long time but it must have been so tempting to stay. This is the way I want to arrive - check me in please.


The Regent Of Fiji
I remember we arrived in the dark of night and the ride in the darkness to this place was a feeling that has endeared me forever. Where are we - then flickering flames, welcoming gardens. I fell completely in love - palms, breezes & the magic of the Pacific. How fortunate I feel to be born to a generation that can enjoy this. Vanuatu, Saipan, Solomon Islands, Midway, the Mairana Islands. I wish the fallen could have seen it like this in their morning light. A cyclone passed, I walked on the beach.

HOTEL DESIGN LEADING TRENDSETTING
Marriot Hotel Guangzhou
Memories of comfort and efficiency
Restaurants fusing east & west cuisine so well


HALF WAY COMFORT AFTER LONG TRAVELS
Marriot Hotel Sky City Hong Kong
Owners pride clearly on display
Designed, financed, built, operated business model
Modern efficiency everywhere


A REFRESHING SURPRISE OF CALM & TRANQUILITY
Airways Hotel & Residences Port Moresby
A calming, breezy oasis in a timeless land


ANOTHER DRINK PLEASE STEWARD !
Melbourne's Naval & Military Club
A Club steeped in tradition
Merged now with Melbourne's RACV Club to keep memories alive
Memories of Tabruk, Kokoda, the Normandy landings and that
costly road to Berlin


PIONEERING DAYS OF APARTMENT HOTELS
Pacific International Hotels
From small beginnings


A COOL OASIS IN A LAND OF HUMIDITY
Cairns International Hotel
A soaring lobby infused with colour, light & space
So good to come home to after a day on the water


LOUNGE PIANO & COCKTAILS AT 6
The Regent Melbourne
Memories of style & the lost city of Atlantis
Rarely does it get this good
We have lost something special here
A timely reminder never to change a successful formula


JAMES MORRISON & COCKTAILS AT 6
The Regent Sydney
Memories of style & jazz
Location, class & a lobby well designed
A timely reminder never to change a successful formula


SO MANY ASIAN AROMAS
The Regent Jakarta
Memories of asian flavours


FIRE STICKS & DINNER DRUMS
The Regent Fiji
Memories of enchanted gardens & squashed frogs
Afternoon rain & pristine gardens
Adventures in paradise
Daily rain at 3pm and mosquito fogging


LIMOUSINES & CHAMPAGNE
The Regent Hong Kong
Memories of white gloves & Rolls Royces


TRADITIONS, HIGH TEA, SILVERWARE & PANTRY BUTLERS
The London Dorchester
Memories of hush & efficiency
Guest History a box of well thumbed registration cards
High teas and the Hard Rock Cafe


LIFESTYLE & CLIMATE
Sheraton Perth Hotel
Memories of good times & returns mixing well
Warm colours, good design & atmosphere


GOLD & KINGS
Riyadh Intercontinental Hotel & Conference Centre
Memories of so much cash
Hotel laundry bags overflowing with cash to pay a bill
The better half of humanity distinctly missing


THE SOUTHERN CROSS OR THE HILTON SIR ?
Our very own Southern Cross Hotel
Memories of duelling internationals - history that surely won't repeat
The best steak grill & cafe ever experienced
Unfortunately lost to the passage of time & so called progress