Ramada hotel to open in Scarborough
So Perth is getting a new Ramada hotel.
It’s all courtesy of the franchisor, the Wyndham Hotel Group and VetroBlu Management.
The companies are in the process of capitalising on the $100 million beachfront overhaul at the ritzy Perth suburb of Scarborough.
That will be the location for WA’s fourth Ramada hotel.
Valued at $50 million, the 75-room Ramada VetroBlu Scarborough Beach hotel will be located on the corner of Scarborough Beach Road and Filburn Street. It will be a mix of short and long-stay apartments and will also feature three and four bedroom penthouses.
Better still, it will be less than 100m from the promenade and beach, is to open mid-year.
It will join the ones in Perth, Dunsborough and Broome.
And it will be one of 860 Ramada hotels globally.
The Ramada will be the first of many hotels that will open in Scarborough.
VetroBlu Management general manager Nathan Baker told the West Australian that the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority’s Scarborough redevelopment had would include ocean pool.
He said that was likely to ensure the hotel had “year-round demand”, exempting it from the seasonality experienced by its CBD sibling, the Ramada Perth, otherwise known as the Outram which is near King’s Park.
Wyndham Hotel Group South East Asia and Pacific Rim president and managing director Barry Robinson told the West Australian that Perth was ideally placed right near the burgeoning economies of the Asia Pacific.
That west coast location, he said, made it “one of Australia’s most important gateway cities”.
It will also fit in with the Scarborough Master Plan aimed at redeveloping the area and revitalise WA’s tourism industry, The plan is to turn Scarborough into a beach destination, filled with restaurants, cafés, shopping, entertainment and programmed activities that would attract new visitors, and increased the number of local residents, workers and the private investment.
by Leon Gettler, May 4th 2017
