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Crystalbrook Collection hotels
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Crystalbrook Collection is the Australian hotel company of Ghassan Aboud Group, started in 2016. Aboud said the group looked at Europe and chose Australia. The name is a Queensland cattle station. The atlas files four hotels: Byron Bay, Newcastle, Brisbane, and Sydney.
4 Crystalbrook Collection hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Ghassan Aboud Group
- Worldwide: A 2018 company account listed Riley in Cairns, opened November 2018, Little Albion in Sydney, a lodge, a marina, and Bailey and Flynn in Cairns due in 2019, plus a Newcastle conversion to be called Kingsley. The atlas files Byron, dated 2020 with 92 rooms, Kingsley dated 2021 with 130 rooms, Vincent in Brisbane dated 2021 with 166 rooms, and Albion in Sydney.
- On the atlas: 1 Core Luxury, 3 Accessible Luxury
History
Crystalbrook Collection is the Australian hotel company of Ghassan Aboud Group, started in 2016. Aboud said the group looked at Europe and chose Australia. The name is a Queensland cattle station. The atlas files four hotels: Byron Bay, Newcastle, Brisbane, and Sydney.
Timeline
- 2016 — Crystalbrook Collection is established inside Ghassan Aboud Group.
- 2018 — Crystalbrook Hotel Riley opens in Cairns in November. Little Albion in Sydney is already operating.
- 2020 — Crystalbrook Byron is dated 2020 in the atlas, 92 rooms.
- 2021 — Kingsley in Newcastle, 130 rooms, and Vincent in Brisbane, 166 rooms, are dated 2021 in the atlas.
The houses to know
- Crystalbrook Albion, Sydney, Australia — A former 1903 school convent gives Crystalbrook Albion its bones in Surry Hills, where heritage masonry meets a more playful contemporary interior.
- Crystalbrook Byron, Byron Bay, Australia — Crystalbrook took over Byron at Byron Resort & Spa and reopened it in 2020 as Crystalbrook Byron: 170 suites on 18 hectares of rainforest at Suffolk Park.
- Crystalbrook Vincent, Brisbane, Australia — The former Art Series Fantauzzo on Brisbane's Howard Smith Wharves became Crystalbrook Vincent in July 2021: 166 rooms carved under Story Bridge, still themed to painter Vincent Fantauzzo.
- Crystalbrook Kingsley, Newcastle, Australia — On 9 June 2021 Crystalbrook opened Kingsley in Newcastle's Roundhouse, the 1970s council administration tower opposite Civic Park: 130 rooms behind the original facade, and the city's first five-star hotel.
Newest openings
- None of the open houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- The 2018 account said Bailey and Flynn in Cairns were scheduled for 2019. Whether those opened under those names was not re-checked.
Every Crystalbrook Collection hotel on the atlas
Australia
- Crystalbrook Albion — Sydney · Core Luxury
- Crystalbrook Byron — Byron Bay · Accessible Luxury
- Crystalbrook Kingsley — Newcastle · Accessible Luxury
- Crystalbrook Vincent — Brisbane · Accessible Luxury
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