{"id":65625,"date":"2026-09-03T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxuryescapes.com\/inspiration\/?p=65625"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:21:13","slug":"arrival-hall-travel-news-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxuryescapes.com\/inspiration\/arrival-hall-travel-news-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival Hall: All the Travel News You Need for September\/October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The edition’s travel news including a a new locally owned Melbourne hotel, an exciting new city cocktail pop-up, the extended World’s 50 Best Hotel’s list and a Japanese whisky bar takeover.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brady Bunch: local hotel group opens it’s sixth Melbourne CBD stay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Brady Hotel Elizabeth Street, a 211-room hotel right in the centre of Melbourne, has opened. The hotel marks the sixth Brady-branded property<\/a> by the privately owned Melbourne group in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new opening means that Brady has over 1000 rooms in the Melbourne city centre including voco Melbourne Central. The 31-storey Brady Hotel Elizabeth Street begins in Zevenboom Lane, where guests arrive to a large-scale mural by Melbourne artist Kitt Bennett<\/a>, before travelling to a Level 8 sky lobby capped by a striking glass dome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the official opening on Wednesday 7 October Brady Group Managing Director Tony Brady and Lord Mayor of Melbourne Nick Reece, alongside Brady Group General Manager\u00a0– Hotels and Hospitality Robert Moore cut the red ribbon to signal the opening of the property; the event also featured mural artist Bennett and a reception in the hotel\u2019s rooftop bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMelbourne is where our business started, where we’ve continued to invest and where we’ve built our team,\u201d said Brady Group Managing Director Tony Brady. \u201cElizabeth Street is another chapter in that story; a building we acquired, designed, developed and constructed, and which our own hotel team now has the privilege of operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the mid-1970s, the group has developed and built more than 2,900 apartments across the CBD, along with residential projects for other clients. Today it handles everything in-house, from development and design to construction and hotel operations, giving Brady a rare end-to-end involvement in the buildings it creates and operates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High Society: Rendezvous Hotel Melbourne launches Society Sessions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rendezvous\u2019 Grand Vestibule, a perfect example of Melbourne\u2019s<\/a> historic Edwardian Baroque style, plays host to a unique night of modern cocktails and hotel history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This unique space, which is a huge hit with the wedding crowd, will be opened to the public with a monthly pop-up dedicated to the drinks and vibes of yesteryear with low-lit table seating and entertainment like a roaming violinist; La Scente<\/a> fragrance bar also offered guests the chance to take home their own scent, with one inspired by Ava Gardner own personal, and now discontinued, perfume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Society Sessions are an extension of the hotel\u2019s Ms Ava bar, named for Hollywood actress Ava Gardner, who stayed at the hotel while filming Stanley Kramer\u2019s On the Beach<\/em> in 1959. The historic Hotel Rendezvous Melbourne, which was first built in 1913, was also a key location for the film. The launch night saw vintage Rolls Royces line the hotel driveway and guests dressed in the best Hollywood-inspired finery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To honour this connection and celebrate the new Society Sessions the hotel has created the signature drink Postcards by Ms Ava cocktail, a blend of gin with salted cranberry and raspberry syrup, sweet vermouth, fresh lime juice, and a silky Wonderfoam. The cocktail also comes with a fun tradition from travel\u2019s past: with every Postcards by Ms Ava, you’ll receive a postcard to write a message, memory, travel tip, or piece of advice for the next guest who orders the cocktail. Before writing your own, you’ll discover an anonymous postcard left by a previous guest, continuing a chain of shared stories that grows with every pour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next Society Sessions are on 25 Sept and 30 Oct with more dates to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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