Sydney Winter 2015 - Hot Deals at Metro Hotels

There is so much to do in Sydney this winter and Metro Hotels puts you close to all the action with hot deals for all occasions.

Visit www.MetroHotels.com.au and click on the Hot Deals button

Sydney is bursting with world class entertainment, cultural events, festivals and international sport



Choose from the Vivid Sydney Package, The Winter Warmer Deals or why not take the family to see Les Miserables and Stay opposite at Metro Hotel Sydney Central



Enjoy Sydney this winter and save, visit MetroHotels.com.au or call 1300 789 109

Vivid Sydney 2015 Apartment and Hotel Accommodation Specials

Vivid Sydney is a unique display of outdoor lighting sculptures and installations, contemporary music and the spectacular illumination of Sydney’s iconic architecture including the Sydney Opera House - running from 22nd May to 8th June.

Vivid Hot Deal

@ Metro Hotel on Pitt

Starting from just $209 per night, this package includes accommodation for up to 2 adults and 1 child, complimentary WiFi, a Café kids pack and full buffet breakfast. Nearby parking is available at World Square Secure Parking.

Public transport is also conveniently close with Town Hall train station just a block away, and a plethora of buses running up and down the city via George Street.

Book here: http://www.metro-hotel-on-pitt.bookings.metrohotels.com.au/vivid-hot-deal-accommodation

Vivid Family Package

@ Metro Hotel Sydney Central

Starting from just $215 per night, this package includes accommodation for up to 2 adults and 2 children, complimentary WiFi, Café kids packs for the kids and full buffet breakfast.

The hotel is also within walking distance of such locations as Capitol Theatre, Chinatown, Paddy’s Markets, Darling Harbour, Sydney Aquarium, Australian Maritime Museum, Chinese Garden of Friendship and Cockle Bay Wharf.

Book here: http://www.metro-hotel-central-sydney.bookings.metrohotels.com.au/vivid-family-package-hot-deal-accommodation

Vivid Brilliance!

@ Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour

To get you into the spirit of Vivid Sydney, Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour are offering this Vivid Brilliance Hot Deal. Starting from just $199 per night, this package includes a bottle of sparkling wine on arrival and complimentary glow bracelets.

Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour is your ideal base to explore Sydney, especially during the Vivid Sydney festival! Just minutes away from all that Sydney has to offer with a convenient location in the CBD and the Darling Harbour precinct.

Nearby parking is available at Wilson Parking, 170 Sussex Street (enter via 383 Kent Street) who offer discounted rates for our guests. Public transport is also conveniently close with a plethora of buses running up and down the city via George Street or Wynyard station a few minutes walk away.

Book here: http://www.sydney-metro-apartments-darling-harbour.bookings.metrohotels.com.au/vivid-brilliance-hot-deal-accommodation

New Image Set - Aspire Hotel Sydney

New Image set of Aspire Hotel Sydney 

Light, airy and with plenty of natural light, Henry’s Restaurant is a relaxing place in which to take breakfast while enjoying the tinkling sound of flowing water from the European wall and fountain motif complemented by evergreen vines.

Henry’s Restaurant currently provides buffet breakfast only. The hotel provides Smart Bar vending machines for snacks, and a variety of food choices is available from external suppliers that will deliver directly to your room in the hotel.

Aspire Hotel Sydney offers 3 versatile function rooms with natural light plus 1 room with outdoor access. Catering and seating capacity is available for up to 120 guests theatre style. The hotel’s other facilities and amenities include a business centre with complimentary Wi-Fi that also extends to the hotel lobby. Aspire Hotel Sydney is a smoke-free hotel.

See the Metro Hotels Image Gallery

Thor, Spider Man, Iron Man and Wolverine at Madame Tussauds Sydney

Thor as portrayed by Aussie Superstar Chris Hemsworth and Spider-Man will join Iron Man and Wolverine in the all-new Marvel Super Hero Zone

Prior to the April launch of Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Mighty Avenger Thor, and the iconic web-slinger Spider-Man, join Iron Man and Wolverine at Madame Tussauds Sydney.

Thor’s imposing wax figure was created following a two-day sitting with Australian actor Chris Hemsworth. Madame Tussauds worked closely with Marvel Studios to ensure every element, including Thor’s hair and costume, is true to his iconic character from the 2011 film, Marvel’s Thor. The thundering figure of Asgard’s greatest warrior will be in Sydney for a limited time only.

Spider-Man will also join the Marvel Super Hero Zone as a permanent addition to the Sydney attraction. Marvel fans young and old will be able to interact and hang out with the ultimate wall-crawler.

“We are thrilled to bring Thor and Spider-Man to life, so that the fans from Australia can get up close and personal with their favourite Marvel Super Heroes. With Iron Man and Wolverine already such popular figures in our attraction, the all-new Marvel Super Hero Zone will display some of the most beloved characters in the world. Marvel fans can even join the Super Hero ranks themselves by donning Thor’s armour or seeing what they look like with Wolverine’s claws,” said Steve Hinks, General Manager of Madame Tussauds Sydney.

Also opening these April holidays is an all-new 3D Virtual Reality experience - a cutting edge virtual reality head-mounted display where users are transported to another world through sound and special effects. Through this new technology, visitors to Madame Tussauds Sydney will travel 500 years into the future to a post-apocalyptic Sydney and become "Karbon Man"! As the world's last hope, soar through the sky and use your superpowers to protect what remains of civilisation from an alien invasion.

“We invite all Marvel fans to come along and not only see these icons of Marvel but also embrace their own inner super powers with the use of the new 3D virtual Reality experience that will enable users to feel what it’s like to be a Super Hero,” added Hinks.

The Thor and Spider-Man figures will join other iconic Heroes in the all-new Marvel Super Hero Zone, including:

·     Wolverine: Australian Hollywood star Hugh Jackman portrayed as the mutant Wolverine in Fox Film’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, including his remarkable foot-long adamantium claws. Visitors can pose alongside Wolverine’s figure with their very own set of Wolverine claws

·    Iron Man: the Armoured Avenger and star of multiple Marvel movies, including the newest –Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, out in late April. The figure is wearing his mark IV armour from Marvel’s Iron Man 2. His suit lights up with glowing eyes, palms and arc reactor (chest). Guests can wear a similar suit of armour to pose with Iron Man’s figure

All Super Hero fans are encouraged to fly into the Marvel Super Hero Zone at Madame Tussauds Sydney. Here, you will step into the world of these infamous characters and even become your own Super Hero.  

Where: Madame Tussauds Sydney, Aquarium Wharf, Darling Harbour (next door to WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo)

Opening hours: 9.30am daily

Tickets: https://www.madametussauds.com/Sydney/

Combination tickets are available with SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium, WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo, Sydney Tower Eye and Manly SEA LIFE Sanctuary via Wild Life Sydney website: 

http://www.wildlifesydney.com.au/tickets/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwgoKqBRDt_IfLr8y1iMUBEiQA8Ua7XYmwgHddrR4luAU65NKYHQ1on6gP-rCNOvw40hyilrIaAtO58P8HAQ#attraction-passes

Vivid Sydney Festival Photowalk Competition at Metro Hotel on Pitt

Vivid Sydney –Photowalk with @instagram suggested users @razzy_b and @photogra_fi

Metro Hotel on Pitt has snared a coup by securing two of @instagrams Sydney based leading lights Raewyn (@razzy_b) and Fiona (@photogra_fi) to lead a photowalk in Sydney’s premier light event Vivid Sydney.

Vivid runs from 22nd May until 8th June 2015 when Metro Hotel on Pitt will be offering budding photographers and fun seekers a juicy 10% discount to stay right in the heart of the action. With Town Hall station just on the doorstep and Opal Cards available through the hotel, our visitors will be in the best location to live life locally and enjoy all Sydney has to offer. To take advantage of this generous offer, search your dates and enter the promotional code VIVIDMETRO

When @razzy_b and @photogra_fi turn up on May 30 to host a photowalk around the highlights of Vivid, it is expected many of Sydney’s social media elite will be joining us in our quest to find the best angles and shots for the night.

Details: Date 30th May 2015, starts 6:00pm at 300 Pitt Street with Vivid Cocktails followed by a photo walk through Darling Harbour and then on to Circular Quay to capture the very best of the Vivid Light Festival.

Starting at 6:00pm, at the hotels Metro Brasserie, Metro Hotels with the help of its business partners will have a Vivid Cocktail available during Vivid ordinarily through Palace Hotel www.palacehotelsydney.com.au and then will travel through the Vivid Sydney Light walk with instructions from our hosts on long-exposure, night photography, mobile-photography and technical help for anything more difficult.

#Instameets are the hottest social event and from the novice to the professional, there is plenty for everyone. Why not come along and join us for a night of fun.

Metro Hotel on Pitt is also excited to announce a competition for our social savvy guests. For those attending the Instameet , they should use the hashtag #vividsydneymetro on their photos from the meet. If you are unable to join, please capture your local suburban Vivid Light Show. All are welcome to join. (*T&Cs apply - please read before entering competition)

To book at Metro Hotel on Pitt with a photographers discount, please use www.metrohotels.com.au/hotels/new-south-wales/metro-hotel-on-pitt and enter the promotional code VIVIDMETRO for your 10% discount.

CATS to Return to Australia in 2015

CATS the show to Return to Australia in 2015

Following its triumphant season in London’s West End, the acclaimed revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical CATS comes to Australia for a strictly limited season, opening in Sydney on 30 October 2015 then touring to Hobart, Melbourne and Brisbane. Tickets go on sale on Friday 24 April. CATS is touring to Adelaide and Perth in 2016 with dates and booking information to be released at a later date. 

The hit revival, which was reworked for the most recent season in the West End by the original creative team - Director Trevor Nunn, Choreographer & Associate Director Gillian Lynne, Set Designer John Napier and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber – received excellent reviews and extended its season due to overwhelming demand.

The 2015 Olivier Award-nominated CATS introduces a rapping ‘street cat’ in the famous Rum Tum Tugger role, who performs some serious breakdancing moves.

“I’ve come to the conclusion that having read Eliot again, maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap”, says Lloyd Webber.

Based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the show is set amongst a larger-than-life junkyard playground and is alive with our favourite feline characters including Rum Tum Tugger, Mr. Mistoffelees, Macavity, Jennyanydots, Old Deuteronomy, Grizabella and Skimbleshanks.

The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year – the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.

CATS, one of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in 1981 where it played for 21 record-breaking years and almost 9,000 performances. The production was the winner of the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical. In 1983 the Broadway production became the recipient of seven Tony awards including Best Musical, and ran for 18 years.

Since its premiere, CATS has been presented in over 30 countries, has been translated into 15 languages and has been seen by more than 73 million people worldwide. Both the original London and Broadway cast recordings won Grammy Awards for Best Cast Album.

The musical score composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, includes the hit song ‘Memory’, which has been recorded by over 150 artists from Barbra Streisand and Johnny Mathis to Liberace and Barry Manilow.

CATS Australian Tour 2015

Sydney, Capitol Theatre from 30 October, 2015
Hobart, Derwent Theatre from 10 December, 2015
Melbourne, Regent Theatre from 18 December, 2015
Brisbane, Lyric Theatre from 29 January, 2016

Winter Hot Deals in Sydney

Metro Hotels in Sydney are offering super sizzling Hot Deals this winter and it is a perfect time to plan a short break in the city with so much to see and do during forthcoming season. Visitors to the city will enjoy world-class entertainment, cultural events, festivals and international sporting events.

VIVID Sydney, the much-loved festival of lights, music and ideas, will run from 22nd May to 8th June. Metro Hotel on Pitt is a great base to see all the lights in the city as the hotel is located in the heart of the CBD. Metro Hotel on Pitt is offering a Vivid Hot Deal starting from $219 per night which includes accommodation for 2 adults and one child, full buffet breakfast, complimentary WiFi and a Café Kids pack.

If you are looking for a deal that includes exploring Sydney, Aspire Hotel Sydney in leafy Ultimo, has a Explore Sydney Hot Deal with rates starting at $129 for two guests and includes two free Opal cards (value $20 each)allowing unlimited travel on buses, ferries, trains and light rail around Sydney. 

The cards are perfect if attending some of the big sporting events happening in winter. Eight times FA Cup winners and English League icons, Tottenham Hotspur, take on Sydney Football Club at ANZ Stadium on May 30th. For followers of both rugby codes, there is the legendary State of Origin Rugby League, (Queensland versus New South Wales) on May 27th and the Bledisloe Cup on August 8-the ultimate trans-Tasman Rugby Union battle between the Qantas Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks

Experience a musical phenomenon with Cameron McIntosh’s highly acclaimed production of Les Miserables. Metro Hotel Sydney Central, located exactly opposite the Capitol Theatre where the production is currently playing, has a Family Package Hot Deal from $205 for a two bedded room, full buffet breakfast for two adults and two children and chocolates on arrival .Take advantage of a good hearty $10 lunch before or after the show at the Palace Hotel, right next door to the theatre. Tickets to the show are not included.

Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour has a Sydney Attractions Package staying in a loft style apartment with prices starting at $269 (subject to availability) and include a family pass, two adults and two children (under 12) to your choice of two attractions including Sydney Tower Eye, SEALIFE Sydney Aquarium, Madame Tussuads, WILDLIFE Sydney Zoo and Manly SEALIFE.

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