Kelly & Co Hotels has exited Scone, selling the Belmore Hotel to the same growing Hunter Valley group that recently bought the nearby Royal Hotel. The Belmore is an impressive suburban local, with sandstone exterior and original pressed tin ceilings. It has a large beer garden, gaming room with eight machines, nine accommodation rooms and […]
Country connoisseur Ned Kelly has sold his Royal Hotel of Scone to an up-and-coming local. The regal pub is set on around 3,000 sqm, and includes 19 pub-style rooms, 10 modern motel suites, and gaming operation with nine entitlements and approved DA for a new room, altering the floorplan and improving accessibility. Known as the […]
The crème of the country’s hotels were crowned this week at the prestigious Australian Hotels Association National Awards for Excellence. A record 730 VIPs and industry guests gathered for the extravaganza, held for the first time at Sydney’s Campbell’s Cove, to see 249 nominees vie for 45 award categories. The major prize of Overall Hotel […]
After a couple of crazy years and several more acquisitions, Ned Kelly and gang are getting out of their Criterion Hotel in the lower Hunter Valley prairie of Weston. Sitting tall on a 910sqm block, the pub operates under a 3am liquor licence, providing public bar, bistro, gaming room with 15 machines, and 10 accommodation […]
A Hunter Valley publican is facing a slew of charges relating to supply and possession of cocaine at his Scone pub. 37-year-old John William Allen, aka Jack Allen, fronted Muswellbrook Local Court last week to face multiple charges, the most serious being supply cocaine on an ongoing basis. Hunter Valley detectives, part of Strike Force […]
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Quinn & Co have agreed to sell their thumping Windsor Castle Hotel in East Maitland for $51 million to the acquisitive Harvest Hotels, smashing the group’s own record for an inland regional pub. Around two hours’ drive north of Sydney, ‘The Castle’ is a large-format hotel across a 6,613sqm lot, built in the 1920s. It […]
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The NSW government has announced free training on in-demand skills, aiming to get more workers ready for a “bumper winter” tourism and hospitality season. The NSW Government’s Winter Skills program is delivering more than 1,500 fee-free training courses, preparing people to work hospitality roles including bartenders, waitstaff and the ski industry, to help businesses meet […]
The high-profile Caledonian Hotel of Singleton has been put to market by husband and wife team Helen and John Hill. Singleton is in the upper Hunter Valley, approximately 70 kilometres from Newcastle, and benefiting from strong economic and tourism activity in the wider area. Set on a prominent 2,226sqm corner block, it cites average weekly […]
Cessnock’s Royal Oak Hotel is in fresh new hands again, with a Newsome-Horvath partnership finding new life in the old Oak. Built in 1922 on a prominent corner in the gateway to the Hunter Valley, the large brick hotel features a bar, bistro, spacious rear beer garden, off-street parking, and a separate cafe point of […]
Ned Kelly’s burgeoning pub group has taken the deeds to the Belmore Hotel in Scone, in a return to where it all began for the industry veteran. Built 1866 in the upper Hunter Valley as the Railway Hotel, the pub was renamed the Belmore in 1871, after a visit by the Earl of Belmore. Some […]
