Hotel data
Hotel parameters compared
This guide isolates the hotel-side parameters used in the index: room count, opening year, room-category publication, check-in and check-out, pet policy and accessibility. A blank or “not published” entry is not filled from memory. Secondary-source figures are marked so readers can separate venue-published data from external listings.
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index / Parameters / Hotel
| House | Rooms and source | Opening year | Room categories | Check-in / out | Pets | Accessibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Melbourne | Crown Towers 481, Crown Metropol 658, Crown Promenade 465; total 1,604 by Wikipedia, secondary. Official deep fact says “over 1,600 exquisitely appointed rooms”. | Permanent Southbank complex opened 8 May 1997; temporary World Trade Centre casino 30 June 1994; secondary. | Published across Crown Towers, Crown Metropol and Crown Promenade. | Check-in from 3pm; check-out 11am. | not published | not published |
| Crown Perth | Crown Towers 500, Crown Metropol 405, Crown Promenade 291; Wikipedia infobox total 1,196 rooms, secondary. | Opened 30 December 1985 as Burswood Island Casino; complex officially opened 8 April 1988; secondary. | Published across Crown Towers, Crown Metropol and Crown Promenade. | Check-in from 3pm; check-out 11am; late check-out unavailable Fri/Sat/Sun. | not published | not published |
| Crown Sydney | Crown Towers Sydney 349 rooms and 82 apartments; Wikipedia, secondary. | Hotel officially inaugurated 28 December 2020; casino opened August 2022; secondary. | Published: Deluxe King Room, Harbour Bridge rooms, Opera rooms, Studio rooms and Opera Studio Room. | not published | not published | Accessible parking via valet, subject to availability. |
| The Star Gold Coast | The Star Grand 592 rooms, secondary; Dorsett Gold Coast 313 rooms, high source quality; The Star Residences 210 rooms, secondary; The Darling count unverified. | Opened 22 November 1985; official opening Feb 1986 as Jupiters; secondary. | not published | Dorsett: “26-hour Stay” and “Flexible check-in time”; fixed times not printed. | not published | not published |
| The Star Brisbane | The Star Grand: “340 beautifully appointed rooms”; opening release says 340 hotel rooms including four penthouses. | Staged opening began 29 August 2024; Treasury Brisbane casino closed midnight on Sunday 25 August 2024. | Published for The Star Grand: City King, City Accessible, City Twin, River King, River Accessible, suites and penthouse suite. | Check-in 3:00 PM; check-out 11:00 AM. | not published | City Accessible Room and River Accessible Room published. |
| Wrest Point | 269 rooms by Wikipedia, secondary; third-party listing says 259; official site does not print a total. | Official: “born in 1973”; Wikipedia says 10 February 1973. | Published across Tower, Water Edge / Riviera wing and Motor Inn. | not published | not published | Deluxe Accessible King; accessible rooms available on request in the Tower. |
| Country Club Tasmania | Total not printed on any fetched page; unverified. | 1982 by Wikipedia; official site says “Australia’s third oldest casino”; secondary. | Published across Resort rooms and Villas. | not published | not published | not published |
| Mindil Beach Casino Resort | Official site prints no total; NT tourism says 152 rooms with medium confidence, another NT page says 154, Wikipedia says 117. Treated as not published. | 1983 by Wikipedia infobox; secondary. | Published: Deluxe Rooms, Superior Spa Hotel Rooms, Hotel Suites, Lagoon Rooms, Superior Lagoon Rooms and Mindil Suite. | not published | not published | not published |
| Reef Hotel Casino | 128 rooms; Accor, high source quality. | Casino licence granted January 1996; commenced trading on 31st January 1996. | Superior Room and accessible room published; third-party category names marked medium confidence. | “Check-in from 02:00 PM - Check out up to 11:00 AM”. | “Pets not allowed”. | “Wheelchair accessible”; accessible room. |
| The Ville Resort-Casino | The Ville 194 rooms by Wikipedia, secondary; Ardo Hotel next door 132 rooms from Ardo site, high source quality. | 1986 by Wikipedia categories; secondary. | Published: Deluxe Rooms, Deluxe Suites, Resort Rooms, Resort Suites, Executive Rooms, Executive Suites, Two Bedroom Apartment, Pelorus Suite. | not published | not published | not published |
How the hotel fields are read
The hotel group is one of the five scoring groups in the method and weights. It covers published accommodation facts rather than casino activity. The table below uses the same roster as the index and the same not-published rule as the 30-parameter table.
Room count is treated as a transparency item as well as a scale item. Where a venue publishes a total, the source quality is higher. Where the only room count comes from Wikipedia, a tourism page or another secondary source, the table says so. If published figures conflict, the table does not average them. Mindil Beach is the clearest example: the official resort site prints no total, and external sources disagree, so the index treats the count as not published even though secondary figures exist.
Opening year is included because it is normally stable, but the source still matters. Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth, Crown Sydney, The Star Gold Coast, Wrest Point, Country Club Tasmania, Mindil Beach and The Ville rely at least partly on secondary sources for this field. The Star Brisbane is different: its staged opening began 29 August 2024, and Treasury Brisbane closed on 25 August 2024 when gaming moved to Queen’s Wharf.
Room categories are counted as published only when names are available in the facts. A category list may cover several hotels inside one complex, as at Crown Melbourne and Crown Perth. It may also cover a single hotel inside a wider precinct, as at The Star Brisbane, where The Star Grand publishes categories while future or associated hotels do not publish room totals in the fetched facts.
What is not filled in
Check-in and check-out are entered only when the hotel publishes fixed times. Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth, The Star Brisbane’s Star Grand and Reef Hotel Casino publish times in the facts. Dorsett Gold Coast publishes a “26-hour Stay” and “Flexible check-in time”, but no fixed times; this is not converted into a standard check-in entry. Several properties publish accommodation pages without fixed times in the fetched material, so the table marks those cells “not published”.
Pet policy is mostly absent across the ten. Reef Hotel Casino is the only entry in this set with a published pet rule: “Pets not allowed”. For the others, the table records not published rather than assuming a no-pets rule. This is important because hotel policies can vary by room type, service-animal requirements and booking channel.
Accessibility is also uneven. Reef Hotel Casino publishes “Wheelchair accessible” and an accessible room. Wrest Point publishes a Deluxe Accessible King and says accessible rooms are available on request in the Tower. Crown Sydney publishes accessible parking via valet, subject to availability, but not a full accessible-room statement in the facts. The Star Brisbane publishes City Accessible Room and River Accessible Room for The Star Grand. Where the official or captured facts do not publish accessibility detail, the cell remains not published.
The same approach is used on the related parameter pages for leisure parameters, dining and entertainment parameters and access parameters. A strong hotel table does not imply a strong total score; the scores by group show how hotel data sits beside leisure, dining, access and transparency.
Notes on multi-hotel precincts
Crown Melbourne and Crown Perth are scored as complexes, not as single towers. Each has Crown Towers, Crown Metropol and Crown Promenade in the facts. Their room counts in the roster sheet are from Wikipedia, while Crown Melbourne also has an official deep-fact phrase: “over 1,600 exquisitely appointed rooms across Crown Towers, Crown Metropol and Crown Promenade”. For the comparison table, the individual room-count sources are still marked secondary where the precise hotel-by-hotel figures come from Wikipedia.
The Star Gold Coast is also a precinct entry. The facts list The Star Grand, The Darling, Dorsett Gold Coast and The Star Residences. Dorsett publishes 313 rooms, while The Star Grand and The Star Residences figures rely on secondary sources and The Darling’s count is unverified because external figures conflict. The room-category field is not published in the captured facts.
The Ville includes The Ville Resort-Casino and Ardo Hotel next door, both under the same address and Morris Group wording in the facts. The Ville’s 194-room count is secondary; Ardo’s 132 rooms are published on Ardo’s site. Because the indexed house is The Ville Resort-Casino, the hotel parameter line records both where relevant and marks the source quality.
For individual property context, use all ten profiles. Each profile keeps the same rule: a published value is quoted, a secondary-source value is labelled, and a missing value is not estimated.