A week in the life of… Corrie & Lisa in Sydney (Day 1)

“What a busy and productive week it was for Ultimate Conferences + Events last week! Corrie and Lisa flew up to Sydney on the Tuesday morning, hired a car, then in true ‘Thelma and Louise’ style, pointed the car north and ended up in Manly!

We were keen to inspect Mirvac’s newly acquired Q Station, as well as catch up with our friends at both the Sebel Manly and the Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific hotels whilst there. Each of these three properties certainly have their own ‘personality’ offering great solutions to the various needs of our clients. We couldn’t help but picture many of you making best advantage of the spaces, all varying in size and style, as we toured them all…

A week in the life of… Corrie & Lisa in Sydney (Day 2)

Day 2 on the road, saw us stuck in the unenviable position of rush hour from Manly into the City and the realisation as to why we work from home as often as possible! We finally reached our first appointment for the day, enjoying a lovely breakfast with our most understanding and gracious hosts at the Swissotel Sydney.

Accommodation here is lovely, all you would expect of a 5 star hotel and more, with rooms bright, airy and welcoming. Whilst the main conference spaces here unfortunately do not offer natural light, the “skylight effect” lighting throughout, plus sunlight-flooded atrium (even on this cloudy morning) used as the pre-function space certainly compensated for this – the atmosphere serene and refreshing. This main conference space suits up to 450 delegates depending on the set up, also lending itself well to networking or trade displays. For more intimate meetings, boardrooms on a separate floor, with nearby access to the outdoor pool terrace, offer a distraction free environment.

Wellington, New Zealand - the coolest LITTLE capital??? Corrie thought so...

With the long Easter Weekend and school holidays in the mix, we’ve finally had time to update our blog! Once again it saw Corrie travelling off – on this occasion, to New Zealand, courtesy of the Wellington Convention Bureau.

“Interestingly they asked us all for ‘pre famil’ thoughts – what were our perceptions of Wellington? I have to say it could have been perceived as quite negative at the start... Windy, cold, quite funky, quite like Melbourne really… and so it went on. However, the day our Air New Zealand flight landed in Wellington, it was a calm, perfectly blue skied, balmy autumn day. So, so far, so good! Martin Boland from the Bureau met us on arrival, and we were transferred to various hotels on what was to be the start of a jam packed, fun filled, highly informative three days. Given the more information on venues the better for us – I wasn’t to be disappointed.

Explore the "top end" today with Corrie and IHG hotels - fantastic conference & incentive destinations...

“To escape the sudden drop in Melbourne’s temperature, Corrie literally fled, courtesy of IHG (Intercontinental Hotel Group) to Australia’s 'Top End' to see for why this region is one to consider when thinking of somewhere completely unique for your conference or incentive group!

IHG operate the Crowne Plaza Darwin, the Holiday Inn Esplanade and the Holiday Inn Darwin, then down in Kakadu National Park there is the Holiday Inn Jabiru.

Our Sebel famil a great success, this amazing Melbourne conference venue tops off a very busy week!!

Kept busy last week catching up with several hotel reps and finishing off on Friday with “Secbreak” at Crown’s Palladium then co-hosting a famil with the Sebel & Citigate Albert Park, Melbourne with some of our clients...

On Wednesday last week we enjoyed catching up with the new cluster sales office for Pan Pacific Hotels Group who now have a presence not only in Melbourne, but across Australia - recently launching the Parkroyal Darling Harbour, Parkroyal Parramatta, Parkroyal Melbourne Airport and the Pan Pacific Perth.

Ultimate Conference Venues throughout Regional Victoria all experienced in a day!!

By this time last week, Corrie & Lisa were traipsing around Victoria at rapid pace, taking in a diverse range of regional Victoria's conference venues.
We were lucky enough to be invited on the inaugural ‘Accor Great Race’ held on Friday 27 May - Saturday 28 May. We took 4 of our clients 'along for the ride' completely unaware of what we were all getting into. I think we became a little concerned when filling in the necessary disclaimer forms, but were excited to be part of this experience first hand.

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