Sydney's southwest to get Holiday Inn with Sunnybrook Hotel makeover

The Sunnybrook Hotel in Warwick Farm in Sydney's southwest will be refurbished and open in September as a Holiday Inn Warwick Farm.

It will be the twenty-second Holiday Inn in Australia.

This follows a franchise agreement between InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), which own the Holiday Inn brand and Oscars Hotels, which acquired the 146-room hotel in April 2011.

The refurbishment will include the guest rooms and restaurant.

IHG is expanding its presence in Australia with its first Holiday Inn Express to open in Perth in 2015 and with plans for around 40 new Holiday Inn Expresses to be build or developed over the next 10 years.

It has also partnered with hotel developer Jerry Schwartz to develop the Crowne Plaza hotels in the Hunter Valley and Newcastle as well as with Eureka Funds Management on other projects.

Recent refurbishment and rebranding projects include transforming the Clarion Hotel in Parramatta into the Holiday Inn Parramatta. 

Located at 355 Hume Highway Warwick Farm on the site of the old Sunnybrook Winery, the revamped hotel will aim to meet the needs of the growing commercial and leisure based industries of south west Sydney. 

The hotel facilities include an all-day dining restaurant, a tavern adjacent to the hotel with gaming facilities, gymnasium, a meetings and events centre, heated outdoor swimming pool and generous onsite parking. 

Following the refurbishment of all guest rooms and the hotel restaurant, the gymnasium and swimming pool will be fully upgraded, as will the adjoining Oscars Tavern and the meeting and events centre (both due for completion in early 2014). 

Warwick Farm is close to the suburbs of Liverpool, Chipping Norton, Cabramatta and Moorebank.  It’s also central to leisure attractions such as Warwick Farm Racecourse and Warwick Farm Polo Fields. 

“The signing of Holiday Inn Warwick Farm is significant to our strategy of expanding the Holiday Inn brand across New South Wales," says  IHG Australasia head of development, Phil Kasselis. 

"The Liverpool local government area has been earmarked by the state as a major regional centre in Sydney, and this Holiday Inn will be ideally positioned to cater to growing demand for hotel accommodation there, offering a great guest experience” he adds. 

Bill Gravanis, owner of Oscars Hotels says the hotel will create a "real opportunity to significantly increase its share of corporate, meetings and leisure business in Sydney’s south west" .