Saturday, April 28, 2012

Tune budget hotels set for Sydney, Melbourne

Complaints about the high price of holidaying in Oz are set to lose a little legitimacy with the news that Tune Hotels is about to set up shop with new budget hotels in both Melbourne and Sydney.

The no-frills hotel chain -- owned by AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes -- opened its first property in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2007 with rooms selling for as little as US$3 a night.

Melbourne will be first Australian destination to get a Tune hotel, when a Swanson Street branch opens in August next year.

After that, Melbourne appears to be next on a hit list that?s bound to have the established hotels looking over their shoulders.

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