KUDOS Q U E S T
A P A R T M E N T
H O T E L S
E D I T I O N
LONDON CALLING
EXPLORING THE CITY
QUEST KUDOS EDITION 14 / 2018
YARRA VALLEY VS PENINSULA
WINE COUNTRY CHOICES
WOMEN’S AFL
SEASON STARTS
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JULES LUND’S TRIBE
BITCOIN
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT
TAKE ME HOME I’m Yours to Keep
DIGITAL SENSATIONS Making it big on a global scale
NO RES E RVATION S AT R E S TAU R A N T AU S T R A L I A
D I S C OV E R F R E YC I N E T, TA S M A N I A AT AU S T R A L I A .C O M
WELCOME
Welcome to the latest edition of Quest Kudos magazine
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hat Australia and New Zealand lack in terms of population size, we more than make up for in terms of innovation and influence, with many of our tech start-ups now striding the world stage. From Xero to Atlassian, Canva to Tribe, home-grown companies are spreading their wings internationally, with revolutionary and gamechanging ideas. This edition, we speak with several of the founders and find out what it takes to make an impact globally and the secrets behind their milliondollar ideas. From one style of entrepreneur to the next, some forward thinkers are trying their hand at more than one vocation, with the rise of the “slashie” or those who have two very distinct jobs or businesses, showing no sign of slowing down. We speak with several busy people with their fingers in many pies and uncover the benefits and challenges of their busy career paths. There has also been a lot of talk in business and financial sectors about cryptocurrencies and what they mean to more traditional businesses. We explain what they are all about, who’s investing in Bitcoin and what might happen if there is a Bitcoin bubble on the horizon. If you’re looking to relax and switch off from talk of work and business leading into the summer holidays, we also have plenty of tips to help you escape. We compare drops from the wine country in the Yarra Valley and the Mornington Peninsula; head off to London town for a city tour; uncover some of New Zealand’s North Island gems and hit the outback of regional Western Australia. And if all of that isn’t enough reading, we have put together a “must have” book list of our top holiday reads. We hope you enjoy this issue of Kudos. Please feel free to take this magazine home with you after your stay.
Zed Sanjana CEO, Quest Apartment Hotels
KUDOS Q U E S T
A P A R T M E N T
H O T E L S
E D I T I O N
LONDON CALLING
EXPLORING THE CITY
YARRA VALLEY VS PENINSULA
WINE COUNTRY CHOICES
1 4
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2 0 1 8
JULES LUND’S TRIBE
WOMEN’S AFL
SEASON STARTS
BITCOIN
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT
TAKE ME HOME I’m Yours to Keep
DIGITAL SENSATIONS Making it big on a global scale
ON THE COVER
Tribe’s Jules Lund bringing social influencers to the masses.
03 8699 1500 questapartments.com.au Group Marketing & Communications Manager: Melinda Horlock Marketing Executive: Krisi Tsakiris Publisher: Dani Carey Sub Editor: Sara Gordon Art Director: Natalie Matheson Contributing Editors: Jacqueline Alwill, Dani Carey, Winsor Dobbin, Sara Gordon, Beverly Ligman, Lee Mylne, Annabelle Richmond, Rosamund Urwin and Dilvin Yasa. Published by Espresso Media espressomedia.com.au Copyright: Quest Apartment Hotels 2017. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the publisher.
CONTENTS 10 COVER STORY Exploring what it takes to make it big on a global scale, as a tech start-up. We speak with some giant success stories including Tribe, Canva, Xero and Atlassian.
24 MONEY MATTERS
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Bitcoin is getting a bit of airplay at the moment. So what’s it all about and can it last?
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28 CAREER HIGH Working in two very different vocational arenas seems to be on the rise. We discover what drives some people to take up roles in more than one industry and how they manage it.us.
LONDON TOWN
48 CHEERS Exploring the differences between the wine regions of the Yarra Valley and the Mornington Peninsula.
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38 36 EXPLORE
NZ HOT SPOTS
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
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LIFE UNTANGLED afternoonswithalbert.com
TUNE OUT jabra.com.au
Developed by a Qantas pilot, the cord roll is a simple and stylish way to keep cords and cables untangled. The case keeps your cords, hand creams and change safe and organised in one easy to find spot. Pack it, roll it and away you go.
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OCEAN SWIM sharkbanz.com.au Sharkbanz wards off sharks using patented magnetic technology to interfere with their electroreceptors. The wearable technology is battery free and chemical free and is for wrist or ankle wear. RRP $149
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THEME PARK FUN FunFields is a giant theme park, 40kms from the CBD of Melbourne in Whittlesea. The park features 24 rides, waterslides, and attractions including go-karts, mini golf a virtual reality experience and a KidZone for the younger patrons. This summer, the park has opened two new rides that are not for the faint-hearted including a Gravity Wave and the Voodoo 360, the only looping pendulum ride in Australia. The park houses three world record holding rides including the world’s biggest, longest and tallest ProSlide wave waterslide which looks as incredible as it sounds. funfields.com.au
Ask the Franchisee
Mark and Ky O’Shea
Franchisees, Quest Bundoora Something guests may not know about Bundoora is that there is an ever-growing variety of restaurants, cafes, and retail shopping outlets all within walking distance of Quest Bundoora. A recent exciting developing is the Uni Hill Conference Centre which offers a range of modern and flexible conference spaces. Over the past five years, Bundoora has developed as a business and retail hub. 08 / Quest KUDOS
If you have spare time in the area during your stay, you can grab a bargain at the Uni Hill Factory Shopping Outlet or enjoy a quiet walk through the nearby wetlands. If action is more to your liking, Funfields Adventure Park is a great family day out, or you can race around the South Morgan Go-Cart track. We are also conveniently at the gateway to the amazing wineries of the Yarra Valley. One of the benefits of staying at a Quest Apartment Hotel is that you have the best of two worlds. First, you experience the benefit of dealing with Australia’s largest apartment hotel group and so have access to key locations through a broad distribution network that provides you with the peace of mind in the consistency and quality of the apartment which has the facilities to meet your needs. Secondly, you experience the quality and attentive service that only a small business owner can provide. We build a genuine rapport with our guests and come to understand your needs and preferences. We can be that home away from home. My best travel advice would be to be flexible. Don’t plan your entire itinerary. It’s tempting, but those unplanned moments while traveling can be the best memories. The gadget I can’t live without when I travel is my smartphone. My phone houses my diary, my memories and contact details of everyone. I can run through emails, log onto our property management system, review work documents and organise my life on the run. It can also provide entertainment in those rare moments when life slows down a little.
New to the Network
QUEST INNALOO www.questinnaloo.com.au
Now Open
Located in the burgeoning City of Stirling, Quest Innaloo is set to become the accommodation choice for business travellers to Innaloo, Osborne Park and Glendalough. With 80 Studio, One and Two Bedroom Executive Apartments, guests are well served with a range of local dining options within walking distance.
QUEST SPRINGFIELD www.questspringfield.com.au
Opening April 2018
Located in the heart of the fastest growing economic hub in Queensland, Quest Springfield offers 82 modern Studio, One and Two Bedroom Apartments conveniently located in the centre of the Health Care precinct and adjacent to the Education precinct.
QUEST MIDLAND www.questmidland.com.au
Opening April 2018
Quest Midland will offer travellers 102 modern serviced apartments. Located in the suburb of Midland, just 16km north East of Perth’s city centre, Quest Midland is at the gateway to the emerging food and wine region of the Swan Valley.
QUEST CANNON HILL www.questcannonhill.com.au
Opening June 2018
Mid 2018 will see the arrival of a new standard of accommodation for business travellers in the inner eastern Brisbane suburb of Cannon Hill. Quest Cannon Hill will offer 100 Studio and One Bedroom Apartments, perfect providing guest’s a home away from home experience. Quest KUDOS / 09
Australian grown, global tech start-up sensation Atlassian’s Sydney office.
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COVER STORY
DIGITAL SMARTS Australian and New Zeland tech start-ups are paving the way on a global scale, but it’s not without its challenges, writes Dilvin Yasa.
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ost successful founders can usually give you the specifics of their ‘aha’ moment, that one crucial second in time that would go on to change the course of their lives. Most successful founders that is – except for TRIBE founder, Jules Lund. “Hmm, let me see…” he begins before abruptly stopping and apologising sheepishly. “ You have to remember I was working in morning radio at the time [he formed the idea] so I can’t actually remember much from that period other than feeling really tired, and being incredibly busy.” His kids must have found that tough? “I wouldn’t know, I haven’t actually had a chance to meet them yet,” he deadpans. Lund is joking of course, but he could be forgiven if there were some truth to his banter. Since the affable
TV and radio host stepped away from his media roles to create TRIBE (tribegroup.co), a digital platform which connects brands with influencers, he’s known exhaustion – and exhilaration – on a whole new level. On the back of an AUD$5.35 million funding injection from Exto Partners in 2016, Lund has extended his Melbournebased business to include new headquarters in the UK, fortified his Sydney, Mumbai and Philippines-based team, taken his total staff count to 35+, and yes, even managed to stay handson with his two young daughters. “Well, if I knew back in 2012 when I had the idea for TRIBE that I’d feel 90 today, I don’t know that I would have bothered,” he offers before bursting out with laughter. “Nah, that’s a lie; I love what I do, and I know this is the business I was meant to be in.”
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TRIBE is quite emblematic of the strength of lots of Australia’s best start-ups because you’ve got a very savvy founder in Jules, who has spent time in an established industry and taken that experience and built a really smart business in a new area with global growth potential.
The premise of TRIBE is simple; it’s a space where brands create briefs and invite thousands of subscribed micro-influencers (everyday people who’ve cultivated an intimate, yet engaged community of 3,000+ followers on social media) to submit a creative post with their fee attached. Should the brand approve their post, the influencer publishes it directly to their socials and is paid almost immediately. It’s free to join for influencers, costs next to nix for brands (they only pay for the posts they purchase), and TRIBE earns a none-too-shabby 20% on all successful posts. Since TRIBE first launched towards the end of 2015, Lund says they’ve created content for over 4,300 brands including Moet, Dan Murphy’s and Priceline Pharmacies, and generated more than $4 million for the 23,000 influencers currently on their books. “We’re not talking about celebrities, we’re talking about everyday people who are taking pics at home or on the way to work with their phones,” he says, adding that TRIBE receives up to 20 new briefs every day. “Many of our influencers earn upwards of $2,000 per month, but we have one who’s made over $100,000 since we launched and she’s a dietician.” While the details of that ‘aha’ moment are still elusive, Lund will allow that there was a long gestation period for the idea that was born out of what he says was ‘pure frustration’ back in 2012. “We’d built our Fifi [Box], and Jules radio show to become the most engaged brand on Facebook within the country and brands began approaching me to help them with their content,” he explains. “I couldn’t 12 / Quest KUDOS
believe a transaction could involve so many people in a chain of communication, or that it could take weeks – sometimes months – to agree on a single sponsored post and the idea for TRIBE began forming.” Although Lund pitched the idea to a couple of key business advisors who helped Lund raise the initial angel funding of $765,000 to get the business off the ground, he only realised exactly what he was sitting on the day he met with Sony Music Australia CEO, Denis Handlin. “We had a nail artist with 1.5 million followers paint her nails to celebrate the new One Direction album, and her fee was $2,500, and I remember thinking that there’s no way they’ll want to spend that kind of money on a nail artist from Tasmania,” he says. “But they loved it! They said to me, “Do you know how much money we would have to spend to get this kind of reach and engagement elsewhere?’ And that’s when I knew we were onto something big.” At the centre of TRIBE’s success is that the platform solves a problem, says Lund. “Who has the time to sit down and have coffees and conversations with hundreds of influencers individually and then go on to make campaigns with 40 to 50 of them?” Lund asks. “Marketers are under pressure to generate volumes of advertising content from scratch, while their own consumers have the passion, creativity, and tech to capture stunning imagery at billboard size and magazine quality.” Lund is rewriting the future no one knew existed, and the way he tells it, it’s never looked brighter for tech start-ups like his. “It’s a hot space, and it’s only going to get bigger.”
Tribe’s Jules Lund at home presenting his brand at a media event.
THE UPSIDE OF DOWN UNDER We’re a world away from Silicon Valley, but Australian and Kiwi start-ups such as Lund’s are quickly gaining traction, wowing both consumers and investors on a global scale, says Alex McCauley, the CEO and Executive Director of StartupAUS (startupaus.org), a national advocacy body which represents the interests of the entire Australian startup ecosystem. “TRIBE is quite emblematic of the strength of lots of Australia’s best start-ups because you’ve got a very savvy founder in Jules, who has spent time in an established industry and taken that experience and built a really smart business in a new area with global growth potential,” he says. “The same is true for Canva and At-
lassian [see page 17] - all the really globally successful Australian start-ups are being built by founders who really understand the problem they’re solving because they’ve had experience in the industry.” McCauley estimates there are now at least 4,000 tech start-ups in Australia – a number he says will boom substantially as emerging companies continue to put their stock into the ‘Build Local, Sell Global’ mantra we’re so fond of. “Australians tend to have a global mindset in that we travel a lot, we understand other cultures, and we’re too small to think locally when it comes to building businesses,” he says. “But what also helps is that Australians, in general, get tech, and there’s a huge demand for new products here,” he adds, explaining that Australia is one of the
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Paul Napthali Rampersand
most successful global markets for Google, Apple, Twitter, LinkedIn, Uber and the like, leading the world on penetration and revenue per capita. Add to that a national structure that supports the rapid growth of global digital businesses, and you can’t help but set the scene for a multitude of success stories, he says. “We produce world-leading tech talent, and people want to live here so we can attract the best from the rest of the world.” Paul Naphtali, co-founder and managing partner of Rampersand (rampersand. vc), an early stage technology venture fund, agrees that the future has never been brighter for Australian tech start-ups, pointing to our relatively low-cost engineering talent, strong R&D tax credits program run by the federal government, and relatively low levels of business bureaucracy as key strengths working in their favour. “What’s also worth noting, however, is that brand ‘Australia’ has always been strong,” he says. “We’re known for being honest, hardworking and good fun, and people around the world such as investors and employees are naturally positively disposed to our companies as well.”
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Global accolades aside, this doesn’t mean local tech start-ups aren’t presented with a unique set of challenges to overcome. Although Lund says he’s ruling out a move to Silicon Valley for now (“First of all, I’m too old and I can’t grow a hipster beard, but also, I believe we’ve got everything we need right here,” he says), others point to our geographical isolation as a potential problem. “I don’t know that it’s just the tyranny of distance – which granted, is reduced in some cases since social media and digital marketing is borderless - but that Australia is also an awkward size,” says Naphtali. “We are big enough to sustain a small number of domestic businesses, but generally we need 14 / Quest KUDOS
StartupAUS CEO and Executive Director, Alex McCauley.
to go international to build big businesses. For example, small countries such as New Zealand and Israel, the need to export is very obvious very quickly, but it can be less so for young Australian founders, and this can be an issue.” Australia’s non-competitive business tax rates do tech start-ups no favours, nor does our current, death-grip tightened immigration settings, say our experts. “In an age where talent is increasingly sourced from a global pool, we need to think carefully about how we handle these settings,” says McCauley, who adds that although we seem isolated to certain parts of the globe, our proximity to gargantuan emerging markets in Asia is also a strength in itself. “One of Australia’s biggest advantages is that people want to live and work here and we need to use that pulling power and not succumb to the isolationism that’s a big part of the current mindset in places like the US and the UK.” No easy task in the face of our current immigration set-up.
While there’s loads of money ... very little of it was being invested in Australian tech companies
Rampersand co-founder Paul Napthali.
FUND!AMENTALLY CHALLENGED Location and immigration settings aside, perhaps one of the key issues for local tech start-ups is that the industry is still notoriously underfunded – problematic when you’re trying to spread your wings, says Lund. “I’m not business-minded, so I knew early on that I needed a CEO to help operate the business,” he says of TRIBE’s appointment of CEO Anthony Svirskis. “That first investment was critical for TRIBE because it gave me the ability to take on staff and pay an agency to build the tech.” Obviously, Lund’s story has a happy ending, however many others aren’t so lucky, says Naphtali, who with his team attends and supports many start-up community events. “If you go to any of these, one of the first things you’ll hear from the founders is about the local shortage of venture funding,” he reveals. “This is true, but the reality is we have close to $2 billion in venture capital looking for deployment, so this
means many good companies attract investment, but unlike the US, the UK or Israel, we don’t have readily available funding for businesses that don’t yet look good but might with time, or for idea-stage businesses.” Australia invests less, per capita, on innovation investment than most developed nations, he adds. “We require the development of our education system to cater for the innovation economy, and we have to do better at engaging both government and corporate – the challenges are not small.” It’s a state of play Naphtali is well-versed in, having been inspired to launch Rampersand (along with co-founder Jim Cassidy) after witnessing first-hand what Australian tech start-ups are up against. “Having invested and worked in tech businesses in Silicon Valley and Israel, we were excited about the growing number of amazing founders in Australia, but frustrated by the lack of capital and support for those businesses,” he says. “While there’s loads of money in Australia, very little of it was being invested in Australian tech companies, and even worse, there were very few people who had been successful in tech who were prepared to help the next generation of Aussie founders achieve great success.” Since 2013, Rampersand has invested in 16 businesses, with many of them such as Expert360, Spaceshop, Stacka and Stendle going on to become incredible, fast-growth businesses. Could your tech start-up be our next feature story? Napthali explains Rampersand invests first and foremost in great founders solving real ideas, but says that while they usually like to make their first investment in a start-up once said start-up has an initial product or service in market, they’re always open to hearing from founders. “We love hearing from founders, and we don’t believe in wasting a founder’s time,” he says. “We make sure to give great advice and introductions even to the companies we don’t invest in – our digital door is always open.”
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The founders of Canva. Cliff Obrecht (L), Melanie Perkins (C) and Cameron Adams (R) .
COVER STORY
AUSTRALASIAN TECH START!UPS WHO’VE BECOME GLOBAL LEADERS Need further inspiration before you make a call to a venture capitalist? These start-ups will have you planning world domination before you know it. CANVA
From living room start-up to $500 million success story, the trio behind this runaway online design platform have only just begun.
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he inception of Canva – an online design platform which enables both designers and non-designers to create professional looking graphics with templates, stock images, icons and a collaboration tool - almost reads like a country and western song. No contacts, no connections and no proper bed, the story of now Canva’s chief Melanie Perkins’ start is well-known, having previously disclosed how she’d spent three months sleeping on her brother’s living room floor in San Francisco and attending every meet-up she could in the hope of making a Silicon Valley connection to change her luck. The song, however, has a happy ending; five years later, Canva has more than 10 million followers in 179 countries and over 200 staff. More than 200 million designs have been created on Canva so far, and eight designs are said to be created in its apps every second. Valued at almost $500 million dollars, these days its investors who are travelling from San Francisco to their Sydney headquarters to meet Perkins and her Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht. At the heart of the story, of course, is the genius idea that fanned the flames. Frustrated with how long it took to teach graphic design programs such as InDesign and Photoshop to her fellow uni students, Perkins and Obrecht began looking
at ways to make the process easier. Their first collaboration, Fusion Books – an online design tool that makes it easy for students and teachers to create yearbooks – was popular, but it served as the inspiration for what was to come – an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface loaded with over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts which allowed both designers and non-designers to create beautiful graphics quickly and easily. With the addition of Cameron Adams (now Chief Product Officer) on the team, Canva was an instant hit. Backed at various times by the likes of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Google Maps co-founder Lars Rasmussen, investor interest in Canva has been extraordinary. A $19.8 million capital raise by Australian firm Blackbird Ventures and Silicon Valley’s Felicis Ventures in 2016 brought Canva’s total funding to date to $55.6 million - not bad for the start-up that saw a three-year wait between their first meeting with potential investors to their first actually investment. You can’t help think the money was a sure bet; not only is Canva tipped to become a unicorn, but in 2017, they not only began work on having their software available in over 100 languages but also announced they would be branching out into the physical world, launching Canva Print, a new print and delivery service which promises one-click print and shipping within four days. With an eye on expanding their print service to encompass all forms of media (including clothing), it’s clear that while this tech start-up is already a major player on a global scale, they’re only just getting started.
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CAMPAIGN MONITOR
It’s email but not as you know it, and it’s worth a staggering $600 million.
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hen US venture-capital firm Insight Venture Partners invested $US250 million in a little Aussie ‘start-up’ back in 2014, tongues began wagging. It was an unusually large investment from the one fund, for a start – particularly for a ‘start-up’ that was a ten-year-old business that had up until then been self-funded by its founders, Ben Richardson and Dave Greiner. But perhaps what most perplexed gossip-mongers was that it was an investment in a company which makes software for email marketing pitches. In a time that’s all about sexy products like Instagram and Uber, to the uninitiated (and perhaps those who still swear by Read Receipts), it didn’t seem too dissimilar to investing in carrier pigeons. They were all wrong of course, and by quite a margin; Campaign Monitor is now estimated to be valued more than $600 million. The story of Campaign Monitor began in the late 90s when the then-university students started Switch IT, a web design consultancy which saw the pair run email campaigns for their clients. Growing increasingly frustrated with the existing software on the market, they soon designed to build their own. In 2004, it took 40 steps to send an email using the most popular tool available at the time; Campaign Monitor’s product took just 4, and its software has been helping companies such as Apple, Coca-Cola, and Nike not only design, create and send aesthetically pleasing email ever since, but be able to analyse how successful those emails have been in reaching their targets – not a read receipt in sight. On paper, the secrets to Campaign Monitor’s success reads like the results of a lucky dip draw. Like the boys at Atlassian, Richardson and Greiner realised early on that as long as their product was extraordinary and well-priced, it would sell itself and they were right; with a price point which starts from $9 a month for basic support, Campaign Monitor has amassed a global customer base of over two million peo18 / Quest KUDOS
ple in over 200,000 companies based anywhere from Zimbabwe to Russia and everywhere in between. Today, both founders have stepped away from the day-to-day running of the company and stayed well out of the public eye, rarely giving media interviews. As part of the 2014 deal, Richardson and Greiner sold half of the company to two top-tier US venture capital firms and handed control to Alex Bard who was brought in as the firm’s CEO. The gentlemen still own a big stake in the company, remaining active board members and continuing to run the product from their Sydney office, while Bard handles sales, marketing, and finances from San Francisco. They might be in the unique position of having to answer to each other, but it appears to be a system that works; in 2017, Campaign Monitor – which now encompass a team of over 200 staff – announced that it had acquired customer data platform Tagga, and was planning to evolve its products over the next quarter to include machine-learning recommendations and data and analytics in a simplified format for clients. Sexy is fleeting; classic never goes out of style.
Atlassian founders, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar.
ATL ASSIAN
From a $10,000 credit card debt to a $US10 billion juggernaut, convention has seldom played a role in this software company’s rise and rise.
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t’s not often easy to reduce the sum of a company’s success to the type of motto one might find in an Instagram feed, but in Atlassian’s case, a safe bet would be: “When you’re in the middle of a gold rush, sell shovels.” Founding a software company that develops cloud-based products for software developers, project managers, and content management all the way back in 2002, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, the gentlemen behind this Australian technology darling,
have been spruiking shovels ever since, taking their little start-up to a juggernaut valued at over $US10 billion. At the heart of their success perhaps is their rags to riches story which initially saw the then 22-year-old university students apply for a credit card with a $10,000 limit to fund the company, before committing to bootstrapping it themselves for several years. The way Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar tell it, they founded the company at a time when many investors had lost confidence in internet companies. Patience eventually paid off; in 2010, Atlassian made headlines worldwide when it accepted a substantial capital injection – a none-too-shabby $US60 million from Accel partners, which was reported to be the US
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First was the idea that this major tech company with a large American client base could be based somewhere as remote as Australia.
venture fund’s largest ever investment in a software company at the time. Not only that, but Atlassian also managed to pick up current president Jay Simons, then a potential investor from Plumtree Software. How did this juggernaut fly under the radar for so long? Although their product was strong, many weren’t so convinced that the business model Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar had created was viable. First was the idea that this major tech company with a large American client base could be based somewhere as remote as Australia (they now have offices in San Francisco and Austin, yet its headquarters remain in Sydney). The second was Atlassian’s decision to have no sales staff, preferring to knock what they would be paying in salaries and commissions off their product purchase price, and aiming to sell ten times more copies directly on their site in the same time it would take a person to sell them. As Cannon-Brookes had admitted previously, their vision prevented many from joining the company, advising them or funding them because it ‘made no sense to them.’ It hasn’t hurt the bottom line, and today, Atlassian employs over 1,000 staff – not a single one of them in sales. Today, the future has never looked so bright for the Atlassian crew. The company – which went public in a well-received IPO in 2015 – sells its software into more than 140 countries, and is on track to exceed $1 billion in revenue for the first time in 2018. However mind-boggling the idea may seem, there are still plenty of opportunities for growth left, with the company acquiring Trello early in 2017 and launching Stride, a web chat alternative to Slack soon afterward. They’re not in it for the money (the co-founders topped the latest BRW Young Rich list with a combined net worth of $6.08 billion); you get the feeling it’s all about the passion for what they do. 20 / Quest KUDOS
Xero founder, Rod Drury.
XERO
Turning accountants into rock stars? This New Zealand company is doing it, and they’re laughing right along with us (all the way to the bank)
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ention the word ‘Xero’ to someone who works in finance or accounting, and there’s every chance they’ll scream like a teenager at a Rihanna concert. “Oh My GOD, Xero has changed my life!” Hmm, yes, but the publicly listed online accounting software company – founded in 2006 by former auditor-turned-IT consultant Rod Drury – appears to have changed a lot of lives. At last count, it has over one million paying subscribers in over 180 countries and its annualised committed monthly revenue recently hit the $NZD360 million mark. But then there’s a good chance Drury, who once penned an article titled, ‘First Accounting Became Beautiful, Now It’s Going to be Magical,’ always knew the ‘mathematical beauty and elegance’ of the double-entry accounting system would win fans the world over – he just didn’t realise how many. The way Drury tells it, he knew that accounting online would eventually become highly interactive, with every number clickable; blurring the
Trent Innes, Managing Director of Xero Australia.
line between reporting and the task user interface. But although he tinkered on early online accounting software in his home office, he knew he couldn’t raise the substantial capital required to launch an accounting software company. Putting the idea on ice, he instead started an email archiving company, AfterMail, quickly growing it into a major success story before selling it to US tech firm Quest Software after two years for $NZD65 million. Finally, Drury had the time – and more importantly, the funds – to turn his attention back to his first love. The idea for Xero was simple: Drury and his team would develop a cloud accounting platform with the first multi-perspective general ledger – meaning software would be stored and delivered over the internet rather than installed on individual computers. At a time when most small businesses would have been petrified at the idea of keeping their financial information on the public internet, this was their first challenge to overcome. The second? Drury’s insistence that the company is publicly listed from day dot. Explaining his decision, Drury has said the move inspired the then team of 14 to work with ‘incredible discipline, incredible urgency and incredible capability,’ and prevented the kind of mistakes
private companies feel at leisure to make. Today $NZD474 million has been invested in the company so far (most notably from Drury’s former competitor, Craig Winkler, co-founder of MYOB who invested $NZD18 million and became Xero’s second-biggest shareholder), yet the company remains a growth-first venture, not having posted a single dollar of profit along the way. The proof is in the pudding, yet Trent Innes, Managing Director of Xero Australia, is reflective when asked what’s driven his company’s success. “From the very beginning, we focused on building a global platform that allowed small businesses to connect digitally – to each other, to accountants and bookkeepers, to their banks – and access this anywhere, anytime on any device so that small business can now truly looks and act like a big business through technology,” he says. “Additionally, Xero has always had a relentless focus on improving the product driven by the needs of our customers.” Currently mapping out what the next generation of accounting look like (“And working hard to create them looking at artificial intelligence and machine learning to create code-free accounting,” adds Innes), it seems Xero might remain rock stars for some time yet. Quest KUDOS / 21
WELL READ
ILLUSTRATION NOW! FASHION Taschen From the hand-drawn to the computer-modeled, this guide provides an in-depth exploration of clothing illustration and presents 90 contemporary artists who have breathed life into their creations, using just the fluidity of lines or starkness of tones. Drawings are interspersed by commentary and praise from renowned experts and icons in the field of fashion, including Valentino, Maison Martin Margiela, Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Around the World in 125 Years. Asia and Oceania. This book is the ultimate voyage through the magazine’s archives of its Eastern travels. Rugged terrains, sprawling cities, wonderful wildlife, unbelievable landscapes, evocative portraits, and social documentary all feature in this epic photographic tribute to the amazing Asia & Oceania. 22 / Quest KUDOS
BLIND SPOTS Bec Brideson Women offer a lucrative $28 trillion-dollar market, yet they’re still massively ignored. Gender intelligence pioneer Bec Brideson explores the female economy and outlines the definitive methodology and business transformation required to acquire and retain the new lucrative female consumer.
Business Matters The Business of Portfolio Management Iain Fraser Iain Fraser outlines how to improve business value by driving performance, speeding up, and reducing waste. The book offers keys to adopting a new approach to business via portfolio management that boosts organizational value.
Why Purpose Matters THE NY T E XPLORER: BEACHES, ISL ANDS AND COASTS Barbara Ireland Whether it’s a chocolate tour of the Caribbean or a swim to the tiny monastery island on Italy’s Lago d’Orta, dive in and share the discoveries of The NYT Explorer. These 25 dream trips feature postcard-perfect photography, and useful information to help you on your way to these places where water rolls up to meet land.
ANDY WARHOL. POL AROIDS Richard B Woodward and Reuel Golden Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book reveals hundreds of instant pictures by the artist. From self-portraits to still lives, anonymous nudes to New York high society, from Cabbage Patch dolls to Dolly Parton, Keith Haring to Audrey Hepburn, these impromptu images offer a unique record of the Pop Art maestro’s world.
Nicholas Barnett and Dr Rodney Howard Why Purpose Matters is a practical guide to understanding the value of purpose and outlines the leadership commitment needed to embed it into your culture and make it a new way of organisational life.
Integrate John Drury With ever increasing workloads, many of us fail to manage the boundaries between our professional and personal lives. Integrate provides a practical methodology that enables high achievers to pursue professional goals without neglecting their personal lives. Quest KUDOS / 23
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BITCOIN What’s it all about and is the bubble about to burst?
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With China shutting down bitcoin exchanges and the CEO of JP Morgan calling it a ‘fraud,’ Rosamund Urwin investigates the cryptocurrency.
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he world seems divided over bitcoin. Some herald it as a ‘monetary revolution’; others decry it as a boom about to go bust. Earlier this month, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan in London, declared the currency a ‘fraud,’ arguing that it should only appeal ‘if you were in North Korea… a drug dealer or a murderer’. At the Barclays’ financial conference in New York, he said, ‘If we had a trader who traded bitcoin, I’d fire him in a second,’ sending bitcoin’s price down six percent. He proclaimed it ‘worse than tulip bulbs,’ a reference to the tulip mania in the Dutch golden age. Meanwhile, Chinese regulators have ordered all-digital currency exchanges to close and banned fundraising through initial coin offerings (ICOs). The central bank warned that cryptocurrencies are being used ‘as a tool in criminal activities such as money-laundering and drug-trafficking’. Could the most famous cryptocurrency be headed for a crash? The likes of Dimon arguably have a vested interest in bitcoin failing. ‘As the boss of one of the biggest banks in the world, why would he like anything that reduced his control over the money supply?’ says one hedge fund manager and bitcoin fan. A further concern is how in vogue bitcoin is. In the late Nineties, before the dotcom crash, celebrities piled into internet start-ups that mostly ended up going bust. Now, Paris Hilton is taking part in a fundraising for digital token LydianCoin, while bra baroness Michelle Mone has said she would accept bitcoin as payment for lavish Dubai flats. Outside the financial world, bitcoin remains little understood. Notably, Google’s auto-complete suggestions for ‘is bitcoin...?’ are ‘safe’ and ‘legal.’ What makes people pay attention, though,
are headlines like this: ‘If you bought $100 of bitcoin seven years ago, you’d be sitting on $72.9 million now’. So what exactly is this magical money tree? Bitcoin is the grandaddy of thousands of other cryptocurrencies. It was released in 2009 by an individual under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Speculation abounds about who he is — the late computer developer Hal Finney and computer scientist Nick Szabo were touted as possibilities, though both denied it. It’s a virtual payment network, not unlike Paypal, except with no owner. Instead, computers across the globe process transactions and keep a shared ledger (a ‘blockchain’) that enables different contracts to occur. It has its own currency, bitcoin, the unit in which the network carries out transactions. Getting your hands on bitcoin is relatively straightforward: you can buy them on an exchange, as you would any other currency (one is worth around AUD$9024 at the time we went to press), or you could accept them for goods and services. But you can also ‘mine’ new ones — like mining gold, except instead of digging it out of the ground, you are rewarded with bitcoins by using your computer to verify other bitcoin transactions. With bitcoin, the money supply is controlled by the computers. That means it doesn’t require a central bank, so there’s no money being printed (hence the Twitter meme with the Queen looking irked: ‘Tried Bitcoin. Didn’t have my face on it’). That prize keeps shrinking, meaning there’s a finite supply. Circulation is limited to 21 million by 2140, although each one can be subdivided into millions of pieces. Every bitcoin is accounted for in a ledger, so you cannot get a counterfeit. ➔ Quest KUDOS / 25
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You spend them in the same way you would spend other currencies. Contrary to perception, bitcoins are traceable — you can see which internet addresses every bitcoin has been at — but the owners’ names are encrypted. As of 2015, 100,000 vendors accepted bitcoin as payment. The irony of the debate over a bubble is that bitcoin was born just six weeks after Lehman Brothers went bust, as people searched for an alternative to the existing monetary system. It had its roots in the Julian Assange-backed ‘cypherpunks’ movement of the Nineties, in which activists argued the internet would create a new world outside the nationstate. The conversation had died down until the financial crisis resurrected it. The first transaction came in 2010 when computer programmer Laszlo Hanyecz persuaded someone to accept 10,000 bitcoins he’d ‘mined’ in exchange for two pizzas. It came to be embraced by libertarians as a way, like gold, to store wealth. Silicon Valley then joined the bitcoin crypto-rush, interested both in the technology and its potential as a way to raise cash. Bitcoin has, however, been hit by crisis and scandal. It first entered mainstream consciousness as the currency of the Silk Road, the online black market where drugs were sold. Two major bitcoin names have also ended up in court. Charlie Shrem, who set up Bitinstant (in which the Winklevoss twins invested), went to prison after being convicted of aiding and abetting an unlicensed money transmitting business, a charge related to the Silk Road. Meanwhile, Mark Karpelès, former head of what was once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, Mt Gox, was charged in Tokyo with embezzlement and data manipulation after Mt Gox collapsed in 2014. ‘I reject the idea that [cryptocurrencies] are only used by criminals and terrorists,’ says Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of BitMEX, a bitcoin derivatives exchange based in Hong 26 / Quest KUDOS
Kong. ‘The real currencies that finance terrorism and crime are the dollar and the euro. The cryptocurrency movement will only expand. It is a digital currency version of “I don’t trust the government”; the analog version being gold.’ It has emerged that even JP Morgan has routed customer orders for bitcoin-related instruments, although the bank does not take positions on this with its own cash.
UNDERSTANDING ICOS The main worry about bitcoin is initial coin offerings (or ICOs) becoming the latest financial fad. ICOs are where ‘tokens’ in a new digital currency that promise future goods and services are sold as a way for a company to raise cash. This is where it starts to look like a bubble. Ethereum is a cryptocurrency, but also a platform for apps, allowing developers to sell a stake in the app by issuing tokens with ICOs. In June, one raised USD$30,000 in half an hour; purchasers were buying a token called ‘F***’ (described as ‘a social cryptocurrency that aims to help everyone around the world ‘give a F***’).
‘Governments have reason to fear bitcoin. It removes the role of government as the central issuer of money.’
Scammers can use blockchain technology to create ICOs that perhaps look promising but are essentially flimflam. More than AUD$2.2 billion has been raised in ICOs this year. Where is the money coming from? Analysts say it is often from those who bought bitcoin on the cheap some years ago and are now millionaires. A UK watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, warned that anyone thinking of buying coins in an ICO should only do so if they are prepared to lose everything. One banker likened it to the South Sea Bubble of the 1700s, where a company bought up the rights to trade in the South Seas, then sold shares in its company which eventually become worthless.
So what’s the problem with bitcoin? ‘The main issue is that established currencies have a legal footing in each country whereas bitcoin doesn’t,’ says an Australian banker who asked not to be named. ‘Governments can clamp down on trading in it, like in China, saying it is circumventing capital controls.’ Governments have reason to fear bitcoin. It removes the role of government as the central issuer of money — and guarantor that money is real. The banker continued: ‘There’s a huge amount of power in controlling the money supply, such as using quantitative easing to pump cash into the economy. All the Western economies are based on an ever-increasing money supply. Bitcoin has a fixed supply of currency. If a government can’t print more money, it can’t run a budget deficit.’ This is why China — where most of the biggest bitcoin miners are — has cracked down heavily on cryptocurrencies. ‘China is afraid of anything it can’t control,’ Hayes explains. ‘But it can’t stop people using bitcoin — you can’t shut off the internet.’ Bitcoin’s fans argue it will have the most profound uses in countries where the money system is broken, such as in Zimbabwe and Venezuela. It could also benefit the 2.5 billion adults who don’t have bank accounts and enable immigrants to send remittances home more cheaply than the traditional banks do. As such, fans believe bitcoin could help create an equal world. ‘In the region we work in — emerging economies — banks don’t provide services for the majority,’ says Hayes. ‘Bitcoin allows people to invest, to participate in a global phenomenon.’ When the central bank of Cyprus seized savings, citizens downloaded bitcoin apps on their phones. Others believe Brexit could make bitcoin take off in Britain. Still, the technology is likely to become more sophisticated, ironing out flaws and making a future cryptocurrency viable — a bitcoin 2.0. If there is a crash, something sustainable could emerge from the wreckage. Quest KUDOS / 27
CAREER HIGH
THE RISE !AND RISE" OF THE ‘SLASHIE’ As the numbers of workers opting out of a linear career path increase, Dilvin Yasa speaks to some of those finding career fulfilment through greater diversity.
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ith her pink hair and glittery wings, it’s difficult to imagine Poppy Stoker poring over a report encapsulating the darkest side of the human condition. When she’s not entertaining children as her alter ego Fairy Poppilina at bookshops, libraries, and parties, that’s exactly what this Forensic and Medico-Legal Psychological Report Writer can be found doing. “I love what I do; the job marries my fascination with human behaviour with my passion for words and writing, and I love reading about a criminal’s backstory,” she explains. “But I felt the need to balance the vicarious trauma I experience through the report writing with something that allowed me to escape to my ‘happy place’ and along came Fairy Poppilina.”
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Although her two jobs might be a little extreme, Stoker is what is referred to as a ‘slashie’ – someone who’s taken on more than one role at a time to create a ‘career portfolio’ rather than follow the traditional and altogether linear path generations before us have tread. Stoker is far from alone in doing this; according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 6.1% of Australian workers now work two jobs, while a study by global freelancing platform Upwork found that 4.1 million Australians undertook some freelance work last year. While for some the choice to take on an extra role is undertaken out of financial necessity, for most it’s about refusing the age-old convention of attending university, finding a solid job with a quality firm and working your way up through
Forensic report writer and entertainer, Poppy Stoker.
the ranks until you retire. Instead ‘slashies’ are embracing roles that fit in with their many different passions. Of course, sometimes you discover your passions as you amble along, Stoker says as she outlines a straightforward career trajectory of working as an international sales manager for Greyhound Buses before she began to write forensic reports for her clinical and forensic psychologist husband Peter. “I wrote the first report because I felt I could produce something that presented better but found I relished the job, and so I continued with it,” she says. Soon a desire to introduce a little light (and glitter) to counteract the dark surfaced. Fortunately, the solution came to Stoker soon after a performer she’d hired for her daughter’s birthday party gave what she calls a ‘lacklustre’ performance. “That was when I knew that I could take my passion for children’s literature and imaginary ideas and carve out a role in the form of a fairy children’s performer.” Since Fairy Poppilina’s inception in 2008, Stoker has been busy balancing the two roles – a unique lifestyle she says comes with its benefits and challenges. “Writing psychological reports
HR Consultancy Director and wine tasting company owner, Andy Pope.
is largely an introverted, back office type of role, while Fairy Poppilina is an extroverted, front of the coalmine type of work and it’s a joy to experience both,” she says. “But I have to admit it can be challenging looking at a piece of cardboard on the floor while writing a report and just wanting to churn out ten mermaid tail silhouettes.”
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toker’s mermaid situation might indeed be unique, but Andy Pope, Director of performance management & HR Consultancy, Pope & Co Consulting and Co-Founder of wine tasting company, The Tasting Glass has experience of the ‘slashie’ phenomenon on both a professional and a personal level and says the movement is here to stay. “On the whole, we’re seeing shorter average role tenures and an increasingly fluid market for talent including the growing migration of talent from traditional larger firms to smaller businesses and start-ups,” he says with his HR hat on. “Many second jobs are a direct result of technology that didn’t exist ten or even five years ago such as Uber and Airtasker, and of course the rise of the ‘gig economy’ and hiring diverse talent is more desirable and acceptable than it was a decade ago.”
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t’s certainly true of Elle-May Michael, a marketing and communications manager at a charity fundraising company who bought into a gallery a couple of years ago. Having started with the charity as a telemarketer straight after high school, Michael says she was bored of doing the ‘same old thing’ and looking for a change of pace when she heard about the sale of a gallery she was familiar with. “It sounded like a great way of injecting some excitement into my life, so I made contact with the owner, and now I’m also the curator and director of in.cube8r gallery.” Talking about the ‘bright pink wonderland’ of her second work space, Michael is enthusiastic as she explains how the space is filled with glass cubicles and spaces artists can rent out for as little as $25 a week to exhibit their work to the public. “I’ve always loved using my skills to help non-profits, but there’s a real thrill that I get from using my communications, marketing.” 30 / Quest KUDOS
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Pope began his career in human resources in a Big Four professional services firm in the UK and continued along the same vein here in Australia until he launched his HR consultancy mid-2017. “I wanted to bring an entrepreneurial approach to HR and make a difference to how people enjoyed their jobs and finding meaning in what they do,” he says of setting up his own business. It wasn’t the only business Pope set up; in 2015; he’d also launched his wine tasting business – an interest that developed one night after he attended a wine tasting night during his university days. “At the time I set up the [wine tasting] business, it was my priority, but slowly the HR side has become more prevalent,” he says of the balance. “Obviously I have to remain super-organised and leverage any opportunities between both businesses, but having the two roles works because wine tastings happen later in the day, which leaves a good part of it available for consulting work.” Not only has he learned to prioritise effectively, he says his lifestyle helps him maintain high levels of productivity. “Moreover, since I’m following my passions, it’s a move that’s led to self-fulfillment and balance, and I would say that’s true of most slashies.”
Marketing manager and gallery owner, Elle-May Michael.
Today Michael spends her time travelling between her Melbourne gallery and her office in Sydney where she still works for the charity parttime – a lifestyle she says has its pros and cons. “It can be hard to turn off from one job and focus on the other, but travelling interstate one week each month gives me a break from being a small business owner, which can be quite isolating at times.” Tiring yes, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. “Oh no, working the two jobs means I get to meet so many great people from different walks of life,” she says.
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t would be remiss of us to talk about ‘slashie’ life without touching on the personal sacrifices demanded of those in the trenches of course – of which there appears to be plenty. “There are no days off, and I never stop,” admits Dr Kate Evans, who holds not two, but three major roles – as a veterinarian and owner of Bondi Vet Hospital, a Non-Executive Director of CannPal, and founder of gifting business Thankly, which helps people send handwritten cards and appreciation gifts in less than five minutes from their phones or computers. “I work when everyone else is out having a good time, and I have no children which I’m okay with, but I get up in the morning and feel
Vet and Bondi Vet Hospital owner, Director and gifting business owner, Dr. Kate Evans. Quest Franchisee and cancer charity founder, Mark O’Shea, second from left
like I’m off to have an adventure – not just go to work,” she says, adding that not having enough time to fit in everything she wants to do can also be a challenge. “My purpose is to show people that ordinary people can do extraordinary things with a bit of grit and vision.” Dr. Adams is doing just that. Her company Thankly which she was inspired to create after realising she was forever standing at the post office to send thank you cards and gifts to people she’d met networking. Today, Dr. Adams says she puts in 3.5 days at her vet clinic, 3.5 days at Thankly, and somewhere in between the two ‘biggies’, she squeezes in all the other projects. “My coach says I’m like a goat in that I chew a little bit of this and a little bit of that,” the 35-year-old says. “It’s an analogy that’s certainly very true of the way I live my life.” Perhaps it’s true of most ‘slashies’?
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nd last but not least are those who second ‘jobs’ fall into their laps unexpectedly, as was the case with Mark O’Shea, the franchisee of Quest Bundoora Apartment Hotel who found himself setting up the charity Team Kill Cancer in 2014 with wife Ky and close friends Nathan and Cathy Williams after Nathan’s mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. “We knew we
couldn’t do anything about the diagnosis, he says. “So we began working together to help our local community members by assisting and supporting those suffering from or affected by cancer.” For the couple with a young family, who up until that point had enjoyed a career with Quest for nine years, the new juggle was a shock, O’Shea admits. “Fortunately we have a great team behind us that allows us some flexibility to do Team Kill Cancer which can take up to 15 – 20 hours a week, shared by all four of us,” he says. “But of course this workload increases in the lead-up to our fundraisers.” The fundraisers he speaks of – two of which are held every year – have raised over $140,000 thus far and since the charity was launched, over 100 people have received gifts and support from Team Kill Cancer, from groceries and fuel cards to overseas holidays and weekend adventures. While O’Shea insists that while Quest remains their number one priority, he does admit there’s a great benefit to being a slashie with a difference. “We all need to be pushed from time to time to stay motivated and work to our full potential, but sometimes it’s about getting involved with the community around you,” he says. “And you can’t really put a price on that.” Quest KUDOS / 31
HIDDEN GEMS Regional Western Australia is full of hidden gems. Beverly Ligman uncovers Bunbury, Mandurah, and Kalgoorlie.
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hen you’re away on business, often there’s not a lot of time to get to know a place. But sometimes you need some local knowledge to take a client out to lunch or dinner, or you have a spare hour or two to do some exploring. With that in mind, we’ve done the legwork for you to find some of the best-kept secrets in three of the biggest regional centres in Western Australia.
BUNBURY Bunbury is an easy two-hour drive from Perth down the Forrest Highway, it’s a straight line, so if you’re flying into Perth, hiring a car is the easiest way to get there.
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noon drink with a client, you can’t go past the oldworld charm of The Rose Hotel, right on the main street and with a glorious façade that you can’t miss. The Rose Hotel, 27 Wellington Street
Lunch or dinner? Café OneForty is one of the best places in Bunbury to have a bite to eat, plus they make seriously good coffee. It’s understated yet funky vibe makes it the perfect place to have lunch or dinner, the food is great, as are the cocktails. Owners Kristy & Alex Garbelini have made this place their own. Café OneForty, 140 Victoria Street
If something a bit fancier is in order, then you can’t go past VAT2. Right on the waterfront at Koombana Bay, this venue has everything you need to impress a client including a great wine list. They also do a cracking breakfast should you need to
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start your day early with all the Zen of looking out across the water. VAT2, 2-4 Jetty Road
Downtime One of the best things to do in Bunbury if you have an hour or so of downtime is to take a stroll along its famous Back Beach. Start at Marlston Hill and work your way back, then grab a coffee at the Back Beach Café, stop and take in the moment. There’s also a cool ‘collective’ movement happening in Bunbury with artists, innovators and shop owners sharing spaces in the main street to make use of some of Bunbury’s more beautiful old buildings such as Bill Brown & Co. There’s even a ‘co-working’ space here if you feel like being amongst the people while you get the job done.
QUEST BUNBURY questbunbury.com.au Quest Bunbury is just a 10-minute walk to the town centre and its many cafes and restaurants. Guests have easy access from the hotel to surrounding attractions including the internationally acclaimed Dolphin Discovery Centre, the Ferguson Valley, Margaret River and Busselton. The hotel offers an outdoor swimming pool and barbeque area, on-site car parking and a choice of studio, one, two and three bedroom apartments. ➔ Quest KUDOS / 33
MANDURAH Right on the ocean and just an hour or so drive from Perth, Mandurah has plenty to see and do if you’re there for the day. A redevelopment of the waterfront has seen it gain some great food and wine offerings too.
Wine time If you fancy a wine, why not go to an actual winery? Cape Bouvard is a boutique winery and brewery 20 minutes drive from the centre of Mandurah. Its idyllic setting means you can sit outside among the vines and enjoy a leisurely lunch with a client and if wine’s not your thing work your way through their made on the premises range of Thorny Devil craft beers. Cape Bouvard, 185 Clifton Downs Road, Herron
Cicerellos is a fish and chip institution in WA, and the Mandurah branch is no exception. Set right on the water with fabulous views over the Mandurah Estuary you’ll find cheap, delicious seafood with a glass of wine. Perfect as the sun goes down. Ciccerellos, 73 Mandurah Terrace 34 / Quest KUDOS
Water baby If you love your watersports and you have a few hours to spare, Mandurah is the place to be. You can hire a jet-ski or SUP (Stand Up Paddleboard) by the hour and see Mandurah from the water as you paddle or cruise around to your heart’s content. Stag Watersports & Jetski Hire, Avon Ct & Estuary Road, Bouvard, 0404 463 511; Mandurah Stand-Up Paddle Hire, Keith Holmes Reserve
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If you happen to find yourself in Mandurah in March, there’s a fantastic annual seafood festival called the Mandurah Crab Fest. Bigger and better every year the festival takes place on the Mandurah foreshore and is a celebration of the oh-so-tasty and local to its waters Blue Manna Crab.
Quest Mandurah is situated on Mandurah’s canals close to the heart of the town centre and Mandurah Foreshore. Nearby is the Performing Arts Centre, cinemas, shopping centres and Dolphin Discovery Cruises. Guests enjoy the spacious apartments on offer, as well as the outdoor heated swimming pool and spa and secure car parking.
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K ALGOORLIE If you’ve heard of Paddy Hannan and the Goldrush that shaped Western Australia in the 1890s, then you might just know where Kalgoorlie-Boulder is. For the uninitiated, ‘Kal’ to the locals is approx. 6.5 hours driving time inland from Perth, in the heart of mining country and has some seriously salubrious attractions to explore.
Bars aplenty There are about 25 pubs in Kalgoorlie, not bad when you consider the stretch of the city is only 67 square kilometres long, so there is a pub on every corner and plenty of choice to entertain clients. Paddy’s Ale House is one of a long list of pubs in Kalgoorlie that you should visit if you want to get a feel for the place. An Irish pub, there’s Guinness on tap (obviously), a long list of beers and it’s a popular haunt for the locals. Paddy’s Ale House, 35 Hannan Street
Delve into History Also in Kalgoorlie (Hannan St) is the Museum of the Goldfields. The impressive Ivanhoe-mine head frame marks this excellent museum’s entrance. Visitors can take the lift for a terrific view over the city. An underground vault displays giant nuggets and gold bars, and there’s also a fantastic collection of trade-union banners. The Golden Mile Loopline Railway Museum, located in the old Boulder City Station, the only surviving station on the Loopline Railway which began operation in 1897. The late 1800s gold rush saw the Golden Mile Loopline Railway - from Kalgoorlie to Boulder, become one of the busiest stretches of track in the southern hemisphere. During its peak in the gold rush, more than 100 steam trains moved through the station each day. The Loopline City Tram is a hop-on, hop-off experience that offers a guided tour of Boulder. The Super Pit If you’ve never seen one, it is worth doing a Super Pit tour while you’re in town. Kalgoorlie is the home of gold mining in WA and Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) opens it up daily for tours. It is a sight to behold, at 600 metres deep and producing 700,000 ounces of gold each year. kalgoorlietours.com
QUEST YELVERTON K ALGOORLIE questkalgoorlie.com.au A true gem in the Kalgoorlie accommodation market, Quest Yelverton Kalgoorlie provides an oasis for business and leisure travellers alike, with studio, one and two bedroom apartments available. A swimming pool and on-site conference facilities are added benefits. The apartment hotel is walking distance from the main shopping centre, Goldfields Arts Centre and the Interstate Coach Terminal and rail station. Quest KUDOS / 35
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hen Captain James Cook anchored the Endeavour off New Zealand’s northern coast in 1769, he found ‘a bay of plenty’ with an abundance of food supplies from both land and sea. The Bay continues to provide an abundance of good food and plenty of activities to take advantage of the natural beauty and diversity. Tauranga is the Bay of Plenty’s largest city, and the sunny coastal city – which lays claim to being one of New Zealand’s sunniest cities – has plenty of galleries, shops, and dining options, along with marine adventures aplenty, with sailing, fishing and dolphin watching all popular. Just 15 minutes from Tauranga city centre you’ll find Lake McLaren where you can take guided kayak tours, paddling metres from birdlife and alongside sheer cliffs into the Managapapa canyon. Come evening, the glow worms come out, offering the chance to paddle by the light of their constellations.
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Head to the Papamoa Hills, about 20 minutes from Tauranga city centre, for a walk with great views away from the crowds. If it’s food you’re after, you’ll find plenty to choose from, particularly along The Strand which forms the city’s main hospitality area. Collar and Thai on Devonport Road is also a popular haunt. Mills Reef Winery and Restaurant is just a few minutes drive from Tauranga. The complex includes full winemaking and bottling facilities, two underground barrel cellars, an aged wine cellar and wine tasting facilities. Within the distinctive art deco building, you’ll also find a popular restaurant, with a menu it describes as ‘Antipodean/Pacific-rim style,' based on local produce. Not far from Mills Reef is Fernland Spa with its thermal mineral springs and hot pools which are popular with the locals and a lesser-known treat
Tourists on White Island and below Mills Reef Winery and Restaurant
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for tourists. The Spa is just five minutes drive from Tauranga and includes private thermal hot pools as well as the main communal pool. Massages are also available. The region also offers the opportunity to step back in time at The Elms | Te Papa Tauranga, one of the oldest heritage sites in New Zealand. A 10-minute stroll from Tauranga city centre, The Elms features Category 1 listed buildings including a Mission House and Library, nestled in one hectare of tranquil gardens. One must-do while you’re in the Bay is a trip to White Island, New Zealand’s only active marine volcano. While privately owned, the island is a scenic reserve and can be visited by launch from Whakatane in the eastern BoP or by helicopter from Rotorua, Tauranga or Whakatane. The island is a sight to behold, with the barren moonscape punctuated by roaring gas fumaroles,
bubbling mud and ground coloured brilliant yellow and orange by the sulfur. Gas masks and hard hats are de rigueur for a visit. Attempts to mine the island for sulfur have long since stopped, but the remains of the mining operations can still be seen today with the crumbling stone walls and steel beams providing an atmospheric photo opportunity. If you catch a boat to White Island, there’s also a good chance you’ll see dolphins and even whales along the way. Not far from Tauranga you’ll find Mt Maunganui, one of New Zealand’s most popular surf beaches. Head to ‘the Mount’ for a walk to the summit, 232m above sea level, which takes around 40 minutes, or take in the 3.4km base track which takes you around the extinct volcano. Both walks offer great harbour and ocean views, and if you’re lucky, you might even see a seal or two sunbathing on the rocks. Quest KUDOS / 37
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In summer an evening stroll along Pilot Bay and around the base track of the Mount watching the cruise ships leave port can’t be beat – especially when you can end the walk at one of the great eateries between Pilot Bay and Main Beach. At the base of the Mount, you’ll also find The Mount Hot Pools, New Zealand’s only salt water hot pools. If you’re looking for somewhere a little quieter than the Mount’s popular beaches, head to Papamoa Beach, about 11km from Tauranga city centre. For some cool refreshments, the Cider Factorie in Te Puna about 10 minutes from Tauranga city centre, offers a range of ciders on tap and in the bottle, along with wines and beers and a menu that includes tasting platters. The company’s ciders include traditional offerings, ‘Kiwi’-style ciders – including the very ‘Kiwi’ feijoa apple cider, Methode Traditionelle ciders and specialty ciders including the Ice Cider which is created using cryo-concentration which freezes the fresh juice at -20C to concentrate the natural sugars and flavours.
ROTORUA The lakeside city of Rotorua is a natural thermal wonderland, with geysers, bubbling mud pools, geothermal springs, alongside lakes and lush forests. It’s arguably New Zealand’s Maori cultural capital, with plenty of opportunities to immerse yourself in the culture, learning traditional flax weaving, taking in a performance or eating a traditional geothermal hangi, pulled straight out of the steaming ground. At Whakarewarewa Living Maori Village you can learn how geothermal energy is used in daily life for cooking, bathing, and heating. Fifteen minutes from Rotorua city, you’ll find a stark reminder of the power of nature at the Buried Village of Te Wairoa. The village, along with the nearby Pink and White Terraces –deemed the eighth wonder of the natural world – were destroyed by the 1886 Mt Tarawera eruption which buried the village under two metres of volcanic material. 38 / Quest KUDOS
Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley, Rotorua
Today, visitors can wander the 12-acre archaeological site, which includes excavated whare (houses) and the Rotomahana Hotel, which collapsed under the weight of the mud and ash which rained down during the sudden, violent eruption. The village also has a museum and scenic bush trails. Rotorua is also a mecca for mountain biking, with the Redwood Forest one of the top options. But the Redwood Forest also has another big attraction now, with the Redwood Treewalk – a 553m long walkway 12m above the forest floor, providing a bird’s eye view of the forest giants. The region’s geothermal activity also offers plenty of opportunities for pampering in the many hot pools. Or head to Hells Gate for a geothermal walk and mud bath and spa. The Polynesian Spa on the shores of Lake Rotorua in the heart of Rotorua city is another popular spa option – albeit one that gets busy when the tour buses roll in.
Italian Renaissance Garden in Hamilton Gardens
Cafes and restaurants are abundant in this tourist town. Capers on Eruera Street is an award-winning café – most recently named New Zealand Café of the Year – or for a unique experience go to the Fat Dog on Arawa Street. Be warned, the funky eatery is something of a local institution and is always busy. The lake end of Tutanekai Street is known locally as Eat Street, and the Thursday night market, also on Tutanekai Street, has a wide range of cuisine to choose from including Croatian, Indian, French and Italian, along with local kai (food). For dinner with a view, jump on the gondola and head up to the Skylink Rotorua complex. By day, you can luge, mountain bike, zipline, sky swing, wander nature trails or enjoy a wine tasting or meal at the café or restaurant. Come nightfall Stratosfare Restaurant offers up not just quality cuisine, but views to die for. Cap off the evening with a guided astronomy tour.
HAMILTON Hamilton Gardens is an often overlooked place to visit. The ‘museum for gardens,' provides a window into different civilisations, their arts, beliefs, and lifestyles, from a peaceful Sung Dynasty Chinese Scholar’s garden to an Italian Renaissance garden. No visit to Hamilton would be complete without a trip on the mighty Waikato River, and cruises leave from the jetty at Hamilton Gardens. New Zealand’s longest river, the Waikato runs 425km, starting its journey on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu high in the central North Island volcanic zone and draining into Lake Taupo then through several towns before reaching the Tasman Sea at Port Waikato. The river is a popular spot for kayaking, boating, rowing and trout fishing, while its banks are home to some walking and cycling tracks. Quest KUDOS / 39
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On the banks of the Waikato in Hamilton, you’ll find Waikato Museum, which includes more than 28,000 objects, including a substantial Maori taonga (treasure) collection. Around the city, you’ll also find public art and sculptures, including Weta Workshop’s life-size cast bronze sculpture of The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s Riff Raff – tribute to the show’s creator, Richard O’Brien, who spent some of his childhood in Hamilton. The sculpture is in Embassy Park on the banks of the Waikato. In late 2016 O’Brien returned to the park – where he once viewed movies at the Embassy Theatre – to officially open Rocky Horror themed public toilets in a bright red converted shipping container. The region is home to a subterranean maze of caves and underground sink holes carved out of the soft limestone rock and offers a range of activities from walking and boat tours to blackwater rafting, abseiling and even walking and ziplining 80m up in the roof of The Window cavern. The system includes the Waitomo Glowworm Caves, about an hour out of Hamilton, which are New Zealand’s most famous glowworm caves. Both walking and boat tours of the caves are available, and you can also go black water rafting – abseiling, crawling, swimming and floating through the cave on rubber tubes while admiring the starry displays of the tiny living lights of the Arachnocampa Luminosa glowworm above. For Lord of the Rings fans, Matamata, about 50 minutes drive from Hamilton, is home to the Hobbiton Movie Set. Daily tours are available, taking in the 1,250 sheep farm in the heart of the Waikato, and including a guided tour through the 12-acre set used in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. View the Hobbit holes, and swing by The Shire’s Green Dragon Inn for a drink from the Hobbit Southfarthing range, which includes two ales, an apple cider, and the non-alcoholic Frogmorton Ginger Beer. At Waharoa, near Matamata, you’ll also find the Kaimai Cheese Factory, which also includes a great café. 40 / Quest KUDOS
Tandem free fall sky diving with 15,000 feet at Lake Taupo
TAUPO Lake Taupo in the central North Island is the largest freshwater lake in Australasia, at around the size of Singapore. The result of a massive volcanic eruption, Taupo continues the region’s love of outdoor pursuits. Just north of Lake Taupo is the Huka Falls with 220,000 litres of water crashing over the 11m waterfall every second. The falls, which are on the Waikato River, provide a popular backdrop for activities including bike and walking tracks and jet boat rides to the base of the falls. If that’s not enough of an adrenalin rush, Taupo claims to be the skydiving capital of the world, with more than 30,000 jumps a year. For something a little more relaxing, there’s also 400 foot and 800-foot parasailing on Lake Taupo.
Quest Properties QUEST TAUPO questtaupo.co.nz Quest Taupo is conveniently located near Taupo Nui-A-Tia College, Tauhara Golf Course, Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, the entrance to the Waikato River, Great Lake Taupo and Spa Thermal Park.
QUEST ROTORUA CENTRAL questrotoruacentral.co.nz Centrally located in the Rotorua city centre, Quest Rotorua Central a short walk to shopping and restaurant precincts, Rotorua Convention Centre, the world-famous Polynesia Spa, Rotorua Museum, and the Energy Events Centre.
QUEST HAMILTON questhamilton.co.nz Centrally located and within walking distance to Centre Place shopping, Quest Hamilton is also close to Waikato Stadium, Sky City Hamilton, Seddon Park Cricket Ground, Claudelands Event Centre, and Waikato Museum. The world heritage site, Tongariro National Park , view over Lake Taupo.
QUEST ON WARD questonward.co.nz Also based around the lakefront is the Lake Taupo Hole in One challenge, something of a local institution with its challenge of hitting the ball 100 metres over the lake to a floating pontoon. For a more serious golf challenge, there’s the Jack Nicklaus designed Kinlock Club golf course, a par 72, 18 hole championship golf course. If you’re up for a challenge, Taupo is a good jumping off point for the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, one of the best one day walks in New Zealand – and possibly the world. The 19.4km tramp takes in dramatic landscapes, from the barren rock of the mountains to the Emerald Lakes, the Blue and Green lakes and the Red Crater. If you’re feeling energetic, you can take a side excursion up Mt Ngauruhoe. Shuttle buses operate from Taupo to the Tongariro Alpine Crossing.
Conveniently located in the heart of the Hamilton CBD nearby to Centre Place, the Casino, and the Hamilton entertainment and restaurant precinct. The University of Waikato is a short drive away.
QUEST ON DURHAM questondurham.co.nz Centrally located in Tauranga, Quest on Durham is located a short walk from the Strand restaurant and shopping precinct and 100m to the Tauranga Domain. The accommodation is only minutes from Memorial Park, Fernland Spa, and Mount Maunganui Main Beach. Quest KUDOS / 41
E X P L O R E LONDON
LONDON TOWN
Winsor Dobbin takes in the old and the new.
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rom the observation deck at The Shard, Western Europe’s tallest building, you can take in swathes of the capital, including many of its most famous landmarks. Dinner at ultra-chic Aqua Shard on the 31st floor, where poached Cornish sea bass will cost £42 and a char-grilled veal chop £44, is an experience. The restaurant is full of bright young things eating modern English food and hoping to be noticed. Many of them will have booked three months in advance. Later, perhaps, cocktails at Gong on the 52nd floor. Should you wish to dine at Aqua Shard on New Year’s Eve, it will cost you £395 per person. Officially opened in 2012, the Renzo Piano-designed Shard is a living, dynamic building, full of energy, and a symbol of modern Britain.
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London is a perfect study in old and new; the entrance to The Shard’s futuristic tower is right next to London Bridge Station – and across the road from Borough Market; one of the city’s oldest shopping emporiums. Gloriously ripe, runny Bries; crumbly Caerphilly; specialties from Emilia Romagna and Somerset. Fabulous fromages from around the world. How many gourmet cheese stalls does one street market need? Apparently at least a dozen. First opened in 1851 on its current site (and refurbished a decade ago) - Borough Market has a history that dates back 1,000 years. Its recent resurgence reflects the gentrification of Southwark and surrounding south-east London suburbs. The market is a place where both locals and
tourists come to connect, to share food and fun. Regarded as London’s most renowned food and drink market, it has featured in movies from Bridget Jones’s Diary to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and even Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The layout reflects its storied history, with a warren of passageways and open spaces; discoveries around every corner. The vibe is typically London, with traders exchanging banter with their regulars. Three Crown Square, the Market’s largest trading area, is devoted to fresh produce, while the spaces around the periphery offer an eclectic blend of foodstuffs and ready-to-eat meals (from traditional pie and mash and jellied eels to Caribbean soul food). London is a city in perpetual motion. One day a district (think parts of the East End and the Docklands, particularly) can be down at heel; the next day it can be upwardly mobile.
One of the world’s most visited cities, England’s buzzing capital has so much to offer any visitor, from magnificent history and culture to cuttingedge fashion, shopping, and food. From museums to football, pubs to parks, there is a surprise around every corner. No wonder the great writer Samuel Johnson said: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” The choice of major sports events like Wimbledon and events like the Chelsea Flower Show and music concerts is endless, or head to the Globe Theatre to enjoy Shakespearian plays presented just as they would have been in Johnson’s day, or see the latest West End hits. Old and new and a reminder you are in a 21st-century city with a history stretching back to the Romans.
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E X P L O R E LONDON
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Samuel Johnson
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herever you go in London, expect to see familiar sites from Big Ben to Trafalgar Square, St Paul’s Cathedral to Madame Tussaud’s waxworks gallery. Many famous movies and TV shows are filmed here each year – and guided tours are available visiting some of the most famous locations. Brit Movie Tours use a helicopter to fly over James Bond film locations including Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, and the O2 dome, where Pierce Brosnan’s Bond ended a memorable chase scene along the Thames in The World Is Not Enough. History buffs will enjoy the Tower of London and London Bridge, and good news for those on a budget is that many London landmarks are free to visit (enjoy the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham
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Palace), while others are available with discounted entry or special offers when using a London Pass. Get hold of a London Attractions Map to plot your journey. You can even enjoy British food nowadays. Fish and chips and steak and kidney puddings remain staples, and you can still find jellied eel stalls in the East End but sparked by widespread immigration over the past 50 years Britain now offers a fabulous choice of dining options. London has leaped to the top of the heap of the great gastronomic capitals with its world-class restaurants. Think chefs like Heston Blumenthal and Marco Pierre White, as well as Australia’s two Michelinstarred culinary superstar Brett Graham at The Ledbury in Notting Hill.
Pie and mash shop M.Manzes, in Islington, boasts that it offers “the same recipes today as were used in 1902”. But get there quick, there are rumours it is about to close after 106 years.
SUNDAY ROAST ! A BRITISH INSTITUTION
Top: Hixter Below: The Golden Hind
Many pubs serve a choice of roast meats: beef, pork, chicken, lamb, with all the trimmings: roast potatoes, vegetables, Yorkshire puddings, plenty of gravy, maybe some cauliflower cheese. Hixter, owned by renowned chef Mark Hix is the place to go to share a whole roast chicken or a cut of perfectly cooked beef and Yorkshire pudding supplement with Bloody Marys or Buck’s Fizz. Rules is London’s oldest restaurant, established in 1798 – a time when eating in restaurants was strictly for the wealthy. Little has changed (bookings are essential), and the menu is described by the tourist office as “straight out of Downton Abbey.” There’s a leaning towards wild game dishes, and the restaurant walls are heaving with mounted horns. Save room for the traditional golden syrup sponge pudding with custard.
HIGH DESSERTS There’s a multicultural food scene, buzzing markets, street food, pop-ups, supper clubs and wine bars. Food has never been cooler, and it’s not just the modern and ethnic – British classics are enjoying a revival – although some never went away. You’ll find many traditional favourites on the menu at Langan’s (actor Michael Caine is one of the owners), that’s been a place to see and be seen for over four decades. The Golden Hind in Marylebone has been serving cod and chips and plaice and chips for over 100 years – and they must be served with a side dish of mushy peas. Or check out Hix’s FishDog, a more recent food truck arrival, serving “The Rolls Royce of fish finger sandwiches” (essentially a fish finger in a hot dog bun).
Another British tradition is high tea; with finger sandwiches and scones served with fresh cream and jam. Take a trip to Clapham Common to enjoy a beer at The Windmill pub followed by a curry at any one of some Indian eateries. Nearby Brixton is the place to enjoy Caribbean cuisine in a downto-earth ambiance, while Brick Lane in the East End is the place for Bangladeshi cuisine. London is centred on the River Thames, which runs from the Cotswolds to the North Sea. Take a river cruise to get your bearings and stop off in delightful villages like Richmond or stay closer to the centre and explore the Camden Markets.
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London Properties CITADINES BARBICAN Just a two-minute walk away from Barbican Underground Station, this serviced residence is close to some of the city’s hippest gastropubs, art centres and museums. Key attractions the Barbican Centre, Museum of London and St Paul’s Cathedral are also easily accessible.
CITADINES HOLBORN!COVENT GARDEN Located in London’s West End, this serviced residence has great transport links with Holborn Tube Station located opposite and is surrounded by shops, traditional pubs and restaurants. No trip is complete without a visit to Covent Garden, a 10-minute walk away, where upscale fashion boutiques meet vintage shops.
CITADINES SOUTH KENSINGTON Set right in the heart of London, Hyde Park and Gloucester Road tube station are both just a 5-minute walk from the serviced residence. Be enthralled by the exquisite Victorian architecture.
CITADINES TRAFALGAR SQUARE Conveniently located in central London, this serviced residence is surrounded by famous London attractions with Trafalgar Square, The London Eye, The Houses of Parliament, and The National Gallery all within walking distance. The property is an ideal base from which to explore London’s main attractions.
THE CAVENDISH Centrally located in the heart of Mayfair, Piccadilly Circus tube station is just a short walking distance from The Cavendish London, allowing easy access to all major attractions. This deluxe hotel is perfect for London’s theatres, worldclass shopping or sightseeing experiences.
Quest Apartment Hotels is excited to confirm that Quest Liverpool City Centre in the north of England, will be the first Quest property in the United Kingdom. Located in the heart of the bustling Liverpool city centre, the hotel will offer 100 studio and onebedroom apartments, just moments away from Liverpool ONE shopping centre and Liverpool Central railway station. Quest Liverpool City Centre is due to open in 2019. 46 / Quest KUDOS
Getting around is easy, whether you choose one of the traditional red double-decker buses, the Underground railway or the new Docklands Light Rail Service. There are traditional rail services to and from several “overground” stations around the city. The Underground, or Tube, celebrated its 150th birthday in 2013. It’s the third largest metro system in the World behind Shanghai and Beijing. The drivers of London’s traditional black cabs are a source of knowledge on all things London – but the meter can rack up some pretty hefty charges. If the weather is good, London is a great city for walking. Hyde Park, Regent’s Park, Green Park and St James Park are central, but you can catch the tube to other delightful parks including Clapham Common and Hampstead Heath. Wherever your journey takes you, you can be sure that you won’t be far away from that most classic of English treats; a cup of tea.
E X P L O R E LONDON
VISITOR MUST DO’S
➔ A visit to at least one traditional London
➔ To get a full perspective of the city, take a ride on the London
Eye to experience spectacular views of the city’s skyline and get a unique perspective on landmarks like the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace. The views stretch over 60 kilometres on a clear day. ➔ London is a global fashion
capital from individual designers like Stella McCartney and Craig Green to department store icon Harrods; from flea markets to vintages shops and boutiques of Knightsbridge and Chelsea.
pub is de rigueur. Many date back hundreds of years and are meeting places as much as venues to eat and drink. One of the most atmospheric is Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street. Or head to the East End (true Cockneys are born within the sound of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church) to have a pint in a traditional “boozer.” ➔ Take a behind-the-scenes look at
Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, one of the most spectacular and technologically advanced stadiums in the world. You can visit the home and away changing rooms, directors’ box, players’ tunnel and press conference and interview rooms, as well as extensive memorabilia. ➔ Children visiting London for the first
time will enjoy getting up close and personal with a huge range of underwater creatures at SEALIFE London aquarium.
➔ There are over 230 theatres
in London. Watch a musical in the West End or a fringe performance in a converted warehouse space.
➔ Increasingly gentrified East London has
a vibrant street art scene. Take a tour, and you might even catch a glimpse of a Banksy piece.
➔ London is home to no fewer
than five English Premier League football teams: Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham and Crystal Palace. Tickets to Tottenham (at Wembley) and West Ham (at the Olympic Stadium) are probably the easiest to obtain.
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ums. Among my favourites are the Victoria and Albert and the Science Museum, an interactive hub of science and technology. It’s not hard to find one that will fascinate. Quest KUDOS / 47
CHEERS
Oakridge
Battle of the Giants:
MORNINGTON V YARRA Winsor Dobbin helps wine lovers decide between the giants of the Mornington Peninsula and the Yarra Valley.
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f you are a wine lover and find yourself in Melbourne looking to visit some vineyards, taste some new releases and maybe enjoy a lunch overlooking the vines a decision must be made. So which should you choose as your
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destination: The Mornington Peninsula to the south, or the Yarra Valley to the east? It’s a choice between two of the finest wine regions in Australia. Both are around an hours’ drive away, and both have a huge selection of cellar doors from which to choose.
YARRA VALLEY Some of the most innovative winemakers in Australia can be found in this pretty and diverse region just a one-hour-drive east from Melbourne CBD. Victoria’s first vineyards were planted at Yering Station in 1838, and the Yarra Valley has undergone a renaissance over the past 40 years. This large region is bordered by the towns of Gembrook in the south, Kinglake in the north, Wantirna in the west and Mount Gregory in the east. Nowadays the vines stretch almost as far as the fringes of suburban Melbourne with gentle to moderately steep slopes up to 350 metres in elevation with most of the best sites found on slopes. Known for its sparkling wines, stellar chardonnays, and outstanding pinot noirs, as well as cabernets and Gamay, the Yarra was first planted just three years after Melbourne was founded. The lesser known varieties of viognier and pinot Meunier to gamay and Nebbiolo are shining today. Over the past four decades, it has become a hotspot for small producers, drawn by its diverse influences, which include both Mediterranean and continental climates and some soil types. Modern pioneers include Reg Egan at Wantirna Estate in 1963, Bailey Carrodus at Yarra Yering in 1969, John Middleton with Mount Mary in 1971 and Peter McMahon at Seville Estate in 1972. Today, the Yarra offers a country experience with a dash of city sophistication with major producers including Coldstream Hills, Oakridge, Domaine Chandon, De Bortoli Yarra Valley, Giant Steps, Hoddles Creek, Punt Road, TarraWarra Estate and Yering Station.
Also look out for smaller producers like Mac Forbes, Gembrook Hill, Medhurst, Timo Mayer, Payten and Jones, Soumah and Thousand Candles. There has been a recent explosion of new cellar doors with two of the most spectacular at Coombe Farm (Dame Nelly Melba’s former home) and Levantine Hill (home to the impressive Ezard @ Levantine Hill restaurant). Rob Dolan Wines has a new cellar door at South Warrandyte, just 30 minutes from the CBD, while Rochford often hosts concerts and festivals. Many of the cellar doors have on-site restaurants; just choose from Italian at De Bortoli or modern Australian at Oakridge and TarraWarra. The selection ranges from paddles of beer and snacks at Hargreaves Hill Brewing Co. to eight-course degustation lunches. The gourmet hamlet of Healesville is well worth a visit with excellent cellar doors at Innocent Bystander and Giant Steps (across the road from each other), winemaker Mac Forbes’ cute little tasting room, the excellent Healesville Hotel dining room and the Four Pillars gin distillery among the attractions. With 120 producers and 3,000 hectares under vine, there is always something new in the Yarra Valley.
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Polperro Winery
MORNINGTON PENINSUL A Just 30 years ago, the Mornington Peninsula was the sleepiest of sleepy hollows, but the holiday hideaway of Melbourne’s movers and shakers is no secret anymore, boasting an ever-increasing number of topnotch cellar doors and eateries. The area is full of beach and holiday towns, golf courses, horse riding, nature reserves, and wineries. It seems remarkable, given the familiarity of so many of the names, that it was such a short time ago that producers like Dromana Estate, Main Ridge Estate, Stoniers Merricks and Hickinbotham were regional viticultural pioneers. Surrounded by Port Phillip Bay to the west, Western Port Bay to the east and the Bass Strait to the south, there are well over 50 wineries to choose from with lovers of pinot noir and chardonnay particularly well catered for and several outstanding producers of pinot gris. There are around 800 hectares under vine. Dining options on the peninsula include Ten Minutes by Tractor, a long-time favourite that has 50 / Quest KUDOS
recently been given a tasteful makeover, and its younger, more casual, sibling Petit Tracteur. The offerings throughout the region are largely up-market; no wonder as nowhere in Australia is vineyard land more expensive than here. Vineyard altitude rises to around 250 metres at Red Hill then falls away to a coastal strip at Merricks and Balnarring. Winemakers and boutique food producers have been enticed both by the peninsula’s beauty and a cool-maritime climate. The Mornington is surrounded by sea on three sides with breezes from Port Phillip Bay and Bass Strait ideal for producing fine wines. Many of the Mornington producers are still boutique operations; often family owned and run. The conditions here, including sometimes red, rich soils, generally produce wines with high natural acidity and cool-climate elegance. There are distinct micro-climates around the hinterland villages of Red Hill, Main Ridge and Moorooduc, and Merricks, Balnarring, and Dromana on the coast.
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Ocean Eight
This is very much a district on the move with the winemakers having been joined by cider producers, boutique distillers, and craft brewers, along with the hot springs retreats and world-class golf courses. Some of Australia’s most successful small-batch producers can be found on the Peninsula, including Port Phillip Estate/Kooyong, Yabby Lake, Ten Minutes by Tractor, Willow Creek and Paringa Estate, along with big names owned by corporates, including Stonier and T’Gallant. Tuck’s Ridge, Eldridge Estate, Foxeys Hangout, Paradigm Hill, Crittenden Estate, Moorooduc Estate, Hurley Vineyard and Red Hill Estate are among the other star producers with Ocean Eight, Polperro/Even Keel and Quealy leading the charge for pinot gris. Several of them have spectacular on-site restaurants, but if visitors head off the beaten track there are also local discoveries to be made - think hidden truffle groves and tiny cheese producers. With the new tollway, the Mornington Peninsula is now within a one-hour drive from Melbourne, but you are indisputably in the country here, with lush farmland and winding country lanes leading from vineyard to vineyard. There are over a dozen golf courses from which to choose, and plenty of beaches on which to relax after eating and drinking your fill, as well as the spectacular Peninsula Hot Springs. The verdict: Two outstanding cool-climate wine regions. The Mornington Peninsula is chic; the Yarra Valley a little more rustic. The choice is yours.
Wickhams Road 2017 Yarra Valley Pinot Noir Wickhams Road is the entry-level label of Hoddles Creek Wines and offers outstanding value. This is a juicy and bright pinot noir for immediate drinking pleasure. $20. De Bortoli La Boheme Act II Pinot Noir Rosé De Bortoli winemaker Steve Webber is at the forefront of producing pale, dry and savoury rosés in Australia and this is delicious with strawberry and brioche notes. $25. MORNINGTON PENINSULA Kooyong 2015 Farrago Chardonnay Kooyong and sister label Port Phillip Estate share a showpiece cellar door with spectacular views. This is a superbly complex single-vineyard chardonnay that’s beautifully balanced. $62. ELDRIDGE ESTATE 2017 PTG Eldridge winemaker David Lloyd has created a lot of interest with this vibrant lip-smacking blend of pinot noir and gamay that is made in the style of Burgundy Passetougrains. $30. Quest KUDOS / 51
CUISINE
Nutritionist Jacqueline Alwill works her magic on two delicious recipes
GRILLED MANGO AND BANANA WITH COCONUT YOGHURT Serves One Gluten Free: Dairy Free: Sugar Free
INGREDIENTS
– 1 mango cheek, skin left intact – 1 banana, peeled and halved lengthways – 1 teaspoon coconut oil or butter – 100g natural coconut or Greek yoghurt Optional: 1/4 cup granola or 2 tablespoons chopped nuts and seeds
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METHOD
Heat a frypan over medium heat, add coconut oil or butter, add mango flesh side down and banana and cook 1 minute. Leave mango cheek as is but flip banana and cook a further minute. Remove from pan. Score mango and turn out from the skin side. Dollop yoghurt around the bowl, top with mango, banana and granola and toasted nuts as desired and serve. TIP: Ground turmeric is a wonderful spice to mix into warm drinks or lemon water in the morning upon rising to reduce stress and inflammation on the body while travelling.
PAN FRIED SALMON WITH SUMMER MANGO SALSA Serves One Gluten Free: Dairy Free: Sugar-Free: Paleo
INGREDIENTS
– 160-180g piece fresh salmon, skin intact – 1 teaspoon olive, coconut oil or butter – 1 cheek mango, scored and flesh removed from the skin – 1/2 small cucumber, diced – pinch dried chilli flakes or 1/2 small fresh chilli – juice of 1/2 lime – small handful mint leaves, shredded – small handful coriander leaves picked – 1/4 or 1/2 small avocado – Lime wedge to serve – sea salt and black pepper
METHOD
Heat a frypan over medium heat, add olive/coconut oil or butter to the pan to melt. Add salmon, cook skin side down for 4 minutes, then turn and cook for 2-3 minutes each side depending on size and thickness of salmon. While salmon is cooking, make the salsa by toss mango, cucumber, chilli, lime juice and herbs in a small bowl. Once salmon is cooked, place on bowl or plate, top with salsa, add avocado and lime wedge, season with sea salt and pepper and serve. Quest KUDOS / 53
SPORTS FIXTURE
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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN The inaugural season of the Women’s Australian Rules Football kicked off in February 2017 with eight teams and much anticipation. As the 2018 season approaches, there are a few new rules and new teams to look out for. 54 / Quest KUDOS
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he 2018 season of the Women’s AFL is set to kick off on Friday 2nd February. This is the second season of the elite competition, and there are eight teams that will be competing this year, which is the same as the 2017 season. The final game of the season is set to be played on Saturday 24th March. Unlike the 2017 season, there won’t be any double headers, and the teams of Melbourne, Greater Western Sydney, Fremantle and Adelaide will each play four home games while the other clubs will have three. The expansion of the league and competition is scheduled to occur in 2019 and then again in 2020. By the end of the season in 2020, the competition is set to grow by six teams, which means there will be a total of 14 teams to watch. In 2019, the teams of North Melbourne and Geelong will be added to the roster, and in 2020, the teams of St Kilda, Gold Coast, Richmond and West Coast will join the competition.
Players to
Watch in 2018 Each team has a player to “keep your eyes on” this year. Some you want to make sure you watch include: Adelaide’s Erin Phillips: Being a two-time Olympic basketball player has prepared Phillips for the competition. You will mostly see her as a forward during the season. Pic Credit AFC Media
Brisbane’s Tayla Harris: At 20 years old, Harris is making a name for herself with her unique kicking style, where her boot and head line up perfectly. Carlton’s Brianna Davey is the former goalkeeper of the Matildas and is no stranger to elite levels of competition. Collingwood’s Moana Hope is perhaps the most recognizable player in the league, having kicked six goals in the initial season. Fremantle’s Kara Donnellan has a unique playing style that the fans love. Greater Western Sydney’s Nicola Barr was the top draft pick and a definite rising star in the league. Melbourne’s Daisy Pearce won the bestand-fairest award last year and is set to have another stellar year in 2018. Western Bulldogs’ Katie Brennan has booted over 150 goals in the past.
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The season is set to take off in February and is gaining quite a bit of attention from fans and around the world. Quest KUDOS / 55
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QUEST CANBERRA
QUEST CASTLE HILL
QUEST MACQUARIE PARK
Melbourne Building, 28 West Row, Canberra City ACT 2601 T: 61 (02) 6243 2222 questcanberra.com.au
8 Gladstone Road, Castle Hill NSW 2154 T: 61 (02) 8848 1500 questcastlehill.com.au
71 Epping Road, Macquarie Park NSW 2113 T: 61 (02) 8879 4600 questmacquariepark.com.au
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QUEST BELLA VISTA
QUEST CHATSWOOD
QUEST MANLY
24 Norbrik Drive, Bella Vista NSW 2153 T: 61 (02) 8818 9300 questbellavista.com.au
38 Albert Avenue, Chatswood NSW 2067 T: 61 (02) 8423 1600 questchatswood.com.au
54A West Esplanade, Manly NSW 2095 T: 61 (02) 9976 4600 questmanly.com.au
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QUEST BONDI JUNCTION
QUEST CRONULLA BEACH
QUEST MASCOT
28 Spring Street, Bondi Junction NSW 2022 T: 61 (02) 9078 1700 questbondijunction.com.au
1 Kingsway, Cronulla NSW 2230 T: 61 (02) 8536 3600 questcronullabeach.com.au
108-114 Robey Street, Mascot NSW 2020 T: 61 (02) 9366 3900 questmascot.com.au
NSW SYDNE Y SUBURBS
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NSW SYDNE Y SUBURBS
QUEST CAMPBELLTOWN
QUEST LIVERPOOL
QUEST NORTH RYDE
1 Rennie Road, Campbelltown NSW 2560 T: 61 (02) 4622 4900 questcampbelltown.com.au
39 Scott Street, Liverpool NSW 2170 T: 61 (02) 8738 0800 questliverpool.com.au
58-62 Delhi Road, North Ryde NSW 2113 T: 61 (02) 8899 8888 questnorthryde.com.au
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QUEST MAITLAND
QUEST POTTS POINT
QUEST ALBURY
15 Springfield Avenue, Potts Point NSW 2011 T: 61 (02) 8988 6999 questpottspoint.com.au
550 Kiewa Street, Albury NSW 2640 T: 61 (02) 6058 0900 questalbury.com.au
1 Ken Tubman Drive, Maitland NSW 2320 T: 61 (02) 4999 6000 questmaitland.com.au
NSW SYDNE Y SUBURBS
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NSW REGIONAL
QUEST ALBURY ON TOWNSEND
QUEST ST LEONARDS
450 Townsend Street, Albury NSW 2640 T: 61 (02) 6058 1100 questalburyontownsend.com.au
10 Atchison Street, St Leonards NSW 2065 T: 61 (02) 8425 0400 queststleonards.com.au
NSW SYDNE Y SUBURBS
QUEST AT SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK 6 Edwin Flack Avenue, Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127 T: 61 (02) 9033 2000 questatsydneyolympicpark.com.au
NSW REGIONAL
QUEST DUBBO 22 Bultje Street, Dubbo NSW 2830 T: 61 (02) 5809 8600 questdubbo.com.au
NSW REGIONAL
NSW REGIONAL
QUEST NEWCASTLE 575 Hunter Street, Newcastle NSW 2300 T: 61 (02) 4928 8000 questnewcastle.com.au
NSW REGIONAL
QUEST NEWCASTLE WEST 787 Hunter Street, Newcastle West NSW 2302 T: 61 (02) 4920 3400 questnewcastlewest.com.au
NSW REGIONAL
Opening 2018
QUEST PENRITH Lot 3003 Lord Sheffield Circuit, Penrith, NSW 2750 T: 1800 334 033 questapartments.com.au
QUEST GRIFFITH 53 Railway Street, Griffith NSW 2680 T: 61 (02) 6953 1900 questgriffith.com.au
QUEST NOWRA 130 Kinghorne Street, Nowra NSW 2541 T: 61 (02) 4421 9300 questnowra.com.au
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QUEST SINGLETON 5-7 Civic Avenue, Singleton NSW 2330 T: 61 (02) 6570 3800 questsingleton.com.au
NSW REGIONAL
NT DARWIN SUBURBS
QUEST BERRIMAH 4 Berrimah Road, Berrimah NT 0828 T: 61 (08) 8935 3600 questberrimah.com.au NT DARWIN SUBURBS
QUEST TAMWORTH
QUEST PALMERSTON
337 Armidale Road, Tamworth NSW 2340 T: 61 (02) 6761 2366 questtamworth.com.au
18 The Boulevard Palmerston City NT 0830 T: 61 (08) 8919 4100 questpalmerston.com.au
NSW REGIONAL
NT DARWIN SUBURBS
QUEST WAGGA WAGGA
QUEST PARAP
69 Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 T: 61 (02) 6923 7000 questwaggawagga.com.au
49 Parap Road, Parap NT 0820 T: 61 (08) 8919 8100 questparap.com.au
NSW REGIONAL
QUEST WOLLONGONG 59-61 Kembla Street, Wollongong NSW 2500 T: 61 (02) 4221 1500 questwollongong.com.au 58 Quest Kudos
NT REGIONAL
QUEST ALICE SPRINGS 9-10 South Terrace, Alice Springs NT 0870 T: 61 (08) 8959 0000 questalicesprings.com.au
QLD BRISBANE CBD
QUEST RIVER PARK CENTRAL 120 Mary Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 T: 61 (07) 3838 1000 questriverparkcentral.com.au
QLD BRISBANE CBD
QUEST SPRING HILL 454 Upper Edward Street, Spring Hill QLD 4000 T: 61 (07) 3026 2500 questspringhill.com.au
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QUEST ASCOT Cnr Lancaster Road & Duke Street, Ascot QLD 4007 T: 61 (07) 3630 0400 questascot.com.au
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QUEST BREAKFAST CREEK 15 Amy Street, Albion QLD 4010 T: 61 (07) 3330 9700 questbreakfastcreek.com.au
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QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
Opening 2018
QUEST CANNON HILL
QUEST IPSWICH
QUEST WOOLLOONGABBA
930 Wynnum Road, Cannon Hill QLD 4170 T: 1800 334 033 questapartments.com.au
57–63 Warwick Road, Ipswich QLD 4305 T: 61 (07) 3813 6000 questipswich.com.au
130 Logan Road, Woolloongabba QLD 4102 T: 61 (07) 3873 3000 questwoolloongabba.com.au
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QLD REGIONAL
QUEST CHERMSIDE
QUEST KELVIN GROVE
QUEST GLADSTONE
9 Thomas Street, Chermside QLD 4032 T: 61 (07) 3363 0100 questchermside.com.au
41 Ramsgate Street, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 T: 61 (07) 3308 4800 questkelvingrove.com.au
39-43 Bramston Street, Gladstone QLD 4680 T: 61 (07) 4970 0900 questgladstone.com.au
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QLD REGIONAL
Opening 2018
QUEST CHERMSIDE ON PLAYFIELD
QUEST SPRINGFIELD
QUEST MACKAY
38-40 Playfield Street, Chermside QLD 4032 T: 61 (07) 3624 0800 questchermsideonplayfield.com.au
4 Wellness Way, Springfield QLD 4300 T: 1800 334 033 questspringfield.com.au
38 Macalister Street, Mackay QLD 4740 T: 61 (07) 4829 3500 questmackay.com.au
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QUEST EIGHT MILE PLAINS 1 Clunies Ross Court, Eight Mile Plains QLD 4113 T: 61 (07) 3736 2800 questeightmileplains.com.au
QLD BRISBANE SUBURBS
QUEST ON STORY BRIDGE 85 Deakin Street , Kangaroo Point QLD 4169 T: 61 (07) 3249 8400 questonstorybridge.com.au
QLD REGIONAL
QUEST MACKAY ON GORDON 27 Gordon Street, Mackay QLD 4740 T: 61 (07) 4842 1800 questmackayongordon.com.au
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QUEST ROCKHAMPTON 48 Victoria Parade, Rockhampton QLD 4700 T: 61 (07) 4920 5300 questrockhampton.com.au
QLD REGIONAL
SA ADEL AIDE CBD
SA ADEL AIDE SUBURBS
QUEST ON FRANKLIN
QUEST PORT ADELAIDE
74 Franklin Street, Adelaide SA 5000 T: 61 (08) 8113 7500 questonfranklin.com.au
36 North Parade, Port Adelaide SA 5015 T: 61 (08) 8409 3500 questportadelaide.com.au
SA ADEL AIDE CBD
SA REGIONAL
QUEST TOOWOOMBA
QUEST ON KING WILLIAM
QUEST WHYALLA
133 Margaret Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350 T: 61 (07) 4690 2222 questtoowoomba.com.au
82 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000 T: 61 (08) 8217 5000 questonkingwilliam.com.au
4 Moran Street, Whyalla SA 5608 T: 61 (08) 8644 7600 questwhyalla.com.au
QLD REGIONAL
SA ADEL AIDE CBD
TASMANIA HOBART CBD
QUEST TOWNSVILLE
QUEST KING WILLIAM SOUTH
QUEST SAVOY
30-34 Palmer Street, Townsville QLD 4810 T: 61 (07) 4726 4444 questtownsville.com.au
379 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000 T: 61 (08) 8206 6500 questkingwilliamsouth.com.au
38 Elizabeth Street, Hobart TAS 7000 T: 61 (03) 6220 2300 questsavoy.com.au
QLD REGIONAL
SA ADEL AIDE SUBURBS
TASMANIA HOBART CBD
QUEST TOWNSVILLE ON EYRE
QUEST MAWSON LAKES
QUEST TRINITY HOUSE
19-21 Leichhardt Street, North Ward QLD 4810 T: 61 (07) 4789 7400 questtownsvilleoneyre.com.au
33–37 Main Street, Mawson Lakes SA 5095 T: 61 (08) 7071 0100 questmawsonlakes.com.au
149 Brooker Avenue, Hobart TAS 7000 T: 61 (03) 6236 9656 questtrinityhouse.com.au
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Opening 2018
QUEST WATERFRONT
QUEST GORDON PLACE
QUEST NEWQUAY
3 Brooke Street, Hobart TAS 7000 T: 61 (03) 6224 8630 questwaterfront.com.au
24 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9663 2888 questgordonplace.com.au
387-395 Docklands Drive, Docklands VIC 3008 T: 1800 334 033 questapartments.com.au
TASMANIA REGIONAL
VIC MELBOURNE CBD
VIC MELBOURNE CBD
QUEST LAUNCESTON
QUEST GRAND HOTEL MELBOURNE
QUEST SOUTHBANK
16 Paterson Street, Launceston TAS 7250 T: 61 (03) 6333 3555 questlaunceston.com.au
33 Spencer St, Melbourne VIC 3000 t: 61 (03) 9611 4567 questgrandhotelmelbourne.com.au
12-16 Kavanagh Street, Southbank VIC 3006 T: 61 (03) 9694 5600 questsouthbank.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE CBD
QUEST ON BOURKE 155 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9631 0400 questonbourke.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE CBD
QUEST DOCKLANDS 750 Bourke Street, Docklands VIC 3008 T: 61 (03) 9630 1000 questdocklands.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE CBD
VIC MELBOURNE CBD
QUEST JOLIMONT
QUEST ON WILLIAM
153-155 Wellington Parade South, East Melbourne VIC 3002 T: 61 (03) 9668 1200 questjolimont.com.au
172 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9605 2222 questonwilliam.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE CBD
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST ON LONSDALE
QUEST ABBOTSFORD
43 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 T: 61 (03) 9663 3317 questonlonsdale.com.au
611 Victoria Street, Abbotsford VIC 3067 T: 61 (03) 9426 1800 questabbotsford.com.au
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VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
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QUEST BRIGHTON
QUEST CAROLINE SPRINGS
QUEST DANDENONG CENTRAL
Cnr South & Cummins Road, Brighton East VIC 3187 T: 61 (03) 9591 5000 questbrighton.com.au
234 Caroline Springs Boulevard, Caroline Springs VIC 3023 T: 61 (03) 8361 3888 questcarolinesprings.com.au
2-10 Walker Street, Dandenong VIC 3175 T: 61 (03) 8710 5700 questdandenongcentral.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST BRIGHTON ON THE BAY
QUEST ON CHAPEL
QUEST DONCASTER
250 Esplanade, Brighton VIC 3186 T: 61 (03) 9591 5000 questbrightononthebay.com.au
651 Chapel Street, South Yarra VIC 3141 T: 61 (03) 9828 2444 questonchapel.com.au
855 Doncaster Road, Doncaster VIC 3108 T: 61 (03) 8848 1600 questdoncaster.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST BUNDOORA
QUEST CHELTENHAM
QUEST ON DORCAS
40 Janefield Drive, Bundoora VIC 3083 61 (03) 8306 0600 questbundoora.com.au
37-39 Station Road, Cheltenham VIC 3192 T: 61 (03) 8523 5800 questcheltenham.com.au
8 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne VIC 3205 T: 61 (03) 9698 1500 questondorcas.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST CARLTON ON FINLAY
QUEST DANDENONG
QUEST EAST MELBOURNE
2-9 Finlay Place, Carlton VIC 3053 T: 61 (03) 8341 4777 questcarltononfinlay.com.au
Cnr Princes Hwy & James Street, Dandenong VIC 3175 T: 61 (03) 9797 2200 questdandenong.com.au
48 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002 T: 61 (03) 9413 0000 questeastmelbourne.com.au
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VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
Opening 2018
QUEST EPPING
QUEST GLEN WAVERLEY
QUEST MELBOURNE AIRPORT
Epping Plaza, Epping VIC 1710 T: 1800 334 033 questapartments.com.au
353-361 Springvale Road, Glen Waverley VIC 3150 T: 61 (03) 9239 2900 questglenwaverley.com.au
Cnr South Centre Rd & Annandale Rd, 20 Annandale Road, Melbourne Airport VIC 3045 questmelbourneairport.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST FLEMINGTON
QUEST HAWTHORN
QUEST MONT ALBERT
600 Epsom Road, Flemington VIC 3031 T: 61 (03) 9371 2200 questflemington.com.au
616 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122 T: 61 (03) 8803 7700 questhawthorn.com.au
741-745 Whitehorse Road, Mont Albert VIC 3127 T: 61 (03) 8843 1500 questmontalbert.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST FRANKSTON
QUEST IVANHOE
QUEST MOONEE VALLEY
377 Nepean Highway, Frankston VIC 3199 T: 61 (03) 8796 1000 questfrankston.com.au
72-84 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe VIC 3079 T: 61 (03) 9490 2100 questivanhoe.com.au
Cnr McPherson & Coats Street, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039 T: 61 (03) 8325 9500 questmooneevalley.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST FRANKSTON ON THE BAY
QUEST KEW
QUEST MOORABBIN
435 Nepean Highway, Frankston 3199 T: 61 (03) 8765 2500 questfrankstononthebay.com.au
19-21 Walpole Street, Kew VIC 3101 T: 61 (03) 9854 7201 questkew.com.au
3 Kingston Road, Heatherton VIC 3202 T: 61 (03) 9981 8900 questmoorabbin.com.au
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VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST NARRE WARREN
QUEST SANCTUARY LAKES
QUEST WILLIAMSTOWN
Cnr Princes Highway & Verdun Drive, Narre Warren VIC 3805 T: 61 (03) 9796 6944 questnarrewarren.com.au
9 Greg Norman Drive, Sanctuary Lakes Resort, Point Cook VIC 3030 T: 61 (03) 9394 2100 questsanctuarylakes.com.au
1 Syme Street, Williamstown VIC 3016 T: 61 (03) 9393 5300 questwilliamstown.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
Opening 2018
QUEST NOTTING HILL
QUEST SOUTH MELBOURNE
QUEST WILLIAMSTOWN NORTH
Ferntree Business Park, Notting Hill VIC 3168 T: 1800 334 033 questapartments.com.au
21 Park Street, South Melbourne VIC 3205 T: 61 (03) 9698 1500 questsouthmelbourne.com.au
115-119 Kororoit Creek Road, Williamstown VIC 3016 T: 61 (03) 9393 9700 questwilliamstownnorth.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST PRAHRAN 9 Balmoral Street, South Yarra VIC 3141 T: 61 (03) 9823 8888 questprahran.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
QUEST ST KILDA BAYSIDE
QUEST WINDSOR
1 Eildon Road, St Kilda VIC 3182 T: 61 (03) 9593 9500 queststkildabayside.com.au
111 Punt Road, Prahran VIC 3181 T: 61 (03) 9520 3333 questwindsor.com.au
VIC MELBOURNE SUBURBS
VIC REGIONAL
QUEST ROYAL GARDENS
QUEST WERRIBEE
QUEST BALLARAT
8 Royal Lane, Fitzroy VIC 3065 T: 61 (03) 9419 9888 questroyalgardens.com.au
69 Synnot Street, Werribee VIC 3030 T: 61 (03) 8744 6000 questwerribee.com.au
7-11 Dawson Street North, Ballarat VIC 3350 T: 61 (03) 5309 1200 questballarat.com.au
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VIC REGIONAL
VIC REGIONAL
QUEST BENDIGO
QUEST MILDURA
QUEST WARRNAMBOOL
489 High Street, Bendigo VIC 3550 T: 61 (03) 5447 0822 questbendigo.com.au
115-119 Madden Avenue, Mildura VIC 3500 T: 61 (03) 5002 0900 questmildura.com.au
15-19 Liebig Street, Warrnambool VIC 3280 T: 61 (03) 5564 1200 questwarrnambool.com.au
VIC REGIONAL
VIC REGIONAL
VIC REGIONAL
QUEST BENDIGO CENTRAL
QUEST PORTLAND
QUEST WODONGA
228 McCrae Street, Bendigo VIC 3550 T: 61 (03) 5410 1300 questbendigocentral.com.au
66 Julia Street, Portland VIC 3305 T: 61 (03) 5500 9222 questportland.com.au
46 Reid Street, Wodonga VIC 3690 T: 61 (02) 6043 8300 questwodonga.com.au
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QUEST ECHUCA 25–29 Heygarth Street, Echuca VIC 3564 T: 61 (03) 5481 3900 questechuca.com.au
VIC REGIONAL
VIC REGIONAL
WA PERTH CBD
QUEST SALE
QUEST EAST PERTH
180–184 York Street, Sale VIC 3850 T: 61 (03) 5142 0900 questsale.com.au
176 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth WA 6004 T: 61 (08) 6210 6000 questeastperth.com.au
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WA PERTH CBD
QUEST GEELONG
QUEST SHEPPARTON
QUEST MOUNTS BAY ROAD
16-18 The Esplanade South, Geelong VIC 3220 T: 61 (03) 5228 2000 questgeelong.com.au
177-183 Welsford Street, Shepparton VIC 3630 T: 61 (03) 5814 4800 questshepparton.com.au
130 Mounts Bay Road, Perth WA 6000 T: 61 (08) 9480 8100 questmountsbayroad.com.au
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WA PERTH CBD
WA PERTH SUBURBS
QUEST WEST END
QUEST ON RHEOLA
QUEST WEST PERTH
451 Murray Street, Perth WA 6000 T: 61 (08) 9480 3888 questwestend.com.au
18 Rheola Street, West Perth WA 6005 T: 61 (08) 9365 8999 questonrheola.com.au
54 Kings Park Road, West Perth WA 6005 T: 61 (08) 9420 8700 questwestperth.com.au
WA PERTH SUBURBS
WA PERTH SUBURBS
WA REGIONAL
QUEST FREMANTLE
QUEST ROCKINGHAM
QUEST BUNBURY
8 Pakenham Street, Fremantle WA 6160 T: 1800 334 033 questfremantle.com.au
22 Flinders Lane, Rockingham WA 6168 T: 61 (08) 9591 0600 questrockingham.com.au
14 Lyons Cove, Bunbury WA 6230 T: 61 (08) 9722 0777 questbunbury.com.au
WA PERTH SUBURBS
QUEST INNALOO 1 Sunray Drive, Innaloo WA 6018 T: 61 (08) 6148 2600 questinnaloo.com.au
WA PERTH SUBURBS
WA PERTH SUBURBS
WA REGIONAL
QUEST SCARBOROUGH
QUEST MANDURAH
4 Brighton Road, Scarborough WA 6019 T: 61 (08) 6140 3500 questscarborough.com.au
20 Apollo Place, Mandurah WA 6210 T: 61 (08) 9535 9599 questmandurah.com.au
WA PERTH SUBURBS
WA REGIONAL
Opening 2018
QUEST MIDLAND 3 The Crescent, Midland, WA 6056 T: 1800 334 033 questmidland.com.au 66 Quest Kudos
QUEST SOUTH PERTH 281 Mill Point Road (cnr Arlington Ave), South Perth WA 6151 T: 61 (08) 9474 0200 questsouthperth.com.au
QUEST YELVERTON KALGOORLIE 210 Egan Street, Kalgoorlie WA 6430 T: 61 (08) 9022 8181 questkalgoorlie.com.au
NEW ZEALAND NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
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QUEST AUCKLAND
QUEST ON BEAUMONT
QUEST NEWMARKET
363 Queen Street, Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 300 2200 questauckland.co.nz
80 Beaumont Street, Auckland 1010 T: 64 (09) 222 0180 questonbeaumont.co.nz
31-39 Davis Crescent, Newmarket Auckland NZ 1023 T: 64 (09) 520 3000 questnewmarket.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
QUEST ON QUEEN 62 Queen Street, Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 300 2500 questonqueen.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
QUEST CARLAW PARK
QUEST ALBANY
15 Nicholls Lane, Carlaw Park Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 304 0521 questcarlawpark.co.nz
32 Kell Drive, Albany Auckland, NZ 0632 T: 64 (09) 414 0024 questalbany.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
QUEST ON EDEN
QUEST PARNELL
QUEST HENDERSON
52 Eden Crescent, Auckland NZ 1010 T: 64 (09) 366 6500 questoneden.co.nz
8 Heather Street, Parnell Auckland NZ 1052 T: 64 (09) 337 0804 questparnell.co.nz
12 Wadier Place, Henderson Auckland NZ 0610 T: 64 (09) 839 7247 questhenderson.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
NORTH ISLAND AUCKL AND
QUEST ON HOBSON
QUEST PONSONBY
QUEST HIGHBROOK
127 Hobson Street, Auckland NZ 1010 T:64 (09) 282 4763 questhobson.co.nz
68 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby Auckland NZ 1011 T: 64 (09) 360 4240 questponsonby.co.nz
60 Highbrook Drive, The Crossings East Tamaki, Auckland NZ 2013 T: 64 (09) 222 0160 questhighbrook.co.nz
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NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST HAMILTON
QUEST PALMERSTON NORTH
QUEST WHANGAREI
51 London Street, Hamilton NZ 3204 T: 64 (07) 834 1440 questhamilton.co.nz
1-17 Fitzherbert Avenue, (Cnr of Fitzherbert Avenue & The Square) Palmerston North NZ 4410 T: 64 (06) 357 7676 questpalmerstonnorth.co.nz NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
58 Bank Street Whangarei, NZ, 0110 T: 64 (09) 972 7854 questwhangarei.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST ON DURHAM 6 Durham Street, Tauranga NZ 3110 T: 64 (07) 571 1455 questtauranga.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST ROTORUA CENTRAL 1192 Hinemoa Street, Rotorua NZ 3010 T: 64 (07) 929 9808 questrotoruacentral.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST NEW PLYMOUTH 21 Currie Street, New Plymouth NZ 4310 T: 64 (06) 758 5483 questnewplymouth.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST TAUPO 59-61 Kaimanawa Street Taupo, NZ, 3330 T: 64 (07) 929 8579 questtaupo.co.nz
NORTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST NAPIER
QUEST ON WARD
176 Dickens Street, Napier NZ 4110 T: 64 (06) 833 5325 questnapier.co.nz
42-47 Ward Street, Hamilton NZ 3204 T: 64 (07) 839 1676 questonward.co.nz
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WELLINGTON
QUEST ON JOHNSTON 35 Johnston Street, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 460 5100 questonjohnston.co.nz WELLINGTON
QUEST ON THE TERRACE 120 The Terrace, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 470 1820 questterrace.co.nz WELLINGTON
QUEST PETONE 40-42 Richmond Street Petone, Lower Hutt T: 64 (04) 282 1680 questpetone.co.nz
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WELLINGTON
QUEST ATRIUM 154 The Terrace, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 931 1000 questatrium.co.nz WELLINGTON
QUEST ON LAMBTON 120 Lambton Quay, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 931 2999 questonlambton.co.nz WELLINGTON
QUEST ON THORNDON
SOUTH ISLAND CHRISTCHURCH
QUEST CHRISTCHURCH
Cathedral Junction 113 Worcester Street, Christchurch NZ 8011 T: 64 (03) 222 2003 questchristchurch.co.nz
SOUTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST DUNEDIN
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Somerset on the Pier, HOBART
SOUTH ISLAND REGIONAL
AUSTRALIA
QUEST INVERCARGILL 10 Dee Street, (Cnr Dee & Tay Street) Invercargill NZ 9810 T: 64 (03) 211 3966 questinvercargill.co.nz
WELLINGTON
SOUTH ISLAND REGIONAL
QUEST WELLINGTON
QUEST SUVA Suva Central, Renwick Road Suva Central Fiji T: 67 (9) 331 9119 questsuva.com
333 Cumberland Street, Dunedin NZ 9016 T: 64 (03) 470 1725 questdunedin.co.nz
61-63 Thorndon Quay, Wellington NZ 0611 T: 64 (04) 333 0007 questonthorndon.co.nz
Cnr Hunter and Lambton Quay, Wellington NZ 6011 T: 64 (04) 916 0700 questwellington.co.nz
FIJI
QUEST NELSON 108-110 Collingwood Street, Nelson, NZ, 7010 T: 64 (03) 929 5503 questnelson.co.nz
Elizabeth Street Pier, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia T: (61-3) 6220 6600 F: (61-3) 6224 1277
Citadines on Bourke, MELBOURNE No 131-135 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia T: (61-3) 9039 8888 F: (61-3) 9039 8899 AUSTRALIA
Somerset on Elizabeth, MELBOURNE No 250 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia T: (61-3) 8665 8888 F: (61-3) 8665 8899
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AUSTRALIA
Citadines St Georges Terrace, PERTH No. 185 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia T: (61-8) 9226 3355 F: (61-8) 9226 1055 CHINA
Ascott Raffles City, BEIJING
No. 1–2 Dongzhimen South Street, Dongcheng District Beijing 100007, China T: (86-10) 8405 3888 F: (86-10) 8405 3999 CHINA
Ascott BEIJING
No.108B Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100022 China T: (86 10) 6587 0888 F: (86 10) 6587 0999 CHINA
Ascott Raffles City, CHENGDU
No. 3 Section 4, South Renmin Road, Wuhou District Chengdu 610041, China T: (86-28) 6268 2888 F: (86-28) 6268 2889 70 Quest Kudos
CHINA
Citadines South, CHENGDU 88 Tianfu 3rd Street, ICON Genesis Plaza Tower 5 Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Chengdu, China T: (86-28) 8521 6666 F: (86-28) 6871 1999 CHINA
Somerset Riverview, CHENGDU No. 1 Section 3, Renmin South Road, Wuhou District Chengdu 610041, China T: (86-28) 6181 6888 F: (86-28) 6181 6999 CHINA
Somerset Yangtze River, CHONGQING Block B, Hejing Building, No. 151 Changjiang Binjiang Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400010, China T: (86-23) 6399 7888 F: (86-23) 6399 7899 CHINA
Somerset JieFangBei, CHONGQING Block B, Hejing Building, No. 108 Minzu Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400010, China T: (86-23) 8677 6888 F: (86-23) 8677 6999
CHINA
Somerset Grand Central, DALIAN No 128-2 Jinma Road, Dalian Development Area Dalian 116600, China T: (86-411) 8801 3888 F: (86-411) 8801 3889 CHINA
Citadines Gugeng DALIAN No. 138 Jinma Road, Dalian Development Area, Dalian T: (86-411) 8793 5888 F: (86-411) 8793 5277 CHINA
Somerset Harbour Court, DALIAN No. 55 Renmin Road, Zhongshan District, Dalian 116001, China T: (86-411) 3991 1888 F: (86-411) 3991 1999 CHINA
Ascott Guangzhou No. 73 Tianhedong Road, Tianhe District Guangzhou 510630, China T: (86-20) 8513 0388 F: (86-20) 8513 0366
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CHINA
Ascott IFC, GUANGZHOU No. 5 Zhujiang Xi Road, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District Guangzhou 510623, China T: (86-20) 3838 9888 F: (86-20) 3838 9999 CHINA
Citadines Lizhiwan, GUANGZHOU No. 145-4 Longjin Xi Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou 510150, China T: (86-20) 2835 1999 F: (86-20) 2835 1998 CHINA
Somerset Riviera, GUANGZHOU No. 770 Binjiang Zhong Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510220, China T: (86-20) 8956 6688 F: (86-20) 8956 6000 CHINA
Citadines Intime City, HANGZHOU Block 4, Intime City, 380 Fengtan Road, Gongshu District Hangzhou 310011, China T: (86-571) 8667 9888 F: (86-571) 8667 9999
CHINA
Citadines Ashley, HONG KONG No. 18 Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China T: (852) 2262 3062 F: (852) 2262 3000 CHINA
Somerset Victoria Park, HONG KONG No. 118 Electric Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China T: (852) 3653 8088 F: (852) 3653 8099 CHINA
Citadines Harbourview HONG KONG 138 Connaught Road West, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong T: (852) 3607 3333 F: (852) 3607 3300 CHINA
Citadines Mercer, HONG KONG No. 29 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China T: (852) 2922 9988 F: (852) 2922 9989
CHINA
Ascott Macau Dynasty District, Cidade de Braga, Nape, Macau T: (853) 2822 0688 F: (853) 2822 0699 CHINA
Somerset Youth Olmpic NANJING No. 9 Qing’ao South Road, Jianye District Nanjing 210000, China T: (86-25) 8308 0888 F: (86-25) 8308 0999 CHINA
Ascott Heng Shan, SHANGHAI No. 99 Hengshan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200031, China T:(021) 3339 5588 F: (021) 3339 5599 CHINA
Ascott Huai Hai Road, SHANGHAI No. 282, Huai Hai Road Central, Huangpu District Shanghai 200021, China T: (86-21) 2329 8888 F: (86-21) 2329 8999 Quest Kudos 71
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CHINA
Somerset Xu Hui, SHANGHAI No 888 Shaanxi Nan Road, Xu Hui District Shanghai 200031, China T: (86-21) 6466 0888 F: (86-21) 6466 4646 CHINA
Somerset Heping, SHENYANG No 80 Taiyuan North Street, Heping District Shenyang 110000, China T: (86-24) 2397 5555 F: (86-24) 2335 5888 CHINA
Ascott Maillen, SHENZHEN No 3 Yanshan Road, Nanshan District Shenzhen 518067, China T: (86-755) 2160 0188 F: (86-755) 2160 0199 CHINA
Ascott Raffles City, SHENZHEN No. 22 Dengliang Road, Nanshan District Shenzhen 518054, China T: (86-755) 2523 6888
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CHINA
Somerset Grandview, SHENZHEN No 5 Xinsha Road, Futian District, Shenzhen 518048, China T: (86-755) 8312 9888 F: (86-755) 8312 9988 CHINA
Ascott Midtown, SUZHOU No 229 Zhongxin West Avenue, Suzhou Industrial Park Suzhou 215021, China T: (86-512) 6293 3666 F: (86-512) 6293 3688 CHINA
Citadines Xinghai, SUZHOU Block 27 Jiacheng Gardens, 58 Xinghai St Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215021, China T: (86-512) 8885 8288 F: (86-512) 8885 8200 CHINA
Somerset Emerald City, SUZHOU No 436 Changjiang Road, Suzhou New District Suzhou 215011, China T: (86-512) 6818 6611 F: (86-512) 6818 6622
CHINA
Ascott TEDA MSD Tianjin No 7 Xincheng West Road, Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area, Tianjin 300475, China T: (86-22) 5999 7666 F: (86-22) 5999 7688 CHINA
Somerset International Building, TIANJIN No 75 Nanjing Road, Heping District, Tianjin 300050, China T: (86-22) 2330 6666 F: (86-22) 2330 6262 CHINA
Somerset Olympic Tower, TIANJIN No 126 Chengdu Dao, Heping District, Tianjin 300051, China T: (86-22) 2335 5888 F: (86-22) 2335 3555 CHINA
Somerset Youyi, TIANJIN No 35 Youyi Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300201, China T: (86-22) 2810 7888 F: (86-22) 2810 7999
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CHINA
Citadines Zhuankou, WUHAN No 159 Dongfeng Avenue, Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone 430056, China T: (86-27) 8421 8000 F: (86-27) 8421 8008 CHINA
Somerset Wusheng, WUHAN No 238, Zhongshan Avenue, Qiaokou District, Hankou Wuhan 430032, China T: (86-27) 6360 1688 F: (86-27) 6360 1699 CHINA
Ascott Central WUXI No. 288, Zhongshan Road, Liangxi District, Wuxi 214000, China T: (86 510) 6888 2888 F: (86 510) 6888 2999 CHINA
Somerset Software Park XIAMEN No.2 Jinshan Road, Siming District, Xiamen 361008, China T: (86-592) 3236 888
CHINA
Citadines Central, XI’AN 36 Zhubashi, Beilin District, Xi’an 710002, China T: (86-29) 8576 1188 F: (86-29) 8576 1189 CHINA
Citadines Gaoxin, XI’AN 13 Gaoxin Si Road, Hi-Tech Zone Xi’an 710075, China T: (86-29) 8843 7888 F: (86-29) 8843 7999 CHINA
Somerset Xindicheng XI’AN No. 64, The West Section of South 2nd Ring Road, Yanta District, Xi’an, China T: (86-29) 8790 9888 F: (86-29) 8790 5888 CHINA
Citadines Xingqing Palace, XI’AN 159 Xingqing Road, Beilin District, Xi’an 710049, China T: (86-29) 8338 0588 F: (86-29) 8338 0599
INDIA
Citadines OMR Chennai Sholinganallur Junction, Old Mahabalipuram Road Sholinganallur, Chennai 600119, India T: (91-44) 7111 7111 F: (91-44) 7100 0010 INDIA
Somerset Greenways, CHENNAI No 94, Sathyadev Avenue, MRC Nagar, Chennai 600 028, India T: (91-44) 7100 0001 F: (91-44) 7100 0010 INDONESIA
Citadines Kuta Beach, BALI Jalan Pantai Kuta, Badung, Bali 80361, Indonesia T: (62-361) 849 6500 F: (62-361) 849 6565 INDONESIA
Ascott JAKARTA Jalan Kebon Kacang Raya No 2, Jakarta 10230, Indonesia T: (62-21) 391 6868 F: (62-21) 391 3368
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INDONESIA
Ascott Kuningan, JAKARTA Ciputra World 1, Jalan Prof Dr Satrio Kav 3-5, Jakarta 12940, Indonesia T: (62-21) 3006 0288 F: (62-21) 3006 0299 INDONESIA
Citadines Rasuna, JAKARTA The H Tower, Jalan HR Rasuna Said Kav. 20, Kuningan, Jakarta 12940, Indonesia T: (62-21) 2953 3123 F: (62-21) 5290 0348 INDONESIA
Somerset Berlian, JAKARTA Jalan Permata Berlian V, Permata Hijau, Jakarta 12210, Indonesia T: (62-21) 5366 8888 F: (62-21) 5366 7788 INDONESIA
Somerset Grand Citra, JAKARTA Jalan Prof Dr Satrio Kav. 1, Jakarta 12940, Indonesia T: (62-21) 2995 6888 F: (62-21) 522 3737 74 Quest Kudos
INDONESIA
Ascott Waterplace, SURABAYA Tower D 1 Jalan Pakuwon Indah Lontar Timur Kav. 3-5, Surabaya 60216 Indonesia T: (62-31) 7393 001 F: (62-31) 7393 009 JAPAN
Citadines Karasuma-Gojo, KYOTO 432 Matsuya-cho Gojo-dori Karasuma-Higashiiru Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600 8105, Japan T: (81-75) 352 8900 F: (81-75) 352 8901 JAPAN
Citadines Central Shinjuku, TOKYO 1-2-9 Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 0021, Japan T: (81-3) 3200 0223 F: (81-3) 5379 0223 JAPAN
Somerset Ginza EAST TOKYO 4-1-12 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045 T: (81-3) 3549-7111 F: (81-3) 3549-7110
JAPAN
Somerset Shinagawa, TOKYO 4-24-58 Takanawa Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0074 , Japan T: (81-3) 3445 2805 F: (81-3) 3445 2815 JAPAN
Citadines Shinjuku, TOKYO 1-28-13 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160 0022, Japan T: (81-3) 5379 7208 F: (81-3) 5379 7209 JAPAN
Somerset Azabu East, TOKYO No. 1-9-11 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106 0044, Japan T: (81-3) 5114 2800 F: (81-3) 5114 2801 JAPAN
Ascott Marunouchi TOKYO 1-1-1 Otemachi, Chiyodaku Tokyo, Japan T: (81-3) 5208 2001
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L AOS
Somerset Vientiane Souphanouvong Avenue, Sikhotabong district P.O.Box: 4793 Vientiane, Lao PDR T: (856) 21 250 888 F: (856) 21 250 777 MAL AYSIA
Citadines DPulze, Cyberjaya Lingkaran Cyber Point Timur Cyber 12, 63000 Cyberjaya Malaysia T: (60-3) 8689 9888 F: (60-3) 8689 9999 MAL AYSIA
Somerset Medini Iskandar PUTERI Lot 5 Jalan Medini Utara 4, Medini Iskandar Malaysia, 79200 Nusajaya Johor, Malaysia T: (60-7) 287 1011 F: (60-7) 560 5556 MAL AYSIA
Somerset Puteri Harbour Iskandar PUTERI Persiaran Puteri Selatan, Puteri Harbour 79000 Iskandar Puteri, Johor Darul Ta’zim, Malaysia T: (60-7) 287 1088 F: (60-7) 287 1087
MAL AYSIA
Ascott Kuala Lumpur No. 9 Jalan Pinang 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia T: (603) 2718 6868 F: (603) 2718 6888 MAL AYSIA
Ascott Sentral, KUALA LUMPUR No. 211 Jalan Tun Sambanthan, KL Sentral 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia T: (60-3) 2727 9999 F: (60-3) 2727 9998 MAL AYSIA
Somerset Ampang, KUALA LUMPUR No. 187 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia T: (60-3) 2723 8888 F: (60-3) 2723 8999 MAL AYSIA
Citadines Uplands, KUCHING No. 55 Jalan Simpang Tiga 93350 Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia T: (60-82) 281 888 F: (60-82) 281 889
MAL AYSIA
Somerset Damansara UPtown Petaling JAYA 2A, Jalan SS21/37, Damansara Utama ,47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor T: (60-3) 7730 0888 PHILIPPINES
Somerset Alabang MANILA 3409 Spectrum Midway Filinvest City 1781 Alabang, Muntinlupa City T: (63-2) 643 0999 F: (63-2) 643 0618 PHILIPPINES
Ascott Bonifacio Global City, MANILA 28th Street corner 5th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City 1634 Philippines T: (63-2) 860 9888 F: (63-2) 860 9800 PHILIPPINES
Ascott Makati Glorietta 4, Ayala Centre, Makati City 1224, Philippines T: (63-2) 729 8888 F: (63-2) 755 8188
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PHILIPPINES
Citadines Salcedo, MAKATI 148 Valero Street, Salcedo Village, Makati City 1227 Philippines T: (63-2) 863 9888 F: (63-2) 863 9889 PHILIPPINES
Somerset Millennium MAKATI No. 104 Aguirre Street, Legaspi Village Makati City 1229, Philippines T: (63-2) 750 7888 F: (63-2) 751 1111 PHILIPPINES
Somerset Olympia MAKATI No 7912 Makati Avenue, Makati City 1200, Philippines T: (63-2) 812 1010 F: (63-2) 818 8254 SINGAPORE
Ascott Raffles Place, SINGAPORE No 2 Finlayson Green, Singapore 049247 T: (65) 6577 1688 F: (65) 6577 1668 76 Quest Kudos
SINGAPORE
Ascott Orchard Singapore, SINGAPORE No 11 Cairnhill Road, Singapore 229724 T: (65) 6540 1688 F: (65) 6540 1699 SINGAPORE
Citadines Mount Sophia, SINGAPORE 8 Wilkie Road #01-26 Wilkie Edge, Singapore 228095 T: (65) 6593 8188 F: (65) 6593 8181 SINGAPORE
Citadines Fusionopolis, SINGAPORE 3 Fusionopolis Way Symbiosis Tower Singapore 138633 T: (65) 6248 3333 F: (65) 6469 3314 SINGAPORE
Somerset Bencoolen, SINGAPORE No 51 Bencoolen Street, Singapore 189630 T: (65) 6849 4688 F: (65) 6849 4700
SINGAPORE
Somerset Liang Court, SINGAPORE No 177B River Valley Road, Singapore 179032 T: (65) 6337 0111 F: (65) 6336 0281 SOUTH KOREA
Citadines Haeundae, BUSAN 620 Haeun-daero. Haeundae-gu, Busan 48094, South Korea T: (82-51) 662 8888 F: (82-51) 662 8080 SOUTH KOREA
Citadines Han River, SEOUL 11 Yangpyeong-ro 28-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07202 South Korea T: (82-2) 2014 1111 F: (82-2) 2014 1010 SOUTH KOREA
Somerset Palace, SEOUL 7 Yulgok-ro 2-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03143, South Korea T: (82-2) 6730 8888 F: (82-2) 6730 8080
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SOUTH KOREA
Somerset Jeju Shinhwa World 139 Sinhwayeoksa-ro 304 beon-gil, Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju 63522, South Korea T: (82-64) 908 8800 THAIL AND
Metropole Bangkok Thonglor / New Petchaburi Road, 2802, Bangkapi, Huaykwang, Bangkok 10310, Thailand T: (66-2) 314 8555
THAIL AND
Somerset Ekamai Bangkok 22/1 Ekamai Soi 2, Sukhumvit 63 Road, Phra Khanong Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110 T: (66-2) 032 1999 F: (66-2) 032 1900 THAIL AND
Ascott Sathorn, BANGKOK No 7 South Sathorn Road, Yannawa, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120, Thailand T: (66-2) 676 6868 F: (66-2) 676 6888
THAIL AND
Citadines Sukhumvit 8, BANGKOK 77/7 Sukhumvit 8, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 257 2277 F: (66-2) 257 2299 THAIL AND
Citadines Sukhumvit 11, BANGKOK 22/22 Sukhumvit 11, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey Nue, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 264 6777 F: (66-2) 264 6799 THAIL AND
Citadines Sukhumvit 16, BANGKOK 38 Sukhumvit 16, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 663 8777 F: (66-2) 663 8799 THAIL AND
Citadines Sukhumvit 23, BANGKOK 37/7 Sukhumvit 23, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey-nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 204 4777 F: (66-2) 204 4799
THAIL AND
Somerset Lake Point, BANGKOK No 41 Sukhumvit 16, Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 663 1234 F: (66-2) 663 1250 THAIL AND
Somerset Park Suanplu, BANGKOK No 39 Soi Suanplu, South Sathorn Road, Thung-mahamek Sathorn, Bangkok 10120, Thailand T: (66-2) 679 4444 F: (66-2) 679 4999 THAIL AND
Somerset Sukhumvit Thonglor, BANGKOK No 115 Sukhumvit 55 (Thonglor), Sukhumvit Road, Klongton Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T: (66-2) 365 7999 F: (66-2) 381 8923 THAIL AND
Citadines Grand Central, SRI RACHA 99/9 Thetsaban 1 Road Sri Racha, Chonburi 20110 Thailand T: (66) 3831 6600 F: (66) 3831 6610 âž” Quest Kudos 77
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VIETNAM
Somerset Central TD, HAI PHONG CITY Tower A, TD Plaza, Lot 20A, Le Hong Phong Street Dong Khe Ward, Ngo Quyen District, Hai Phong City, Vietnam T: (84-225) 3670 888 F: (84-225) 3670 666 VIETNAM
Somerset Grand, Hanoi No 49 Hai Ba Trung Street, Hanoi, Vietnam T: (84-24) 3934 2342 F: (84-24) 3934 2343 VIETNAM
Somerset Hoa Binh, HANOI No 106 Hoang Quoc Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam T: (84-24) 3755 5888 F: (84-24) 3755 5999 VIETNAM
Somerset West Lake, HANOI No 254D Thuy Khue Road, Hanoi, Vietnam T: (84-24) 3843 0030 F: (84-24) 3823 6916 78 Quest Kudos
VIETNAM
Somerset Chancellor Court, HO CHI MINH CITY No 21-23 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T: (84-28) 3822 9197 F: (84-28) 3822 1755 VIETNAM
Somerset Ho Chi Minh City No 8A Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T: (84-28) 3822 8899 F: (84-28) 3823 4473 VIETNAM
Somerset Vista, HO CHI MINH CITY No 628C Hanoi Highway, An Phu Ward, District 2 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T: (84-28) 6255 9900 F: (84-28) 6255 9911 BELGIUM
Citadines Sainte-Catherine, BRUSSELS 51 Quai au Bois à Brûler, 1000 Brussels, Belgium T: (32-2) 221 14 11 F: (32-2) 221 15 99
BELGIUM
Citadines Toison d’Or, BRUSSELS 61-63 Avenue de la Toison d’Or, 1060 Brussels, Belgium T: (32-2) 543 53 53 F: (32-2) 543 53 00 PARIS
La Clef Tour Eiffel PARIS 83 Avenue Kléber, 75116 Paris, France T: (33) 1 44 05 75 75 F: (33) 1 44 05 74 74
PARIS
La Clef Louvre Paris 8 rue de Richelieu, 75001 Paris, France T: (33) 1 55 35 28 00 F: (33) 1 55 35 29 99 PARIS
Citadines Austerlitz, PARIS 27 rue Esquirol, 75013 Paris, France T: (33) 1 56 61 54 00 F: (33) 1 45 86 59 76
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PARIS
Citadines Bastille Gare de Lyon, PARIS 14-18 rue de Chaligny, 75012 Paris, France T: (33) 1 40 04 43 50 F: (33) 1 40 04 43 99 PARIS
Citadines Bastille Marais PARIS 37 Boulevard Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 36 90 00 F: (33) 1 53 36 90 22 PARIS
Citadines Didot Montparnasse, PARIS 94 rue Didot, 75014 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 90 38 00 F: (33) 1 53 90 38 52 PARIS
Citadines La Défense, PARIS La Défense, Les Saisons 8 boulevard de Neuilly 92400 Courbevoie, France T: (33) 1 58 13 57 57 F: (33) 1 47 78 95 00
PARIS
Citadines Les Halles, PARIS 4 rue des Innocents, 75001 Paris, France T: (33) 1 40 39 26 50 F: (33) 1 45 08 40 65 PARIS
Citadines Maine Montparnasse, PARIS 67 avenue du Maine, 75014 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 91 27 00 F: (33) 1 43 27 29 94 FRANCE
Citadines Montmartre, PARIS 16 avenue Rachel, 75018 Paris, France T: (33) 1 44 70 45 50 F: (33) 1 45 22 59 10 FRANCE
Citadines Opéra, PARIS 18 rue Favart, 75002 Paris, France T: (33) 1 40 15 14 00 F: (33) 1 40 15 14 50
FRANCE
Citadines Place d’Italie, PARIS 18 place d’Italie, 75013 Paris, France T: (33) 1 43 13 85 00 F: (33) 1 43 13 86 99 FRANCE
Citadines République, PARIS 75 bis, avenue Parmentier, 75011 Paris, France T: (33) 1 55 28 08 20 F: (33) 1 43 14 90 30 FRANCE
Citadines Saint-Germain-des-Prés, PARIS 53 ter, quai des Grand-Augustins, 75006 Paris, France T: (33) 1 44 07 70 00 F: (33) 1 44 07 29 50 FRANCE
Citadines Tour Eiffel, PARIS 132 boulevard de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France T: (33) 1 53 95 60 00 F: (33) 1 53 95 60 95
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FRANCE
Citadines Trocadéro PARIS 29 bis, rue Saint-Didier, 75116 Paris, France T: (33) 1 56 90 70 00 F: (33) 1 47 04 50 07 FRANCE
Citadines Croisette Cannes 1 rue le Poussin, 06400 Cannes, France T: (33) 4 97 06 92 00 F: (33) 4 93 38 84 09 FRANCE
Citadines Genève, Ferney Voltaire 34 rue de Genève, 01210 Ferney-Voltaire, France T: (33) 4 50 42 68 00 F: (33) 4 50 40 91 24 FRANCE
Citadines City Centre, Grenoble 9-11 rue de Strasbourg, 38000 Grenoble, France T: (33) 4 76 15 02 00 F: (33) 4 76 44 27 10 80 Quest Kudos
FRANCE
Citadines City Centre, Lille Avenue Willy Brandt-Euralille, 59777 Lille, France T: (33) 3 28 36 75 00 F: (33) 3 20 06 97 82 FRANCE
Citadines Part-Dieu, Lyon 91-95 rue Moncey, 69003 Lyon, France T: (33) 4 78 14 90 00 F: (33) 4 78 60 50 74 FRANCE
Citadines Presqu’île, Lyon 2 rue Thomassin, 69002 Lyon, France T: (33) 4 72 40 40 50 F: (33) 4 78 42 03 78 FRANCE
Citadines Castellane, Marseille 60 rue du Rouet, 13006 Marseille, France T:(33) 4 96 20 11 00 F:(33) 4 91 80 20 83
FRANCE
Citadines Prado Chanot, Marseille 9-11 boulevard de Louvain, 13008 Marseille, France T:(33) 4 96 20 65 00 F:(33) 4 91 80 56 25 FRANCE
Citadines Antigone, Montpellier 588 boulevard d’Antigone, 34000 Montpellier, France T: (33) 4 99 52 37 50 F: (33) 4 67 64 54 64 FRANCE
Citadines Kléber, Strasbourg 50-54 rue du Jeu des Enfants, 67000 Strasbourg, France T: (33) 3 90 22 47 00 F: (33) 3 88 32 47 49 FRANCE
Citadines Wilson, Toulouse 8 boulevard de Strasbourg, 31000 Toulouse, France T: (33) 5 34 41 75 00 F: (33) 5 61 99 07 55
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GEORGIA
Citadines City Centre, TBILISI Building 2 a, 4 Freedom Square, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia T: (995)322547030 F: (995)322547040 GERMANY
Citadines Kurfürstendamm, BERLIN Olivaer Platz 1, 10707 BerlinWilmersdorf, Germany T: (0) 800 724 38 59 F: (49) 3088 7761 199 GERMANY
Citadines City Centre, FRANKFURT Europa-Allee 23 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany T: (49) 69 920385 0 F: (49) 69 920385 99 GERMANY
Citadines Michel, HAMBURG Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 7 20459 Hamburg, Germany T: (49) 040 300 6180 F: (49) 4030 0618 1999
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Citadines Arnulfpark, MUNICH Arnulfstrasse 51, 80636 München, Germany T: (49) 089 94008-00 F: 49 (0)89 940080-777 SPAIN
Citadines Ramblas, BARCELONA Ramblas 122, 08002 Barcelona, Spain T: (34) 932 701 111 F: (34) 934 127 421 UNITED KINGDOM
The Cavendish, LONDON (Managed by The Ascott Limited) 81 Jermyn Street, St James’s London SW1Y 6JF, United Kingdom T: (44) (0) 207 930 2111 F: (44) (0) 207 839 2125 UNITED KINGDOM
Citadines Barbican, LONDON 7-21 Goswell Road, London EC1M 7AH, United Kingdom T: (44) 207 566 8000 F: (44) 207 566 8130
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Citadines Holborn-Covent Garden, LONDON 94-99 High Holborn, London WC1V 6LF, United Kingdom T: (44) 207 395 8800 F: (44) 207 395 8799 UNITED KINGDOM
Citadines South Kensington, LONDON 35A Gloucester Road London SW7 4PL, United Kingdom T: (44) 207 543 7878 F: (44) 207 584 9166 UNITED KINGDOM
Citadines Trafalgar Square, LONDON 18-21 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5EA, United Kingdom T: (44) 207 766 3700 F: (44) 207 766 3766 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Hotel Central Fifth Avenue New York 15 West 45th Street, New York, 10036 New York, United States of America T: (+1) 212 302 9088 ➔ Quest Kudos 81
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BAHRAIN
Somerset Al Fateh, BAHRAIN PO Box 75771, Juffair, Kingdom of Bahrain T: (973) 1781 1889 F: (973) 1781 1886 OMAN
Somerset Panorama, MUSCAT Al Ghubrah, Al Ghubrah Street, Muscat, Oman T: (971-4) 310 8503 F: (971) 4 386 4418 QATAR
Somerset West Bay, DOHA Diplomatic Area, PO Box 26026, Doha, Qatar T: (974) 4420 3333 F: (974) 4420 3355
SAUDI ARABIA
Ascott Sari, JEDDAH Al Zahra’s District, Sari Street, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (966) 12 6926299 F: (966) 12 2882242 SAUDI ARABIA
Ascott Tahlia, JEDDAH Al Andalus District, Prince Mohamed Bin Abdul Aziz Street (Tahlia Street), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (966) 12 2832322 F: (966) 12 6630844
SAUDI ARABIA
Citadines Al Salamah, JEDDAH (Prince Sultan Street), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (966) 12 6111846 F: (966) 12 2881191 SAUDI ARABIA
Ascott Rafal Olaya, RIYADH Al Ulaya, Olaya Street, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia T: (971) 4310 8503 F: (971) 4386 4418
SAUDI ARABIA
Ascott Park Place, DUBAI Park Place Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road PO Box 117452, Dubai, United Arab Emirates T: (971-4) 310 8555 F: (971-4) 329 7998
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