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Ipswich’s premier dining experience

•    Internationally acclaimed Head Chef Guy Farrow
•    Open for A la-carte dinners 7 nights a week
•    Platform 9 Restaurant at Metro Hotel Ipswich
    International is ideal for a special occasion
    or relaxed dining experience   

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Roy Orbison Tribute Show Accommodation Package - Ipswich, QLD

Metro Hotel Ipswich International is offering this Roy Orbison Tribute Show Package for $200.00* including:

• Accommodation for Two
• 2 Tickets to the Roy Orbison Tribute Show at Civic Theatre  

Book this Roy Orbison Tribute Show Package at Metro Hotel Ipswich International

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• Subject to availability Please be advised that we must be notified of cancellations at least 24 hours prior to arrival, charge of one full night's tariff. 
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Mayor to Throw Switch on Metro’s Chirstrmas Lights

Staff at the Metro Hotel Ipswich International has spent most of the week putting up Christmas lights for its display.

Mayor Pisasale will be attending tonight to turn it all on. The hotel's Marketing Manager Tony Coates says it will flash alternative colours of red, green and blue for the 12 days leading up to Christmas.

He says it's intended to be a shining beacon for locals and tourists alike---bringing some additional Christmas spirit to the city.

How to Attract Tourists

NEW LOOK MAG: Ian Wilson, Jocelyn Smith and Margaret and Ray Nicol attend the launch of the 2013 Ipswich Visitors Guide at Metro Hotel on Friday.

A HANDY full-colour guide to Ipswich was unveiled with the launch of this year's Ipswich Visitors' Guide at the Metro Ipswich International Hotel.

Ipswich City Council Tourism and Libraries Committee chairman David Pahlke said the brochure provided a hard-copy version of information on the many and varied attractions available in Ipswich.

"The guide highlights the various experiences, attractions, tours and accommodation on offer in Ipswich," Cr Pahlke said. A total of 40,000 copies will be distributed through visitor information centres in Queensland and northern New South Wales as well as at various tourism events.

Cr Pahlke said the Ipswich Visitor Guide helped to sell Ipswich to the world and focus attention on all the great things the city had to offer. "This is a great way to familiarise yourself with all the many different things which can be found in your own backyard." Cr Pahlke said the event also marked the launch of a special week - Discover Ipswich Week.

"Running until April 13, the week is designed to raise awareness of the range of visitor experiences available in the city and features a program of locally focussed promotional tourism activities."

Mayor Paul Pisasale said Ipswich's tourism industry provided a considerable economic benefit to the city. "This figure has continued to climb in recent years jumping from $100 million in 2008 to $136 million in 2011," he said. "We play host each year to approximately 16,000 international visitors, 241,000 domestic visitors who stay overnight and 847,000 domestic day visitors." Phone 3281 0555 or visit discoveripswich.com.au.

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Metro Hotel Ipswich International the Place To Be On Melbourne Cup Day

Metro Hotel Ipswich International will once again host its popular Melbourne Cup Luncheon, so it’s time to spruce up your favourite hat, get out your best dress and dust off your stilettos.

The 2012 Melbourne Cup runners will bound out of their starting gates at 3pm on Tuesday 6 November  – the moment when every true blue Aussie will be fixed to a screen watching  as some of the world’s finest horse flesh competes to win the country’s most coveted racing title. And you can be part of the action, watching it all on a super-sized screen along with a host of other party-goers at Metro Hotel Ipswich International.

Celebrations will commence at 12 noon and continue until the conclusion of the race, shortly after 3pm. For the price of $75 per person, guests will enjoy a 4-course lunch, a selection of beverages (including beer, house wine and soft drink), Sweepstakes, raffles, lucky door prizes, a fashion parade and, of course, prizes for the best hat and best dressed guest.

There will also be a prize for the best dressed stiletto heel, with guests invited to be creative and decorate one stiletto for the chance to win one of three prizes from Obsession Shoes.  Stilettos will need to be dropped off at the hotel two weeks prior, and you must be attending the Luncheon to enter the competition.

The Melbourne Cup Luncheon is being held in support of the Ipswich Hospital Foundation (Sunshine Circle Appeal).

Hotel General Manager Ted Matthews said the Melbourne Cup provides a wonderful opportunity to organise a group of friends or work colleagues, to dress up and to celebrate a fabulous occasion, while also helping to raise money for a worthy local cause.

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Metro Hotel Ipswich International Christmas Social Party Postcard

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Christmas Social Party Postcard

Metro Hotel Ipswich International Hosts Cocktail Reception - Metro Hotels

Metro Hotel Ipswich International hosted a Cocktail Reception for 60 people on June 22, 2011 to thank the Ipswich community for supporting the growth of the highly successful Ipswich Festival.

As an important member of the Ipswich community, Metro Hotel Ipswich International encourages other businesses to play a role in helping to increase the attraction of Queensland’s largest regional city for both locals and tourists alike.
As such, it provided the venue, food and beverages free of charge for a thank you Cocktail Reception as its contribution in recognising the role members of the Ipswich community played in ensuring the city and its annual festival continue to grow and flourish.

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New tourism push to make Ipswich nation’s ADRENALINE CAPITAL

Ipswich will sell itself as the adrenaline capital of Australia through an ambitious new tourism campaign unlike anything the region has experienced before.

The Ipswich and visitors Tourism Association (IVTA) has spent the past 18 months working on a campaign titled High Adrenaline, which involves the collaboration of more than 30 businesses, hotels and restaurants.

Mike Jarvis, from Pterodactyl Helicopters, has steered the campaign and said although few people knew it, Ipswich was Australia’s epicenter for adventure themed activities.

Mr Jarvis said Ipswich would become the equivalent of New Zealand’s Queenstown, just without the snow.

“Ipswich will be the adrenaline capital of Australia,” Mr Jarvis said.

The campaign is backed by the Ipswich City Council tourism department.

It will sell the idea of adventure weekends that take tourists on up to six unique adrenaline activities over two days, with the daredevils flown to each via helicopter.

The campaign will launch in two months will be advertised Australia-wide focusing on the corporate market.

The adrenalin activities include drag racing and driving a V8 Supercar at Willowbank, dog fighting in a WWII aircraft, quad biking, skydiving, paintball combat and hovercraft power boating.

“There is nowhere else in the country where you drive at incredible speed around a V8 track in the morning, skydive at lunchtime and race through a river on a hovercraft in the afternoon,” Mr Jarvis said.

Greg Bennie, manager of Brisbane Skydivers, said he was certain the new tourism campaign would work.

“Ipswich does have more to offer than anywhere else in terms of adventure activities in the one area,” he said.

“Having the Willowbank Raceway here gives Ipswich a great advantage over other places in Australia.”

Mr Jarvis said the drag racing component had not been offered before in this country and would see thrill seekers complete a quarter mile in a drag racing machine in just a few seconds.

“Imagine the potential for corporate bonding days or conferences,” Mr Jarvis said.

“Let’s get the big boys to Ipswich and show them what we can do.”

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Amberley Air force base Ipswich in front of “The City of Ipswich” Super Hornet 202

5 Brand new Super Hornets just arrived from the US replacing the outgoing F1-11’s.

In the photo Mayor of Ipswich Paul Pisasale and Alex van Kersen GM Metro Hotel Ipswich International.

Super Hornets are a Boeing Company product and that night Boeing and the Mayor of Ipswich Paul Pisasale organized a Welcome Hornets Dinner party at the Metro Hotel Ipswich International.