Suite treat in the wild west

Sweet deal: the chief executive-friendly rooms.

This Perth addition is rare find, writes Fleur Bainger.

Let's be frank: such is the demand for accommodation in Perth that hoteliers don't need to make much of an effort to turn a coin. In the Wild West, it's dryly acknowledged that operators can charge excessive rates, offer very little and yet still enjoy a full house.

Just look at the figures: Perth's average hotel room rate is the highest in the country at $211 a night, and it's tipped to keep climbing.

The polished lobby.

A mix of mining booms, a ferocious economy and good Asian connectivity mean Perth is a hub for fly-in, fly-out business and leisure travellers with deep pockets. They all but monopolise hotel beds, with occupancy sitting at about 86.5 per cent on a good day - far above the national rate. It's even been claimed the isolated capital has the highest hotel occupancy rate in the world.

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With all that in mind, it's refreshing to see far more than blithe consideration taken in the delivery of Perth's newest hotel, Fraser Suites. Not only that but its room rates, surprisingly, don't reek of opportunism. Starting at $245, they might even be called good value - not something terribly common in the land of dust and dollars.

The Singaporean-owned development is one of only two new multimillion-dollar hotels to spring up in the city in the past six years - the other is a boutique venture holding just 15 suites - so there is more than a lick of interest in the newest addition to the Asian chain.

The 19-storey Fraser Suites.

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Suite treat in the wild west