Mercure not planning to check in late

ACCOR Hotels maintains its $20 million new Mercure Hotel at Southport is still on track to open in “late 2019”, despite issuing a statement yesterday that it was set to launch in 2021.

Mercure Hotels announced in May that its four-star new addition was set for launch in November next year, saying it would feature 160 rooms, a rooftop bar and conference facilities.

However Mercure’s parent company Accor sent out a new statement yesterday, which mentioned the Gold Coast project among four others, giving it a new launch date of 2021 and saying it had only 130 rooms.

Asked to clarify, the company said there had been an “internal error” in the statement, and that the hotel was still “on track for a late 2019 opening”.

“However due to design developments there is a possibility that the opening could be pushed out further. It’s not unusual for large hotel projects that timeline schedules move,” a spokeswoman said.