Five million and counting…
May 2013
The management team at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, this year celebrating its 130th anniversary, are more vigilant than usual right now.
For sometime during the next eight to 12 weeks the hotel will welcome its five millionth guest.
Whoever it is will be in for a surprise. He or she may have already made an online booking for a night or two between now and August 31, and be totally unaware that, upon arrival, they will be greeted as the five millionth guest to walk through the hotel’s famous front doors.
The history-making guest will receive five nights accommodation for two in the hotel’s fabulous Royal Suite, with the services of a dedicated butler and able to host their nearest and dearest to a sumptuous private dinner party for six.
According to David Perry, the Windsor’s CEO and General Manager, it’s just one of the many surprises, milestones and celebrations underway to mark the anniversary of Australia’s most renowned and cherished grand hotel.
“We’ve spent months going through our records and plotting out when the five millionth guest would be likely to arrive,” Mr Perry said. “Somehow the team has managed to narrow it down, and the way things are currently tracking that guest will walk through our doors by mid-August. We can’t think of another hotel in Australia that would have welcomed five million guests – that’s more than the present population of New Zealand.”
And there is much more in store for the many devotees of the hotel.
The Windsor is continuing its What’s Your Windsor Story campaign and is receiving a fascinating range of mementos, souvenirs, and recollections from former guests and employees. These will be professionally collated into a free public exhibition at the hotel, which will open in mid-December.
The Windsor is also offering former wedding guests an opportunity to stay in a luxurious suite for the same price they paid to stay at the hotel on their wedding night. Couples are being asked to send copies of their wedding photograph taken at the hotel or any receipts in order to book a suite at a rate based on the rate of the year they were married. For anyone who married at the hotel more than 30 years ago, it will be just $40 a night to stay in the elegant Windsor Suite and only $10 for a couple married for 40 or more years ago to enjoy a Windsor Victorian Suite. And for anyone who married at the hotel 60 or more years ago – and so far one couple has been found – the hotel is offering two nights’ free accommodation in the Royal Suite.
“Much, much more is planned,” Perry added. “Our focus as we celebrate 130 wonderful years is on sharing the hotel’s extraordinary history and connecting with the Melbourne and Victorian community.”
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