AUSTRALIA’S BEST RESORT STYLE ACCOMMODATION

 AHA HONOURS PINCTADA CABLE BEACH AS AUSTRALIA’S BEST RESORT STYLE ACCOMMODATION

Just over a year since its opening in August 2009, Pinctada Cable Beach has been honoured by the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) as offering Australia’s Best Resort Style Accommodation.

The prestigious award was announced at the AHA National Awards for Excellence presentation ceremony before 500 industry leaders at Sydney’s Westin Hotel on Sunday night. Pinctada Cable Beach’s signature restaurant SELENE Brasserie was also a finalist in the category for Australia’s best restaurant in the accommodation division of the awards.

Pinctada Cable Beach, the flagship of Pinctada Hotels & Resorts, is a five-star spa resort in Broome, the western gateway to the unique Kimberley region of northwest Australia.

Marilynne Paspaley AM, Founder, Owner and Managing Director of Pinctada Hotels & Resorts, said she is both delighted and stunned by the honour.

“To be recognised by the AHA as offering Australia’s best resort style accommodation is a great and unexpected honour, particularly as it comes just over a year since we opened,” Marilynne said.  “I am very proud of the entire Pinctada team – they have shared my vision to create a world class spa resort in the world class destination that is the Kimberley and I am thrilled their efforts have been acknowledged with this prestigious award. I am also delighted that SELENE Brasserie was named as a finalist in the restaurant award category. There were 10 finalists in this category, representing some of the finest dining establishments in Australia. To be included among them is again a great honour and deserved recognition for the Pinctada kitchen brigade and wait staff as well as our consulting chef Greg Malouf of MoMo who designed our menu to suit the Broome climate and fresh produce of the Kimberley region.”

AHA National CEO Des Crowe said Australia’s Best Resort Style Accommodation award is judged on an ‘unannounced’ site visit with judges considering all aspects of hotel operations including service, guest rooms, facilities and amenities, restaurants and bars, decor and environmental sustainability.

“Our judges felt Pinctada Cable Beach ticked all the boxes, offering a unique and luxurious resort experience that captures the essence of its Broome destination,” he said today.  “Pinctada Cable Beach may be a ‘new kid on the block’, but it has already made a significant impact on the tourism appeal of the Kimberley region and it is a great achievement to be recognised as Australia’s finest in the strongly contested resort category.”

Pinctada Cable Beach is a $33 million development and the first full service hotel to be built in Broome for two decades, offering a world-class day spa, an asymmetrical feature pool, meditative gardens, graciously sized guests rooms, a guest fitness room and dining and bar venues including SELENE Brasserie, BRIZO Pool Bar and NYX Bar.  The intimate 72-room spa resort reflects the colours and textures of the Kimberley landscape and pays homage to the rich heritage and eclectic culture of the famous pearling town of Broome.

“Respecting and reflecting our destination was key to the development of Pinctada Cable Beach and these values remain the foundation of our operation,” Marilynne said.  “The Kimberley region is unique in landscape, spirit, culture and heritage.  There is nowhere in the world like the Kimberley and my vision was to capture and reflect this uniqueness in Pinctada Cable Beach so we can offer our guests not only a rewarding Kimberley experience, but also an experience that captures the essence of Australia.”

Marilynne said she was also delighted that the award acknowledges the level of service Pinctada Cable Beach offers.

“I believe the greatest ‘luxury’ we can offer travellers is an environment where they feel so ‘at home’ with us, so nurtured and cared for, that they can switch off from life’s daily routine and truly relax,” she said.   “While our spa resort provides the comfort, our people are the essence of Pinctada.   Our staff members are genuine hosts, by profession and by nature, who truly understand personal service – it’s about taking note of how you, the customer, is feeling, anticipating your needs, customising experiences to suit your preferences and curiosities and creating an atmosphere where you have a sense of belonging.  Often it’s the small, thoughtful gestures that leave the biggest impression and I’m delighted our hosts consistently create such memories for our guests.”

The design of Pinctada Cable Beach also celebrates Broome’s tropical climate, capturing natural light and featuring flow-through ventilation in all guest rooms and public venues, which not only enhances enjoyment of the Broome climate, but also takes advantage of prevailing breezes, reducing energy consumption. Louvers and overhead fans are a key feature of the resort. Other resource-saving measures at Pinctada Cable Beach include grey water treatment, solar water heating and intelligent power management that includes daylight harvesting. Landscaping, by Jamie Durie’s Patio Landscape Architecture and Design, features mainly native plants that use minimal water and are drought tolerant.

Pinctada Hotels & Resorts’ portfolio of bespoke hotels in distinctive Australian landscapes also includes Pinctada Kimberley Grande, a homestead-style resort in the East Kimberley town of Kununurra, and Pinctada McAlpine House, a century-old former Master Pearler’s home in Broome which incorporates the five-bedroom villa Captain Kennedy House. 

www.pinctada.com.au

2010 Pinctada Cable Beach Spa Resort: Winner AHA National Awards For Excellence – Best Resort Style Accommodation

2010 SELENE Brasserie, Pinctada Cabl
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