Tune budget hotels set for Sydney, Melbourne

Fri, 04/27/2012 - 03:55 — Anonymous Complaints about the high price of
holidaying in Oz are set to lose a little legitimacy with the news that Tune
Hotels is about to set up shop with new budget hotels in both Melbourne and
Sydney. The no-frills hotel chain -- owned by AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes
-- opened its first property in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2007 with rooms
selling for as little as US$3 a night. Melbourne will be first Australian
destination to get a Tune hotel, when a Swanson Street branch opens in August
next year. After that, Melbourne appears to be next on a hit list that's
bound to have the established hotels looking over their shoulders. More on
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