Bloody kids these days and their death-defying selfies. Back in our day, the cameras were so big that we’d be lucky to get one up a staircase, let alone onto the ledge of a building.

Have you been waiting with bated breath for Marriott to reveal the opening date for its new Melbourne property? Well, you can now rid yourself of all that anxiety.

You could say this $45 million transformation is the hotel equivalent of Jocelyn Wildenstein’s plastic surgery efforts, except that it looks way better.

Pan Pacific CEO Choe Peng Sum has reportedly gone and bought himself a bigger pair of shoes to fit the company’s enlarged Aussie footprint.

Meanwhile, the most dangerous thing Travel Weekly staff have ever done for a photo opp is to interrupt the office dog while he was eating his lunch.

After four years of construction, “Packer’s Pecker” (aka Crown Sydney) is finally open for Sydneysiders and travellers to enjoy.

It’s rumoured Marriott’s regional boss loves the new resort so much that he now lives in one of its private poolside cabanas.

Get your (eco-friendly) party poppers ready! And by that, we mean chuck a bunch of leaves in a paper bag and get ready scatter them.

The industry body has a new chair for its NSW branch … as in the two-legged human version – not the four-legged type that you sit on.

We’re no drug lords, but we tend to agree with the judge on this one: it’s probably best NOT to leave a presumably open bag of drugs with hotel staff while you go looking for cash.

The group has proven that persistence pays off, with its revised plan for a six-star hotel in Pyrmont getting the green light from the NSW government.

There’s been a change at the top of Hilton Sydney … as in a new boss, not the addition of a rooftop rollercoaster or anything.