Are you of the opinion that Sydney already has too many hotels? Well, according to this lot, you (and the state government) are dead wrong.

The construction giant’s parent company has blamed the Australian government’s “hard-line approach of managing Covid-19” for its demise.

Ahead of W Sydney’s grand opening in November, we had a chat with its director of sales and marketing to see if we could get a discount room. Just kidding… or are we?

This week, the GM of W Sydney showed us how to make “toad in the hole”. We politely declined to eat the monstrosity.

While the accompanying photo looks more like a stylised oil painting, we guarantee Marriott’s new hire is a real human.