POSTED: 25 AUGUST 2010

Floriade’s closest hotel in full bloom for the festival*

Crowne Plaza Canberra will celebrate Australia’s biggest flora festival by displaying hundreds of fragrant flowers and plants throughout the hotel between 11September and 10 October 10.

The hotel will also celebrate the arrival of Floriade with a series of complimentary food-and-wine tastings in its sunny atrium. Hotel guests will be able to warm up at morning tea with complimentary cupcakes and hot chocolate while afternoon tastings from local gourmet smokehouse Poachers Pantry will be matched to local wines throughout the festival.

Keeping to the spring theme, guests will also be greeted with a refreshing botanical aroma and a soundtrack inspired by buds and blooms in the hotel foyer and atrium.

Located in the centre of the city, Crowne Plaza Canberra is the closest hotel to the Floriade site, just a five-minute walk away at Commonwealth Park. Guests at the hotel don’t have to travel far to enjoy the garden bed displays and experience the entertainment and local food and wine of the free-to-enter festival.

To celebrate this year’s festival, Crowne Plaza Canberra is offering a special Floriade Package, including overnight accommodation, buffet breakfast for two in Redsalt Restaurant, complimentary car parking and a two-for-one drink voucher in Binara One bar, from $275 per night, valid for stays from 11 September to 10 October. For details or to book, call 138 388 or visit www.crowneplaza.com.au/canberra.

The hotel’s close proximity to Floriade also means revellers looking to experience the festival by night with Floriade Nightfest can avoid long taxi cues when the event closes at 10:30pm.

Enjoy the bustling night markets, fantastic food and wine and entertainment of the festival’s evening sessions held for five days only, September 22-26, with Crowne Plaza Canberra’s Floriade NightFest Package, including overnight accommodation, two tickets to Floriade NightFest and late checkout of 2:00pm, from $280 per night. Valid for stays during Floriade NightFest only.

*Based on media release issued by Crowne Plaza Canberra.

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Crowne Plaza Canberra's sunny atrium ... site for a series of complimentary food-and-wine tastings during floriade.