Fancy Hotel In Sydney Is Giving Victorians A Room For Just $1 A Night

Victorians were finally allowed to cross the NSW border without a permit or quarantine for the first time in nearly 140 days.

Many have streamed across border crossings or landed in airports with tears and cheers.

One Sydney hotel has decided to make a very juicy offer to their southern neighbours if they need somewhere to stay.

The Star Grand Hotel will be giving out rooms to Victorians for just $1 a night in the Superior King Room from November 23 and December 30.

There will only 100 rooms on offer so you have to get in quick and the sale begins at 5pm AEST today (November 23).

In a statement, the Star wrote: "After a long lockdown, the promotion is aimed at giving wanderlust Victorians keen for a much-deserved interstate holiday the perfect excuse for a Sydney escape. With award-winning restaurants, indulgent spa and non-stop entertainment at every turn, The Star Sydney is the ultimate getaway destination."

You can get in line here.

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The border reopening officially kicked in at 12:01 this morning (November 23) and has been a long time in the making.

The border was closed as Victoria began experiencing a second wave of coronavirus infections and, like every other state and territory in the country, NSW shut its borders to ensure a similar situation didn't erupt.

There were border restrictions for 137 days as Victoria tried everything in the book to bring cases down to a minimum.

Victoria has since had more than three weeks of no new locally transmitted cases and NSW has gone more than two weeks without the same.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian acknowledged the hard border closure has been hard on many.

"We never want to see this ever again," she said. "This is the last time in our lifetime this border is closed and we know tomorrow morning after midnight it will be a whole new era for both of our states.

"I'm just pleased that life will get back to normal tomorrow and I want to thank the community for your patience, your resilience and also for being a great example to the rest of New South Wales," she said.

When the border was officially opened, they sure as hell made a party out of it.

At the Albury-Wodonga crossing, police blared their sirens, DJs pumped music and drivers beeped their horns as people were finally able to move across state lines. It was almost like a mini-New Year's Eve celebration.

Topics: Australia

Stewart Perrie

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