2025 Study Tour Overview
Just as the hotel industry remains dynamic, so will the Pub Leaders’ Summit conference program! Expect a wide range of topics covering various facets of pub operations, including F&B, modern marketing, increasing venue profitability and more.
DAY 2 – Study Tour
Tuesday 22 July
Day Two is a half-day Hotel Study Tour across Queensland visiting a range of iconic venues and offering insight into how our most dynamic operators are running their venues. Transportation is included in your ticket—venues and timings to be confirmed.
| The PLS Study Tour is for publicans and venue operations staff only. Due to limited numbers, suppliers are unable to register. Study Tour Pass can only be bought in conjunction with the Pub Leaders Summit Pass. | |
| 9:00am | Depart Eatons Hill |
| 9.25am – 10.10am | VENUE 1: Dakabin Hotel |
| 11.15am – 11.55am | VENUE 2: The Grand View Hotel |
| 12.10pm – 1.10pm | VENUE 3: Lord Stanley Hotel |
| 1.10pm | Return to Eatons Hill |
*Program subject to change
The Dakabin Hotel
Dakabin Hotel is the newest greenfields hotel development from the award-winning Comiskey Group. The $35m pub project includes a one-restaurant, two-kitchen concept, delivering a unique dining experience that blends modern Australian fare with international influences. Another major offering within the pub is the Sin Bin Sports Bar, with an expansive LED screen, complemented by a circular LED display above the bar. Additional features include electronic darts, pool tables, a gaming room, a kids’ arcade, a half basketball court, and a sunken fireplace on the patio. Dakabin Hotel opened to the public in late May.
The Grand View Hotel
Queensland’s oldest licensed pub, the Grand View Hotel in Cleveland, is currently undergoing a major renovation by Kickon Group. While incorporating and celebrating heritage aspects of the 174-year-old building, the Grand View Hotel will boast a new kitchen equipped with a rotisserie oven and woodfired pizza oven; a purpose-built function space seating around 120 guests complete with its own bar and restrooms; plus a range of seating options on the grass overlooking the bay at the rear of the venue, along with a big screen for live sports. An undercover dining terrace, to connect the inside lounge bar to the outdoors, is also in the works. With works ongoing, Study Tour attendees will be getting a hard-hat look at the renovations in progress in what will be one of the most anticipated pub re-openings in SEQ.
The Lord Stanley Hotel
Bought by the Hakfoort Group in 2022, the beloved Lord Stanley Hotel in East Brisbane has been closed since May 2024 as it undergoes a $15m renovation covering both major refurbishments and extensions. The transformative renovation includes one of Brisbane’s greenest beer gardens; a brand new state-of-the-art gaming room; a sports bar; restaurant; a 200” LED television wall; a kids playground; a function room; and new deck overlooking the lights of the beloved Gabba. Recently re-opened, Study Tour attendees will be amongst the first to view the pub’s new look.