Sydney’s Star to charge $3000 a night for ‘Cyberpunk’ room
![The Astral’s Cyberpunk room, yours for $3000 a night.](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CYBERPUNK-1.jpg)
Star Entertainment Group is spending an unprecedented $1 billion in Sydney as competition heats up between it and rival gaming group Crown.
Star is spending more than $500,000 to create two fantasy-themed hotel rooms rivalling the best on offer in Las Vegas and California.
Charging $3000 a night for its Cyberpunk room, which sleeps just two, The Star is trying to attract gamers to its 300-plus-room The Astral Hotel in Pyrmont.
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The Cyberpunk room is the size of three hotel rooms and features a virtual reality room, as well as four hi-resplution monitors designed for gaming, a bar seating six, a dining area and a circular bed under a mirrored ceiling.
![Astral Hotel Sydney](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CYBERPUNK-2.jpg)
Inside the Cyberpubk room at The Astral.
Another themed room, the Dark Romance suite, costs $800 a night and features a cosy log fire and a TV screen in a separate living room plus a canopied bed. A circular bath is in the adjacent room. The Dark Romance suite, which spans two average-sized hotel suites, also has a veranda with love seat.
The Star general manager of hotels John Autelitano, formerly of the Ritz Carlton Group, designed the new hotel suites, which open to the public next month.
![Star Entertainment Astral Hotel](https://www.realcommercial.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DARK-ROMANCE-SUITE.jpg)
The Dark Romance suite inside Star Entertainment Group’s Astral Hotel.
Autelitano says he hopes to add more themed rooms to The Astral and is considering a James Bond-styled suite.
He says: “These themed rooms are starting to become popular. We are starting to create a trend, people want something different.
“I would love to do another two or three.”
This article originally appeared on www.theaustralian.com.au/property.