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- InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach opens in December 2025 with 198 rooms.
- Features Rick Stein’s newest Australian restaurant and Shutters Bar & Restaurant.
- Coastal design blends sun-washed interiors with ocean views throughout.
- Leisure deck with infinity pool, bar, and spa opens March 2026.
- A sanctuary for food, wellness, and relaxed coastal living near Sydney
We’ve had our first look inside the InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach, which is set to open in December 2025. The ultra-luxe coastal hotel will have 198 guest rooms, including 22 suites, and will be home to Rick Stein at Coogee Beach (the celebrity chef’s latest Australian location) and Shutters Restaurant & Bar.
With sun-washed interiors and ocean views from nearly every corner of the hotel, it’s shaping up as the perfect coastal retreat, just 20 minutes from Sydney’s CBD.
Perfect for weekend getaways or tourists seeking to incorporate extended coastal living into their Australian holiday, the focus here will be on great food, comfortable living, and wellness. The aim is not to offer a “luxury hotel” as per tradition, but a sanctuary that feels restorative and deeply connected to its natural setting at Coogee Beach. More will be revealed closer to the hotel’s opening, but for now, let’s take a closer look inside the InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach.
It’s still early days for the hotel, with the unveiling of the leisure deck, featuring an ocean-facing infinity-edge swimming pool, poolside bar, outdoor event terrace, indulgent Day Spa, and Club InterContinental, still to come before it opens in March 2026. However, the details of the guest experience are evident.
You’ll be able to begin your day with sunrise yoga by the sea or an invigorating game of pickleball on the hotel’s dedicated courts. Alternatively, go for a walk along Coogee’s coastal paths or indulge in breakfast delivered to your ocean-facing room.
Design-wise, the hotel gives us the impression of the Huntington, Newport Beach, California lifestyle, with curved, wave-like joinery that traces the lines of the shore outside. Sun-washed whites and smooth textures create a contemporary calm connected to the sea. There appears to be thoughtful design everywhere you look, most notably, in the floor-to-ceiling windows and abundance of open-air spaces, that flow from coastline to interior.
The InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach is set to open in December 2025, featuring 198 guestrooms and suites, as well as Shutters Restaurant & Bar.
“Coogee has such a welcoming energy, and I wanted the food to reflect that,” said Executive Chef Stephen Lech on the opening of the restaurant. “It’s about cooking with ingredients when they’re at their best and letting them speak for themselves. We’re incredibly lucky to have such beautiful produce, especially seafood right on our doorstep, and with the outlook we have over Coogee Beach, it makes sense to be heroing these flavours. Together with the team, we’ve created a menu designed to share and change with the seasons.”
“Coogee has this lovely, easy rhythm to it, and I wanted the food to feel the same—fresh, generous and not over-complicated. If you’re sitting here with a plate of burrata, heirloom carrots, barbequed King Prawns and a sea breeze drifting in, that’s exactly the kind of experience I hope people have.”
Then, in March 2026, the leisure deck, featuring the ocean-facing infinity-edge swimming pool, poolside bar, outdoor event terrace, spa, and Club InterContinental, is scheduled to open. More information about the new coastal hotel near the Sydney CBD, please visit the website, linked below.
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