Fortitude Valley

The Fortitude Valley is Brisbane's nightlife and entertainment district and features an increasing number of boutique and luxury hotels that are being recognised around the world. The Valley area boasts an amazing collection of high end, vintage and upcoming designers that will satisfy any avid shopper.

The Fortitude Valley area is really where Brisbane get's its nickname Brisvegas, a play on the much more famous US City Las Vegas. Like the world’s famous Las Vegas Brisbane features some of our best Casinos, Nightclubs, and Entertainment venues in Australia.

The area is known for the best cocktail bars and mixologists in Brisbane with Barsoma, The Bowery, The Press Club, Alhambra and so many more. If you are looking for the biggest names in rock and grunge you can check out who is playing at The Zoo, The Depot, Club 299 or The Empire Hotel. Following on for a great after party Brisvegas is home to some of Brisbane's super clubs such as The Family, The Beat and Cloudland you can usually find an international DJ playing most weekends.

For a complete list of Fortitude Valley venues check out Your Bars

Other areas around Fortitude Valley include Brunswick Street Mall, China Town, and the upmarket suburb of New Farm and riverside Teneriffe. The art and fashionable types can be spotted down near The Emporium Hotel on James Street. Take your pick of spots amongst European sports cars and high end HSV W427 Australian muscle cars. James Street has the best designer stores for shoes, clothes, furniture or Bose entertainment systems and Sass & Bide's first store.

The Limes Hotel features a rooftop cocktail lounge with a reputation for some of the best nights being the first Australian member of Design Hotels group. Limes is a lively hotel that helps ensure Brisvegas keeps its reputation of being the Las Vegas down under. The Limes Hotel also features a rooftop cinema and regularly screens art-house and classic flicks to its guests and patrons. Guests can expect a little bit extra with facilities and inclusions manage to exceed most expectations for the price.

The luxury hotel to consider when staying in Brisvegas is the impressive Emporium Hotel that has won almost more awards than it has luxury studio suites. This is the first hotel in Brisbane to be designed with luxury in mind catering to both leisure and corporate travellers. Being just minutes away from the Valley nightlife and James street, this hotel has possible the best location in Brisbane.

So if you are flying in for the night or looking for a special Brisvegas hotel while in town, you can be sure that Fortitude Valley will have several suitable hotel options.