The Star Brisbane Event Centre slated to open in April 2024

Bookings open for the city’s largest hotel ballroom located within Queen's Wharf Brisbane.

The Star Brisbane.
The Star Brisbane. Photo Credit: The Star Brisbane

The Star Brisbane Event Centre is open for bookings as it gears up to welcome its first guests from April 2024.

The 3,500sqm Event Centre is anchored by Brisbane’s largest ballroom, for up to 2,000 guests. It lies at the heart of Brisbane’s new A$3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf precinct.

Kelvin Dodt, COO at The Star Brisbane, said the Event Centre would significantly bolster the region’s destination appeal ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

“In designing this high spec Event Centre, we’ve kept variety and flexibility front of mind, creating a series of transformational spaces to cater to events of all shapes and sizes. Whether you require a sit-down gala dinner for 1,400 guests, an 1,800-person cocktail soirée or a product launch, exhibition or trade show, the Event Centre at The Star Brisbane inspires big ideas and bold concepts and heralds a thrilling new era for events in Queensland,” said Dodt.

Quick facts:

  • The Star Brisbane’s new 3,500-sqm Event Centre has the ability to host large tradeshows, accommodating up to 120 booths when the Event Centre Foyer and Ballroom are combined.
  • The 2,000-sqm pillarless ballroom is Brisbane’s largest hotel ballroom with capacity to host up to 2,000 (theatre),1,800 people (cocktail), 1,440 (banquet).
  • Six-metre-high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows to the east for amazing natural light.
  • Flexibility to be spilt into five separate serviceable ballroom spaces.
  • A pre-function area for pre and post function activities and six breakout rooms that can cater for up to 120 people (theatre).

The Star Brisbane Event Centre will be serviced by four future luxury hotels including The Star’s signature five-star hotel, The Star Grand Brisbane, which comprises 340 luxury rooms across two crescent-shaped towers. It connects via pedestrian link to Brisbane’s South Bank cultural precinct and the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC).

Queen’s Wharf Brisbane, the city’s newest lifestyle and MICE precinct: where the Star Brisbane Event Centre is located.
Queen’s Wharf Brisbane, the city’s newest lifestyle and MICE precinct: where the Star Brisbane Event Centre is located.

Queen’s Wharf Brisbane

The 12-hectare Queen’s Wharf Brisbane precinct includes the signature showpiece Sky Deck, Brisbane’s veranda over the city. It will have a 250-m rooftop runway of restaurants and bars floating 100 m above the Brisbane River, and will become a place where locals and visitors can meet and mingle, book private functions, or simply soak up breathtaking 360-degree views.

The 12,000sqm open-air Leisure Deck also offers abundant event and entertainment opportunities and the equivalent of two football fields of mixed-use space.

The precinct is expected to draw some 1.4 million additional visitors annually once open.