Hotel X Is Fortitude Valley’s Soon-to-Open New Hotel with a French Restaurant and Rooftop Bar – Concrete Playground

Over the past decade, Brisbane has welcomed a hefty amount of new boutique hotels, giving travellers plenty of luxurious places to stay and gifting locals more than a few spots to book in a staycation. The next set to join the ranks is Hotel X — and, towering over Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley, it marks the brand’s first-ever venue anywhere in the world.

If you’ve walked, cycled or driven from New Farm to the Valley (or vice versa) over the past year or so, you would’ve noticed construction occurring on the block that used to house the suburb’s Blockbuster video store. Come February 22, Hotel X will throw open its doors there, with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Queensland-based developers Pointcorp joining forces on…