Spent a few days in Launceston for a conference last week. I stayed at the Penny Royal - this has been a longstanding ambition and now I can say I've done it. I don't really understand the background to the Penny Royal at all, and the website for it doesn't help:
The JAC Group purchased the Penny Royal Hotel and Apartments in 2013 together with a derelict theme park located at the bottom of a twenty-metre cliff behind the complex. The Penny Royal colonial era theme park was originally developed by Roger Smith in 1979 and then sold to various operators before ending up closed for a decade and left in a state of total disrepair. Josef was keen to restore the theme park to its former glory because it was Tasmania’s only theme park and an important part of Launceston’s heritage. After consulting with his team, the JAC Group spent twenty million dollars to redevelop the complex which was officially opened by the Premier of Tasmania the Hon. Will Hodgman MP on a rainy evening the 18th March 2016. The redevelopment involved demolishing and faithfully rebuilding the old buildings to fit them out with new restaurants, cafes and bars, as well as an ice creamery and wood fired pizzeria.
I mean, the weird bit is that this story is told backwards and I really want to know more about whether this is an old place or not - ? The website is about the theme park anyway not the hotel which is right next door. This is the kind of thing Wikipedia should be doing for us not shit about baseball statistics. Or whatever most of Wikipedia is about, I don't know.
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