The Westin Brisbane
Hotel111 Mary Street, Brisbane City QLD 4000
- 400Theatre
- 280Banquet
- 400Cocktail
- 298Rooms
Inspected by CVBS
A 298 room hotel on Mary Street in the Brisbane CBD, with one ballroom of 450 square metres that divides into two, and a pair of smaller Elevate rooms alongside it. The case for this hotel is a residential conference that does not have to move: plenary on the event floor, delegates in the lifts above it, and the pool deck for the welcome function.
It is not a plenary venue above 400. If your main room needs more than that, or you are running four concurrent streams, this is the wrong building and we would put Sofitel Brisbane Central or Hilton Brisbane in front of you instead.
What it suits
Good for
- Residential conferences of 150 to 350 delegates
- Awards dinners and gala nights to 280
- National sales meetings that want plenary and beds in one lift core
- Board and executive programs in the Elevate rooms
- Welcome functions on the pool deck
Look elsewhere for
- Plenaries above 400 in a single room
- Four or five concurrent breakout streams
- Trade exhibitions needing floor load and rigging
- Programs that need a published ceiling height signed off early
Accommodation
298 rooms and suites sit directly above the event floor, so a residential conference and its room block share one lift core. The photographs below are of a king room and its bathroom.
Room layouts and capacity
| Space | Area sqm | Theatre | Classroom | Conference | U-shape | Cocktail | Banquet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westin Ballroom | 450 | 400 | 240 | 224 | – | 400 | 280 |
| Westin Ballroom 1 | 300 | 205 | 136 | 120 | 48 | 220 | 150 |
| Westin Ballroom 2 | 150 | 135 | 105 | 80 | 42 | 80 | 100 |
| Elevate | 100 | 96 | 57 | 48 | 33 | 80 | 60 |
| Elevate 1 | 40 | 40 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 35 | 20 |
| Elevate 2 | 60 | 50 | 27 | 24 | 19 | 45 | 30 |
| Pre-function Area | 150 | – | – | – | – | 200 | – |
| The Pier | 80 | 60 | – | – | – | 80 | 60 |
| The Promenade | 100 | – | – | – | – | 150 | 40 |
| Chairman’s Lounge | – | – | – | 8 | – | 50 | 10 |
| Nautilus Pool Deck | – | – | – | – | – | 250 | – |
| The Podium | – | – | – | 16 | – | 15 | 20 |
| Thrive | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Where these figures come from, and why a dash is not a zero
A dash means the hotel publishes no figure for that setup. It does not mean the room cannot be set that way, only that we will not print a number the hotel has not published.
Every figure is read from The Westin Brisbane's own capacity chart, checked 5 September 2026. Never estimated, never taken from a directory. Areas are omitted for the pool deck and podium because the hotel's chart prints an impossible figure for both.
Where the hotel’s own sources carry different figures, we use the current chart and confirm it with the venue before it reaches a shortlist.
The building
Recent changes
August 2026. Settimo, the Guy Grossi restaurant that opened with the hotel, has closed. Batica, a modern Australian restaurant on level one, opened in its place under executive chef Massimo Speroni. Worth knowing before a conference dinner goes into a proposal.
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Questions organisers ask
What size conference can it hold?
The Westin Ballroom seats 400 theatre, 280 for a banquet, 240 classroom and 400 for a cocktail reception, across 450 square metres. It divides into two rooms of 300 and 150 square metres.
Is there accommodation on site?
Yes, 298 rooms and suites above the event floor.
How many meeting rooms are there?
Six. The published chart lists thirteen named spaces, but several are outdoor terraces, the pool deck or the pre-function area.
What is the ceiling height?
Four metres in the Elevate rooms, Thrive and the pre-function area. The hotel publishes no ceiling height for the ballroom, which is the room most people are asking about.
Is it big enough for a large conference?
Not above 400 in one room. For comparison, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre's Great Hall takes 3,900 theatre, The Star Brisbane's Event Centre 1,800, Sofitel Brisbane Central 1,056 and Hilton Brisbane 800.
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Sources, photography and how we work
Capacities read from the hotel's own published chart on 5 September 2026.
We do not see every room on every visit. Where we were not in a room, its figures come from the hotel's own chart rather than from us. We do not rate or score venues and we do not publish rates.
Our service is free to you. We are independent of every venue we put forward, no venue is favoured, and your interests come first.