Lodge proprietor and entrepreneur Dr. Jerry Schwartz and impartial administration firm Trilogy Accommodations are pioneering a premium sports activities hospitality providing via the combination of high-performance coaching services inside a luxurious resort setting at Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains.
Nestled within the Blue Mountains group of Leura, the secluded Fairmont resort has been remodeled into an elite coaching retreat, serving because the coaching camp for state rugby league workforce the New South Wales Blues this yr.
A AU$600,000 funding from Schwartz noticed the event of the power together with a non-public gymnasium with top-of-the-line gear and a considerably upgraded area at Blue Mountains Grammar College.
With the help of Trilogy Accommodations CEO Scott Boyes, the workforce positive aspects entry to state-of-the-art services alongside the facilities, premium hospitality and peaceable environment of a nature-based lodge.
Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains
A 15-year friendship between Boyes and the Blues coach Michael Maguire was the catalyst for the creation of this devoted coaching camp.
“Late final yr, Michael Maguire known as and requested for recommendation on his plan to shake issues up and transfer the workforce out of Sydney to someplace extra personal for workforce bonding,” stated Boyes.
“The Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains got here prime of thoughts and appeared becoming for the ‘Blues’. I knew that Dr Jerry Schwartz could be the correct individual to assist make this imaginative and prescient occur.”
Since Might this yr, the Blues have been stationed on the resort on camp weeks, partaking in rigorous coaching and team-building actions.
Gamers additionally gained entry to the resort’s six eating places and bars, golf course, sauna, pool and an ice-skating rink.
All through their keep, the workforce – which celebrated a State of Origin win over the Queensland Maroons final week – has skilled the lodge’s premium hospitality with guards of honour upon arrival and the Blues’ theme music enjoying within the lodge.
Head Chef, Emilo Llaussas, crafted a bespoke high-protein menu and schedule for the gamers, full with complement stations to make sure prime diet.
“We owe an enormous thanks to Scott, Jerry, the Fairmont workforce and your complete Blue Mountains group for supporting us in the best way that they did – they actually went above and past, we couldn’t have executed this with out them,” stated NSW Coach Michael Maguire.
“The mix of intense coaching and moments of respite and leisure has been key to our preparation. I wished to unite all of the gamers, whether or not it was within the gymnasium, on the sector or sitting across the dinner desk, I wished them to make use of each out there second to bond and construct belief on and off the sector.”
Following the workforce’s current win, the sector has been adorned with the writing, ‘2024 State of Origin Winners, The Blue’s Area of Desires’.
“The gamers stated it was the very best area that they had ever performed on, and it has now develop into a cherished reward from Dr. Schwartz to the Blue Mountains Grammar College,” stated Boyes.
Just the start
As the most important privately owned lodge group in Australia, Schwartz Household Firm is taking a lead on sports activities hospitality, with this enterprise with Trilogy Accommodations – which now operates 4 of its accommodations – only the start.
The Fairmont resort is meant to function the last word all-inclusive coaching vacation spot, for the nation’s elite athletes and sporting groups, with plans underway to construct a brand new rugby area subsequent to the resort.
“Pending council approval, we’re desirous to get it underway as quickly as attainable, we’re prepared to start out building, and grass grown earlier than subsequent winter,” stated Schwartz.
There are additionally plans to increase the present gymnasium services to incorporate a restoration wing that includes ice baths amongst different parts.
“We look ahead to constructing a beacon for elite sports activities groups for years to return,” stated Boyes.
“Simply over an hour and a half from Sydney, groups can privately prepare with distinctive services, below a cover of stars, surrounded by the purest air, and with out distraction.”
