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Marney McQueen and Frank Arangio sell Wyong pub for $22 million
Marney McQueen and Frank Arangio sold the Royal Hotel in Wyong for $22 million.
The couple are moving to Melbourne after owning the Central Coast pub for about a decade.
McQueen is an actor who played a pub owner in the Australian stage production of *Priscilla: Queen of the Desert – The Musical*.
The couple bought the hotel in 2016 and spent about $5 million upgrading and renovating it.
The Bayfield family, which runs a hospitality business, bought the pub.
The hotel sits beside Wyong train station and has a bar, food sales, gaming and 14 accommodation rooms.
Its sale adds to hotelier investment along the NSW Central Coast.
The sources do not say what the new owners plan to do with the hotel.
Marney McQueen and her husband Frank Arangio sold the Royal Hotel in Wyong for $22 million.
The buyers are the Bayfield family, who run a hospitality business.
McQueen and Arangio spent about $5 million upgrading and renovating the pub.
They bought the hotel with veteran publican Pat Gurr in 2016 for $7 million.
The couple are moving to Melbourne after spending a decade transforming the Central Coast pub.
- Who
- Actress and pub owner Marney McQueen and her husband, Frank Arangio, sold the Royal Hotel to the Bayfield family.
- What
- The couple sold the Wyong pub for $22 million.
- When
- The sale was reported on October 16, 2026. The sale date is not stated.
- Where
- The Royal Hotel is in Wyong, on the NSW Central Coast.
- Why
- McQueen and Arangio are moving to Melbourne. The reason for the sale is not stated.
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McQueen, Arangio and veteran publican Pat Gurr paid $7 million for the pub.
McQueen and Arangio transformed the Royal Hotel and spent about $5 million upgrading and renovating it.
The sale of the pub for $22 million was reported.
- Sale price
- $22 million
- Buyer
- Bayfield family
- Location
- Wyong, NSW Central Coast
- Purchase price in 2016
- $7 million
- Renovation spending
- About $5 million