Any truth to the rumour JQ had to cancel a whole bunch of DRWs because the hotel contract never got renewed and there is little to no ad-hoc rooms available?
Some crews resorting to calling hotels directly and if there is no bookings for them, they are refusing to fly there.
If true, that is a whole new level of amateurish management, sorry, mismanagement. Seems like the only people they treat worse than their customers are their staff.