South Coast NSW
The simple national-park campsite at Saltwater Creek, along the Light to Light Walk and near a beautiful sandy beach, has 14 tent sites and basic…
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Melbourne
With refreshing honesty, the endearing Best Western names some room categories 'matchbox’ and 'shoebox' – but what you don’t get in size is made up for in…
The East Coast
Away from the main holiday hubbub, right on the beach about 4km north of Coles Bay, this small resort dances to the beat of its own drum. It has keenly…
The East Coast
Darlington's brick penitentiary once housed the island’s convicts. These days it's simple accommodation, with mostly six-bunk rooms, shared bathrooms and…
Yulara
With a lively bar, barbecue restaurant and musical entertainment, this is the budget choice for noncampers. The cheapest options are the 20-bed YHA unisex…
Perth
Capping off the quiet lower end of Perth's CBD, towering Fraser Suites offers modern corporate apartments with plenty of room for families or long-stay…
West Coast Australia
The abbey offers lodging in the Monastery Guesthouse, within the walls of the southern cloister. Guests can join in prayers with the monks (and men can…
Victoria
Crafted from locally grown or recycled wood, these self-contained cabins a few kilometres from the park are works of art. The timbers are all labelled…
Perth
This suburban three-room B&B offers three attractive, comfortable queen bedrooms in a modern house a short drive from unheralded Trigg Beach. Each has…
Darwin
Relatively quiet, secure and comfortable, Barramundi Lodge is a touch above most backpacker places but still caters to a budget crowd. Spotless and…
The East Coast
Arcing along the dunes at Barnbougle golf course is a tightly spaced row of 22 self-contained timber cottages with little decks, sleeping up to four, plus…
South Coast NSW
One of two national-park campgrounds along the 30km Light to Light Walk, basic Bittangabee Bay has 30 unpowered sites, pit toilets and barbecue facilities…
Brisbane
The real forte of this apartment hotel is its location, right in the city centre and directly opposite the beautiful City Botanic Gardens. Although the…
Alice's Cottages & Spa Hideaways
Launceston
Pretend you're travelling to the British Isles at these brazenly Anglo 19th-century workers' cottages. All have kitchens, a bedroom and lounge with…
Darwin
At one end of the Transit Centre, this popular hostel has a large open kitchen and a meals area overlooking a pool big enough to actually swim in. The bar…
Whale Watch Ocean Beach Resort
Brisbane & Around
On a spur of land dotted with kangaroos at the far end of Point Lookout are these roomy apartments, each individually owned and varying in style (some…
Melbourne
This grand Italianate building housed the Victorian Railways administration back in the days when rail ruled the world. The apartments here were…
West Coast Australia
This chunky, institutional-looking complex of motel rooms and one- and two-bedroom apartments could have used a more subtle architectural eye at the…
New South Wales
The Old Vic Inn occupies a lovely old heritage-listed pub building, with a cosy restaurant (open Thursday to Sunday for lunch and Thursday to Saturday for…
Perth
There's something deeply reassuring about stepping out of a hot city afternoon and into a hushed, cool, moodily lit lobby like the one at Perth's Novotel,…
South Coast NSW
With two sections straddling a driveway, the local pub has a variety of rooms, from bare-bones twins sharing bathrooms to tidy en-suite doubles and family…
West Coast Australia
Within the national park, bizarre tudor-style Yanchep Inn was built as a honeymoon hotspot in the 1930s. Basic hotel rooms upstairs have shared facilities…
Brisbane & Around
The management here can be charmless, though it does help travellers find work on local farms and accommodates them in utilitarian comfort. There's a…
Launceston
One for time-travelling travellers, this B&B fully embraces its Victorian heritage, with high ceilings and en-suite rooms decorated in frilly period style…
Perth
Behind an austere stone 1896 facade (twinkling fairy lights fail to elevate the mood), the Old Swan Barracks are repackaged army accommodation, with long…
Sunshine Coast
These pleasant (if somewhat dated) apartments, each unique, are fully self-contained and a stone's throw from Maroochy Surf Club and the beach. Balconies…
Hobart
Yet another old Hobart pub (the former Bavarian Tavern) turned into a backpackers, this one has a lurid frog-coloured paint job. It's a rambling, woody,…
Perth
You can't miss the Rendezvous – an absurdly colossal, gregarious, Vegas-style hotel on the Scarborough waterfront (with pyramid!) built by disgraced (now…
Perth
Standing in bleak isolation, the charcoal-coloured Murray is an older hotel with a 21st-century makeover. Decor is sharp and modern, and although the…
New South Wales
The Ten Dollar Town Motel has 39 well equipped rooms hidden behind the heritage facade of the former Royal Hotel, which houses the on-site restaurant…
Melbourne
Just 20 steps from the cool end of Chapel St, Back of Chapel offers budget-conscious slumber in a 150-year old Victorian terrace. A laid-back spot with…
West Coast Australia
Attached to the town tavern, the bricky, 60-room Wave Rock Motel has well-equipped rooms with vamped-up bathrooms and mildly ski-lodge vibes, an oddly…
Adelaide
'Discover style' is the creed at this five-floor city apartment hotel – and after a stroll along this stretch of Hindley St (strippers, booze-hounds,…
Melbourne
While not quite avoiding the serviced-apartment furnishing cliches, these loft spaces are set in a former warehouse and have original details, which…
Hobart
Venture past the '90s exterior and reception to discover renovated rooms that are surprisingly modern and spacious. The eight-tier building hugs a busy…
Launceston
This old timer seems to be having an identity crisis: does it really need to have such a long-winded name? That said, It remains a good central option,…
Brisbane
Set in a photogenic, two-storey timber Queenslander, Aussie Way feels more like a cosy guesthouse than a hostel, with homely, simply furnished rooms and a…
Airlie Beach
The hostel scene in Airlie is pretty fickle, but Beaches is consistent in its bubbly customer service and unwavering desire to crank the party to maximum …
South Coast NSW
This likeable place, set among palm trees south of the town centre, has a hostel with single-sex dorms and private rooms plus a simple shared kitchen,…
Hobart
This funky, art-filled hotel puts an eclectic stamp on a 1909 Federation house, just west of the CBD. Six of the 10 rooms have private bathrooms; the rest…
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