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…
Must-see hotels in Australia & Pacific
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…
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…
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…
Christchurch
Still standing grandly on Cathedral Sq, the 1909 Old Government Building owes its survival to a thorough strengthening when it was converted to a hotel in…
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…
Taupo
A pleasant holiday park with corrugated-iron native birds scattered between well-established trees and hedgerows between sites. Also has a playground,…
Taupo & the Ruapehu Region
This popular park beside Whakapapanui Stream has a wide range of accommodation options, including campervan sites surrounded by beautiful beech forest …
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…
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…
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…
Queenstown & Wanaka
Every player wins a prize, with all 12 rooms having unbeatable views across the lake, but they're rather pricey for what's basically an upmarket motel…
Rotorua
Cavernous Rock Solid occupies a former shopping mall: you might be bunking down in a florist or a delicatessen. Dorms over the street are sunny, and there…
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…
Westland Tai Poutini National Park
Beautiful timber adorns this lodge both inside and out, imparting a mountain-chalet vibe. Similarly woody self-contained mezzanine units have spa baths…
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…
Melbourne
This grand Italianate building housed the Victorian Railways administration back in the days when rail ruled the world. The apartments here were…
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,…
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…
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…
Fiordland & Southland
Enjoy a truly local experience at this comfy guesthouse, a couple of blocks south of Queens Park. Pleasant rooms (the uppermost with sloped, chalet-style…
Coromandel Peninsula
Located in Port Charles, Tangiaro Kiwi Retreat offers eight one- or two-bedroom self-contained wooden cottages, each pair sharing a barbecue. 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,…
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…
Melbourne
While not quite avoiding the serviced-apartment furnishing cliches, these loft spaces are set in a former warehouse and have original details, which…
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