13 The Best 50 · 2026
The Cheshire Cat
Palm Beach, QLD
A late-1960s Palm Beach motel refreshed with a burnt-orange, cream and eucalyptus-green palette that mixes nostalgic Australian holiday style with Palm Springs glamour. The pool deck, Le Plunge, has cacti and a terracotta plunge pool, and the beach is about two hundred metres away.
What makes it
- Le Plunge pool deck
- Terracotta plunge pool
- 200m to the beach