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14 September 2026
Hobart's storytelling hotel — 114 rooms, each named for a Tasmanian cultural figure, on Macquarie Wharf with the Mona ferry parking out front.
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Brassey Hotel
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A 1927 heritage hotel on two-and-a-half acres of garden. Twenties wallpaper, jacarandas in November, and the shortest commute to Parliament in the country.
Hara House
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An 80s motor inn reborn as alpine mid-century with patterned tiles, wood veneers and a rectangular pool that catches an afternoon shadow worth waiting for.
CBD Motor Inn
14 September 2026
A 1960s pylon-sign survivor in the heart of Coffs, refit '18 with garden bar, pool and twenty rooms in colours your nan would have approved of.
Drift House
14 September 2026
A bluestone riverside manor reworked into six luxury suites by Multiplicity. Not a motel by birth, but it has the parking and the privacy and the soul of one.
The Anchorage Hotel
14 September 2026
A waterfront sprawl on Salamander Bay — two pools, a marina, and the only hotel on the coast where the breakfast room looks at moored yachts.
Royal Mail Hotel
14 September 2026
A Grampians original from 1855 with motel rooms out back overlooking Mount Sturgeon, a kitchen garden you could lose a friend in, and the most-awarded wine list in regional Australia.
Ettalong Beach Resort
14 September 2026
A Mediterranean-inspired motel village from the late 70s with a lap pool, a spa, and the kind of garden courtyards built for a school-holiday week of doing nothing in particular.
Wrest Point
14 September 2026
Australia's first casino — a 64-metre dodecagonal tower on the Derwent that has been quietly aging into beauty since the year of the oil crisis. Ask for a room with…
Cooinda Lodge
14 September 2026
The gateway to Kakadu — refurbished lodge rooms, a billabong out the front, and the iconic Yellow Water cruises that leave at first light, every day, no exceptions.