Pacific Hotel Yamba
14 September 2026
An Art Deco icon perched on the headland since 1934. Pacific views from every signature room, a bistro, and live music four nights a week.
Best 50
14 September 2026
An Art Deco icon perched on the headland since 1934. Pacific views from every signature room, a bistro, and live music four nights a week.
14 September 2026
A Tudor-fronted family hotel with forty-two rooms, an indoor pool, hot tub and sauna. Walking distance to the rail station, the river, and three good galleries.
14 September 2026
A heritage hotel with shared-bath upstairs rooms and freshly refit motel suites out the back. Country food, country wine, and a pub fire that matters.
14 September 2026
A 1960s motel reborn in 2022 as a Palm-Springs-by-Orange — pool, martini bar, gardens, and rooms with a colour palette curated by someone who knows.
14 September 2026
A 1960s hotel under the largest fabric roof in the southern hemisphere. Mid-century drama, modern comfort, and a fine-dining room that takes itself just seriously enough.
14 September 2026
A sprawling 80s resort over forty hectares of Banksia-bush, with a salt-water lagoon, three pools and a pool bar that has not closed since the bicentenary.
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.
14 September 2026
Lakeside originals on the mid-coast — 28 rooms, a kidney pool, kitchenettes, and a five-minute walk to Wallis Lake and a perfectly fine fish-and-chip shop.
14 September 2026
A riverside hideaway on the Myall Coast — twenty rooms, a pool the colour of the river, and a manager who'll tell you exactly which beach to try first.
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.