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Barrier Reef Motel

14 September 2026

Forty-one air-con units on the Cassowary Coast. Salt-water pool, licensed restaurant, and a cane-cutter clientele the company prefers.

The Oriana

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.

Pavilion Hotel Wagga

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.

Tessa’s on the Beach

14 September 2026

A whimsical 1960s Palm Springs-by-Bilinga homage with quirky named rooms, a magnesium pool and the kind of nostalgic styling that has wedding photographers on retainer.

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.

Halcyon House

14 September 2026

When Siobhan and Elisha Bickle bought a tired '60s motor inn five minutes from the NSW–QLD border, they kept the bones, the pool, the open-air corridors and the easy seaside…

The Pink Hotel

14 September 2026

A Barbie-pink '60s motel resurrected on the Gold Coast beachfront with hand-painted neon, Scandinavian interiors and a Santeria-flavoured rooftop bar that goes very late, very pink.

The Mysa Motel

14 September 2026

A salmon-pink '60s sanctuary with a kidney pool, fibreglass loungers and original breeze-block. Owners Eliza and Jason rebuilt it room-by-room and run the whole thing on solar.

Motel Molly

14 September 2026

A Mediterranean-pastel rebirth of a '60s beachside motel one street back from Mollymook's crescent. Hand-painted tiles in every room. A breakfast hatch instead of a reception desk.

Bayview Motel

14 September 2026

Thirty-seven rooms, a turquoise pool the same colour as Esperance's water, and the kind of BBQ terrace that has hosted the same five families every January since 1974.