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Forster Motor Inn

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.

Hawks Nest Motel

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.

Sorrento Beach Motel

14 September 2026

The only motel on the Mornington Peninsula. Nineteen deluxe units, sea views, ground-floor parking, and a refit that kept the bones honest.

Mantra Lorne

14 September 2026

Victoria's oldest guesthouse — Erskine House on twelve acres of garden between the highway and the surf. Heritage bones, resort comforts, croquet on the lawn.

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.

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.

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.

The Isla

14 September 2026

Palm Springs glam meets South Coast retro: a '70s motor inn reopened in 2024 with hand-painted rooms, Scandinavian edges and a speakeasy-style cantina behind the laundry.

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.