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.
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Bunbury Apartment Motel
14 September 2026
Fifty-one apartments in a fully-gated downtown complex. Renovated, neat, walking distance to the Dolphin Discovery Centre, and shockingly cheap.
The Henry Jones
14 September 2026
A 1825 jam-factory remade as Australia's first art hotel — fifty-six rooms hung with Tasmanian contemporary work, on the IXL warehouse waterfront.
MACq 01
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.
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.
Pacific Bay Resort
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.
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.
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.
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.