Luxury Lodges of Australia

Bravo #BulloRiverStation and #LizardIslandResort ~ it’s constant innovation and distinctively Australian hospitality that results in recognition like this… Condé Nast Traveler’s 2025 Gold List: The Best Hotels and Resorts in the World. https://lnkd.in/gHABNnKa

As we race to the end of yet another big year, take a moment to anticipate the relief and renewed energy a proper holiday brings. Start planning unplanned moments... https://lnkd.in/giUWshRx

Congratulations on 20 years to the Capella Lodge team! Thank you for being an inspiring and positive influence on experiential luxury in Australia, where a sense of place is central to the guest experience.

Fantastic to catchup with our UK partners at the annual Luxury Lodges of Australia Showcase in London this week and share so many stories from our lodges. Insightful conversations around: ~ The wealth and diversity of Australian experience at the lodges (more than 350) ~ Rising client desire for connection to nature and culture (and our incredible ’natural isolation’ and epic scale) ~ Improved air access to Australia, especially direct Perth flights and much better access into Darwin opening up the remote North and West of the continent where there is so much to see and do. And much more… Thanks to all those who attended and for your ongoing support of Australia's experiential luxury. Penny Rafferty GAICD, Luxury Lodges of Australia | Fiona Stillwell, Wild Bush Luxury | Craig Bradbery + Kylie Stever, Baillie Lodges | Melissa Spenceley, Lake House Daylesford | Jennifer Penegar, Mt Mulligan Lodge | Brett Massingham + Georgia Rowe, qualia, Hamilton Island | Richard Howarth, Sal Salis Journey Beyond | Oliver Oldroyd + Chad Avenell, True North | Karen Fitzgerald, Tourism Australia

This week marks fifteen years since the exploratory meeting of a group of Australian entrepreneurs, lodge owners, creators and operators at The Louise in the Barossa Valley. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a future approach to Australian experiential luxury tourism, based on collaboration. Within a few hours, discussions covered ‘what is Australian luxury’, to ‘what makes a luxury lodge’, to ‘what role would a membership association play’. The result, a plan to form Luxury Lodges of Australia was agreed and a working party established to set up this member-owned marketing association. The aim: to collectively showcase Australia’s unique style of sophisticated, carefree, barefoot, experiential luxury. Thank you to all those visionaries, and those who have carried the vision forward over the last fifteen years. https://lnkd.in/gVxs3SN

We have enormous love and respect for all involved in the revisioning and rebuilding of Baillie Lodges Southern Ocean Lodge. A legacy captured powerfully and sensitively in this beautiful documentary. A must watch: https://lnkd.in/dHi-xfbu

This weekend, as Lake House Daylesford celebrates its 40th year, Luxury Lodges of Australia joins past guests, friends and industry leaders around the world in honouring the Wolf-Tasker family as an inspiring example of the warm hug of hospitality, continuous innovation, courage, and the builders of an enduring Australian legacy. Congratulations to the entire Lake House team on 40 years of excellence ~ https://lnkd.in/gV6fC_XC Alla Wolf Tasker | Larissa Wolf-Tasker | Lake House Daylesford

From buzzword to life force, our wellbeing permeates everything and is permeated by everything. Our health is our most valuable asset. Too often, a non-renewable one. As we live longer, and travel further, for longer, how we travel is so important. For travellers, navigating wellness options to find the one that is right for them, is no small feat these days. Read our latest eDM ~ https://lnkd.in/gmEb2g_i

Great to see the interpretation and understanding of Australia’s distinct style of luxury evolve and celebrate our deep connection with nature and culture. Katrina Holden | Karryon: Together In Travel https://lnkd.in/gHSX9T5q

Luxury Lodges of Australia warmly welcomes Bullo River Station to the collection. Set on some 400,000 acres of privately owned outback country, Bullo River Station is an authentic working cattle station experience that balances pastoral, tourism and conservation activities. Located at the convergence of the Bullo and Victoria rivers in the East Kimberley, in the Northern Territory near the Western Australian border.   Carved with gorges and waterfalls, and surrounded by rugged hills inscribed with Aboriginal rock art, the salt and fresh waters meet to create a diversity of ecosystems. Guests explore Bullo with their own guide. It is home to a stunning variety of local fauna species including kangaroos, wallabies, dingoes, myriad native and migratory birds, fish and the omnipresent crocodiles. And then there is the station life with around 2,000 Brahman-cross cattle, which has its own rhythms, full of dust and excitement. It all makes for an exhilarating stay.   The Bullo experience is distinctively Australian: raw yet refined, vast yet intimate, understated yet luxurious by virtue of access to the land and the genuine hospitality of the hosts.     More reasons to head north ~   The Bullo River Station experiences are a great complement to those at our existing lodges, Bamurru Plains, El Questro Homestead and True North, all in the vast Kimberley and Top End regions. Together these remarkable properties offer a compelling reason to plan a discovery of a remote and fascinating part of the Australian continent. https://lnkd.in/gHrEwyXr