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Villas & Lodges
Lodges and properties at the national-flagship tier, from Lord Howe to the Kimberley.
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Southern Ocean Lodge
Kangaroo Island · SA
Baillie Lodges' Kangaroo Island flagship, razed in the 2020 bushfires and reopened December 2023 after a four-year, AU$60 million rebuild led by original architect Max Pritchard.
qualia
Hamilton Island, Whitsundays · QLD
Baillie Lodges' Whitsundays property on the northern peninsula of Hamilton Island.
Longitude 131°
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park · NT
Baillie Lodges' Uluru property since 2002.
Saffire Freycinet
Coles Bay, Freycinet Peninsula · TAS
Federal Group's Tasmanian flagship at the gateway to Freycinet National Park, marking fifteen years in 2025 and a founding member of Luxury Lodges of Australia.
Lizard Island
Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef · QLD
Forty-room luxury resort on a national-park island 27km off Cooktown, the most northern resort on the Great Barrier Reef.
Cape Lodge
Yallingup, Margaret River · WA
A 22-room luxury wine-country hotel on its own forty-acre vineyard in the heart of Margaret River, with a five-bedroom Residence on a separate three-acre lakeside parcel for buy-…
Capella Lodge Lord Howe
Lord Howe Island · Sydney
Hayley and James Baillie founded their lodge collection in 2003 and bought the property then called Capella South in 2004, rebuilding it as the founding member of what became Bai…
El Questro Homestead
East Kimberley · WA
G'Day Group's Kimberley flagship since the 2021 purchase from Delaware North, a ten-suite hideaway above the Chamberlain River in the East Kimberley wilderness.
Bamurru Plains
Mary River Wetlands · NT
A wild-bush safari camp on the Mary River floodplains near Kakadu, owned by Wild Bush Luxury (acquired by Experience Co in April 2021).
Haggerstone Island
Cape York Peninsula · QLD
Roy and Anna Turner's thirty-year project on a private island 600km north of Cairns off Cape York Peninsula, surrounded by Great Barrier Reef.
Bullo River Station
East Kimberley · NT
A 400,000-acre working cattle property at the convergence of the Bullo and Victoria rivers, East Kimberley.
Sal Salis Ningaloo Reef
North West Cape, Cape Range National Park · WA
The only accommodation inside Cape Range National Park, set between the park and Ningaloo Reef on the North West Cape.
Bedarra Island
Bedarra Island, Great Barrier Reef · QLD
A family-owned 12-villa private resort on a 45-hectare tropical rainforest island off Mission Beach, Queensland.
Halcyon House
Cabarita Beach NSW North · Sydney
A converted surf motel on the dunes at Cabarita (formerly The Hideaway), bought in 2011 by Brisbane sisters Siobhan and Elisha Bickle with their husbands Adam Flaskas and Dave Wa…
Pretty Beach House
Central Coast · Sydney
Four pavilions on a seven-and-a-half-acre property above Pretty Beach village, ninety minutes north of Sydney on the Bouddi Peninsula: Treetops in the penthouse position above th…
Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort & Spa
Katoomba · Sydney
The 1889 Darley family summer estate above the Jamison Valley near Echo Point, ninety minutes by road from Sydney.
Bells at Killcare
Central Coast · Sydney
A boutique hotel on Darkinjung land in Bouddi National Park, ninety minutes north of Sydney, with twenty-five cottages and four eco-luxe Lodges spread across native grounds, stre…
Osborn House
Bundanoon · Sydney
A heritage-restored 1890s five-star boutique hotel in Bundanoon, Southern Highlands, with 27 individually styled rooms, day spa, pool, sauna, and steam.
The Hunter Villa
Hunter Valley · Sydney
A single ultra-luxury private property on the Greg Norman-designed Vintage golf course at Pokolbin, overlooking the par-three twelfth hole with long views to the Molly Morgan Ran…
Earlsbrae
Bowral · Sydney
An 1870s heritage estate on seven acres of established gardens in central Bowral, stylishly renovated to current luxury standards while keeping the period architecture intact.
Chalets at Blackheath
Blackheath Blue Mountains · Sydney
An alpine-style eco-resort high in the Blue Mountains on Dharug and Gundungurra Country, surrounded by over a million hectares of World Heritage wilderness.
Milton Park / Ardour Milton Park
Bowral · Sydney
The 1926 Southern Highlands estate, recently the first hotel under Salter Brothers Hospitality's new Ardour Hotels & Estates brand.
The Gibraltar Bowral
Bowral · Sydney
Luxury Southern Highlands hotel at the foot of Mount Gibraltar, on golf grounds.