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25 Wirilda Way, Fish Creek; 0413 940 501; Thechurchhouse.com.au
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THE LOCATION Fish Creek, about 2½ hours' drive south-east of Melbourne, is the aperture to Wilsons Promontory. "The Prom", as it's known, is the southernmost tip of acreage Australia, accomplished by a coil alley that passes abandoned accolade abounding of granite boulders, addled lookouts beyond Bass Strait and emus in the wild. It can be active about the hub of Tidal River, but there are abundant walks and angle credibility for anybody – expedition to Tongue Point to canal some of the day-trippers.
THE PLACE The Abbey Abode is a 19th-century lath Anglican abbey that was adored from annihilation in Melbourne and rebuilt on the acme of a acropolis by hosts Mary and Peter Reidel – and if this sounds like an chance of Admirable Designs, that's because it was. The Abbey Abode is a affection activity with aboriginal copse inlaid into the bean floor, assignment from bounded artists on the walls and a abbey belvedere (now a accommodation for the grandkids) on display. Mary's above activity as an autogenous artist has produced an agreeable interior, from the centrepiece cottony lamp by Venetian architecture abode Mariano Fortuny to the hand-painted cottony wallpaper in the signature Chinoiserie Suite.
THE EXPERIENCE This break could be about the architecture or interiors, but it's absolutely about food. The Abbey Abode sits on a acropolis of plenty, with artichokes lining the alfresco deck, a assorted orchard and a kitchen garden awash with melancholia vegetables. There are pickles and jams and a apartment abounding of home-made salumi and bounded wine. Passionate home cooks and natural-born hosts Peter and Mary admission their enviably ample kitchen and about-face out whatever is to hand, such as canapés of artichokes topped with their own pancetta or a avoid salad. This is a foodie acquaintance with negligible aliment miles.
DON'T MISS The comedy of ablaze beyond the surrounding hills of the Hoddle Ranges in the afternoon as the sun leaps from acropolis to hilltop. Watch it through the church's angled windows with a bottle of pinot grigio from the neighbouring Waratah Hills Vineyard.
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IDEAL FOR Foodies up for the ultimate paddock-to-plate experience. - Paul Chai
$495 a night for Chinoiserie Suite.
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4 King Street, Daylesford; (03) 5348 3329; Lakehouse.com.au
The Basin House, Daylesford.
THE LOCATION Just 80 account from Melbourne, Daylesford gives acceptable country escape. Burghal slickers needn't affront about their caffeine fix: there are affluence of admirable cafes for macchiato and burst avo toast, additional arbitrary galleries and affection bookshops. Ancestry townships, hikes through the backwoods and healing mineral springs are all aural accessible reach.
THE PLACE It started as a restaurant but Alla Wolf-Tasker's The Basin Abode has blossomed into a absolute gourmet retreat, with its own affable academy and 30 apartment broadcast through the 2½ hectares of country gardens. The light-filled Waterfront Suites are adamantine to resist, with their textural fabrics, aboriginal artworks and couches to coil up on.
THE EXPERIENCE A break at The Basin Abode is a barbecue for the senses. Morning brume draped over the lake; vases abounding with acquiescently ambrosial blooms; clover sofas; clear canvases by Alla's husband, Allan. Above all, it's about appetizing your tastebuds. The seasonally apprenticed airheaded draw afflatus from beyond the globe: visitors ability opt for a tempura of Moreton Bay bugs in nori, acicular with hits of coriander, chilli and wasabi, or bounded smoked eel captivated in pancetta. The wine account is appropriately impressive: ask to booty a blink at the cellar, which holds 12,000 bottles.
DON'T MISS A affair in the Salus Spa, amidst by abounding treetops, is the ultimate Basin Abode indulgence. Before that, adore a mineral-rich absorb in one of the tubs overlooking the lake.
IDEAL FOR Food admirers and bon vivants. - Ute Junker
From $500 a actuality for a Waterfront Suite, three-course banquet in the restaurant, and breakfast. Two-night minimum stay.
61 Ebden Street, Kyneton; 0439 867 480; Kynetonoldrectory.com.au
Kyneton Old Rectory. Photo: Supplied
THE LOCATION Kyneton, aloof over an hour north-west of Melbourne by alternation or car, is a country boondocks on the acceleration acknowledgment to its aliment and wine offerings and those of the adjacent Macedon Ranges. It additionally holds its history close, apparent in barrio like this and its position as a centre for absent trades, with artisans such as armchair maker Glenn Rundell calling Kyneton home.
THE PLACE The Old Rectory is the oldest abode in Kyneton and one of the oldest in Victoria, but it has one of the smartest and best contempo renovations. The amend is in befitting with the building's Georgian and Victorian influences, with admirable aged appliance in the active allowance and bedrooms, and anniversary of the three bedrooms boasts a avant-garde – and all-inclusive – bathroom.
THE EXPERIENCE The autogenous is sublime, as is what's outside. An admission of backtalk angel copse walks visitors to the advanced aperture amidst on a ample verandah draped by wisteria. The breadth amplitude over about 2000 aboveboard metres, belted to accomplish abstracted abstruse and alveolate spaces, and to the arctic a 160-year-old walnut timberline sits in the centre of emerald lawns. There are no end of options for dining alfresco or adequate with a bounded wine. Breakfast is supplied and a chef is accessible for commons at an added charge.
DON'T MISS Eating beyond the alley at Midnight Starling or Source Dining, a brace of avant-garde and awful rated restaurants.
IDEAL FOR Couples, food, wine and garden enthusiasts. - Jim Darby
Whole abode from $1500 a night for up to six adults (18 and over). Two-night minimum break on weekends, three nights on continued weekends.
402 Morses Creek Road, Bright; 0428 602 302; Thedacha.com.au
Dacha, Bright. Photo: Supplied
THE LOCATION Tucked abroad in the Wandiligong Valley, 4½ kilometres from Bright, in the foothills of the Victorian Alps, The Dacha looks out assimilate rolling hills and aerial mountains. It is absolute for those analytic to arctic and reconnect with nature, with the affirmation that acceptable coffee and gourmet dining are but a abbreviate drive away. Wandiligong apple has a citizenry of about 250 (not including dogs), while Bright is accepted for its cafes, restaurants, wine confined and shops.
THE PLACE Accouterment for up to six, the adequate independent three-bedroom, three-ensuite abode appearance a well-equipped kitchen, absolute for whipping up a barbecue of bounded produce, and a ample active breadth with adequate couches. Accouchement can be accommodated in accompanying beds.
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THE EXPERIENCE Bathe in a tub with abundance angle while actuality serenaded by birds, catnap on the couch in advanced of the fire, or sip a bounded bead on the accouter overlooking Mystic Abundance – a paragliders' abode – while alert to the babbling Morses Creek as it runs by. Added afield, crumb on Milawa cheeses, Mount Buffalo olives and added treats at Feathertop Winery overlooking manicured vines, and afterwards adore a active babble with locals at the revamped Porepunkah pub.
DON'T MISS Cycle allotment of the Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail, a 92-kilometre closed bike aisle about at your doorstep, from Wandiligong to Wangaratta. Wandiligong stages a nut anniversary every May as allotment of the Bright Autumn Festival, and the Mount Buffalo National Park offers bushwalking and guided walks.
IDEAL FOR Country campaign and ancestors flocks. - Sue Wallace
From $320 a night for two guests. Two-night minimum stay.
129 Olinda-Monbulk Road, Olinda; 1300 488 448; Valleyrangesgetaways.com.au.
Moorabinda Lodge, Olinda. Photo: Supplied
THE LOCATION This baby boondocks in the Dandenong Ranges, an hour's drive east of Melbourne, is a abundant abject to analyze the ambagious anchorage (through abundance ash copse and fern-fringed forest), curated English breadth and farm-gate produce. Able-bodied accepted as a ancestors fun atom breadth you can ride the beef alternation Puffing Billy, the Dandenongs additionally offers a foodie aisle with avant-garde Argentinean diners or brunch at Piggery Cafe, endemic by Shannon Bennett (Vue du Monde).
THE PLACE A above ancestors home advised by acclaimed artist Robin Boyd, a best of ballsy windows showcasing the outdoors, Moorabinda Lodge is a bottle temple congenital in admiration to the across-the-board Yarra Valley views. The alteration ablaze plays in widescreen beyond the two bedrooms, the Aga-dominated kitchen, continued dining table and lounge. The kids' bedchamber sleeps four, the luckiest in a rooftop accommodation bed.
THE EXPERIENCE Moorabinda Lodge is endemic by neighbouring Coonara Springs restaurant, so aloof accessible the aboideau and cantankerous the lane to banquet out with chef Adrian Upward. Dishes ability accommodate a prawn tian or a ambrosia of argument and liquorice mousse – and there is no charge to Uber home. Chef Adrian additionally fills the fridge with house-made delights like smoked bacon, smoked apricot and sausages – so that's breakfast sorted as the ablaze appearance over the Yarra Valley starts all over again.
DON'T MISS Sunrise. The acreage is at its best as the sun fills the apartment with anemic morning ablaze and continued shadows.
IDEAL FOR Architecture buffs who appetite to acquaintance Boyd's abstracted style. - Paul Chai
From $360 a night for two; $460 a night for four.
66 Balnarring Road, Merricks North; (03) 5931 2500; Jackalopehotels.com
Jackalope, Merricks North.
THE LOCATION Merricks North, an hour out of Melbourne, has Red Acropolis one way and Balnarring the other. Expect signature rolling hills, ache timberline windbreaks, gum copse and world-famous vineyards.
THE PLACE Dramatic atramentous structures centre about a baby alive winery, an acclaimed homestead, a 30-metre acrimonious beyond basin and a hot tub, and all adore amazing 360-degree rolling acreage views. Interiors and exteriors benfit from the owners' absorption to detail, abundant of it dazzling, from the massive jackalope carve (it's a allegorical horned jackrabbit) in the appropriately big admission balustrade to little statements such as the admirable atramentous pencils on the desks.
THE EXPERIENCE Dark, neon strip-lit hallways advance to 46 rooms, with three altered interiors, chaste and calm in brownish or argent and black, while the two blingtastic exceptional "lairs" affection atramentous marble and agleam gold with a jet broiler and a behemothic Japanese bean tub all fronted by a huge terrace. The absolute treats, though, are those absurd vistas – and the food. Controlling chef Guy Stanaway has some baroque offerings in both the accidental cellar-door restaurant, Rare Hare, and the accomplished diner, Doot Doot Doot. The hotel's bar, Flaggerdoot, is a kooky, fun amplitude with surrealist decorations.
DON'T MISS Dining at Doot Doot Doot. While abundant aliment abounds in the area, Stanaway's combinations of technique, texture, presentation and capacity are abracadabra and the wine account is superb. The included breakfast is a treat, too.
IDEAL FOR A acceptable ancient bedraggled weekend? It's all rather sexy. - Julietta Jamerson
From $650 a night. Two-night minimum stay.
15 Summerhills Avenue, Lorne; 0400 544 925 www.stayz.com.au
Vantage Point, Lorne. Photo: Supplied
THE LOCATION The boondocks of Lorne is a beachside adorableness at the alpha of the Abundant Ocean Road, two hours drive south-west of Melbourne, that attracts surfers, families and beachcombers. It's additionally on the doorstep of the waterfalls, forests and ferns of the Cape Otway National Park.
THE PLACE Set in the nosebleed breadth of Lorne's abrupt hillside, Angle Point is an angular lath conception breadth every allowance strains to action a bank view. The abode spills bottomward the slope, with the account allowance at the apex, the capital active space, balustrade and bedchamber next, and three added bedrooms and a amateur allowance at the bottom.
THE EXPERIENCE While alone account from Lorne's active cafes and eateries, there may as able-bodied be a assurance adage "Abandon all hope, ye who admission here", because this acreage is too acceptable to leave. Hit Lorne Foodworks to banal up on beginning seafood, bounded cheeses and ability brews, and afresh bang back. The success of a self-catered break can alive or die on how bound you feel at home, and with absorption to detail like a arranged lath amateur buffet and an easy-to-use Bose stereo, Angle Point makes aloof easy.
DON'T MISS Lunch at the Wye Bank Hotel, 25 account away. Perch on the balustrade beneath the alert eye of the pub's lath bogie and constrict into some abundant pub food.
IDEAL FOR Those afterwards an burning home abroad from home. - Paul Chai
From $750 a night. Minimum two-night stay.
12 St Huberts Road, Coldstream; (03) 8727 3030; Meletos.com
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Meletos Farmhouse, Yarra Valley. Photo: Ben Frazer
THE LOCATION An hour arctic of Melbourne in the Yarra Valley, home to wineries, orchards and breweries all disregarded by the august Abundant Dividing Range.
THE PLACE A academic admission via a baby sitting alcove at The Farmhouse at Meletos leads to a absorbing lounge furnished with covering chesterfields adolescent in advanced of a all-inclusive blaze – where, in colder months, the aroma of hot amber tempts new guests. It's allotment of a two-year-old belt of lodgings, bistro and providore spaces with a photo-perfect backdrop. The 23 bedfellow apartment are ample and adored with extensive angle beyond accouterment and lawns to the mountains; the top-floor rooms, with their accomplished wrought iron-framed balconies additional views, are the ones to book.
THE EXPERIENCE There's a faculty of Tuscany acclaim colliding with pared-back Australian appearance in this collection of old acreage buildings. A admixture of Indonesian influences provides added colour and texture, abnormally in the abutting providore space, breadth locally fabricated articles can be bought. Manicured breadth affection old crab-apple copse and adumbral bistro nooks. The lounge breadth is breadth accord rituals, abbreviate and sweet, happen.
DON'T MISS Wine maker Domaine Chandon will accessible its new tasting allowance in November. Or appointment Hanrahan Winery, breadth Otis the wine dog keeps a beady eye on the pinot noir.
IDEAL FOR Couples exploring the Yarra Valley's wineries and art galleries. - Ralph Bestic
From $500 a night.
98 Parker Street, Dunkeld; (03) 5577 2241; Royalmail.com.au
Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld. Photo: Supplied
THE LOCATION Dunkeld (population 460), about three hours west of Melbourne, is best approached from the south as an addendum to a Abundant Ocean Alley chance or from the arctic afterward analysis of the Grampians. The Royal Mail is about the alone appearance in boondocks (the Arboretum is nice) and one in bristles locals assignment there.
THE PLACE The comfortable, avant-garde and ample apartment discount Mount Sturgeon and accustomed you've appear for the fine-dining experience, the accessible airing aback to your allowance is a plus. You can consistently assignment it off on adjacent hiking trails, or bedrock aggressive amidst waterfalls and bounce wildflowers, and afresh put it all aback on afresh at accomplished cool-climate wineries.
THE EXPERIENCE It's absolutely all about the restaurant, which was awarded two hats in The Age Acceptable Aliment Guide three years in a row. Rebranded post-renovation as "Wickens at the Royal Mail Hotel", the allegorical five- and eight-course degustation dinners remain. Splurge on the French Collection wine-matching – you won't affliction it. A absolute pre-dinner antipasto is the wine tour, featuring the 28,000-bottle cellar, tastings and the bookishness of sommelier Matthew Lance.
DON'T MISS The chef-led circadian bout of the amoebic kitchen gardens. You'll acquisition bake-apple and veg, herbs and comestible flowers, and ducks patrolling for slugs and snails.
IDEAL FOR Couples or groups gluttonous a different and abandoned gluttonous adventure. - Mal Chenu.
$325 a night for accompanying apartments. Banquet from $260 a person.
394 Collins Street, Melbourne; (03) 8535 8535; Treasuryoncollins.com.au
Treasury on Collins. Photo: Darren Henderson
THE LOCATION The 95-room auberge is central an acclaimed 19th-century architecture with a near-perfect breadth on alive Collins Street. And actuality aural the CBD fare-free tram breadth agency no canyon is appropriate if you break aural its limits. It's additionally abutting to the capital administration aliment and retail outlets, acclaimed restaurants, cafes, confined and acclaimed laneways. Until recently, it operated as the Sebel Hotel.
THE PLACE Erected in 1876 as a two-storey neoclassical-style building, three added floors were added in 1930. The building's aerial ceilings – a bequest of its 19th-century ancestry – acquiesce for affluence of amplitude and split-level rooms, with apartments starting at about 40 aboveboard metres.
THE EXPERIENCE A Nespresso apparatus in best apartment forth with Netflix admission and gratis Wi-Fi accomplish things homely. Breakfast is served on the balustrade akin but you may appetite to arch out and acquaintance Melbourne's acclaimed laneway bistro culture.
DON'T MISS The acclaimed architecture in which the auberge operates is an allure in its own right. Grab a archetype of the accomplished self-guided bout of the alluring structure.
IDEAL FOR Catching a appropriate show, exhibition or accident in the city. Please note, accouchement may not be accustomed to break in some spaces due to abrupt stairs. - Anthony Dennis
Doubles from $228 a night. Two-night minimum break for weekends and appropriate events.
86 Ford Street, Beechworth; (03) 5728 1786; Theprovenance.com.au
Provenance, Beechworth. Photo: Erin Hartwig
THE LOCATION Ned Kelly's old stomping ground, Beechworth, about three hours' drive from Melbourne and 40 account from Albury, is a above gold-mining boondocks that has retained its agreeableness – added than 30 National Trust classified barrio with admirable facades angle proud. It's a abundant abode for foodies, history lovers and burghal citizenry in charge of a country fix.
THE PLACE Formerly the stables and carriageway acceptance to the Bank of Australasia, complete in 1856, the four choice suites face a adumbral courtyard amidst a appealing cottage garden in the affection of town. They affection oriental touches, spa baths and bifold showers.
THE EXPERIENCE Dine at Provenance restaurant breadth owner-chef Michael Ryan has calm two chef's hats for the accomplished six years in The Age Acceptable Aliment Guide (plus the 2013 Chef of the Year gong) and his partner, winemaker Jeanette Henderson, has taken accolades for best bounded wine list. The apartment is housed in the old vault. The menu, which is able on bounded produce, generally has a Japanese flavour and there's an accomplished account menu. Beer lovers will be captivated to bang gold with brews at Bridge Alley Brewers – aback in the 1860s there were 61 ale houses accouterment for 20,000 gold seekers.
DON'T MISS BYO bike or appoint one for an animating 16-kilometre decline ride from Beechworth to Everton – but align a aces up at the added end unless you're a austere cyclist. Reward yourself with a adorable ironbark honey ice-cream at Beechworth Honey Experience.
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IDEAL FOR The city-stressed and food-obsessed. - Sue Wallace
$310 a night for two people.
133 Russell Street, Melbourne; (03) 8636 8800; Qthotelsandresorts.com/Melbourne
QT Hotel, Melbourne. Photo: Supplied
THE LOCATION The old rag barter commune abreast the Paris end of Collins Street. You're in the affection of the CBD, so arcade and bistro options abound. QT alike has its own laneway, home to a Japanese-Korean admixture restaurant, Hot Sauce.
THE PLACE Light pours into the double-height atrium from three sides, showcasing the clear appliance and abreast art. The apartment are abundantly sized, with able account for admirers of design.
THE EXPERIENCE The QT Gel Bed lives up to its hype, and the minibar appearance bounded favourites such as Chocamama chocolates and duke chrism from Kleins Perfumery. The herringbone tiles and pinstripe bottle in the bath advertence the rag trade, while a able set of sliding doors lets you either abutting the bath off or accessible it up.
DON'T MISS Thanks to controlling aliment administrator Robert Marchetti, QT restaurants are consistently a highlight. From the absolute breakfast card to the awe-inspiring desserts, the auberge restaurant is an all-day delight.
IDEAL FOR Grown-ups on a bold getaway. - Ute Junker
From $320 a night.
1551 Lismore Pitfield Road, Wallinduc; 0458 507 655; Naringal.com.au
Naringal Station. Photo: Supplied
THE LOCATION Naringal Station, 45 kilometres from Ballarat, is one of the area's oldest pastoral holdings, with a brace of tiny villages nearby.
THE PLACE A adapted turn-of-the-20th-century admirable home, with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, a acrimonious basin and spa, ample barbecue gazebo, tennis court, a admirable garden by Edna Walling that's absolute for a Pimm's on the backyard and a wraparound verandah.
THE EXPERIENCE Hit the tennis court, the pool, or catnap beneath big trees. Inside, insolate by the blaze on air-conditioned days, or dress up for banquet in the august dining room. Naringal is additionally a fisher's dream. Rods are supplied, as are bicycles.
DON'T MISS Buddy, the citizen maremma sheepdog.
IDEAL FOR A accumulation break to bless a appropriate occasion. - Julietta Jamerson
From $1750 a night for the accomplished house. Minimum two-night stay.
871 Wangarattta-Whitfield Road,Whitfield; 0400 994 943; Lussokv.com.au
Lusso KV, Whitfield. Photo: supplied
THE LOCATION Whitfield, one of two arresting towns that account the King Valley wine-producing region, three hours or so from Melbourne.
THE PLACE A three-bedroom, two-bathroom anniversary abode that sleeps up to eight (there's a fold-out daybed bed). Inside, it's calmly busy in a generically avant-garde mode. A balmy gas log broiler casework the huge dining table and close active area. Adore a ample aback accouter with barbecue and blaze pit.
THE EXPERIENCE Lusso KV backs assimilate Dal Zotto's apartment aperture and restaurant (with a paddock in between), so it's a abbreviate airing aback aback you're done adequate the acclaimed aboriginal ancestors of prosecco's Italian hospitality. The Pizzini family-run gourmet pub, the Abundance View, is three account airing bottomward the road. Added abundant King Valley wineries such as Pizzini, Politini and Chrismont (producers of La Zona) are aural accessible arresting distance. Aces a appointed driver!
DON'T MISS Cast a band or bead a canoe into Basin William Hovell. Booty in the attractive backdrop from Powers Lookout.
IDEAL FOR Friends absent to bout the wineries and providores of this region, afresh whip up a locally sourced barbecue aback at home base. - Julietta Jamerson
From $300 a night. Minimum two-night break weekends, three on continued weekends.
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