The classic Melbourne hotel experience is on the vineyards with its surrounding Yarra Valley. Standing like a black charm in the middle of the verdant Willow Creek Vineyard is the Jackaloupe at Morning Peninsula. Wearing a black mask with its dark facade, noir swimming pool, chic artwork and burnished architecture, Jackaloupe offers vineyard views from every corner and a chance to spot wildlife and bird watching. What makes it a heavenly stay is when it presents you with a full menu of a light and heavy-bodied wine list with an array of tapas at its celebrated restaurant .

The wine valleys of Victoria are a smorgasbord of collective boutique hotels. You can experience United Places Botanic Gardens with their thematic approach to sustainability. Facing the parklands, it serves as a stylish symbol with the use of renewable energy that comes from rain-harvested water and solar panels.

For your Queensland adventure, you can visit Crystalbrook Flynn in Cairns with a continuous highlight of ocean views. Its minimalistic attitude compiled with the palm trees in the lobby has the same complexity as the swaying palmy views from its gastro pub of Boardwalk Social.

When everything is gold at its hand-carved vaulted ceiling supported by the monumental Roman columns at Palazzo Versace on Gold Coast, how can you walk away? Opulent Versace amenities and gold taps in your room spa baths, a six-course gastronomic menu with crisp Versace tableware at restaurant Vanitas, and gleamy black Rolls Royce Phantom Cars for VIP transfers that pass off the Versace boutique near the lobby.

Rivalling the Giraffe Manor in Kenya is the Kittawa Lodge on the King’s Island off the Tasmanian Coast. Here, a mob of Wallabies poke outside rooms overlooking the honey-coated bushland and riveting waves of the Southern Ocean.