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Where to stay in Australia

Where to stay across Australia — luxury lodges, beach resorts, family and honeymoon stays, outback lodges, farm stays and budget hostels.

By the Updated 2026-07-08
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Where to stay across Australia — luxury lodges, beach resorts, family and honeymoon stays, outback lodges, farm stays and budget hostels. We're writing the full guide now — in the meantime, the related guides below cover the same trip from a nearby angle.

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Best beach resorts in Australia
Beach resorts

Best beach resorts in Australia

Australia's beach-resort scene spans high-rise towers on the Gold Coast, an adults-only island retreat in the Whitsundays, an eco-camp on a reef you can snorkel from your tent, and laid-back boutique stays around Noosa and Byron Bay.

Best family resorts in Australia
Family resorts

Best family resorts in Australia

Where a family trip to Australia actually works best — the Gold Coast's theme-park-adjacent resort towers, the Sunshine Coast's calmer beaches and Australia Zoo, and Hamilton Island's own kids' club, plus what to actually look for in a family-friendly booking.

Best glamping in Australia
Glamping

Best glamping in Australia

Australia's glamping scene, region by region — safari tents among the Barossa's vines, eco-camps on Ningaloo Reef, wilderness retreats on Kangaroo Island, and canvas tents overlooking a kangaroo-grazed valley in the Grampians.

Best honeymoon resorts in Australia
Honeymoon resorts

Best honeymoon resorts in Australia

The regions and properties that actually suit a honeymoon in Australia — an adults-only dune camp facing Uluru, an island retreat in the Whitsundays, a Tasmanian wilderness lodge, and a handful of quiet wine-country stays.

Best luxury hotels in Australia
Luxury hotels

Best luxury hotels in Australia

Australia's luxury tier isn't really about a city skyline — it's remote wilderness lodges, adults-only island resorts and a handful of harbourside towers, spread across the Red Centre, Sydney, the Whitsundays, Tasmania and wine country.

Best outback lodges & wilderness stays
Outback lodges

Best outback lodges & wilderness stays

Australia's outback accommodation, region by region — Uluru and Kings Canyon in the Red Centre, Kakadu and Nitmiluk in the Top End, and the Flinders Ranges' working stations and wildlife conservancies in South Australia.

Budget hostels in Australia
Budget hostels

Budget hostels in Australia

Australia's backpacker circuit, region by region — the nationwide hostel networks worth knowing, and the hub towns (Sydney, Byron Bay, Cairns, Airlie Beach) almost every budget trip up the east coast passes through.

Farm stays in Australia
Farm stays

Farm stays in Australia

Staying on a real working farm or outback station as a paying guest — a genuine, family-friendly slice of rural Australia, and a completely different thing from WWOOFing or working-holiday farm work.