Waypoint & Co

A Collection

Australia's Best Boutique Hotels

Sub-thirty-room properties across the country that quietly define modern Australian hospitality.

A small boutique hotel courtyard in regional Australia, sandstone walls and a single olive tree in dappled light.

A boutique hotel, honestly defined, has fewer than thirty rooms and is run by the same person you meet at breakfast. The ones we return to are small on purpose. The bed is honest, the coffee is early, and the person at reception can name every producer on the menu.

  1. 01

    The Blackwood

    Victoria's Grampians

    Eleven rooms in a repurposed woolshed, forest walks from the door.

  2. 02

    Tasman Hobart

    Hobart, Tasmania

    Sandstone bones, a bar that stays open late, a very short walk to the waterfront.

  3. 03

    Halcyon House

    Cabarita Beach, NSW

    Twenty-one rooms, still the reference point for Australian coastal hospitality.

  4. 04

    Mona Pavilions

    Berriedale, Tasmania

    Eight architect-designed pavilions above the Derwent, MONA's quieter side.