The Best Hotels Near Bella Venezia, by the Record
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The reception desk is a vintage Citroën truck, which sets the tone for this quietly stylish boutique hotel carved out of a 1980s motel in a Maroochydore riverside neighborhood. No hint of the motor-lodge origins survives in the warm, minimalist rooms, and the magnesium-infused pool does its best to dissolve the memory of the drive up. The Sunshine Coast beaches are minutes away, and a food truck handles breakfast without any fuss.
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Tucked between an idyllic beach and Noosa's UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, this family-friendly boutique resort runs 22 studio rooms and 10 two-bedroom apartments through a quietly Art Deco-inflected, minimalist aesthetic. Two pools, one for adults and one for families, cover the obvious bases, and the on-site café, bar and restaurant, Outer Square, handles meals without anyone needing to drive anywhere. Peregian Beach sits a few minutes south of Noosa Heads, which is either a selling point or the whole reason you booked.
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A federation-era timber home turned small guesthouse in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, where the Glasshouse Mountains make a rather dramatic backdrop to an otherwise quiet country town. Rooms lean boutique, atmosphere leans borrowed-someone's-house, and the magnesium pool is the kind of detail that sounds indulgent until you're actually in it. Maleny itself does most of the entertaining from there.
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A single two-bedroom villa sitting in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, twenty minutes from Noosa, Casa Renoir does its best impression of a Southern Italian estate and largely gets away with it. The communal hub, La Plage, has a wood-fired kitchen, a bar, a lounge, and a natural swimming lagoon, which is an unusual sentence to write about inland Queensland. More villas are coming, but right now the whole property is essentially yours.