The Best Hotels Near Honeysuckle Restaurant, 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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Cedar hot tubs on every private deck, even in the studios, give this rainforest retreat in the Sunshine Coast hinterland a strong case against the beach. Set in the green hills outside Maleny, Spicers Tamarind is a small resort where villas go further into the trees for extra quiet. An on-site cooking school and a Thai-inspired restaurant, The Tamarind, handle the evenings, and Maleny's cafes and breweries are a short drive for when you want to leave.
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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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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 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.
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A private island on the Noosa River where the resort has no restaurant, just an executive chef cooking whatever you feel like that day. Richard Branson and Brett Godfrey's getaway takes a maximum of 22 guests, then proceeds to spoil them with facilities sized for something four times larger. Villas, personal service, and activities on request make this less a hotel and more a very expensive favor from someone you've just met.
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Sixty-three stone villas spread across 161 clifftop acres on Kéa, an island most people can't place on a map but Athenians have kept to themselves for years. The resort sits above the Aegean with infinity pools, living-roof villas, and a helipad for guests who find the speedboat too casual. A speakeasy tucked somewhere on the property and a fine-wine bar mean you won't run out of excuses to stay. Forbes Four Star.