The Top 32 Hotels Near Laura
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A chandelier made of 10,000 globes hangs over a wine cellar encased in floor-to-ceiling glass, which tells you everything about the register this Mornington Peninsula vineyard hotel is playing in. The rooms lean into the surreal with Japanese soaking tubs, heated floors, and views straight into the vines. It holds two Michelin Keys. The mythical horned jackrabbit lends the place its name, and the designers clearly took the brief personally.
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Five freestanding villas sit on a ridge above the Mornington Peninsula, each looking out toward the bay through floor-to-ceiling glass with no one else in sight. This is a wellness resort where the villas are designed as a direct extension of Alba's thermal springs, all muted tones and native bushland pressing against the windows. It's the kind of place where the architecture does the work of telling you to slow down.
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Limestone walls from 1875 anchor one wing of this full-service resort on the Mornington Peninsula, where Port Phillip Bay sits on one side and the open ocean on the other. The rooms run across three wings, all pulling toward a vaguely European, cosmopolitan look. Downstairs you'll find a spa and bathhouse, a pool deck, a twenties-style cocktail bar, and a flagship restaurant by Scott Pickett. An hour and a half from Melbourne, and firmly in wine country.
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The mineral water drawn from a spring on the property runs the spa and fills at least one suite's bath, which tells you what kind of resort this is. Set on 200 pastoral acres of the Bellarine Peninsula, Lon is a wellness retreat where the suites read more like private residences, with kitchenettes and an in-room seasonal dining menu standing in for a restaurant. The Bellarine's wineries handle the rest.
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A hotel attached to what is, by some measures, the largest shopping mall in Australia, which is either a selling point or a warning depending on your relationship with retail therapy. Rooms lean Art Deco with a contemporary edge, in keeping with the MGallery brand. There's a pool, a spa called Holism Retreat, a modern Italian restaurant, and a rooftop bar with afternoon High Tea for when you've walked yourself to ruin downstairs.
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Perched at the top of Collins Street overlooking St. Patrick's Cathedral, this luxury hotel is the kind of Melbourne landmark that many locals somehow can't place, which keeps the grand split-level lobby pleasantly uncrowded. Rooms run oversized, mixing Art Deco bones with Japanese-style sliding panels and Italian marble bathrooms. A 25-meter edgeless pool hides on an upper floor, and the suites come with fireplaces or terraces that feel almost satirically generous.
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A pink London taxi idles outside the entrance, which tells you most of what you need to know about The Langham Melbourne's approach to subtlety. This luxury hotel sits along the Yarra in Southbank, close enough to the Arts District and the famous laneways to feel central. Chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling flower arrangements fill the lobby, rooms come with marble soaking tubs, and the Club Lounge serves evening drinks on a schedule precise enough to set your watch by.
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Rooms start on floor 65, which means the Dandenong Ranges and Port Phillip Bay are your default wallpaper at this luxury hotel in the Melbourne CBD. The interiors, designed by Melbourne firm Bar Studio, mix airy elegance with First Nations and local art so it doesn't feel like every other Ritz-Carlton on earth. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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Thirty-nine rooms dressed in dark wood and a shade of white that looks like it was just invented sit inside a renovated heritage building on St Kilda's main strip. The Prince is a boutique hotel that manages to feel effortless rather than labored, which is harder than it looks. A spa, a proper restaurant, and a live music venue downstairs suggest the place has other ambitions beyond a nice bed.
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Reclaimed wood, potted plants (an actual rarity in hotels), and creamy natural tones set the mood at this Docklands property on the Yarra, where the whole design brief seems to be "what if a hotel felt like a forest floor." 1 Hotel's sustainability-first ethos runs through everything: low-intervention Australian wines, local Victorian producers across the four dining and drinking spots, and a Bamford spa with pool, sauna, and steam room. It holds a Michelin Key.
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A Collins Street address tucked between designer boutiques, with laneway bars on either side doing their best to slow you down before check-in. This is old-school Melbourne luxury, and the Grand Hyatt has been around forever, yet the rooms and common areas read as modern rather than museum-piece. The staff retention is the real tell: some team members have been here for decades, which at a hotel this size is less a fact and more a personality trait.
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The rooms lean hard into Seventies rock-and-roll energy, with moody palettes and enough visual noise to distract from the fact that this is also a quietly luxurious hotel. Ovolo South Yarra sits in one of Melbourne's better neighborhoods, and even the smaller rooms come with high-end comforts where they count. The suites go full glamour. Downstairs, Lona Misa runs a mostly plant-based Latin American menu, and Backroom does low-lit Art Deco cocktails.
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Two circular windows stare out from the red-brick facade like the building is watching you back. Hyde Melbourne Place is a 16-story hotel above Flinders Lane where the rooms are individually styled, suites open onto city-facing patios, and the lobby runs video installations the way other lobbies run cable news. Burnt orange, deep green, and velvet blue throughout. The rooftop draws the after-work crowd, and a penthouse that looks borrowed from a film set tops it all off. It holds a Michelin Key.
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Each floor of this South Yarra boutique hotel has its own mini art gallery and a fireplace lounge, which sets the tone before you even reach your suite. The suites themselves run studio to two-bedroom, furnished in an Eastern style with full kitchens and walk-in closets, so the line between hotel stay and private apartment gets pleasantly blurry. Bistro Lyall and a Champagne Bar round things out, with the city nine minutes away by train.
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The building was once a luxury-car showroom, and the hotel that replaced it kept the name and leaned into the mythology. Art Deco details run throughout, but the feel is more contemporary-nostalgic than period-room precious. The Showroom Bar hosts live jazz on Fridays, and the Terrace restaurant does breakfast in a light-filled indoor-outdoor room. A boutique stay on St Kilda Road, selected by the Michelin Guide.
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Twelve suites perched on the southern edge of Royal Botanic Gardens, with parkland out front and South Yarra's cafes and boutiques behind. This boutique hotel skips the grand lobby and the spa pavilion in favour of deeply considered rooms, Le Labo products in the rain showers, and wood-fired cooking at Matilda downstairs, which locals treat as their own neighbourhood restaurant. Small enough that the service actually remembers you.
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A 28-floor tower on the Southbank with over 600 rooms is the kind of hotel project cities don't attempt much anymore. This is a large, full-service luxury hotel aiming for grand-hotel scale, with generously sized rooms, far-ranging city views, and a complete spa. Gordon Ramsay runs two restaurants on-site, and the rooftop bar on the 28th floor offers something Melbourne, not a city known for skyscraper living, doesn't offer many chances to do.
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The hotel occupies part of the old flatiron-shaped Queensbank building in Southbank, a neighborhood that sits just quietly enough across the river to feel like a deliberate exhale from the CBD. Flack Studio fitted out all 188 rooms with warm, retro tones and rich textures, giving the whole place a look that reads as thoughtfully designed rather than accidentally charming. Crown Casino is a short walk away, and the city center is a bridge.
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Part of the Art Series Hotels group, The Chen dedicates its entire identity to Zhong Chen, a Chinese-born Pop-influenced painter whose bold, colorful work fills the property. The hotel occupies five floors of a Box Hill high-rise, with 100 suites offering sweeping views across suburban Melbourne. The on-site Golden Lily restaurant runs upscale Cantonese with Shanghai and Sichuan additions, and the surrounding Whitehorse Towers development adds further dining options nearby.
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The bathtubs in the corner suites are angled toward the Yarra, which tells you most of what you need to know about this waterfront hotel in South Wharf. Rooms run generous even at entry level, with pale timber and soft blues nodding to the area's shipping past, and Dani Marti's textured marine-inspired work fills the public spaces. Dock 37 handles modern Italian downstairs, and the Club Lounge quietly throws in complimentary laundry with breakfast.
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The bar on the 25th floor looks out over Port Phillip Bay, which is a reasonable argument for booking here. This CBD hotel sits between Southbank and Docklands, and the rooms go for warm timber and local references rather than generic business-hotel beige. Coffee and late-night pantry raids are handled downstairs by Allie Lane. The Michelin Guide has it on their selected hotels list.
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The golden ceiling above the indoor pool sets the tone for W Melbourne, a luxury hotel occupying Collins Arch, a skyscraper above Flinders Lane. Rooms go heavy on bold color and futuristic styling, which either thrills you or has you sleeping with your eye mask on. Five restaurants and bars are on hand, covering all-day Italian, Japanese omakase, and a cocktail bar that runs DJ nights. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.
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The swooping central staircase makes an argument the moment you walk in. This Collins Street hotel leans into Art Deco grandeur without turning it into a theme park, the bones are historical but the overall feel is pared-down and contemporary. Rooms have Westin's Heavenly Beds and oversized bathtubs, a spa and fitness center are on hand, and City Square fills the windows. Flinders Street Station is close enough that you can actually use the city on foot.
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The elevators crack jokes here, which either sets the tone or warns you off entirely. QT Melbourne is a design hotel inside a 1930s cinema, with neon sculptures, 6,000 books on a single wall, and rooms that go unexpectedly quiet: concrete, slate, timber, leather. Corner rooms put the bathtub against floor-to-ceiling windows above the city. Downstairs, Pascale Bar & Grill does wood-fired Euro bistro cooking; the rooftop pours serious gin over unobstructed Melbourne skyline.
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The Art Deco façade on Bourke Street is the opening argument, and the hotel mostly follows through. Mid-century modernism carries into the rooms, where the light fixtures alone justify a moment of appreciation. The rooftop pool deck is where everyone ends up at dusk, heated water and cocktails making a persuasive case for staying put. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.
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A shiny silver ball motif threads through the whole property, turning up in the lobby ceiling, the fruit basket, and, if you've booked the right penthouse, an actual in-room pinball machine. This CBD hotel runs on apartment logic: open-plan rooms, full kitchens in the bigger suites, free minibars, and bold local art on the walls. Spa people will need to look elsewhere, but everyone else gets a place that feels genuinely lived-in rather than merely occupied.
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A converted Salvation Army printing works, the old brick facade and arched windows still legible at street level while a contemporary tower rises above. This apartment-hotel sits opposite Parliament Gardens, and rooms finished in blonde oak and soft gray look out over either the park or the city. More than 450 works by Melbourne artists hang throughout, which beats the usual corridor landscapes. St. Ali runs the lobby coffee, and Chronicle 502 handles modern Australian food and cocktails downstairs.
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Graffiti-style neon signage marks this boutique hotel on Lygon Street, where the family-owned rooms run to dark timber, marble, and brass. Bathrooms come with three-setting mirrors and Cowshed toiletries; complimentary branded socks suggest someone has thought very hard about the details. An in-house café handles all-day brunch, and a wine bar takes over at night. Carlton's Italian delis and the King and Godfree complex are a short walk.
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The subterranean pool, lit by lanterns and bookable by the hour for private swims, tells you something about the ambition here. The Interlude is a boutique hotel built inside Melbourne's former Pentridge Prison, where vaulted red-brick ceilings and bluestone corridors remain, but walls came down to create suites spanning four or five cells each. Fires burn in the old jail yard. It holds a Michelin Key.
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Concrete walls, lacquered red accents, and lobby installations by local artists signal that this Fitzroy hotel is trying to be something other than a hotel. The StandardX is the group's first offshoot property, and it wears the neighborhood's warehouse-bar energy without much effort. The rooftop pours cocktails over Melbourne skyline views, and Bang downstairs runs seasonal plates with local wine. Selected by the Michelin Guide.
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Parkville's boutique hotel dedicated to Victorian painter David Larwill turns the whole building into a kind of gallery you can sleep in. His bold, motif-heavy work covers the guest rooms and public spaces, and the interior design follows his lead, pulling color from the canvas into the architecture. There's an art library, guided art tours, and an all-day farm-to-table restaurant called The Farmacy on site.