The Best Hotels Near Samesyn 2.0, by the Record
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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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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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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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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.