• News

    Fifteen of the Most Unique Stays You Can Book Around New Zealand

    Spend a few nights in a leafy treehouse, a beautifully restored truck perched right on the bay or even a mountaintop cabin with views for days.

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    The Best Dog-Friendly Hotels, B&Bs and Self-Contained Getaways in Victoria

    Accommodations where both you and your pet can sit and stay all around Victoria.

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    Now Open: The CBD's Newest Luxury Hotel Melbourne Place Is Home to Three Knock-Out Hospitality Venues

    The new 14-storey hotel is home to a Med-inspired restaurant, Portuguese diner and late-night basement bar.

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    The Luxury Traveller's Guide to Brisbane to Inspire Your Next Indulgent Escape

    From helicopter wine tours to luxury hotel stays, there are plenty of ways to live the high life in Brisbane.

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    Your Essential Guide to Memphis, Tennessee

    Memphis is a veritable playground for music fans. It's not only the home of blues and soul music but also the birthplace of rock 'n' roll.

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    Nine Luxury Experiences in Tropical North Queensland That Are Also Environmentally Responsible

    Head north for an eco-friendly escape that doesn't skimp on luxury.

  • Feature

    Into the Wild: Go off the Beaten Path at These Fascinating Regional Destinations

    Get out of town — literally — and do your weekend differently.

  • Feature

    Taste of Tasmania: Discover the Delicious Charm of the Apple Isle

    Australia's island state boasts the perfect conditions for producing top-quality, flavour-filled produce — and an exceptionally talented roll call of passionate people doing spectacular things with it.

  • Feature

    A Southern Edge Road Trip: Follow a CP Writer's Ambling Foodie Adventure in Tasmania's South

    "While I love a scenic road trip with good company as much as the next person, this road trip truly rivalled almost every journey I can recall."

  • Feature

    A Northern Forage Road Trip: Follow a CP Writer's Tasting Tour Across Tasmania's North

    Proceed with an empty stomach, an open mind and a readiness to build a more meaningful relationship with what’s on your plate.

  • News

    Meet The Culinary Tastemakers Championing Tasmanian Produce

    Meet the passionate advocates and entrepreneurs who deal in flavours of the wild and tastes of terroir with the finest produce the earth and sea can offer.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide to Kangaroo Island

    The South Australian island's wineries, beaches, oyster farms and accommodation are as beautiful as ever.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide to Queensland's Bundaberg Region

    Watch baby turtles hatch, swim at the Southern Great Barrier Reef, then sample award-winning local gin and rum.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide To Bowral and the Southern Highlands

    Stay at a country estate, taste locally produced wine and whisky, peruse a whole heap of art and feast at a hatted restaurant — all in just one weekend.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide to Daylesford

    Spend a few days wrapped in nature, natural mineral springs and a blanket of good food and wine.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide to the Mornington Peninsula

    Just an hour out of Melbourne, the Peninsula provides the perfect combo of coastal parks, prime produce and pinot noir.

  • News

    The Best Dog-Friendly Hotels, B&Bs and Self-Contained Getaways in Victoria

    Accommodations where both you and your pet can sit and stay all around Victoria.

  • Guide

    The 14 Best Hotels In Melbourne

    Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the best hotels in Melbourne will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas and pillow menus await.

  • Hotel

    Lanson Place Parliament Gardens

    502 Albert Street, East Melbourne

    This new Melbourne hotel houses a 20-metre lap pool, gym, all-day diner and cocktail bar, and 137 rooms.

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    Ten Next-Level Australian Stays with Outdoor Baths for the Ultimate Relax and Rewind Getaway

    Whether you fancy relaxing in a private Japanese bathhouse, a rustic metal tub perched on a farm's timber deck, or a spa-bath in a mountain cave — we've got you covered.

  • News

    The Best Places to Go Glamping in New Zealand

    Choose from seaside glamping spots, campsites in the mountains and tents scattered about countryside farms full of roaming sheep.

  • News

    The Eight Best Places to Go Glamping in Victoria

    All these luxury Victorian glamping experiences are under two hours away from the Melbourne CBD — so you can easily have your weekend wilderness adventure and goose-feather down quilt, too.

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    Berlin Caps Rent Prices, Makes All of Australia Jealous

    Nice to see a country keeping low-income earners from being driven out of the inner city.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Perth's Five Hidden Treasures According to Peter Bibby

    Take a bonafide local's tour through Perth with the 'Hates My Boozin'' yarn-spinner.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The World's First Official Hello Kitty Restaurant to Open in Hong Kong

    Instagram had better be ready.

  • Travel & Leisure

    A Weekender's Guide to Avoca

    Pull on a cable knit and enjoy the autumn sun on the Central Coast.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Expats, It Looks Like You'll Be Paying Back Your HECS After All

    Pyne wants you to pay up. 

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Ten Best Things to Come Out of Mexico

    Two million square kilometres of ingenuity, creativity and deliciousness.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You Can Airbnb Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's Old LA Apartment

    No luggage needed, just come as you are.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Uber Launches Cash-Only Auto-Rickshaw Service

    A world first for the taxi-challenging app.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Wine Lover's Weekenders

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    A Weekender's Guide to the Hunter Valley

    Go off the beaten vineyard track on your foray into Australia's favourite wine region.

  • Travel & Leisure

    A Wine Lover's Weekender in the Southern Highlands

    The place to go when you long to sip pinot noir by a crackling wood fire.

  • Travel & Leisure

    This New Hotel Offers Accomodation for Both Tourists and Refugees

    Now here's a bighearted social enterprise.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Airbnb's Latest Terrifying Stay is Snuggled In the End of This Ski Jump

    Checkout is via zipline. Really.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Five Best Hotel Getaways on the Coral Coast

    Extend your summer. Run away to the WA beaches.

  • Travel & Leisure
    Melbourne

    Melbourne Japanese Summer Festival 2015

    Learn the art of origami, watch live Japanese music and eat as much soft shell crab salad as you can.

  • Travel & Leisure

    How to Spend 60 Hours in Margaret River

    Where vineyards meet the sea and ice cream is a 'cow to cone' operation.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Win a Western Australian Wine Adventure Thanks to WineMarket

    Because a love of wine should always be rewarded.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You Can Rent This Entire Cave on Airbnb

    It's a cave. Your accommodation is an entire cave.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Spend a Luxurious, Terrifying Night Dangling at 9000ft

    Two double beds and 360 degree views, but no bathroom.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Noma Pops Up in Tokyo

    The pop-up with the 60,000-strong waiting list.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Ten Best Summer Getaways From Melbourne

    When the Fitzroy Pool just doesn't cut it, get your friends together for one of these jaunts out of town.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Ten Best Things to Come Out of Jamaica

    Jerk, James Bond, the world's finest coffee and rum? Thank Jamaica.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Mr and Mrs Smith’s Boutique Hotel Bucket List

    Let the winners of the Smith Hotel Awards inspire your daydreaming.

  • Travel & Leisure

    How To Spend 60 Hours in the Barossa Valley

    Spoiler: it includes a lot of wine.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Five Barossa Valley Events That Are Worth the Road Trip

    Apparently there's more to the Barossa than wineries.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Quaffer’s Guide to the Best of the Barossa

    Cam Knight takes you on a well-trodden path through his favourite Barossa cellar doors, restaurants and markets.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Win a Holiday to Brisbane for GOMA’s 30 Years of Japanese Fashion Exhibition

    Harajuku meets South Bank on this perfect holiday.

  • Food & Drink

    Five Dining Trends That Are Big in Japan

    Japan has 32 Michelin-starred restaurants. These aren't them.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Five Unexpected Highlights to Seek Out in Bangkok

    Thailand is undoubtedly one of Australia's favourite holiday destinations, but not usually for these reasons.

  • Design & Style

    Win a Digital Detox Thanks to General Assembly and Airbnb

    It’s time to take a deep breath, kick back and relax.

  • Food & Drink

    The Five Best Bars in Christchurch

    This 'city of opportunity' mentality has spawned a new wave of small bars.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    The Ten Best Boutique Hotel Holidays in the Maldives

    Too much pretty in the Maldives.

  • Food & Drink

    A Whirlwind Guide to Eating in Vietnam

    You don't need mountains of time to experience the diverse regions of Vietnam, just an open mind. And mouth.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Four Creative Projects to Visit in Christchurch

    Bars on buses, pop-up public buildings and shipping container shopping centres are part of a city brimming with innovation.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Burning Man Postponed Due to Heavy Desert Rain

    Nevada's annual desert bacchanal has wet feet.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You Can Stay Airbnb at IKEA (and They’ll Let You Keep the Sheets)

    Display home SLUMBER PARTAY.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Humans of New York Has Gone Global

    Photographer Brandon Stanton has left the five burroughs behind.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Melbourne and Auckland Ranked Friendliest Cities in the World

    Up high, y'damn courteous bunch.

  • Food & Drink

    This Cafe Delivers Burgers to Your Table at 100km/Hour

    Christchurch's C1 Espresso has high-speed sliders, sustainable Samoan coffee and one hell of a cafe culture.

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Road Trip Country: Driving Around New Zealand’s Canterbury Region

    Windows down and purpose-made road trip playlist blaring.

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