Travel & Leisure
Mr & Mrs Smith’s Ten Best Boutique Hotels on a Budget
Who says you can't stay somewhere spectacular without breaking your holiday budget?
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NewsFirst Look: Sydney's Luxury Boutique Stay The EVE Is an Inner-City Hotel with Tropical Resort Vibes
This new Surry Hills hotel melding hospitality with bespoke artistic charm is offering an exclusive launch package to welcome its first guests in style.
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NewsDomestic Flights Start at $35 and International Fares at $149 in Jetstar's Big 2024 Cyber Monday Sale
You've got two days to get a travel bargain — including on overseas flights to Singapore, Phuket, Bali, Honolulu, Osaka and Tokyo.
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NewsFive Unexpected (and Undoubtedly Australian) Swimming Spots to Discover Around the Country
The authors of 'Places We Swim' pick five all-time swimming spots that every Australian water lover should visit.
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NewsShaken Up: Standout Happy Hours Around Singapore's Cutting-Edge Cocktail Scene
Go happy-hour-hopping from a bar inspired by Little India to a classic American steakhouse and a rooftop bar overlooking the Singapore River.
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Exquisite Eats, Gorgeous Gardens and the World's Fastest Cars: A First-Timer's Guide to Singapore
For a small island, Singapore sure packs a punch.
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FeatureThe 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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FeatureChase the Feels: How to Plan a Memorable Trip in New South Wales
There's a reason we love travelling so much.
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FeatureYour 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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FeatureNine Luxury Experiences in Tropical North Queensland That Are Also Environmentally Responsible
Head north for an eco-friendly escape that doesn't skimp on luxury.
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FeatureInto the Wild: Go off the Beaten Path at These Fascinating Regional Destinations
Get out of town — literally — and do your weekend differently.
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FeatureTaste 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.
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FeatureA 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."
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FeatureA 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.
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NewsMeet 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.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Kangaroo Island
The South Australian island's wineries, beaches, oyster farms and accommodation are as beautiful as ever.
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NewsA 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.
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NewsA 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.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Daylesford
Spend a few days wrapped in nature, natural mineral springs and a blanket of good food and wine.
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NewsA 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.
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NewsTen of the Most-Secluded Waterfront Getaways You Can Book on the Northern Beaches
You can't jump on a plane to the Riviera, but you can escape the city for a tranquil weekend on Pittwater.
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NewsThe 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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GuideThe 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.
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HotelLanson 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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NewsTen 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.
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NewsThe 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.
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Travel & LeisureThe Ultimate Escape in the Daintree and Port Douglas
For the ultimate Aussie getaway, we head far, far north to Port Douglas, the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef.
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Food & DrinkMr & Mrs Smith’s Ten Hottest Hotel Bars
If you're a jetsetting barfly, get ready to spread your wings and drool over the world's top ten hotel bars.
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Travel & LeisureA Local’s Guide to Visiting Brisbane
A local's guide to the sunniest city in Australia, Brisbane.
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Travel & LeisureTen Hotel Oases That Will Cool You Down in Summer
Boutique hotel experts Mr & Mrs Smith have the lowdown on where the trendsetters sleep.
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Travel & LeisureAn Insider’s Twelve Tips on How to Do NYC
Get the most of your no doubt too short time in the City That Never Sleeps.
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Travel & Leisurelastminute.com.au’s Top Five Hotels in NYC
The best places to stay all over the city.
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Arts & EntertainmentWorld’s Most Instagrammable Hotel Opens in Sydney
1888 Hotel has built in special features to inspire photographers of all stripes.
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Arts & EntertainmentScale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily
The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.
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Arts & EntertainmentYour Guide to a Spring Weekend in the Hunter Valley
The perfect weekender, whether you're with friends, your lover or your mum.
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Travel & LeisureExclusive Victorian Winter Getaways from Mr & Mrs Smith
Hotel connoisseurs Mr & Mrs Smith are here to tempt you out of your uggies and into a winter wonderland.
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Arts & EntertainmentTen Gourmet Winter Getaways
These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.
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Arts & EntertainmentTry a Truly Sustainable Diet at Pestival
The Noma chefs pitch in to help tune your tastebuds to the appreciation of bugs.
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Travel & LeisurePhotographer Gets Led Around the World by His Girlfriend
Osmann's photographic journey takes viewers on a trip which is stunning in more ways than one.
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Travel & LeisureThe World’s Most Beautiful Public Swimming Pools
Natural and human-made beauty combine in these stunning locales that are open to all.
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Arts & EntertainmentEat and Drink Hong Kong Style
Hong Kong is almost close enough to justify a long weekend away. Here's Concrete Playground's guide to eating and drinking HK style.
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Travel & LeisureBruce Myren’s Inspired 40th Parallel Photo Series
The 40th parallel is much more than simply a line of latitude spanning the distance of America from East to West.
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Travel & LeisureThe Kombi Trail: Nine Students and VW Van
A tale of nine students fresh out of university who embark on the journey of a lifetime with the Cold War as a backdrop and a VW Kombi as means of transportation.
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Arts & EntertainmentRare Colour Photographs of Paris in 1914
These photographs of Paris in 1914 are particularly enchanting not only because they go back to the denouement of the peaceful and reformatory Belle Epoque...
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Travel & LeisureAerial Views of Australian Beaches
Shot from doorless helicopters, American photographer Gray Malin has captured your weekend days on the beach, from above.
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Travel & LeisureRemarkable Aerial Photographs of Iceland’s Volcanic Systems
Andre Armolaev has captured incredible aerial images of Iceland's twisting rivers meandering across black, ashy volcanic land.
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Arts & EntertainmentTen Film-Inspired Luxury Getaways
We've reviewed the new releases and flipped through the DVD cabinet to bring you ten jaw-dropping locations.
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Arts & EntertainmentTen Weird but Wonderful Spas
Whether you use them for cleansing, decompressing or just some well-earned R 'n' R, spas have been a ubiquitous part of the tourism industry.
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Travel & LeisureThe Best Photos of Oktoberfest 2012
A little peak into the thrills and spills of the first week of Oktoberfest 2012.
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Design & StyleHooroo: A New Kind of Travel Website
Real people who really want to share their travel adventures.
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Arts & EntertainmentA Glamping Guide for Music Festivals
Gear up for all of winter's festivals with 10 glamping necessities.
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Travel & LeisureThe Five Best Vineyard Getaways in Australia
Pop open a bottle of estate-grown wine at these stylish stays among the Australian vines.
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Travel & LeisureHighlights of an Unmapped Roadtrip of NSW
Five highlights from an Unmapped Road Trip around New South Wales.
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Design & StyleFive of the World’s Weirdest Hotels
These hotels will ensure that the destination will be just as exciting as the journey on your next holiday.
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Travel & LeisureSceptic Kiwi Heading to New South Wales
Nominated to be one of five international bloggers, I promise to be entertaining and represent New Zealand responsibly. If that is possible?
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Design & StyleSweden’s Treehouse Hotel
The hotel has five different rooms, all of which are themed differently and offer much more than your standard bed and complementary chocolate.
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Design & StyleFirst-Ever Space Hotel Set to Open in 2016
Space tourism set to become a reality in the next few years.
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Arts & Entertainment21 of the World’s Most Stunning Holiday Destinations
Some of the places that truly capture the imagination around the globe.
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Arts & EntertainmentCorinne Vionnet’s Photo Opportunities Capture the Tourist Experience
Thousand's of observations from the tourist paparazzi come together in single, haunting images.