escape to luxury

It’s a new month, a new financial year and time for new goals – travel goals that is! Midyear is a great time to take stock of what you want to achieve this year and where you want to go.  If you’ve been working hard, take time for a romantic getaway with your partner or book a holiday with the family.

Here at alluxia, we independently verify the properties listed for their quality and inspect the properties to ensure our handpicked collection is the best of the best in each region of Australia for you. That’s why we recently won the Most Trusted Hospitality and Leisure provider in 2015. 

This Far North Queensland beauty offers chic dining, cafes and cocktail lounges plus year-round sunshine, making it the perfect winter escape.

Just one hour’s drive north of Cairns along pristine coastline, Port Douglas is a picture-perfect tropical paradise. Where rainforest meets reef, Port Douglas is a great base to explore some of Tropical North Queensland’s most spectacular natural assets.

Noosa Long Weekend Festival is 13 days of arts, literature, forums, food & fun in the idyllic surrounds of the Noosa region. This unique festival delivers a diverse range of arts and cultural experiences from local, national and international artists to the Noosa stage. This year’s line up is set to be fun, thought provoking and entertaining as ever. Here’s our pick of the festival programme:

Be invigorated and revived by these wonderful wintery destinations. Put your precious winter days off to good use and instead of staring at the television, get out and explore our misty and magical frost-coated landscape.

We recently hit Port Douglas for the annual Carnivale celebrations.  After a festive evening watching the local street parade we scouted out some late night dining options. We’d recently enjoyed a Pineapple & coconut crumble dessert by chef Spencer Patrick at the Top Tastes of Queensland degustation lunch at Noosa Food & Wine Festival and decided to seek out Patrick's Port Douglas restaurant Harrisons.

Calling all Gin lovers! As if you even needed an excuse, it’s World Gin Day!  While you could celebrate with a nip of good gin served on ice, a bit of cucumber and a slosh of tonic water at home, here’s our roundup of the best gin infused bars across Australia.