"Very few resorts manage to get all the ingredients right when opening but we can assure you, this beauty of a hotel has ticked all the right boxes. We were literally left speechless — and that takes some doing — as we feasted our eyes on the breathtaking vistas, indulged our senses in our gorgeous suite and in the spa, and devoured the food that made any thought of a diet ridiculous." Bill Tikos
The Coolhunter online guru

"qualia has the low-key indoor-outdoor design that is quintessential unpretentious Oz luxury." Maria Shollenbarger on qualia’s inclusion in the US Conde Nast Traveler Gold List 2015

"…I discovered my hammock strung outside my tent and, more important, I discovered that if I lay in it long enough, I could watch whales blowing and curling out on the ink-blue horizon." Max Anderson
The Sunday Times

"There is no question of being impervious to the environment here. The lodge borders The Daintree National Park, home to 74 species of mammals, twice as many types of reptiles and amphibians, and 330 kinds of birds... It's a companionable destination of appropriate luxury and lots of creature comforts…" Susan Kurosawa
Wish Magazine

"At Southern Ocean Lodge the mix of fabulousness and nature finds new frisson...It's bold, it's progressive, it's queen of the wilderness wonderland. Southern Ocean Lodge is really a pair of cool, calm binoculars focused on an astonishing place." Melinda Stevens
TATLER