Luxury Lodges of Australia’s Southern Ocean Lodge and Cape Lodge have been featured in The Australian Financial Review in a recent Life & Leisure article listing the ‘Top 25 Australian escapes in 2023 no passport required’.

“In November, Southern Ocean Lodge will reopen on its original site at Kingscote on NepeanBay, close to the island’s airport. The internationally acclaimed luxury lodge, originally opened by James and Hayley Baillie of Baillie Lodges in 2008, was burnt to the ground in the December 2019-January 2020 fires. Original architect Max Pritchard and his partner Andrew Gunner have recreated the dream, and the Baillies and the architects argue the new $50 million lodge will have even better views (as if that were possible). To achieve this, the building has been slightly reoriented to the south. It pretty much stays true to the original footprint, and the Osprey, Remarkable and Flinders suites will be reinstated with slight design improvements.

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Rich Lister Andrew ‘‘Twiggy’’ Forrest is a man with many hats, caps and visors, not to mention hi-vis vests. He also has a big passion for his home state of Western Australia. InDecember 2021, Forrest snapped up one of Margaret River’s finest properties, Cape Lodge, via the family’s investment vehicle Tattarang. Set on 16 hectares, the 22-room lodge has had continual tweaks, but the hot news here is a grand overhaul being rolled out over the next 12to 24 months. Watch this space.

Meanwhile, a luxury four-bedroom, three-bathroom separate dwelling, The Residence, is available for up to eight people, priced from about $6500 a night.” – Fiona Carruthers, The Australian Financial Review.

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