Mr & Mrs Smith

Tower Lodge

Hunter Valley, Australia

With museum-rivalling multicultural credentials, Tower Lodge is a modern manor sprinkled with curios and antiques, and surrounded by rambling winelands and groomed green golf courses. Globe-trotting grandeur comes courtesy of 300-year-old beds, marble-topped tables and Romanesque touches such as the Tuscan-villa-tribute courtyard and an emperor-worthy spa.

Need to know

• Rooms 12, including two suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $638.57 (AU$654), excluding tax at 10 per cent.
  Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (AU$654), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
• More details Rates include breakfast and activities. There's an AU$50 surcharge for using the fireplace in winter.
• Facilities The hotel has a library, board games, an 18-hole putting green and a gym. All rooms have a CD/DVD, Internet access and kingsize beds, with goosedown duvets in winter and mohair blankets in summer.
• Poolside There's a heated outdoor pool and a sauna.
• Check-out 11am, but this can be flexible.
• Children Tower Lodge does not cater for children under 16.
• Also Smoking is fine outside. No pets. Two-night minimum stay at weekends.

Food and drink at Tower Lodge

• Hotel restaurant Robert’s Restaurant serves elegant cuisine with French and northern Italian influences; Blaxland’s Grill is less formal, with a focus on steak and seafood.
• Dress code Dress up for Robert’s.
• Top table Get a spot outside if you can.
• Last orders Lunch, 2pm; dinner, 8.30pm.
• Room service Snack menu available 24 hours.
• Hotel bar There's a 24-hour honesty bar.

Tower Lodge Halls Road, Hunter Valley, 2320