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Halls Road, Pokolbin, Hunter Valley, New South Wales
Tower Lodge 
- Style
- Global grandeur
- Setting
- Hunter Valley vineyards
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.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 12, including two suites.
- Rates
- AU$655–AU$850, including breakfast and activities. There's a AU$90 surcharge for using the fireplace in winter.
- Check-out
- 11am, but this can be flexible.
- 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.
- Children
- Tower Lodge does not cater for children under 16.
- Also
- Smoking is fine outside. No pets. Two-night minimum stay at weekends.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The Chairman’s Suite is a detached building with its own tower and viewing platform. It also has a 300-year-old, hand-carved Rajasthani bed and a marble bathroom with a deep, elevated spa bath. The Oriental Room is a suite with a romantic wooden bathtub on the private verandah.
- Packing tips
- A panorama-catching wide-angle lens for your camera.
Food & drink
- 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.
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Local restaurants
Terroir at Hungerford Hill (+61 2 4930 7244) is a relaxed, airy wine bar and restaurant with good antipasto. Mojo’s on Wilderness (+61 2 4930 7244), run by a friendly husband-and-wife team, does wholesome Aussie dining, with seasonal ingredients and more excellent wine. The Beltree Café at Margan Estate (+61 2 6574 7216) is great for an outdoorsy lunch, with Mediterranean food and a Tuscan atmosphere. The Gate Café at Lavender Gate Farm in Wollombi (+61 2 4998 3377) has comforting pizza and pastas. Esca overlooking the Bimbadgen Estate in Pokolbin (+61 2 4998 4666) serves excellent Australian cuisine and has fine views over the vineyards. Booking recommended.Worth getting out of bed for
Local activities include hot-air ballooning (Balloons Aloft: +61 2 4938 1955), wine-tasting (Tower Lodge staff recommend Vineyard Shuttle: +61 2 4991 3655) and golf (The Vintage golf club is gorgeous: +61 2 4998 6789).
For a full list of bars and restaurants in Hunter Valley, click here
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