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Royal Mail Hotel

The Grampians, Australia

For one of the finest meals you'll eat in Australia, with simple yet sophisticated rooms and majestic mountain views to match, head for the Royal Mail Hotel in Dunkeld, the southern gateway to the Grampians in Victoria.

Need to know

• Rooms 27.
• Rates Double rooms from $160.68 (AU$164), excluding tax at 10 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (AU$164) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates include newspaper and continental breakfast (à la carte cooked breakfast also available at additional cost).
• Facilities Gardens, outdoor pool. In rooms: flatscreen TV, balcony.
• Poolside There is a small outdoor pool. Get there early or take a towel to lie on as loungers are in high demand.
• Check-out Check-out 11am. Check-in, 3pm. Both flexible subject to availability; a further charge may apply.
• Children Welcome; but book a local nanny for dinnertime. The kids might get fidgety during the four-hour tasting menu. More...
• Also Maps for eight marked walking trails are provided in all rooms. Walk off lunch with a stroll to Arboretum or the Chinese Wall – you can take a Hiker's Hamper in case you get gourmet withdrawal. Or relax with an in-room massage.
• Please note

   The hotel will be refurbing its Superior Mountain View rooms between June and August; you might hear some drilling and workmen-banter.

Food and drink at Royal Mail Hotel

• Hotel restaurant

  Winner of a fistful of foodie awards, this is, quite simply, one of Australia’s best restaurants, so be sure to bag a table when you book your room. Headed up by Dan Hunter (former head chef at two-Michelin-starred Mugaritz in San Sebastian), it fuses fresh, local and seasonal ingredients with essence-enhancing technology to create tummy-tickling flavours, with a 10-course omnivore or vegetarian tasting menu up for grabs. This is molecular gastronomy with an Australian accent, mixing lamb and liquorice, or pigeon and white chocolate. The Royal Mail Cellar, the country’s leading collection of Burgundy and Bordeaux wines, has also garnered gongs. A more casual bistro alongside the formal dining area serves refined Spanish-inspired dishes, including tapas, and there’s a sunny outside courtyard.

• Dress code Wide-brimmed Akubra hat for hiking in the hills; low-necked little black dress for seducing over dinner.
• Top table Bag a discreet corner table; or sit closer to the fire in the thick of things.
• Last orders Lunch in the Bistro at 2.30pm; dinner in both the Bistro and Restaurant at 9pm; drinks in the Public Bar at 1am.
• Room service A short in-room menu, including wagyu burgers, is available daily between 6pm and 9pm.
• Hotel bar

  The Royal Mail Hotel Public Bar is more pub than cocktail lounge, but it’s the real thing. Foodies from all over Australia rub shoulders with locals and there’s the occasional live band.

Also worth knowing

• Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...

Royal Mail Hotel 98 Parker Street (Glenelg Highway), The Grampians, Victoria 3294