Need to know
Rooms
11, including five rooms in the original 1847 house and six garden rooms in the modern extension.
Check–Out
10am. Earliest check-in, 2pm, but both are flexible subject to availability.
More details
Standard rate includes Continental breakfast and minibar soft drinks. Award-winning, cooked-to-order breakfast is at an additional cost of AU$33 a day, this can be arranged at the hotel.
Also
Poke around in the writing desk in your room and you should find a great guided Rivulet walk – with obligatory stop at local gourmet deli and cafe, Raw – ready to slip round your neck and under your Barber. If you fancy less exertion, beauty and massage treatments can be ordered in your room.
At the hotel
Library, music room, outdoor pavilion with open fire and barbecue, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: iPad, flatscreen TV, in-house movie and cable channels, DVD/CD player with library, iPod dock, minibar, Basic Earth Botanicals and Beauty & the Bees toiletries.
Our favourite rooms
Tucked away at the back of the new extension, smart and simple ground-floor Garden Rooms 6 and 7 have the best views, but stay in the old house to feel cocooned and connected – Regency Room 3, the Wellington Room, named after the mountain it overlooks, is generous, elegant and airy. The Attic Room is small and tastefully cluttered with views through its original casement window to the conservatory.
Packing tips
Patterned pashminas for elegant dinners, reading glasses for close-up ogling of the fabulous art collection.
Also
Spend some languid downtime in the Andrew Pfeiffer-designed gardens, shaded by the 100-year-old willow.
Children
This is more of a couple’s retreat – no under-16s allowed.
Sustainability efforts
The Islington Hotel sources most of its food locally and grows some produce on site. It composts food waste, recycles wherever possible, and buys green energy and carbon offsets, to make the property carbon-neutral overall.