Most travellers are in search of comfort and convenience when it comes to finding the perfect stay and dining options during their visit, as this plays a huge role in making or breaking a guest’s experience. With a long list of attractions and plentiful experiences in store, Melbourne fascinates its visitors each time – making every visit a surprise with something new to discover.

Here is a mix of accommodations in Melbourne offering the most exquisite experience and notable culinary options to explore.

#1 Feast on delicious Mediterranean flavours

The Prince Hotel is a multi-venue complex located on the corner of Acland and Fitzroy Streets in St Kilda comprising 39 boutique hotel rooms, Prince Dining Room, Prince Public Bar, Prince Deck event space and iconic music venue, Prince Bandroom.

To embrace a new era of dining, Prince Dining Room is a beautifully curated space to enjoy great food and beverage with an unconventional menu in Melbourne, and particularly in St. Kilda. Designed to share and inspired by flavours and spices from the Mediterranean rim, each ingredient is selected with a predetermined purpose in mind, a seasonal value and a local significance.

With particular emphasis on cooking with fire and drawing inspiration from global cooking techniques, the physical change to the space has been dramatic (and necessary) to provide Prince Dining Room with its own voice. More info: www.theprince.com.au

#2 Wine and dine

From the family who brought Stones of the Yarra Valley and Meletos, comes No.7 Healesville, a communal urban winery, tapas bar and event space dedicated to fostering the next generation of Australian winemakers. Located within Healesville’s most exciting and new food & wine precinct, the winery provides easier and inexpensive access to facilities for wine production.

Dedicated to help Australian winemakers hone their craft and launch their labels, the No.7 Healesville Young Winemakers Program is the first of its kind in Australia under the expert guidance of head winemakers Damian North (Journey Wines) and Behn Payten (Four Pillars Gin, Payten & Jones).

Adjoining the winery is No.7 Healesville’s tapas bar where Head Chef Trevor Schneider’s menu reflects his passion for Spanish cuisine while showcasing the best producers of the region and beyond, all while perfectly complimenting the exciting offering of wines by the glass and by the bottle. More info: www.no7healesville.com

#3 Living the high life

South Melbourne will be welcoming Ovolo, an international award-wining designer hotel owner operator’s newest Upper Upscale, 100-room, six-storey designer hotel which is expected to open in 2020.

Renowned for their high-end, high energy designs that blend form and function, Ovolo’s signature ‘effortless living’ ethos to one of Melbourne’s most iconic inner-city suburbs propels it as a mixed-use lifestyle precinct featuring destination bars and restaurants, as well as leisure, event and function facilities.

Like all their sites, Ovolo in South Melbourne will stand alone from a design perspective, but the experience will be unmistakeably Ovolo. More info: www.ovolohotels.com

#4 A touch of avant garde

Shadow Play by Peppers which opens in April 2019 is Melbourne’s newest luxury hotel in the city’s vibrant Southbank arts and entertainment district. Avant garde design features throughout the hotel, breaking tradition and routine hotel design with a cohesive collection of contrasts – light and dark, formal and informal, and seductive dark statement pieces contrasting with white stone and timber.

Catering to an increasingly selective global market that is looking for quality, location and facilities of a world-class calibre, all apartments are self-contained, highly functional and boast lashings of natural light and city or bayside views from floor to ceiling windows and balconies.

The hotel also houses Edwin Wine Bar & Cellar – positioned to be one of Melbourne’s finest food and wine experiences and boasting an extensive wine list selected by the restaurant’s resident sommelier. The Edwin cellar will play host to an ever-evolving seasonal wine programme, helmed by Edwin’s sommelier and local wine experts. More info: www.peppers.com.au

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