- For stylish, fuss-free rooms - and great value - Melbourne’s Middle Park Hotel is hard to beat. The handsome, period building reveals rooms that are cool in monochrome colours, some with sexy black bathrooms and roll-top baths. The service is friendly, there’s excellent gastropub-style food plus an open-air market (the largest in the southern hemisphere) and the Botanical Gardens are close by.
- The Prince, in the seaside suburb of St Kilda, is another excellent-value city hotel. Its 40 sleek, Scandi-chic rooms - all white walls, wooden floors and funky lighting - are large and airy. There’s a bistro-style restaurant plus a sauna and steam room to recover from all that wine-tasting.
For a full list of our choice of the best wine hotels in Australia, click here. Alternatively you can widen your search by checking out all our recommendations in Melbourne and Victoria, or contact a friendly guru for advice.