Yarra Valley Travel Journal

Seasonal Escapes

A Spring Weekend in the Yarra Valley

Budburst in the vineyards, wildflowers on the roadsides and the best walking weather of the year.

Seasonal Escapes

A northern hemisphere Christmas in the right weather, an hour from Melbourne. Here is how to organise one.

Seasonal Escapes

Cold, quiet and mostly empty. Winter is the valley at its least photographed and its best value.

Corporate & Group Retreats

Sorted by how much enthusiasm they require from the least enthusiastic person on your team.

Corporate & Group Retreats

A worked schedule with enough gaps in it to be useful. Adapt the times, keep the shape.

Corporate & Group Retreats

Dates, rooms, meeting space, food and one activity. The order matters more than the budget.

Local Guides & Itineraries

Everything within a fifteen minute drive of reception, ordered by how far you actually have to go.

Weddings

How many rooms to hold, when to book them, and how to hand the details to guests without chasing anyone.

Local Guides & Itineraries

Two nights, one sunrise balloon flight, a long lunch and nowhere in particular to be.

Weddings

You have been invited to a wedding an hour out of Melbourne. Here is what to sort out before you go.

Local Guides & Itineraries

Cellar doors before lunch, mountain ash in the afternoon, and back in time for the fire pit. A day that does not need a schedule.

Weddings

If the ceremony is at Fergusson, the accommodation question mostly answers itself. Here is what to book and when.