Lizard Island

Australia's only Three-Key hotel — a lodge alone on a national-park island of the northern reef.

Five-star · From $2,200 per nightAny mandatory hotel fees are shown before you confirm.

Elise Hassey / Lizard Island

Lizard Island & Northern Reef · Great Barrier Reef & Whitsundays

A sense of the place

Lizard Island — room — A bedroom at Lizard Island in morning light: a woven-leather bench at the foot of a bed dressed in white, a moss-green bouclé armchair with a grey cushion, a pale wood stool and stone side tables, sheer white curtains and floor-to-ceiling windows onto a deck and eucalyptus trees, and a timber floor striped with sunlight; nobody in frame — Elise Hassey / Lizard Island

Lizard Island — suite — The living room of a Lizard Island suite: a deep sand-coloured sectional sofa with linen cushions, three woven sea-fan sculptures on a white board-and-batten wall, a round stone dining table with rush-seat chairs under pale globe pendants, a telescope on a tripod, and built-in white shelves with books, a carved bowl and a lantern; nobody in frame — Elise Hassey / Lizard Island

Lizard Island — exterior — The House at Lizard Island on its headland: a pale concrete villa with tall slot windows and a cantilevered glass corner above granite boulders, grasses and wind-shaped trees, the white beach and clear turquoise shallows below and the open sea under a blue sky with white clouds; nobody in frame — © Lizard Island

Why it's in the collection

Because the lodge stands alone on a national-park island of the northern reef, with private beaches, a motorized dinghy at every suite and the coral a few strokes from the sand — and the house holds five-star standing.

On Lizard Island, on the northern reef; an independent house.
Private beaches; a dinghy at every suite; the outer reef within reach.
Three MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection; holds five-star standing.

The neighborhood

Golden hour over Lizard Island & Northern Reef

Lizard Island & Northern Reef

The reef north of Cairns, an hour by air, and a national-park island with its own beaches. The outer reef is within reach of a dinghy, and one lodge stands on the sand.

The reef and the private beaches, at the door.
The outer reef, by dinghy or boat from the lodge.
Cairns Airport, to the south.

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