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Australia Bed and Breakfast Guide

Travelling and staying in bed and breakfast properties can enhance your enjoyment of Australia. Relax, enjoy your host's travel suggestions, linger over breakfast, introduce yourself to fellow travellers, and make new friends. Enjoy your holiday accommodation with Bed and Breakfasts, Australian style.

Choosing a Bed and Breakfast

Jasons has over 2,800 bed and breakfast listings throughout Australia. To see a list of properties, just click on the map, or start typing your preferred destination in the destination box above and select it when it appears. Choose "Accommodation" and "Bed & Breakfast/Cottages" from the boxes on the right, and press GO.

You can refine your search using the filter boxes above the search results.

Common Bed and Breakfast Searches

Queensland

New South Wales

Tasmania

Northern Territory 

 


Bed and Breakfast Categories

There is a wide range of bed and breakfast accommodations across Australia, catering for all levels of expectation and tariffs. Below we have summarised the major types that you will find around the country, and listed on the Jasons website:

  • Bed and Breakfasts
    Accommodation in private homes with the owners, where guests usually have a separate lounge and bathrooms.  Often 2-4 guest rooms.
  • Bed and Breakfast Hotels
    Larger hosted properties with some hotel features.
  • Bed and Breakfast Inns
    Generally larger properties (4+ guest rooms) with more guests, rooms with ensuite bathrooms, more features and facilities, and also offering personal hospitality.
  • Boutique Accommodation, Hotels and Lodges
    These properties are found in many sizes and offer a little extra in decor, panache, style or ambience.
  • Lodges
    Generally luxury accommodation with superb facilities, a bar available, and full dining facilities in a beautiful natural setting.
  • Homestays and Farmstays
    Accommodation in private homes or farms, where you share the home with the owners and enjoy all the features of their home.  Often 1 or 2 guest rooms.
  • Country Homes
    Accommodation in private country homes, generally with enuite bathrooms and other features or facilities plus personal hospitality.  A chance to enjoy rural life.
  • Historic Homes
    Elegant, graceful and charming with a significant history and/or architecture.  Includes many properties in the above categories.
  • Self-contained cottages, Standalone cottages, Studios and Apartments
    The cottages may be on farms or in the grounds of the bed and breakfast property.  The city equivalent is a self-contained apartment or standalone cottage.  Breakfast can be provided or you can be fully self-contained. 
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