People think of eco-accommodations as basic and rough. However, check out extraordinary vacations with sustainable, luxurious, fabulous hotels, check out SHGLiving’s new series Hotels By Design.
Series One presents luxury hotels in different places throughout Australia and New Zealand. Binge-watching allowed! Then plan your visit! And see what features you can bring into your home. Let vacation destinations inspire your living.
Gorgeous and Sustainable Vacation Destinations
From urban to the most remote islands with the most spectacular nature, these eco-hotels will regenerate your body & mind. Kudos to the architects and designers for creating such beautiful structures bringing people and nature in better sync. This is design at its very best, creating vacations which are inspirations for how to live daily.
Check out the variety of sustainable solutions for these fabulous hotels. In a former banana farm beams from long abandoned buildings were reused for deluxe private pavilions. In another hotel, roofs are thatched to naturally cool rooms, while large solar arrays provide electricity for complete off-grid operations for many. Landscapes are being restored to their natural habitat. Check out beautiful vineyards. On-site restaurants serve fresh, healthy sometimes even farm-to-table delicacies and wines.
Vacations in Inspirational Hotels
Take a personal tour of Sir Richard Branson’s private island, complete with authentic Balinese buildings and guest accommodations featuring the most unique bathrooms – that’s all we reveal on these pages…You want to explore these hotels for yourselves. Dream a bit as you take in this behind-the-scenes peek.
Is a trip to New Zealand on your bucket list? How about traveling to New Zealand’s remote Alpine wilderness on the South Island in a spectacular Glacial Valley setting. Enjoy a glass of wine and take in breathtaking stunning snow-capped mountain vistas formed over 4000 years ago.
Interested in fly fishing vacations? This spot is for you in the valley’s meandering river. Want to experience a tiny house? Yes, they are there as well. Magnificent glass modernist boxes designed by architecture students in Auckland. They are clad by mirrors reflecting the landscape around them.
Beach Vacations
Dreaming about sustainable, off-grid luxury accommodations beachside? Yes, these too are part of the series lineup – from Australia’s #1 to #9 beaches. Wake up to stunning waterfront and beach vistas free of ugly power supply lines. Yes, you guessed it: These hotels are run by solar with extensive battery backup systems to make the facilities operate seamlessly.
How about going on vacations to Australia’s Outback? Visit a Queensland hotel that is part of a working cattle farm, or a vineyard, or a barrier reef hotel complete with underwater rooms where fish look at you- not from a restricted tank but fish swimming freely in the Barrier Reef of Australia. This is how memorable vacations tuned back into nature in its full glory are made. It will want to make you think about just how precious our Planet Earth is. So why not get into living a more aligned life, perhaps even supporting efforts and organizations that seek to protect and restore barrier reefs around the globe?
Inspirational Destinations
Where do you begin your exploration of inspirational vacations? Check out the incredible, premier HotelsByDesign series on SHGLiving – breathtakingly beautiful hotels in so many spectacular settings with a variety of eco features for healthy living and fabulously healthy living and eating.
Some, if not all of these gorgeous, truly special hotels should be on your bucket list to visit and treat yourself to! Watch SHGLiving and discover the many beautiful places and ways of living sustainably. See what resonates with you and join the world of aligned sustainable abundance.