Lizard Island Resort

The award-winning Lizard Island Resort is right on the Great Barrier Reef, fringed with 24 white beaches. It offers a freshwater pool and a restaurant serving Australian, Asian and European cuisine. All rooms come with air conditioning and wooden parquet floors. Each features Bose Sound system with CD player and iPod connectivity. There is a minibar along with tea-and-coffee-making facilities. At Lizard Island, unlimited French champagne, gourmet meals including beach picnic hampers and fine Australian wines are included in the room rate. Lizard Island was voted the top hotel in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific and one of the top 100 hotels and resorts in the world at the 2008 Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards. Guests can enjoy a complementary use of non-motorized water sports and glass bottom boat trips. The on-site spa offers aromatherapy, colour therapy, sound therapy and herbalism. Lizard Island is a 60-minute flight from Cairns.