Baillie Lodges is a dynamic portfolio of luxury lodges created by the partnership of James and Hayley Baillie, setting new benchmarks for premium experiential travel. The duo created Baillie Lodges in 2003, inspired by a shared love for travel and drawing on a complementary set of experiences in the higher-end tourism industry. The couple are united in their drive to explore the globe, a taste for world-class local dining, and an appreciation of contemporary architecture and stylish interior design.
Essentially, James and Hayley set out to create standout luxury lodges in extraordinary destinations, where an opportunity existed to offer guests a genuine experience of place through connections to the landscape and wildlife, to regional food and wine producers and to the community and its local culture. James and Hayley consider themselves fortunate to have created a working lifestyle doing what they love. They work well together with four active sons they hope to be able to show them what the world has to offer.
The Baillie Lodges experience embraces the luxury of travel. A stay with Baillie Lodges is about connection with the landscape, its culture and wildlife, a celebration of superb regional cuisine and luxurious lodgings. It offers a genuine sense of place, a union of sights, scents and tastes that immerses guests in their surrounds. Guest itineraries are tailor-made, creating a personal, lasting connection with the destination. A stay with Baillie Lodges offers time to reconnect with the people and places that matter most.
A stay with Baillie Lodges offers guests a genuine connection with the destination, its landscape, wildlife and community. Each lodge is designed as a wholly sensory experience, a union of sights, scents and tastes that immerses guests in their surrounds. In this way, guests feel the essence and spirit of the destination, experienced from a luxurious basecamp.
Ever sensitive to the precious landscapes in which the Baillie Lodges properties reside, Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island and Longitude 131° at Uluru are each an architectural attraction and a celebration of Australian design. Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge is a gathering of guest tents in turn-of-the-century prospector fashion with new, contemporary interiors in Baillie Lodges’ signature style.
A commitment to commissioning local designers and using locally-sourced, sustainable materials creates a unique feeling of a ‘sense of place’. Together the lodges carry a ‘Baillie’ feel of organic luxury with a local destination focus. Each luxury lodge is designed to allow the outside in, affording guests a seamless experience of the destination.
The Baillie Lodges culinary philosophy drives a daily-changing menu where local, in-season ingredients are delivered in a world-class dining experience. This food and beverage philosophy is at the heart of the guest experience.
Baillie Lodges staff intuit guest needs before they are even expressed. Combined with first-name service and a genuine welcome, Baillie Lodges service style is world-renowned.
One of the essential elements of all of the Baillie Lodges properties is that each lodge is located in an incredible natural landscape. Baillie Lodges’ management boasts an impressive track record of operating lodges in remote locations, often included in World Heritage-listed areas or bordering national and marine parks. The Baillie Lodges environmental commitment is best expressed by the lodge’s interaction with its local natural and cultural surroundings. Baillie Lodges takes a proactive approach to the sustainable management of each property, using cutting edge technology and working with local National Parks
and natural sanctuaries to ensure the initiatives are both innovative and in line with the region’s broader conservation activity. These sustainable practices not only enhance the guests’ experience, but are fundamental to the ongoing appeal of the destination and to the sustainability of Baillie Lodges’ operations in experiential tourism. A dynamic environmental management plan at each property features continually evolving technologies and serves to fundamentally steer lodge operations, ensuring a minimal impact on the environment and an ongoing positive focus on the natural surrounds.
Baillie Lodges actively engages with the communities in each lodge location, establishing supplier relationships with regional food and beverage producers, premium tour operators, local artists and designers as well as supporting education initiatives, community events and work experience programs. At Southern Ocean Lodge, the kitchen team exclusively works with local suppliers, including the sustainably produced barramundi and herbs from the Parndana Community College’s student aquaculture program. At Longitude 131°, the team
commissions artworks from First Nations Art Centres including Ernabella in the APY Lands. Longitude 131° sponsors a ceramist as mentor, and has set up an artists-in-residence program where Anangu artists visit the lodge and set up studio in the Dune House, offering a wonderful cultural exchange. In 2024 Baillie Lodges launched the Spirit of Mateship program, an auction of three-night stays across the portfolio of seven lodges where proceeds are donated across community, health, education and conservation organisations in each lodge location.
Luxury Lodges of Australia is a collection of 19 independent luxury lodges and camps offering unforgettable experiences in some of Australia’s most inspiring and extraordinary locations.
Southern Ocean Lodge, Capella Lodge, Longitude 131°, Silky Oaks Lodge and The Louise are honoured as members of the association.
Visit website | Download brochureLuxury Lodges of Australia is a collection of 19 independent luxury lodges and camps offering unforgettable experiences in some of Australia’s most inspiring and extraordinary locations.
Southern Ocean Lodge, Capella Lodge, Longitude 131°, Silky Oaks Lodge and The Louise are honoured as members of the association.
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Remarkable destinations are what set the Baillie Lodges properties apart, with luxury lodges on Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, at Uluru-Kata Tjuta in Australia’s Red Centre and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Next up, the Daintree Rainforest.
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A career in hospitality and tourism at Baillie Lodges is a chance to ‘join the family’ of friendly staff and explore some of the world’s most incredible destinations, all while adding a star to the CV!
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