When planning a trip to Australia, you can look up hotels and book rooms on any number of travel websites. These sites inform the customer of the availability of rooms, the location of the hotel, the price of the room, the amenities, and nearby attractions.

In general, they list all major hotels in the area. Often, however, local or independently owned hotels may go over-looked.When on the hunt for hotels in Australia, you can expect to find many different hotel chains from around the world operating in the country. But, if you would like to stay in a hotel that isuniquely Australian, then look into Breakfree hotels.

Breakfree is an Australian owned company with over 50 nightly and extended stay properties such as Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and Far North Queensland.Australia also offers many unique and welcoming boutique hotels.

The Limes Hotel inBrisbane provides a modern and comfortable spin on traditional luxury. The Diamant HotelCanberra is another modern luxury hotel that offers a restaurant and bar, a day spa, a wellbeingretreat, conference rooms, gyms, covered parking and a 24-hour concierge.Melbourne has three notable boutique hotels: the Hotel Torlano, the Pensione Melbourne and the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Sydney is home to 5 boutique hotels including theDiamant Hotel Sydney, the Kirketon Boutique Hotel, the Hotel Altamont, the Park 8 Hotel andthe Pensione Sydney.

All offer excellent service and high quality accommodations whileoperating outside of the mainstream hotel industry.Each traveler has their own expectations and desires that will obviously lead them tochoose a hotel that suits their tastes and budget. Thankfully Australia has a great variety of accommodations to meet any wants and needs from the backpacker to the celebrity guest.