Luxury Australia Vacations & Tailor-Made Trips

A luxury Australia vacation typically works best over 12 to 18 nights, which is enough time to combine two or three regions without feeling rushed. A 12-night trip might take in Sydney and the Blue Mountains, Uluru and the Red Center, and finish on Lizard Island or the Whitsundays at the Great Barrier Reef. Extending to 16 or 18 nights opens up Tasmania, Melbourne and the Yarra Valley, or the Kimberley. Australia rewards time — the distances are significant, and the experiences that make the country extraordinary are worth lingering over. Your Black Tomato travel expert will design a routing that makes every transfer count and sequences the journey so that each arrival feels like a discovery.

The best time to visit Australia depends on which regions you’re planning to include, since the country spans five climate zones. For the most popular itinerary combining Sydney, Uluru, and the Great Barrier Reef, April to October is ideal: the weather in the Red Center and Queensland is at its most comfortable, and the Reef is at its clearest. The tropical north — Darwin, Kakadu, Bamurru Plains — is best visited May to October during the dry season. Tasmania and Victoria are excellent year-round but particularly beautiful in summer (November to February) when the long evenings and milder temperatures reward coastal and wine country itineraries. Western Australia and the Kimberley are best April through October. Your Black Tomato expert will build an itinerary that sequences the regions to work with the season rather than against it.

A luxury Australia vacation with Black Tomato typically starts from around $8,500 per person for a 12-night trip combining Sydney, Uluru, and the Great Barrier Reef. Itineraries that include Tasmania, the Kimberley, or the northern wetlands at Bamurru Plains generally fall between $12,000 and $20,000 per person, depending on the properties selected and the use of private aircraft transfers between remote locations. Accommodation at properties like Longitude 131° at Uluru, Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, and Saffire Freycinet in Tasmania sits at the premium end, and a private-plane transfer over the outback adds significantly to the budget but delivers an experience unavailable any other way. Every Black Tomato Australia trip is fully tailor-made, so your travel expert will work within a range that makes sense for you.

The Australian Outback rewards travellers who go properly rather than passing through. At its heart is Uluru — the vast sandstone monolith that changes colour through the day from ochre to bronze to deep crimson at sunset — and the best way to experience it is to stay at Longitude 131°, a luxury camp set directly on the red sand with views of the rock from every tent. Beyond Uluru, the outback opens into the tropical wetlands of the Northern Territory: at Bamurru Plains, a private bush camp reachable only by light aircraft, guests track wallabies, dingoes, and saltwater crocodiles on walking safaris and airboat excursions through the Mary River floodplain. The Kimberley in Western Australia offers ancient gorges, remote station stays, and helicopter descents into places with no roads at all. Our team has spent twenty years navigating these landscapes and knows exactly which experiences are worth the journey.

Australia is an exceptional honeymoon destination, combining extraordinary natural experiences with genuinely world-class hotels and an ease of travel that means honeymooners spend their time absorbed in the country rather than managing logistics. A luxury honeymoon in Australia typically combines the romance of a private island — Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, with 24 private beaches, is one of the finest in the world — with a few days in Sydney, the drama of Uluru at sunrise and sunset, and perhaps a few unhurried nights at Saffire Freycinet in Tasmania. Australia also rewards couples who want to combine adventure with rest: the Great Barrier Reef, the Whitsundays, and the southern wine regions all offer complete immersion without requiring physical exertion. For a deeper guide to planning a honeymoon in Australia, see our dedicated Australia honeymoon page.

Australia is one of the best family vacation destinations in the world, and one that genuinely works for all ages. The combination of wildlife encounters, oceanic adventure, ancient landscapes, and world-class cities gives families an extraordinary range of experiences within a single trip. A family vacation to Australia might include snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef, a night walk to spot wallabies and wombats at Kangaroo Island, kayaking with dolphins at Cape Byron, and a backstage tour of the Sydney Opera House. For younger children, the wildlife is an immediate and lasting draw. For teenagers and older children, Australia offers real adventure — surfing, reef diving, outback safaris, and coastal road trips. We have been crafting family itineraries to Australia for over two decades.