There are places that promise escape and places that truly deliver it. Kittawa Lodge, perched on the rugged west coast of King Island in Bass Strait, is emphatically the latter. This year’s winner of Best Regional Hotel is proof of what can happen when an adventurous vision meets an extraordinary landscape: a retreat that feels both luxurious and profoundly remote.
Just 65 kilometres long and home to more wallabies than people, King Island exists in splendid isolation between…

