You’re 47 minutes from the city. The kids are with someone else. There’s a mineral pool, a double fireplace and a vibe so good it physically hurts. Welcome to Brisbane’s newest secret, The Gatehouse.
By Jessica Jane Sammut, Editor-in-Chief
You’ve been surviving on cold coffee, school schedules and the particular kind of tired that a full night’s sleep somehow makes worse.
You’re not burnt out. Yet. You’re just running on empty and have been for a long time.
The Gatehouse is what the doctor would prescribe if doctors could prescribe farm stays.
Set high on a hill in the Brisbane Valley, under an hour from the city, tucked into 100 acres of countryside, with views that stretch from Mt Glorious all the way to the Gold Coast Hinterland and the Great Dividing Range beyond, this place operates on a completely different frequency.
A slower one. A quieter one.
One where the most stressful decision you’ll make all weekend is whether to take your coffee to the pool or the fire pit.
Life Reset
Stepping into the Farmhouse is like stepping back in time. Think Italian countryside meets heritage Queenslander.
Fully self-contained for two, with bespoke furnishings, a double fireplace (yes, double), a bathroom that makes getting clean feel cinematic, the cutest kitchen you ever did see, a cosy linen-clad lounge and a bedroom suite with views that will make you cry. It’s picture postcard. Even the laundry is darling.
And if you’re bringing a friend or coming with another couple, the Garden Suite sits alongside it, next door. Quietly elegant, with its own distinct charm. Same dreamy grounds. Same pinch-me views.
Both accommodations are exclusive use, which means no awkward shared pool small talk, no front desk, no performance. Just you and whoever you brought, doing absolutely nothing without interruption.
Soul Therapy
If the tranquility of the interior doesn’t complete you (trust us, it will), there’s a mineral pool, too.
Not just a mineral pool.
But a mineral pool positioned for maximum golden hour impact, looking out over the kind of view that will make you question every life choice you’ve ever made.
Watch the sun set over the horizon, whilst floating in the kind of safe space that celebrities pay thousands of dollars in therapy to access, with an ice cold Champagne in one hand and a book in the other.
No swim cap required.
Just you, the vista and the minerals. Plus the feeling you’re on top of the world. Literally.
Outside The Gate
If you feel like venturing out into the ‘real world’, the surrounding Brisbane Valley region has more going on than you’d expect.
Counter meals at the Bottle-Tree Hotel in Glamorgan Vale. Antique hunting in historic Marburg. Somerset and Wivenhoe Dam for the kind of quiet that feels earned. The Brisbane Valley Rail Trail if you’re feeling active.
It’s the kind of region where there’s treasure in every corner if you know where to look.
Trending
The Gatehouse has only just opened and is already booking out faster than a toddler hearing the crinkle of a snack wrapper three rooms away.
Romantic weekend, girls’ trip, babymoon, push present, solo retreat for the gal who hasn’t been alone in what feels like decades (that’s me) – it works for all of it.
It’s the kind of trip that leaves you feeling like you’ve finally closed the one hundred open tabs in your mind.
And you wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.
Book at thegatehouse.com.au.
