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You can now spend the night in a giant wine barrel

01 September 2022 By Christian Smith

Do you like wine? Do you like irreverent grand designs? Then why not combine your passions into one heady stay and spend the night in a giant wine barrel amongst the vines in Australia.

spend the night in a giant wine barrel

It’s no secret that wine tourism is enjoying a major boom right now. Google searches for wine stays in the United Kingdom have surged some 110%, while Airbnb has responded to the renewed enthusiasm for vineyard stays by adding a whole category dedicated to trips among the vines to its gargantuan platform.

But if you’re looking for something a little more unconventional from your vineyard stay, then why not pop over to Australia and spend the night in a giant wine barrel?

No, this is not a Teletubbies fever dream for adults, rather a practicable reality, thanks to the folk at Barrel View Luxury Cabins.

As the hotel pithily describes itself on its site, Barrel View Luxury Cabins offers “relaxation and tranquillity in a giant, luxuriously appointed wine barrel.”

The well appointed barrel-rooms, replete with smart technologies and robes, boast 180 degree views across the Australian countryside.

“With sweeping 180 degree views over Girraween and Sundown National Parks, Barrel View Luxury Cabins is a place like no other, in the heart of Queensland’s Wine Country, Ballandean on the beautiful Granite Belt”, a description of the rooms states.

According to the hotel’s website, the cabins start from AU$450 per night, and are set to open in October of this year.

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