Lon Retreat’s new open-air contrast therapy space signals a major shift in wellness-driven luxury travel. Here’s how this Bellarine Peninsula hideaway is setting new standards in design, ritual, and restorative guest experiences.
Perched where Victoria’s rugged coastline meets the calm of Port Phillip Bay, Lon Retreat & Spa at Point Lonsdale is a sanctuary of coastal calm and refined simplicity. Once a family farmhouse, it has been reimagined by Claire and Robert Gemes into a luxury escape that blends nature, design, and deep relaxation.
'Lon Retreat & Spa is a place so peaceful and calm that you’re relaxed before you even arrive.'
'A switched-up, big-sky homestead by the sea, family-run, in one of the country’s emerging food destinations.'
'All of the seven suites at Lon offer their own kind of personal sanctuary, and are named after a type of cloud – think Alto, Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus, Pileus, Nimbus, and Arcus – you won’t be disappointed in any of them.'
Meet Claire, a source of warmth and light to all who know her and co-founder of Lon Retreat, an oasis hidden amongst coastal views on the Bellarine Peninsula.