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The Retreat’s newest facility is a welcoming and most comfortable guest lounge and bar, with an adjacent Wine Cellar housing over 1,000 bottles of hand-selected international and local wine and Champagnes.

Over a luxurious 3 hours, the Creekside Pavilion is your haven to enjoy a private gourmet lunch, bathe in a rainforest rock pool and lay back in complete comfort.

In addition to the retreat’s resort-style innovations, all our accommodation has enjoyed a luxurious refresh. The Luxury Lodges' plunge pools are now chlorine-free and heated for year-round pleasure and wellbeing.

Romance truly sings here in the rainforest, it whispers on the breeze, choruses from the treetops and glows in the candlelight and bubbles. Our secluded, private villas are simply perfect to celebrate with your valentine, take precious quiet time out as a couple, or to let us create the perfect setting for a romantic proposal.

So many couples have chosen our Rainforest Retreat to celebrate their union in love and nature. Whether you choose an intimate elopement for two, or a micro-wedding with special guests, we can arrange your ideal rainforest experience with exquisite memories.

New general managers Matt and Anie have taken the helm of our retreat’s exciting renovation. All the private villas and lodges, carefully secluded within our private rainforest estate, are being lovingly refurbished by this rather special husband and wife duo.

In the leading Queensland Homes design and interiors magazine, tucked in between designer hotels in Barcelona, and a design lover’s dream in Mykonos, you’ll find a much closer barefoot luxury escape – a very special private villa destination in The Australian rainforest ...

by ISABEL CROKER – Imagine all the smooches you’ll get when you whisk your other half away on a romantic getaway with all the trimmings. C’mon, you guys adore each other ... This time of year calls for a surprise romantic getaway and we’ve got just the places to check out (or check into).

by KATE DUNCAN – At stunning Crystal Creek Rainforest Retreat, we explore the “womb of Springbrook” and enjoy two days of uninterrupted mother-daughter time.

See our beautiful property as never before with host Mike Whitney as he explores what the Retreat has to offer, in an episode of Seven's 'Sydney Weekender' on the highlights of the Tweed Valley.

by MATILDA DIXON-SMITH – Here are six secluded places to stay that’ll make you and your travel companions feel like the only people on the planet.

by JENNY HEWETT – An inspired natural setting is the perfect backdrop for romance – I feel a strong sense of place when I wake this morning in a luxury lodge surrounded by360 degrees of protected rainforest.