It would be a totally different experience than the places that have been mentioned above, but if you are spending any time at all away from the usual tourist locations you might want to consider a pub stay.

Most pubs, especially away from the major metropolitan areas, have two or three hotel rooms attached. (Often they're nothing fancy, but sometimes in places like the gold mining town of Kalgoolie with its century-old, gold-rush era Victorian pubs, they are.)

Some of the most enjoyable times I had on my most recent trip to AUS earlier this year were the evenings we spent having dinner in a pub then shouting VBs and discussing everything under the Southern Cross with the locals before going upstairs to bed and helping ourselves to breakfast in the pub's kitchen the following morning.

[This message has been edited by greggwiggins (edited 12-07-2001).]