4 romantic Gold Coast getaways for Valentine’s Day

TWILIGHT dinners, cosy cabins and adults-only treehouses – these four mini breaks turn on the Valentine’s Day charm

Mavis's Kitchen at Mt Warning. Picture: Toni Zuschke/Barking Toad Creative Media

RUSTIC ROMANCE

Mavis’s Kitchen & Cabins, Mt Warning

This picturesque property is home to a variety of self-contained accommodation that’s straight out of your Farmer Wants a Wife fantasies. There’s the rustic Log Cabin where you can savour a cheese plate on the porch, or the whitewashed Old Dairy that features a stonewalled skylight bathroom. Must love dogs? These guys get it, and you’re welcome to bring your pup along for the ride. With breakfast hampers on request, there’s really no need to budge from your room, but sunrises from nearby Mt Warning are well worth the effort. Don’t miss the country hospitality at Mavis’s Kitchen. Dine on the verandas of the beautiful old Queenslander, feasting on produce plucked fresh from their sprawling garden.

The Palazzo Versace proposal package.

LUXURY LOVERS

Palazzo Versace, Main Beach

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? With any luck, he’s planning your love story from one of Palazzo Versace’s romantic Juliet balconies. It’s all too easy to get swept away at the decadent resort – there’s even a proposal package to make it happen. Picture a dozen red roses delivered to your room, “marry me” message scrawled in the sand ready to be spied from your suite, a fancy three-course dinner on the lagoon beach and spa set for two.

If popping the question isn’t on the cards, couples can get cosy with the Ti Amo package, available Sunday to Friday until March 30 starting from $359 per room, per night.

Accessories are essential – it is a fashion hotel after all – and optional extras include the Scarlet Seduction Bath Bliss, with a bottle of chilled Ruinart Champagne, chocolate fondue, strawberries and mood music.

Wine and dine your Valentine poolside with Cupid’s Twilight Cabana Experience ($320 per couple), which includes a three-course seafood dinner at twilight in your own luxury cabana, a glass of Moët & Chandon Champagne Impérial, his and hers miniature Versace perfumes and a long-stem rose.

Byron

CHAMPAGNE TASTES

The Byron at Byron Resort & Spa, Byron Bay

It’s the perfect match: The Byron at Byron and Champagne Bollinger. Two of our favourite luxury labels have collaborated on two-night Life Can Be Perfect package, available until March 31 from $1640 twin share.

The couple’s weekend away includes a romantic spa treatment in the middle of the subtropical rainforest, a bottle of Bollinger Special Cuvee and two Bollinger Riedel champagne flutes.

With Bollinger bicycle hire included, you could be hand-in-hand strolling the sands of Tallow Beach in no time.

While there’s an excellent on-site restaurant, foodies will find plenty more to fall for in the surrounding area. Highlights include laid-back breakfasts at Folk Byron and lingering lunches at Foam Lennox or Harvest Newrybar.

Pethers restaurant at Mt Tamborine.

TREETOP HIDEAWAY

Pethers Rainforest Retreat, Mt Tamborine

This adults-only hinterland hideaway is home to just 10 very private, very luxurious treehouses.

A kingsize bed, double spa bath, gas fire and a balcony overlooking the third oldest rainforest in the world set the scene.

Explore Mt Tamborine’s walking trails, lookouts, wineries and galleries, or unwind with one of Pethers’ in-room spa treatments.

They have a range of packages that will ensure you’re ridiculously spoiled, as well as a Deluxe Proposal Package for lovebirds planning on putting a ring on it. That includes overnight accommodation, a red carpet and petal walkway, decorated arch drapes and candles to light the way, 12 long-stem roses, champagne and table for two in the fine-dining restaurant.