12/11/2025
What if luxury wasn’t five stars — but five senses?
Stay Awhile, Volume 05 is officially available for pre-order — and yes, we’ve made shipping half-price until the end of November ($6 AUD & $10 NZD) because we love you like that.
(Orders ship the first week of December… aka your summer reading, sorted.)
This issue is all about the five senses — travel you feel, not just see. Less “turn-down service and a robe,” more “the way the morning air tastes at sunrise.”
The front cover, photographed by at Two Acres in the Byron Bay hinterland, sets the tone: tactile, grounded, deeply serene.
Inside, we go places that stay in your body:
• We tell the stories of the people who create them — the architects, dreamers, and makers behind wild-coast shelters, wabi-sabi hideouts, architectural sanctuaries, and slow-country stays across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
• We uncover how scent, sound, light, and landscape shape the feeling of a stay — the sensory details that linger long after you’ve left.
• We sit down with the formidable founders of — the women behind New Zealand’s most magical collection of unplugged stays.
• We make The Case for Not Sharing Your Holiday — an unapologetic ode to selfish solitude.
• We dip into the quiet revival of Modern Bathhouses, exploring why ritual soaking is the new slow luxury.
• We go Soulful in the City, discovering boutique hotels that prove even the urban rush can be slowed.
• Plus: a Sensory Love Letter to the Sunshine Coast from our Editor, Stef.
160 pages. Boutique, eco-friendly stock.
The kind you keep on the coffee table for years to come.
Order yours now at the link in our bio.
