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If you're a guest at a Hunter wedding, or a couple heading up for a long weekend, a room at a lodge or boutique hotel is usually the easier booking. Someone else makes the bed, there's often breakfast at the door, and you can arrive late without collecting a key from a lockbox down a dirt road.
Most of these stays are in Pokolbin, the heart of wine country west of Cessnock. H Boutique Hotel on McDonalds Road has king rooms, studios and villas from $145 per night, with a room code sent on arrival day for anyone getting in after the reception. Elfin Hill, a small hilltop guesthouse on Marrowbone Road, starts from $190 per night with verandah rooms and a Loft Villa for five. The Carriages is a family-run boutique hotel with ten ensuite rooms and a breakfast basket delivered each morning.
For a couple wanting a little more space, Leogate Estate has vineyard villas on a working winery from $550 per night, with a cellar door and restaurant on the same estate. Hermitage Lodge offers vineyard-view rooms and suites from $189 per night, plus its own Shiraz vineyard and Pescara restaurant.
When a wedding fills a block of rooms, a few hotels make it simpler:
Leisure Inn Pokolbin Hill is within walking distance of several cellar doors, handy for guests without a car, since there's no train in the vineyards. Pair your room with a wedding reception venue, or compare whole homes on the holiday houses and villas page.
Yes, several handle group bookings. Pokolbin Village has group accounts and a dedicated staff member for wedding guest bookings, and both The Carriages and Hermitage Lodge can be booked whole. Ask about release dates so unbooked rooms don't sit on your account.
H Boutique Hotel offers contactless check-in, with a room code sent on arrival day. Check the arrival arrangements with any other hotel, since smaller guesthouses may not staff reception into the evening.
Leogate Estate has villas on a working winery with Brokenback Range views and breakfast packs each day. Hermitage Lodge has vineyard-view rooms beside its own Shiraz vineyard, and Elfin Hill looks over the Broken Back Range from its hilltop.
Leisure Inn Pokolbin Hill is a walk from Brokenwood, McGuigan, Tempus Two and Meerea Park cellar doors. For most other stays you'll need to drive or book a tour, as there's no train in the vineyards.
Wine Country Retreat at Rothbury can be hired whole for up to 40 guests, with a 60-seat dining room, bar and space for a marquee. Hermitage Lodge offers exclusive use for groups of up to 60.
