Luxury brand Six Senses is opening its first hotel in Australia

The luxury edifice marque Six Senses is readying to unfastened its archetypal edifice successful Australia — wrong an aged household mansion.

The practice location and its 22-hectare estate, named Burnham Beeches, are 25 miles from Melbourne successful the forested Dandenong Ranges. The location was designed successful 1933 for an Australian family, according to a website detailing the home's history.

It volition present beryllium restored aft "sitting neglected for acold excessively long," said the great-granddaughter of the archetypal owner, Sophie Paterson, according to a Six Senses property release.

Once renovated, the edifice volition person 43 impermanent rooms with antithetic layouts. Plans to incorporated a "premium glamping" enactment connected the property volition bring the fig of accommodations to 82.

The unsocial and humanities situation of Burnham Beeches made it the "extraordinary project" that Six Senses had been waiting for, CEO Neil Jacobs told CNBC.

The edifice radical "had ambitions to travel to [Burnham Beeches] for a portion but needed to find the close offering and close developer," helium added.

The hotel, which is being restored by Australian builders Hamilton Marino, volition person walking trails, a "nature playground" for children, and gardens which volition proviso ingredients for the hotel's room and spa, according to the property release.

The spot aims to beryllium a "regenerative" alternatively of a "static" place, Jacobs said.

Six Senses Burnham Beeches is expected to unfastened successful mid-2025.

Three fashionable villages — Mount Dandenong, Olinda and Sassafras — are nestled among the mountains, wherever visitors tin acquisition determination wines, handmade crafts and caller produce.

Popular activities see riding connected Puffing Billy — an open-carriage steam bid that dates to the aboriginal 1900s — seasonal berry picking and picnicking successful the galore gardens and parks successful the area.