An opulent beachfront retreat in Victoria has topped worldwide getaway locations to change into one of many most-liked properties on Instagram.
Airbnb revealed the retreat, overlooking the South Gippsland shoreline in Walkerville North, south of Melbourne, was among the many high listings favoured on the homestay’s 5.5 million-strong Instagram web page.
Generally known as Jacky Winter Waters, the personal home is “engulfed by majestic limestone cliffs upon the shore of a famously magic seaside” and is ideally sized for 1-2 individuals, the itemizing states.
“Designed by Imogen Pullar Structure, the idea for Jacky Winter Waters was to supply the necessities of dwelling, a spot to relaxation the thoughts and physique, and join with nature,” the itemizing continues.
“It’s not a tiny home, nevertheless it’s not a full seaside home.”
The retreat has an total footprint of 30sq m.
It’s encapsulated by its exterior mural Deep Drift, created by artists April Phillips, Beci Orpin, Carla McRae and David Sales space.
“The paintings asks guests to interact their curiosity on the door and try to find a nonetheless house to relaxation – one thing we’ve endeavoured to supply,” the retreat’s itemizing on the Jacky Winters website states.
The itemizing raked in additional than 3900 likes when it was posted on Instagram in July final 12 months.
It comes as Airbnb revealed Melbourne cracked the corporate’s checklist of the highest trending international locations for travellers to set their sights on this 12 months.
“Lots of the listings featured are a part of our Visitor Favourites assortment, which incorporates 2m of the most-loved properties on Airbnb primarily based on scores, evaluations and reliability information from over half a billion journeys,” Airbnb stated of the information.
“Visitor Favourites have wonderful evaluations and are rated above 4.9 stars on common.”
The Walkerville North itemizing ranks amongst different first-class locations featured on the high-profile account, resembling a 45sq m loft overlooking Quintay’s Bay in Chile that drew in 7830 likes.
One other two-bedroom “eco home” in Bali amassed 6869 likes when it was posted in June final 12 months.
The itemizing states Aura Home is perched on high of the Ayung river, positioned about 25 minutes from the city of Ubud.
Moreover, Richmond and East Melbourne are among the many high native locations for Australians trying to journey in 2024, primarily based on worldwide Airbnb searches.
Rockhampton, in central Queensland, topped the checklist.
Final 12 months, Airbnb was ordered to pay $30m in penalties and compensation by the Federal Court docket of Australia after the corporate admitted it misled customers concerning the foreign money of the costs on its lodging platform.
Airbnb acknowledged that it displayed solely a greenback signal with out indicating which foreign money on greater than 63,000 listings between January 1, 2018 and August 30, 2021.
