Wye River Hotel, Great Ocean Road, Victoria

The Wye Beach Hotel

The Wye Beach Hotel is famously located in Wye River, on the Great Ocean Road. Its prime position affords you a completely uninhibited ocean view, and a truly captivating and memorable experience. The safe, family environment makes it the perfect place to relax and unwind, or maybe even spot a whale! Best pub view in Australia? 
  
Wye River is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is also the name given to the waterway which flows through the town and into the sea at this point. Situated some 155 km west of Melbourne, on the Otway Coast part of the scenic Great Ocean Road, the Wye River township is a popular tourist destination about 15 km west of the resort town of Lorne, Victoria. It became a popular place for Melbournians to holiday after the Great Ocean Road was officially opened in 1932. The postcode of Wye River is 3234. At the 2006 census, Wye River had a permanent population of 144 although its holiday population is ten times that number.

The Terminus Hotel, Forrest, Victoria

The Terminus, Forrest.

Forrest, Victoria is a small rural township located in the Otway Ranges. At the 2006 census, Forrest and the surrounding area had a population of 170.

The Terminus Hotel, was originally a wooden structure that boasted some 9 boarding rooms, until it burned to the ground in 1996 and resulted in the tragic loss of the then publicans son in the fire.   This new building was constructed not long after and remains today.

Royal Mail Hotel, Birregurra, Victoria

The Royal Mail

Birregurra is a town in Victoria, Australia approximately 130 km south-west of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Birregurra had a population of 688.
A Post Office opened in the area on 1 October 1858 and was renamed Mount Gellibrand in 1894, a few days before another office nearby was opened as Birregurra.
The Royal Mail Hotel is the centre piece of the small but thriving town of Birregurra
The hotel has been operating since 1871 and is the only hotel in town.
Birregurra is at the foot of the Otway Ranges, 30mins from Lorne on the Great Ocean Road and 60 minutes from Apollo Bay

The Royal Hotel, Queenscliff, Victoria

The Royal

Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip.

The Royal Hotel in Queenscliff was built in 1854 by Irish immigrant William Leihy a Borough Councillor who bought the land in an area that was then out of town in the hope that the town would grow and surround him. He also owned a hotel in Geelong.

The hotel was the first of a group of grand hotels built in the mid to late 1800s to cater for tourists who travelled down from Melbourne on large steamers. The trip taking about two hours. The hotel originally featured 54 rooms.
The Royal is a truely majestic hotel whose decorative wrought iron work, colonades and tower make it a landmark building that is visible to all ships that enter Port Phillip Bay though the trecherous Rip.

The Mount Inn, Mt Moriac, Victoria

The Mount Inn, Moriac, Victoria (formely known as the Moriac Pub)

Moriac is a rural town in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Geelong. It forms part of the Surf Coast Shire. At the 2006 census, Moriac had a population of 594.

The town was surveyed in the 1920s as a village based around the Moriac railway station on the Port Fairy line. The station had been provided to serve the adjacent community of Mount Moriac. The railway through Moriac opened in 1876, followed by the Wensleydale branch line which junctioned with the main line just past Moriac. The branch line opened in 1890 and closed in 1948. A Post Office had opened on 1 August 1854 as Duneed, and was renamed Mount Moriac in 1864 and Moriac in about 1909.

The pub has recently been totally renovated. It is now the best looking pub in the middle of no where.

 

Lorne Hotel, Lorne, Victoria

Lorne Hotel, Victoria

Lorne is a seaside town on Louttit Bay in Victoria, Australia It is situated about the Erskine River and is a popular destination on the Great Ocean Road tourist route.

The pub here is an actual icon, this is the pub referred to in the now famous annual 'Pier to Pub'  ocean swimming race.

The Lorne pub is the hub of the Lorne township, overlooking the Louttit Bay and the famous Lorne Surf Lifesaving Club.

The roof top beer garden has the best views and ambience on the coast.

Grand Pacific Hotel, Lorne, Victoria

Grand Pacific, Lorne, Vic

Lorne is situated on a bay named after Captain Louttit, who sought shelter there in 1841 while supervising the retrieval of cargo from a nearby shipwreck. The coast was surveyed five years later in 1846. The first European settler was William Lindsay, a timber-cutter who began felling the area in 1849. The first telegraph arrived in 1859. Subdivision began in 1869 and in 1871 the town was named after the Marquess of Lorne from Argyleshire in Scotland on the occasion of his marriage to Princess Louise, one of Queen Victoria's daughters.

 Built in 1875 with superb ocean views in one of the most unique settings on the coast, the hotel is opposite surf beaches and the Lorne Pier.