The open-air restaurant and bar welcome in the peaceful sights and sounds of the rainforest, creating an extraordinary backdrop for relaxed fine dining. Menus are contemporary Australian in style with Asian influences, designed to be refreshing and light to suit the tropical climate.
Whet your appetite
Inspired by ancient beliefs that celebrate the water in the Mossman River as a renewing and life-giving force, the award-winning Healing Waters Spa offers six treatment rooms each with rainforest or river views, including couples’ rooms and a Vichy shower.
Awaken your senses
Exploring Australia can feel like a daunting task. But the deeply comfortable Silky Oaks Lodge puts the untamed rainforest, river, and reef all within easy reach, making you feel like part of the delicate ecosystem.Chloe Sachdev Condé Nast Traveller
Forget the pool – plunging into the cold, clear (croc-free) waters of the Mossman River that runs through the resort is the ultimate refresher.Ute Junker Traveller
From every angle and nook at Silky Oaks Lodges there's a sense of landscape, whether viewed in full panorama or glimpsed through perfectly placed reveals. It's a rare feeling of integration with the environment and eco-system.Susan Kurosawa The Australian
One of the places that is really, really extraordinary is the north of Queensland, in Australia, it’s full of great things. People think the Amazon is a great place for jungles. But the Daintree is fantastic, and few people go there.Sir David Attenborough
My country, the Kuku Yalanji country is family, culture and identity. The trees of the rainforest, the rocks of the river beds and the reefs of the sea, were all formed by our ancestors who continue to live in land, water and sky.Juan Walker Walkabout Cultural Adventures
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Kuku Yalanji people, the traditional custodians of the land upon which Silky Oaks Lodge stands. In sharing elements of their history, heritage and culture we acknowledge the Kuku Yalanji people of the Daintree and their connections to Country. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and emerging.
Renowned as including one of the world’s most respected and aspirational travel sections, the Financial Times ‘How to Spend It’ magazine has shared a terrific round up of Australia’s First Nations experiences. Read all about it in this feature from Maria Shollenbarger with mesmerising pics from photographer Petrina Tinslay.
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Travel + Leisure writer Alison Fox visits Silky Oaks Lodge and discovers a whole new world, which as she says is a wonderfully peaceful refuge serving as home base for Australia's Tropical North. Read more of Alison’s beautifully described time in our own Daintree Rainforest retreat right here.
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Travel + Leisure has travelled the world in search of the most memorable, game-changing new hotels of the year for its annual ‘It List’. Silky Oaks Lodge has been named among the 100 properties featured, one of only two Australian hotels to make the cut. Get the list here - your next vacation spot awaits!
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Qantas Travel Insider’s Kirsten Galliott travelled to experience the new-look Silky Oaks Lodge and writes, '… in the ancient emerald rainforest of Far North Queensland, a newly revamped luxury resort feels right at home...' From tropical dining and dips in the cool, ready-to-drink waters of the Mossman River, read Kirsten’s take on the Daintree right here.
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Traveller's Ute Junker journeyed to the tropical north to experience the new-look Silky Oaks Lodge. With drift snorkeling in the Mossman River and a First Nations discovery of the region, the trip was a real taste of the Daintree Rainforest. The verdict on Silky Oaks Lodge? The refurbished lodge is now one of the country's best luxury retreats.
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The Australian’s Susan Kurosawa offers a personal walk-through of Silky's reinvented suites and grand main lodge with its ceilings reaching for the rainforest canopy, tracks down chef Mark Godbeer to talk Indigenous flavours and discovers that ‘From every angle and nook at Silky Oaks Lodge there’s a sense of landscape’.
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Traveller’s Julietta Jameson headlines a cracker year for travel ahead with Baillie Lodges, from the ‘smooth as silk’ opening of a very new-look Silky Oaks Lodge in the Daintree and sleek plans for The Louise in the Barossa to the start of works on the much-anticipated Southern Ocean Lodge 2.0 on Kangaroo Island.
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A little bit Hamptons, a little bit Florida Keys but this tropical haven remains undeniably Australian, writes Alex Charlton for Travel Insider. Read more on why Silky Oaks Lodge cracks the list of Port Douglas summer highlights.
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In an historic move, the First Nations Eastern Kuku Yalanji people will take formal ownership of the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest in Tropical North Queensland, after the Indigenous Traditional Owners reached a deal with the Queensland government.
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Take a guided hike and connect with the region's Indigenous culture, sail the Great Barrier Reef, join a cooking masterclass and zip off on a driving safari to Cape Tribulation.
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Tropical North Queensland is at its prime during this time: the waterfalls are flowing, frogs are chirping, birds are calling, the air is fresh and trees are dripping with sweet, juicy mangos!
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