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• All team members have undergone extensive training in health & safety protocols specific to managing COVID -19 restrictions and best practise operations.
• Hand sanitizer stations are available throughout the property (alcohol-based 60% or more) as well as individual units in each hotel room.
• All areas of the property are by reservation only, ensuring that we minimise additional guests on-site and enable us to know exactly who is on-site on any given day and time.
• The Restaurant continues to operate at reduced capacity to ensure appropriate social distancing. All menus are printed on recycled paper for single use.
• The Hotel is operating with staggered arrival and departure times where possible. Appropriate areas for guests to wait has been arranged and express check in and check out put in place. Team members are observing strict protocols regarding continuous sanitising and cleaning of Reception and Reservation areas. Contactless transactions have been enforced – all payments are to be made by Credit Card or EFT.

Exploring the property is in itself an adventure. Guests may like to have a hit of tennis followed by tea and refreshments in the tennis pavilion, a glass of wine by the fire in the Argyle Library Bar. Given the opportunity to explore the gardens you will come upon significant trees, a myriad of sculptures and artwork from many of the region’s top artists, extensive outdoor terraces overlooking the lakeshore and established country gardens with everything from koala-loved stringy barks to lilac, Daphne, quince, plum and apple trees.

The renowned restaurant draws appreciative foodies from Australia and around the world. In the kitchens, a talented team under the guidance of co-owner and Culinary Director Alla Wolf-Tasker AM work from the ground up producing cutting edge, modern Australian cuisine with an emphasis on seasonal and regional ingredients.

Co-owner and resident artist Allan Wolf-Tasker whose work hangs in private and public collections around the world has a studio on site which is open by invitation and appointment to Lake House guests. Wolf-Tasker’s canvases are on display throughout the property as are works by other artists from the family’s private collection.

In amongst the cool fern gully and surrounded by waterfall fed streams and springs – The Spa is an oasis of tranquility.

Driving into Lake House it’s hard to imagine the resilience, energy and stubborn determination that was needed three decades ago, to undertake the building of a destination restaurant in rural Australia – especially on a gorse infested paddock in a down at heel and largely forgotten little town.

“Two youngsters with barely a bob between us and not being able to take no for an answer” is how Alla portrays her and husband co-owner Allan Wolf-Tasker, as they launched into their dream project that everyone told them was doomed to fail.

The successful development of Lake House and the resurrection of Daylesford, the village that the Wolf-Taskers put on the global culinary map, has been the subject of many magazine articles, documentaries and also Alla’s book “Lake House – A Culinary Journey in Country Australia”.