Are your shoulders as knotted as granny’s doilies? Then it’s definitely time for a getaway pampering. Of course, if your weekends away are as rare as granny’s teeth, choosing a hotel that you hope will deliver on its promise may only add to your stress.

So here are 5 Australian hotels with dreamy spas and decadent dining that ensure your holiday is “all about you”.

Shangri-La Hotel Sydney

In Tibetan, shangri-la means “sun and moon in heart”. In other words, a home only found in heaven. With a name like that you’d expect the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney to know their stuff when it comes to pampering — and by Buddha do they ever!

Start you day with a lazy breakfast in bed, or delicious buffet at Cafe Mix, then head to CHI spa for some Asian healing philosophy-based treatments such as acupressure, warm stones, deep tissue massage or perhaps some ying and yang untangling.

After a stroll around The Rocks and some CBD shopping time, top off your day with dinner at the hotel fine dining restaurant, Altitude, overlooking Sydney Harbour.

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Peppers Seaport Hotel Launceston

There are dirty weekends…and then there’s Peppers Seaport Hotel Launceston. For starters you can head to the Mud Bar and Restaurant to have your way with  any number of scrumptuous seafood and meat dishes.

Then slip quietly out of the hotel and duck next door to the Mud Urban Day Spa. Things get pretty hedonistic here – indulgent, rich body mud wraps, skin assessment mapping, soothing massages, mineral spas and vinchy showers.

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Cable Beach Club Resort & Spa, Broome

Children and relaxation are rarely mentioned in the same sentence, however, with more than 26 acres of fun on tap at Cable Beach Club Resort & Spa, there’s plenty to keep the energiser bunnies busy while you’re busy doing nothing.

Just imagine the peace and quiet of an adults-only pool - or the drool-inducing state of relaxation a couples treatment at Chahoya Spa and Salon could bring.

Meanwhile the kids batteries are wearing themselves out at the children’s water playground, playing air hockey or lawn bowls.

At night, Brady Bunch it to the Thai Pearl restaurant for fresh fish and delicious curries.

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Palazzo Versace, Gold Coast

At Palazzo Versace, voted best Australian hotel by Luxury Traveller magazine, you can put your palette to the test at three award-winning restaurants, including Vanitas with its 400 types of wine (or get some quiet food matching tips from the sommelier to impress your other half).

At the fashionably fabulous onsite spa, go for a nourishing cocoon hair and scalp treatment. Or just forget that lay by the pool and get a Euro-tan business and book a full day retreat, including morning or afternoon tea with lunch.

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The Langham Melbourne

Like to stay in shape on your holidays, but just can’t be bothered to unpack the fluoro leotard, leg warmers and headband once you arrive? And what about you ladies?

Well, The Langham Melbourne has personal trainers to help get you motivated. Otherwise, there are exercise classes in the uber cool fitness studio.

Of course, you might just prefer to have a nice lie down at the dreamy on-site Chuan Spa – then reward yourself for at least considering a workout with High Tea and, later, a chic cocktail at the famous ARIA bar and lounge.

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