Billabong Retreat built Sydney’s wellness-weekend template: treehouse cabins around a paperbark billabong at Maraylya, days structured around yoga, naps and very good plant-based food. Three hundred-plus Google reviews average 4.7 stars.
★ 4.7 · 306 Google reviews (correct at the time of writing, July 2026)
Property photo via Google Maps
The stay
Cabins perch in the trees with the billabong below, the magnesium pool steams at dusk, and programs run from gentle day visits to multi-night resets. It is eco by design — solar, recycled timbers, compost — without ever feeling like homework.
Around Maraylya
You are on the rural fringe where Sydney turns to Hawkesbury farmland — 45 minutes from the CBD, 20 from Windsor’s pubs, and an easy add to any list of weekend escapes from Sydney.
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