Some hotels become shorthand for a whole town, and the whitewashed curves of Raes are Byron’s. Sitting across the road from Wategos Beach since the nineties, it does Mediterranean glamour at Australian volume — 774 Google reviews and a 4.4 average later, it remains the bay’s big-occasion address.
★ 4.4 · 774 Google reviews (correct at the time of writing, July 2026)
Property photo via Google Maps
The stay
Suites are sculpted, shell-white and full of found treasures, the restaurant and cellar bar hum at golden hour, and the spa handles the morning after. Dolphins in the line-up at Wategos count as the included entertainment.
Around Wategos
The Cape Byron lighthouse walk climbs straight from the beach to the continent’s most-photographed lighthouse, and Byron Bay’s town, beaches and hinterland day trips are all five to twenty minutes away.
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