COMO The Treasury

We’ll forgive you for failing to imagine that Western Australia would have a luxury hotel of the highest caliber, but such a prejudice would make your entry to Perth’s COMO The Treasury all the more surprising and delightful. Not only is this 48-room hotel housed in a truly grand space — a series of restored 19th-century state buildings, all soaring arches and stately white columns — but the guest rooms are outfitted in a manner that’s lavish by any standard. Did we mention there’s a pair of chic restaurants, a cocktail bar, and a signature spa? It’s enough to make you want to stay in the City of Light (no, not that City of Light, the other City of Light, so nicknamed when Perth’s citizens turned all the lights on as astronaut John Glenn passed overhead in 1962) for another day or two.

Rooms and suites are cool, quiet, and light-filled, designed in pale earth tones by architect Kerry Hill, the man whose stamp is all over the Pacific Rim’s small luxury resorts. Standard amenities include king-sized beds with Grand Posture mattresses and Egyptian cotton sheets, complimentary minibars, LED TVs, Illy coffee machines, and remote-controlled blackout curtains. The real luxury is in the bathroom — almost always true in a good hotel — with heated stone floors and towel racks, walk-in showers, German-made freestanding oval bathtubs, and custom products by COMO Shambhala at Home. Yes, the very same you’ll find at the hotel’s spa, or rather, its Urban Escape, which is also where you’ll find the fitness center and an indoor swimming pool.

COMO The Treasury has a range of high-end suites with features like fireplaces and views of Swan River, and bathrooms bordering on palatial. If you can’t see any boats from your bathtub, though, just head up to Wildflower, the hotel’s rooftop restaurant. There’s also Post, serving French-inspired cuisine, on the ground level. Both employ Western Australia’s produce — avocados, mandarins, and passionfruit all figure in heavily. Sitting high above Perth, sipping Chenin Blanc produced in the Swan Valley, you’ll almost forget you’re a thousand miles from the next big city. Or not: but a hotel this thoughtfully executed would be a pleasure to stay in, in Perth or anywhere else.