The Holiday Shacks Story
Where it all began
Holiday Shacks® is a luxury holiday accommodation business which was first established in 2008 to offer guests and owners alike a personalised end-to-end managed service.
Our founder
Andrea Wilson began her career in property management with two young children, managing it all single-handedly while building this business from the ground up on the Mornington Peninsula in 2008. Her passion and enthusiasm have transformed our team into a dedicated group of people who share a common goal: to make each stay feel like a true home away from home.
The area
Choose from a range of luxury short stay destinations including Black Rock, Edithvale, Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, Chelsea, Frankston South, Mount Eliza, Mornington, Mount Martha, Safety Beach, Martha Cove, Red Hill, Red Hill South, Balnarring, Somers, Shoreham, McCrae, St Andrews Beach, Rye, Blairgowrie, Sorrento and Portsea.
Located across Victoria’s beautiful southeast coast from Bayside Melbourne to Portsea, our properties are hand-picked luxury and unique retreats, designed to offer our guests the finest Mornington Peninsula Accommodation and bespoke experiences. Holiday Shacks® is a term given to Australian holiday houses over a century ago. “The Shack” as it was soon referred to, soon became the treasured iconic symbol of an Australian holiday house.
History
First designed as rustic shacks which mainly appeared by popular holiday beaches or remote riverside banks, they were often built with no formal planning regulations, usually furnished with the family’s odds and ends and given a hand-painted name as the final finishing touch. In the 1940s, Shack licenses were issued to the public and the rustic Holiday Shack began to be transformed into a special place to stay with the little extras.
In Victoria, the Mornington Peninsula began the trend for more up-market holiday houses, beginning in Sorrento, the site of Victoria’s first European settlement in 1803 at Sullivan Bay. Sorrento and then Portsea fast became the established playground of the holidaying rich and famous showcased by the magnificent holiday mansions, which today remain along the southern shorelines.
In recent years, development and growth on the Mornington Peninsula has seen the emergence of luxury coastal and rural holiday homes. It has been our privilege and honour to assist with the promotion of our industry sector and to be able to offer our guests the very best holiday rental and short-term accommodation on the Mornington Peninsula highlighted today by the Holiday Shacks® premium property portfolio. The Mornington Peninsula is a world-class region offering a soothing majestic environment with healing heated mineral pools and vast national parks, ocean, and bay coastlines, and includes several world class outdoor pursuits and award-winning establishments to offer the perfect destination for the discerning traveller. Holiday Shacks five-star experiences, luxury and unique villas will take you a world away, to relax and unwind. So good, you’ll never want to leave and always want to return.
We look forward to accommodating your dreams.