Capella Lodge on the tiny Lord Howe Island some 600-kilometres off the New South Wales coast today celebrates twenty years as a pioneer of luxury experiential travel in Australia. Capella was the first luxury lodge created by the work and life partnership of James and Hayley Baillie under their nascent Baillie Lodges brand in 2004.
Today also marks twenty years that Capella Lodge Managers Libby Grant and Mark McKillop have been leading the team at the nine-suite luxury lodge, which sits in the foothills of World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island’s formidable twin peaks, Mounts Gower and Lidgbird, and offers breathtaking views of the Tasman Sea.
In the context of the next twenty years, Capella Lodge set the stage for what would become an industry benchmark set by the Baillie Lodges brand in experiential tourism locally and overseas. As Capella Lodge opened, early planning was already underway for the company’s flagship property Southern Ocean Lodge on the remote southwest coast of Kangaroo Island.
Thank you, Sarah Shields
