With its grand acreage, plentiful facilities as well as spectacular views across the Jamison Valley, the Fairmont resort is the perfect location to stay in the blue Mountains when you want to just getaway as well as relax.
Around 90 minutes west of Sydney as well as high up in the mountains, the Fairmont – or the Fairmont resort as well as medical spa Blue Mountains, MGallery by Sofitel – is one of the most multifaceted locations we’ve ever stayed at.
The Fairmont represents a bewildering array of entertainment options, all developed to cater to your specific reason for coming to stay.
It’s a high-end charming escape, however it’s likewise perfect for families.
It’s an alpine lodge as well as the 19th hole for its own Leura Golf Club, yet an opulent medical spa retreat too. It’s an remarkable wedding event venue, however likewise has fantastic seminar as well as business event facilities.
It’s an incredible fine-dining destination as well as sultry subterranean whiskey tavern, however it likewise has an experience park, video arcade as well as pony-riding stables for the kids.
But unlike many locations that try to be so many things at once, the Fairmont somehow handles it.
If ever there was a multigenerational travel destination, it has to be this resort.
Check out our video walkthrough of the Fairmont here.
Our charming stay at the Fairmont resort as well as medical spa Blue Mountains
Our space – the Megalong Suite
We were lucky sufficient to be staying in one of the resort’s suites for Christina’s birthday, looking out south across the mountains as well as valleys.
This enormous room, with its separate dining-living area, had a lounge huge sufficient to seat six as well as a dinner table that would sit four, however having the whole location to ourselves made our stay feel even more luxurious.
Our first-floor balcony provided us excellent views over the expansive yard down to the ponies, with the forest’s tree line showing the begin of the high-wire treetop experience park. further south, we might see the escarpment of the valley full of the blue eucalypts that provide these mountains its name.
The terrazzo-clad bathroom, which is furnished with products from the resort’s Ubika Day Spa, extends all the method round to a deep medical spa bath. A separate door leads neatly into the bedroom as well as its extremely comfortable bed.
On warm days, you have the choice of having the balcony doors open (there are fly screens) or utilizing the wise zoned air-conditioning on.
During the winter months, you can reverse-cycle the air-con to warm the space or just press the button for a bit of gas-fired log terminate heating.
A hold of other bit details as well as designs bring that additional level of comfort as well as high-end that lower spaces in other hotels lack, leave out or neglect.
The restaurants – Jamison’s, Embers as well as Misty’s
There are three primary restaurants at the Fairmont. Jamison’s restaurant is primarily the breakfast location for the resort. Its replete buffet is well-stocked as well as views out from the terrace are lovely.
Embers restaurant looks out with the gable’s glass wall at the trees as well as far-off valley, as well as offers guests a variety of well-made creations as well as classics for lunch as well as dinner daily.
But tucked away as well as seating only 20 diners a night on Fridays as well as Saturdays, Misty’s restaurant offers an elevated experience both in its views as well as its cuisine; vistas of the Jamison Valley contend with the incredible plated artistry for your attention.
Misty’s Restaurant
Chef Emilio Llausas crafts stunning dishes like Christina’s entree; an ornamental seascape garden of Hamachi crudo topped with yuzu foam as well as embellished with seagrapes, small marine succulents, as well as scampi as well as lumpfish caviar.
We decided to go with the matched wines for the menu (especially as we didn’t have far to go to get home!) as well as it proved to be an excellent choice.
The Hamachi crudo has a surprising pairing: a curious Greek sparkling wine that has a slight anise back palate however which matches the meal well.
My entree of beef tartare is a beautiful, powerhouse of a meal – one of the very best tartares I’ve had. Sat atop a layered beef-fat roasted potato cake as well as embellished with caper berries as well as puffed beef tendon, it’s a meal that’s clever, eloquent as well as deep.
Christina’s primary of lamb two methods includes crunchy roasted corn ribs, black garlic that provides a wonderful caramel flavour as well as tender lamb cutlet lollypops. next to the lamb cutlets is slow-cooked lamb belly that’s tender as well as fatty, as well as coats the mouth deliciously.
It’s a playground of flavours as well as textures.
I have ordered the marron, which is both superbly tender as well as rich. On one side of the marronis a crab congee, which ramps up the richness as well as colour, while on the other side is a beurre blanc to truly ramp up the umami of this ensemble cast.
Thankfully, a creamy, oaky yet sharp Chablis cuts into as well as dances with the dish’s richness while adding an additional ribbon of saveur.
We likewise order a side of white asparagus, which includes a blanket of freshly made hollandaise as well as a online forest of saffron as well as a quenelle of black caviar.
We’re truly as well full for dessert, however it’s a three-course menu, so we feel obliged to stay. plus the dishes are amazing.
Showing just what you can do with sticky rice if you’re great enough, chef Emilio has produced an entire landscape of tropical flavours with this dish. Freeze-dried lychee as well as lychee jelly pearls, sumptuous black sticky rice, coconut milk as well as mango sorbet – it’s a masterpiece.
Paired with this is a Mudgee wine – a sticky from Robert Stein Wines. It plays with the flavours as well as ends the mouthful with its own twist.
Finally – as well as our undoing – the dolce de lecce, with its polished chocolate top, wonderful milky interior as well as crunchy base is rich as well as perfect on its own. however add to it a cherry sorbet as well as chocolate soil as well as it becomes the poshest Cherryripe you’ve ever eaten.
It’s more than we can surface between us, however it’s only since we’re so full. A remarkable meal.
The bar – two physicians Whiskey Tavern
At the entrance of the resort, this new bar – as well as something rather unique to the blue Mountains – is the two physicians Whiskey Tavern.
This speakeasy palace is surprisingly spacious as well as has a lovely atmosphere, with a online jazz duo doing their thing on stage lit by a giant crystal chandelier.
The tavern embraces the bygone clandestine spirits sales age of the Prohibition age as well as likewise combines the medicinal application of alcohol!
And on one wall next to the stunning gold-lit bar is a cage of the most impressive whisky collection we’ve seen. You can order a flight of whisky tasters that you can either order or let the bar personnel to choose.
We put our trust in F&B manager as well as walking whisky encyclopaedia Dwayne Ninnis as well as were not dissatisfied in the slightest.
The bar shares its name with the distillery as well as its whiskey started by Dr Jerry Schwartz, who has the Fairmont, as well as his buddy Prof John Rasko. It’s a destination in itself as well as well worth a visit.
Two physicians Whiskey will be offered at the bar extremely soon too.
The facilities at the Fairmont
The Fairmont has an remarkable variety of things to see as well as do. We already mentioned golf, pony rides, tree-climbing, spa-ing as well as indulging.
But there’s likewise a physical fitness centre, big heated indoor pool, lagoon-style leisure pool, a video arcade, sphere pit, cinema, miniature train, mirror maze, a small hedge maze, tennis courts, billiards room. There’s even a huge 500²m indoor ice rink.
And that’s before you even get to the concierge desk to ask about close-by bushwalks.
At every turn, you never understand what you’ll discover around the grounds of this big sprawling property, however each curiosity is an interesting discovery of its own.
We stayed as guests of the Fairmont resort as well as medical spa Blue Mountains, MGallery by Sofitel however our opinions stay our own