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Why A Winter Girls’ Getaway In The Tweed Just Makes Sense
From Kingscliff beach walks to hinterland hideaways, this winter girls’ getaway guide to The Tweed covers stylish stays, restorative wellness and the best ways to spend a long weekend with friends.
In partnership with Visit The Tweed, we uncover a girls’ getaway with range: coastal ease, hinterland beauty, soul-soothing wellness, and the places that make winter on this stretch of coastline feel especially worth booking.
There’s a right way to winter, and it starts with flying direct to Gold Coast Airport, turning right and finding yourself in The Tweed five minutes later. For anyone craving a girls’ getaway that feels easy to pull off yet still worth the diary shuffle, this corner of northern New South Wales makes a very persuasive case. Pleasant days, cosy nights, beautifully styled stays, excellent meals, sea air, vintage finds and restorative pauses all come easily here, along with one very good reason to finally settle on a date.
What makes The Tweed so well-suited to a weekend with friends is how lightly it handles variety. The coast and hinterland sit close enough to do both beautifully, so the trip can move from swim to long lunch to sauna to dinner without ever feeling overworked. It is high reward with very little friction, which is exactly the point.
Check In: The Tweed Stays to Book Now
Beautiful coastal houses, hinterland hideaways and the group stays worth booking now.
There are two standout ways to stay in The Tweed right now. One is all modern luxury, keeping you close to the coast in Kingscliff, where beach walks and village strolls slip easily into the day. The other draws you inland to Carool, where the views stretch wide, the pace softens, and the house becomes the main event.
Mana Beach House
On exclusive Cylinders Drive, Mana Beach House brings serious fantasy-stay energy to Kingscliff. Designed by Jayson Pate and named among The Daily Telegraph’s Top 50 Homes, this architect-designed retreat sits just back from Salt Beach and within strolling distance of Salt Village’s cafes, restaurants and boutiques. There’s a 15-metre heated saltwater pool, mosaic-tiled steam room, private gym, alfresco bar and four oversized ensuite bedrooms, giving group getaways the ease of a private home with the indulgence of a boutique resort.
12 Cylinders Drive, Kingscliff
Book your stay with Mana Beach House
Hillside Carool
Hillside Carool gives the girls’ trip its hinterland chapter, and it is a beautiful one at that. Once an old winery, it is now an expansive eight-bedroom estate in Carool with room for 16-plus, rolling views out to the ocean, a 20-metre lap pool, a heated spa, a sauna, a pizza oven, and all the space needed for long-table lunches, slow mornings, and fireside nights in. Better still, it feels gloriously away from it all while still sitting only around 20 to 25 minutes from Gold Coast Airport and nearby beaches.
Carool, Tweed Hinterland
Book your stay with Hillside Carool
Book It: Where to Dine in The Tweed
Long lunches, beachside dinners and places made for one more round.
A girls’ getaway is shaped by the tables you book, and The Tweed makes that part very easy. Lunch can stretch beautifully into the afternoon, dinner can come with sea air and something cold in hand, and a pre-dinner stop can become the whole plan.
Farm & Co.
For the lunch that gives the whole trip its glow, book Farm & Co. Set on a 52-acre organic farm in Cudgen, the seasonal shared menu draws from the surrounding paddocks, with sample plates such as pizza fritta with Byron Bay stracciatella and local stone fruit, smoked lamb shoulder with curry leaf butter, and pan-fried barramundi with saffron. Order widely, settle in and let this be the meal that sets the tone.
529 Cudgen Road, Cudgen
Taverna
As the light begins to fade, Taverna is where the evening should start. Set on Marine Parade beside Kingscliff Beach, this Greek-inspired spot suits a full table and a generous order: whipped feta, bush-honey haloumi, grilled garlic prawns, chargrilled lamb cutlets or slow-roasted lamb shoulder, followed by cocktails that keep things moving from lychee martinis to Aperol Spritzers and the house Taverna Signature Ouzo.
22 Marine Parade, Kingscliff
Bar Bruto
Bar Bruto is the newer Casuarina stop for the stage of the night that begins with one drink and lengthens beautifully. The Spanish-inspired tapas bar leans into minimal-intervention wine, an evolving vermut list and clever small plates such as ajo blanco with confit leeks and sour grapes, octopus with chimichurri and potato foam, and crisp croquettes, with a silky Navarrico on hand when cocktails feel essential.
480 Casuarina Way, Casuarina
Head Out: The Experiences That Make the Trip
From surf and spa time to vintage finds, viral coffee stops and one very good reason to lock in the date.
No one comes to The Tweed for an overplanned itinerary, but it is very good at filling a weekend with things worth leaving the house for. A vintage detour, a surf lesson, a slower wellness turn, a cheese tasting, a distillery lunch, then a date in June that gives the whole thing its hook.
Strange Days Store
For the group that likes a little treasure hunting between meals, Strange Days Store is the Bay Street stop with genuine pull. Inside the handpicked Tweed Heads vintage store, Hot Cowboy has helped turn Strange Days Stores’ cold brew counter into a local fixation, with social posts and local coverage circling the now-famous Devil’s Advocate: a sea salt-and-vanilla cold brew crowned with pistachio foam. Come for the caffeine hit, the cowboy charm and the racks of American and European vintage, then leave with denim, boots or something gloriously unnecessary.
28/30 Bay Street, Tweed Heads
Salty Girls Surf School
Created by professional surfer Belén Alvarez Kimble and based on the Tweed Coast, Salty Girls Surf School turns the surf lesson into the main event. Australia’s first all-female surf school runs private and group sessions on beaches such as Cabarita and Hastings Point, with supportive female coaches, all equipment supplied and the sort of shared adrenaline that leaves everyone sandy, giddy and very ready for lunch.
Lions Park, Cabarita Beach
Halcyon Wellness
Halcyon Wellness is where the weekend exhales. After the salt, the sun and a socially full day, Halcyon House’s new wellness space is where you come back to yourself a little: a facial, a body treatment, sauna time, the sting of the cold plunge, then that lovely floaty feeling that follows. It shifts the whole escape into a more restorative register and resets the mood for the rest of the trip.
21 Cypress Crescent, Cabarita Beach
Kat Harvey Cheese
Kat Harvey Cheese is the delicious wildcard every girl’s getaway needs. In Murwillumbah, private tastings begin with a drink in hand, then move through beautiful cheeses paired with fruit, honey, crackers, and the little extras that make the table feel especially abundant. Build an afternoon around it and let the conversation take care of itself.
Shop 4/105 Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah
Husk Farm Distillery
For an afternoon with a little more ceremony, head to Husk Farm Distillery. Set among the cane fields in Tumbulgum, the Tasting Trail Tour begins with a welcome drink, moves through the working distillery and finishes with generous pours of Ink Gin and Husk Rum before lunch at Planter’s Kitchen. Then it is out to the lawn for another round and a long, easy spell under the northern New South Wales sun.
1152 Dulguigan Road, North Tumbulgum
Seas The Day Women’s Surf Festival
If there is one winter weekend to build the trip around, make it Seas The Day. Returning to Kingscliff Beach on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June 2026 for its fourth year, Surfing Australia’s much-loved women’s surf festival brings together competition, keynote talks, wellness sessions and a broad program shaped for women of all abilities. This year’s lineup moves well beyond the break, with yoga, ice baths and breathwork alongside conversations on Indigenous surfing, ocean therapy, climate action, and the women shaping surf culture now.
Kingscliff Beach
If your group chat has been circling the same “we should book something” messages for months, let this be the one that finally lands. There’s a right way to winter, and it looks a lot like this. Visit The Tweed.
