Stories from the peninsula
Dispatches from inside the resort — the salons, the kitchens, the river and the people who run them — plus field guides to Perth that our concierge actually uses.
The full journal
New pieces land as the season turns — subscribe below to get them first.
From Brickworks to Ballroom: A History of the Burswood Peninsula
48 Hours in Perth: The Concierge's Weekend Itinerary
Sunset on the Swan: A Field Guide to Golden Hour
Casino Etiquette 101: Playing With Confidence
Behind the Pass: How Étoile Builds a Seasonal Tasting Menu
The Art of Doing Nothing: A Guide to the Thermal Circuit
Golden Hour Vows: Planning a Riverside Wedding
Cabana Season: How Perth Does Summer by the Water
Quiet Green: What Sustainable Luxury Actually Looks Like
Browse by mood
Gaming — 2 stories Travel — 2 stories Dining — 1 story Wellness — 1 story Heritage — 1 story Events — 1 story Resort life — 1 story Sustainability — 1 storyWritten by people who were actually there
Our contributors spend evenings in the salons, mornings in the kitchens and golden hours on the river — then write it down.
Marcus Bell
Gaming columnist
Covers casino culture across the Asia-Pacific; a decade reporting on responsible-gaming programmes.
Elena Vasquez
Travel & heritage writer
Documents Western Australia's river country and the estates that grew along it.
Adrien Moreau
Executive Chef, contributor
Writes the kitchen dispatches himself — usually after service, always with an opinion.
What the concierge is reading this season
A quarterly shelf from the Fireside Salon — the books our team recommends to guests who ask "what should I read by the lagoon".
More about the salonCloudstreet — Tim Winton
The Perth novel. Read it before you arrive and the city makes a different kind of sense.
The Swan Book — Alexis Wright
A river as protagonist — the piece of writing our garden guides reference most.
Island Home — Tim Winton
Essays on Australian landscape that explain why the light here looks the way it does.
"I came for two nights and stayed for the journal's Perth itinerary — the concierge annotations alone were worth the room rate."
— Guestbook, February
"The etiquette piece saved me an awkward first night at the tables."
Reader, Singapore
"Followed the golden hour guide exactly — best photos of the whole trip."
Reader, Melbourne
"The thermal circuit article convinced my husband to try a spa day. He's converted."
Reader, Perth
New stories, first
One email when a new piece publishes — roughly twice a month, always worth opening, easy to leave.
- First reads on seasonal guides and salon features
- Subscriber-only concierge notes — the unedited versions
- No promotions, no frequency games — just the journal
About the journal
Roughly twice a month, timed to seasons and resort life — quality over cadence. Subscribers get each piece the day it lands.
A small rotation of contributors — gaming columnists, travel writers and the resort's own chefs and concierges writing under their real names.
Please do — send ideas through the contact form marked "journal". Reader questions regularly become features.
The stories are good — the peninsula is better
Everything we write about is a fifteen-minute drive from the CBD and a walk from your suite.