Artist's impression · fictional resort Gabo Island Resort Lodge
Forty-two rooms and tents. One island. No road home. A historic granite lodge that exists only on this website.
Gabo Island is real.The resort isn't.The booking system is.
GIRL is a fictional resort on a real island. The lighthouse, the pink granite and the island photography are real. The lodge, its rooms and its history are invented, and shown as artist's impressions. The booking engine behind it is real, and you can try it.
Gabo Island Resort Lodge is fictional. No real accommodation or transport is provided. Payments purchase a digital interactive experience and associated digital products. Gabo Island itself, its lighthouse and the photography presented as documentary imagery are real.
If you complete a booking, the only real charge is 1% of the fictional holiday value plus $5, for the digital booking experience. Payments are in Stripe test mode while we finish building.
Where you'd stay
42 units across 6 categories, from granite heritage rooms to wilderness glamping. None of them exist.
The Granite Bath House
Warm granite, hot water and a timber sauna against whatever weather Gabo sends your way. A heated stone pool, cold plunge and timber sauna in a sheltered granite courtyard beside the lodge.
Visit the Bath House
Eat & drink
The Lantern Room for relaxed island dining, Keeper's Cafe for coffee and provisions, and Keeper's Bar for a fire and a drink while the southerly blows. Granite, timber and warm light throughout.
Eat & drink at GIRLIsland shop & gallery
The fictional gallery is a window onto real things: Colin Dixon's Gabo Island photographic prints at art.oze.au, and the Gabo Girl and Gabo Man designs on Redbubble.
Visit the shop & gallery
The island is the real thing
Gabo Island sits about 14 km from Mallacoota in far-east Victoria. Its lighthouse, built of the island's own pink granite and completed in 1862, is the second tallest in Australia.
The real Gabo IslandThe booking system is real
GIRL runs on OZE Booking Core: live availability across all 42 units, half-open stay dates, seasonal and holiday pricing, deposits, cancellation policy, Stripe Checkout and an operator portal with door allocation and nightly backups. The same engine runs real accommodation businesses.
Try a booking