Hotel Vera And Restaurant Babae
Highlights
- Experience personalised luxury in seven exquisite suites, each designed for ultimate comfort and tailored service.
- Savour a hyperlocal continental breakfast featuring Ballarat’s finest, including Turret Bakery pastries and St Ali coffee.
- Unwind in the garden oasis or enjoy the guest bar, perfect for relaxation after a day of exploration.
- Charge your electric vehicle on-site, ensuring a seamless and eco-friendly getaway in Ballarat Central.
Hotel Vera is located in a painstakingly restored, 19th-century mansion in the heart of Sturt Street. Merging modernity, artistic credence, sustainability and seclusion, the hotel has just seven exquisite, personalised suites, a guest bar and garden oasis.
Hotel Vera is the home of fine diner Babae and was awarded one Chefs Hat by The Age Good Food Guide for 2025. Babae is headlined by culinary director and executive chef Tim Foster.
All rooms feature integrated climate control, double-glazed windows and premium insulation. Some suites feature stone plunge baths whilst others have beautiful marble bench seats and rain showers.
A commitment to sustainability and slow living also lies at Vera’s core. Vera offers guests the convenience of a dedicated Porsche EV charging station on-site, providing the reassurance that one’s adventurous escape will be seamless and joy-fuelled.
The Accessible Suite has been designed for guests who require additional space and amenities. The hotel’s pet-friendly suite accommodates house-trained dogs so they are equally able to enjoy their stay away.
Breakfast is a hyperlocal continental breakfast and includes some of Ballarat’s brilliant purveyors such as Vegas & Rose granola, Turret Bakery’s pastries and sourdough bread Inglenook dairy milk and butter, Salt Kitchen charcuterie hams and seasonal poached and fresh fruit. St Ali coffee and Bendigo Tea Associates artisans teas are also available. Breakfast is available seven days a week.
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Accreditations
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
- Victoria Tourism Industry Council
Features
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Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A doorbell or intercom at an accessible height and display a contact number (accessible height is 900mm-1100 mm)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- Step free access to the conference or function room
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
- Wheelchair accessible picnic tables (picnic tables require 720mm knee clearance and 800mm maximum height).
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).
- Step free access to room (Entrance to the room wheelchair accessible with step free greater than 5mm or has a doorway threshold ramp not exceeding 1:8 for 450mm length).
- A lever handle on the door (easier to use).
- Enough space for a wheelchair to move around three sides of a double king sized bed (A pathway of 1200mm minimum width is required for wheelchair access).
- A wheelchair accessible bathroom (Entrance to bathroom must have step free greater than 5mm or a doorway threshold ramp not exceeding 1:8 for 450mm. Bathrooms dimensions must be no less than 2000mm X 2500mm. Have a hobless (step free) shower recess. Shower recess must have at least 1100 x 1100mm clear area for wheelchair access (no door). Have a slip resistant fold down seat or fixed seat in shower .Seat must be at least 900mm long.).
- A shower curtain (no door).
- Grabrails in shower recess (can be removable and height adjustable).
- A handheld shower hose (should be at least 1500mm long).
- Allows space around toilet for a wheelchair (A space of at least 900mm width beside the toilet pan and 1200mm clearance in front of the toilet pan is required).
- Grabrails provided adjacent to the toilet.
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