InterContinental Hayman Island

Hayman sits at the top of the Whitsunday archipelago, closer to the outer Great Barrier Reef than any other Whitsunday resort island. There is no runway: guests arrive by boat from Hamilton Island, a 55-minute crossing, or by helicopter or seaplane in fifteen minutes. The approach is part of the arrival. Four wings — Pool, Lagoon, Beach and Pavilion — step down through rainforest and lawn toward the water, with four residences set on the hilltop above. The island has taken guests since 1950 — through a $300 million rebuild in the 1980s and a $135 million redesign completed in 2019 that brought the InterContinental name.

Infinity pool daybeds facing the Whitsunday Passage

InterContinental Hayman Island from the air — pools, palms and the Coral Sea

Suite bedroom with canopy bed and ocean balcony

Resort helicopter on the Hayman Island helipad

The Beach House — its own pool on the sand

Suite bedroom opening to a sea-view balcony

Seafood platter and white wine by the beach

Hayman Penthouse infinity pool and terrace

Beach House bedroom with beachfront outlook

Hayman Pool, a saltwater pool built on hemisphere scale, anchors the Pool Wing; a separate infinity pool looks straight out to the Coral Sea from the Lagoon Wing. Five restaurants and bars — Pacific, Amici, Bam Bam, Aqua and Bar Fifty — cover the range from fine dining to poolside share plates, and Hayman Spa runs treatments built on ingredients drawn from the surrounding reef.

A tender over the coral, at the reef edge

The Whitsundays

Hayman is reached by boat or by air, never by road. Four wings of rooms and suites, four hilltop residences, and a saltwater pool built to be the largest in the southern hemisphere.

Hayman Island — northernmost of the Whitsundays, on the Great Barrier Reef

182 rooms, suites and villas across four wings, plus four hilltop residences

Pacific, Amici, Bam Bam, Aqua and Bar Fifty — five restaurants and bars

Hayman Pool and Hayman Spa & Salon

Reopened as InterContinental in 2019, after a $135 million redesign

Hayman Pool — cabanas and palms at the water line

Hayman Island, Queensland — 55 minutes by boat from Hamilton Island

Penthouse terrace and plunge pool at dusk

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