what a blissful getaway. I stayed here for 3 nights and loved it. Its a big property spread out with space and not feeling like you are on top of others. The feature of the hotel is the pool - its massive and I mean its a massive lagoon that snakes its way around the hotel. There are rooms that open directly on to it and some have a grassy area before the pool. I stayed in a 1 bedroom penthouse and the rooftop is the size of the actual apartment... had a big spa, webber bbq and sun lounger so i didnt have to leave... except to go to the pool! Breakfast was great with a lovely fresh buffet. Lunch was good, but dinner was amazing and the sommelier was very knowledgeable. I never made it to the pool bar (hey the rooftop was just too good!)

The resort had a great feeling around it, staff were professional but not snooty - you cant help but feel relaxed when you hear and see everybody having fun.

We booked a 6 night honeymoon from the 25/11/12 at the Sea Temple on a recommendation and were blown away by the whole experience. We searched different websites for best prices but ended up ringing the hotel reservations directly and negotiated a 2 bedroom penthouse apartment for $299pn. It initially didn't include full buffet breakfast but after a little nudge they threw it in too. The night before we left I noticed the hotel website had the same room advertised for $239pn. I phoned up and asked if we could have the same rate given the big difference. This was done without issue saving us over $400 straight away! The hotel was amazing and looks exactly as it does in the photos on the website. I have never encountered staff who are so attentive and happy to help in whatever way possible. On our last night we booked a sunset cruise and had purchased a return ticket on the local bus (which we would definitely NOT recommend). After waiting 45mins for the bus and talking with hotel staff, the friendly lady behind the desk decided to drive us the 15min journey to the marina herself! Would recommend this hotel to anyone!

We stayed at the Sea Temple for 5 nights from 18 November 2012.

It is situated about 10 minutes by shuttle bus (not free) from the centre of Port Douglas. The accommodation comprises a number of two-storey blocks clustered around a very large pool which occupies the centre of the facility. The design is attractive and the landscaped areas both hard and soft are particularly attractive.

Some of the apartments appear to be privately owned and many of them have patios directly abutting onto the pool itself. This produces the most inconvenient layout. To get from our room to the public areas, and indeed to get to and from the pool terrace required a detour around a perimeter service road.

The pool is lovely and very large - beautiful to swim in. The hotel is popular with families and the limited pool terrace space makes it difficult to avoid being crowded in and this lack of space is rather surprising in a hotel of this rating. The pool bar did not open until 1145 and this is somewhat inconvenient when temperatures reach 30 degrees at 09:00 hours.

Our room was modern and well equipped although a certain amount of floor space had been sacrificed to the provision of a large spa bath. The bathroom was very clean and smar, twin basins, lovely tiled floor, but I must say I prefer bathrooms to have doors.

In our case the garden view was of a timy courtyard garden area abutting the rear elevations of the adjoining blocks. Not an attractive area for sitting out in.

Standards of service are very high and the reception team in particular were most obliging on more than one occasion to sort out various problems for us.

Whilst we stayed, a conference for about 30 people took over parts of the restaurant for lunches and dinners and at these times ordinary guests suffered limitations on the available space and staffing resources seemed stretched, as the service became susceptible to variability in quality and reliability. It is not clear why paying guests should suffer for the hotel's apparent failure to engage additional resources to ensure that standards of service were not compromised.

The hotel has one restaurant. Of all the places we dined in Australia, this was the best. The chef is superbly creative and the food and wines simply divine. My recollection of the enterprising combination of flavours will remain with me for a long time.

My husband and I finished our honeymoon in Port Douglas. We had been recommended the Sea Temple, but on staying there would not recommend it to others. We were so dissapointed. We had one of the swim out rooms but they chose to position us in the kids section (and new we were on our honeymoon) of the pool, where we had kids jumping on our day beds, using our balcony and screaming outside our room - not really the relaxing environment we had witnessed everywhere else on our honeymoon. My husband went to use the gym on a couple of occasions and was unable to as there were young kids in there just playing on the epuipment. Sea Temple is located so far from town and is really quite painful having to stop at all of the other resorts to get to and from there as it is the furthest one out - shuttle isn't included either. We were so dissapointed and had such great expectations but would never stay there again and would not recommend it to others (unless you have kids). There were also no sun beds available and we had to lay on the grass as the parents with kids came out in the mornings and reserved them all. There were 8 sun beds to service of 20 apartments with up to 4 people in each in that area of the complex - very frustrating. No shops or restaurants within easy walk - 50 minute walk to town centre. Room also had a very wet/damp smell.