The Holiday Shacks Story
Where it all began
Holiday Shacks® is a luxury holiday accommodation business which was first established in 2008 to offer guests and owners alike a personalised end-to-end managed service.
Meet our founder
Andrea Wilson, founder and Managing Director of Holiday Shacks® Luxury Accommodation, is a highly respected leader in luxury short-stay property management and an accomplished property investor. Since opening her first luxury holiday home in Mount Martha in 2007, Andrea has grown her personal portfolio to include several stylish and beautifully furnished homes across the Mornington Peninsula.
Frustrated by the lack of personalized service in the short-stay market, she turned a family vision into Victoria’s leading boutique property management company. Today, Holiday Shacks® curates a portfolio of luxury homes across Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula, each managed with hands-on care, meticulous attention to detail, and a focus on delivering exceptional guest experiences while generating strong returns for owners.
Andrea’s experience as both an investor and operator give her unique insight into the needs of property owners. She is a former Board member and President of the Holiday Rental Industry Association of Australia (2012-2017) and a current advocacy and policy member for ASTRA, making her a strong advocate for industry standards, regulation, and professional best practice.
Beyond her professional achievements, Andrea balances her passion for property with quality time spent with family, travel, and a dedication to health and fitness. An avid marathon runner, she combines the discipline and determination of her personal pursuits with leading Victoria’s premier luxury short-stay management company.
Our team
At Holiday Shacks®, our team isn’t just a group of professionals—they’re a family of property experts who treat every home as if it were their own. With experience as property investors, managers, concierge specialists, interior stylists, and unmatched housekeepers, we bring exceptional care, attention to detail, and professionalism to everything we do.
We also work with a trusted network of suppliers, including maintenance teams, tennis court, pool and garden specialists, and other experts dedicated to caring for your home. This full-service approach allows us to manage your property and grow your investment income, while you focus on the things that matter most to you.
From creating seamless guest experiences to ensuring every property is impeccably maintained, our dedication shines through in our glowing 5-star reviews—reflecting the trust our clients place in us and the unforgettable stays we deliver.
The area
Choose from a range of luxury short stay destinations including Black Rock, Edithvale, Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, Chelsea, Frankston South, Mount Eliza, Mornington, Mount Martha, Safety Beach, Martha Cove, Red Hill, Red Hill South, Balnarring, Somers, Shoreham, McCrae, St Andrews Beach, Rye, Blairgowrie, Sorrento and Portsea.
Located across Victoria’s beautiful southeast coast from Bayside Melbourne to Portsea, our properties are hand-picked luxury and unique retreats, designed to offer our guests the finest Mornington Peninsula Accommodation and bespoke experiences. Holiday Shacks® is a term given to Australian holiday houses over a century ago. “The Shack” as it was soon referred to, soon became the treasured iconic symbol of an Australian holiday house.
Why Holiday Shacks?
First designed as rustic shacks which mainly appeared by popular holiday beaches or remote riverside banks, they were often built with no formal planning regulations, usually furnished with the family’s odds and ends and given a hand-painted name as the final finishing touch. In the 1940s, Shack licenses were issued to the public and the rustic Holiday Shack began to be transformed into a special place to stay with the little extras.
The Mornington Peninsula is a world-class region offering a soothing majestic environment.
In Victoria, the Mornington Peninsula began the trend for more up-market holiday houses, beginning in Sorrento, the site of Victoria’s first European settlement in 1803 at Sullivan Bay. Sorrento and then Portsea fast became the established playground of the holidaying rich and famous showcased by the magnificent holiday mansions, which today remain along the southern shorelines.
In recent years, development and growth on the Mornington Peninsula has seen the emergence of luxury coastal and rural holiday homes. It has been our privilege and honour to assist with the promotion of our industry sector and to be able to offer our guests the very best holiday rental and short-term accommodation on the Mornington Peninsula highlighted today by the Holiday Shacks® premium property portfolio. The Mornington Peninsula is a world-class region offering a soothing majestic environment with healing heated mineral pools and vast national parks, ocean, and bay coastlines, and includes several world class outdoor pursuits and award-winning establishments to offer the perfect destination for the discerning traveller. Holiday Shacks five-star experiences, luxury and unique villas will take you a world away, to relax and unwind. So good, you’ll never want to leave and always want to return.
We look forward to accommodating your dreams.