Youth hostels do not come much more charming than the Koala Garden House.

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Nestled within the garden is the more modest but still charming town house, a one-bedroom duplex with simpler furnishings and a full kitchen, stocked by the staff of the Bauer, who act as support for both residences.

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Savannah's port is almost 20 miles (32km) inland on the Savannah River, far from the city's charming Victorian centre, in the distinctly unlovely suburb of Garden City.

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Run by the same Croatian-Italian clan since it opened as a single villa in 1909, the hillside property overlooks an idyllic cove and has expanded into seventeen rooms tucked into charming bungalows and cottages, scattered throughout a lush, century-old botanical garden roamed by imported peacocks.

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