While it may seem a luxurious treat to award yourself, staying in a hotel room in your own city can serve as a quick holiday escape without the added airfares. Make the historic Treasury Hotel your bedroom for an evening, don a fluffy robe and kick back to enjoy the bottle of white wine and box of chocolates the hotel is offering with a night in their deluxe room this month. You’ll also be rewarded with a room service breakfast the following morning, meaning you can extend your lounging about in pyjamas just a little longer. Next, stroll down to Dome Retreat or Brisbane City Thai Massage to pummel some of that built-up tension with a massage.

If you’re feeling short on time, perhaps wander down to Post Office Square in your lunchbreak, choose a shady patch, kick off those shoes and let those toes wriggle in the grass while you down a healthy lunch from Raw ‘n Juicy. Alternatively, you can spend your Tuesday lunchtime in the City Botanic Gardens at a free Tai Chi Qigong class, or strengthen your body and mind with a free boxing class on Thursday evenings. Aria is also dishing up a two-course lunch composed of Queensland produce, coffee and petit fours on weekdays.