In 2005 the Lodge was awarded the best non-beach resort hotel worldwide in a survey of more than 15,000 British travellers.[4] Bloomfield Lodge is owned by Mike Gooley who also owns Trailfinders, the UK's largest independent travel company with 29 travel centres in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia and Hinterland Aviation, an airline based in Cairns that is used to ferry hotel guests to the nearby grass strip airfield.