Timmy and Michael Maxwell.Courtesy of Island HouseMichael and Timmy Maxwell run Island House on Lord Howe Island, Australia.They live on the 400-person island and rent out two guest houses they built.Chris Hemsworth was the first visitor in 2020, and rates now are $3,250 to $6,200 a night.In 1999, the financier Michael Maxwell was flipping through a newspaper when he spotted an advertisement for a 1930s lodge on Lord Howe Island, Australia, an island he'd visited as a child.