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Browse great hotel deals in Tasmania, the perfect location for family holidays, romantic short breaks, adventure vacations and fly drive vacations. With only short distances between attractions and townships; affordable hotels in Tasmania vary from 3.5 star comfort to luxury 5 star hotels in Hobart and throughout the island, with a multitude of choices in between.
The traveller taking the Bass Highway on the North West Coast of Tasmania can compare live deals for discounted Tasmania hotels for self drive holidays; perhaps selecting a deluxe room in a 4 star country hotel in Stanley; just over three hours drive from Launceston to view the spectacular ancient volcano, the Nut. A three and a half star Wynyard hotel on the waterfront is ideal for a stopover to enjoy the many quaintly named beaches of the North West Coast of Tasmania.
Your hotel in Wynyard might be close by the most up market arty public ladies toilet you can imagine. Located on the wide riverbank of this bustling historic township the Wynyard ladies toilet is a shining piece of modern art – a most unusual tourist attraction!
Visitors can select a good value guest room in a hotel in Burnie on the North West Coast or a comfortable room in a coastal central Devonport hotel will suit the plan of any traveller enjoying the lush pastures, lakeside scenery and welcoming cellar doors of the Cradle Valley Wine Route on the North West Coast.
For those seeking vacation lodgings for a short break in the rugged World Heritage Wilderness Region and a hotel in the Cradle Mountain – Lake St. Clair National Park, there are many options to choose from to enjoy the natural beauty and Cradle Mountain vistas reflected in the lake. Perhaps select a de luxe hotel style room in a Cradle Mountain wilderness lodge, or an executive hotel room in a Cradle Mountain spa retreat in a chateau style Cradle Mountain hotel. Travellers seeking pampering in the west of Tasmania can enjoy luxury king sized luxury Cradle Mountain hotel rooms with log fires in the Cradle Mountain NP
Ocean lovers can choose their hotel in the Western Wilderness of Tasmania from a plethora of water lovers’ delights; perhaps a Strahan hotel room with water views and a short stroll to a magnificent Tasmanian rain forest and waterfall will suit; a 4 star luxury room in Strahan for a couple, situated in a garden, with car parking close to hand and all the comforts of home to return to after a day exploring the Tasmanian wilderness is a delight, with so much to see and do in the pristine Franklin – Gordon Wild Rivers National Park west of your good standard Strahan hotel or affordable Queenstown hotel, set below the spectacular touring road from Gormanston, on the slopes of Mount Owen.
In the North East Tasmanian region of Launceston, Tamar and the North, visitors can benefit from bulk buy specials for all Tasmania hotels in Launceston area, enjoying a wide option to suit any budget. Lovers of Art Deco style hotels will adore a centrally located Launceston hotel room and the many buildings in that style in Tasmania; alternatively, one of the good value country town hotel rooms or central 5 star Launceston hotels with all modern conveniences might be your choice.
To the east and west of Launceston, with pure mountain water, distinct seasons to balance the vines and the cleanest air in the world the cellar doors of the Tamar Valley Wineries, Tasmania’s premier wine region are midst magnificent lavender farms, hydroponic wasabi farms, an exquisite saffron producer, craft cheese makers and delightful farm gate fruit producers; the Tamar Valley Wine Region is a self drive dream destination.
Golf lovers on a flying visit Tasmania can enjoy a hotel close to George Town Golf Course, or just minutes from the airports for their Hobart golf holiday hotel accommodation. Vacation lodgings close to Freycinet beaches are plentiful; perhaps an executive Bicheno hotel with outstanding beachfront location, or a wilderness hotel in the Freycinet National Park.
History abounds in Tasmania; see quaint hotels beyond Hobart with great deals; a small private hotel in Port Arthur, a hotel in Richmond; a room in a historic barrack town or bed and breakfast in a quaint and much photographed Westbury private hotel.
In Tasmania’s capital city, a harbourside Wrest Point hotel might suit; or see a multitude of central Hobart hotels with waterfront location from good value 3 star to 5 star luxury hotels all close to Hobart cbd, a deluxe all suite Hobart hotel overlooking Salamanca or the entertainment area in the historic Salamanca. Close by the capital city of Tasmania waterside district options vary from affordable 3 star hotels to an all suites 5 star hotel close to the working ships harbour and the Hobart cruise terminal.
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| Hobart, Port Arthur & Surrounds |
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Tasmania’s old Hobart town, beautifully compact, rich in maritime history and blessed with a heritage of early colonial buildings marries happily with the hedonistic pleasures of today at the pace life should be lived. Wander artists’ galleries and cultural centres throughout Hobart and surrounds, enjoy theatre, superb Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens and unique exhibits in TMAG; enjoy field grazed beef-steaks, seafood fresh from the boats, and garden fresh produce served in 5 star restaurants, alfresco harbourside cafes or in charming character pubs while enjoying great Tasmanian beers or savoring excellent wines from local cool climate Tasmania wineries.
Browse Salamanca Place, with ancient sandstone buildings lovingly converted into galleries full of treasures created by local artisans; wander the historic, steep old whalers’ stairway to pretty, affluent Sandy Bay, now replete with boutiques and cafes; meander through a vine clad pergola to charming St David’s’ Park; wonder at aged headstones telling tales of early settlers dating back to the first decades of the 19th century; see statuary hand carved by early artisans and tributes to the First Fleeters.
Cruise to Moorilla Winery and MONA, the Museum of New and Old Art; modern, stunningly carved deep in the sandstone hillside, already famous for its splendid private collection of art and antiquities yet so new the opening date is January 2011. See Tasmania’s Mt Wellington, minutes from Hobart and rising high over Hobart town; once climbed by Charles Darwin, crowned by alpine vegetation, and dusted by winter snow.
Explore beautiful Coal Valley; enjoy an alfresco lunch at the cellar door of a famous vineyards of the Hobart Wine Region; visit historic Richmond with 50 pretty Georgian cottages and elegant buildings dating back to the 1800’s; see St Johns’, the oldest Catholic Church in Australia and the romantic bridge over the Coal River, the Richmond Bridge that is the oldest bridge in Australia and was carved by convict labour.
Discover Port Arthur Historic Site; learn the convict history of Tasmania and Australia with interactive tales of real convicts and early settlers sympathetically and realistically presented in guided walking tours, harbour cruises and in the cultural centre; purchase fresh produce from farm gates, a farmer’s market shop or a fabulous bakery in a country town en route to enjoy a picnic lunch in the sweeping parklands of Port Arthur. Perhaps take a day cruise, close to the coast, from Bruny Island; and imagine how the early settlers felt when they traversed the world in small ships to create the culture and heritage of Australia. |
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| Launceston, Tamar and North Tasmania |
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Discover Launceston, the Tamar Valley and the North of Tasmania; experience superb Tamar Valley Wine Region cool climate wines, farm fresh food grown in bucolic countryside, friendly country hospitality in elegant Georgian townships such as Westbury; see Deloraine, Longford, Evandale, George Town and seaside Bridport; enjoy exceptional local seafood in sophisticated city restaurants and cafes in historic Launceston; built by convicts, grown by trade in wheat, wool and tin and matured by trade in agriculture and since 1881, its very famous local beer.
Wander the streets of Launceston; view beautiful homes and public buildings, picnic on fresh Tasmanian produce in Cataract Gorge; see the Launceston Kings Bridge; enjoy Launceston’s ‘beach’ in the Cataract Gorge and see the wilderness of the Cliff Grounds, created in Victorian times with ferns and exotic plants.
Discover the cellar doors of the West Tamar River Wine Region; see wetlands, farmlands, Legana Winery; buy apples at farm gates, see North Island Vineyard and Elmslie Wines; visit Lithgoe Art Gallery and Con Lio Pottery; see 9th Island and Rosevares Vineyards and Ridgeway Estate Winery; enjoy the spectacular view from Brady’s Lookout; purchase honey fresh from a Honey Farm; enjoy a hearty country lunch at Exeter; a country town set midst sheep farms, orchards, cattle country vineyards and farms.
Before visiting the Beaconsfield Gold Mine and Museum, visit the great local bakery for an alfresco coffee and a nibble; city folk can cross the road to drool over the fresh meats in the ‘proper’ local butchers shop on Beaconsfield main road. Visit Beauty Point; see sea horses and platypus, visit the Lavender Farm and cafe at Rowella; savor the unique taste and scent of lavender goodies and lavender fields; cross Batman Bridge to the East Tamar Wine Trail.
Travel to the wineries of the Piper River area; see prolific vergside wildflowers and heaths in season; see mixed farming take on a whole new meaning, with sheep, goats, cattle, poultry and horses and a farmhouse painted in a mixture of colours in one single farm.
Enjoy cellar doors tastings; see Delamere and Pipers Brook Jenz Wineries and Bird Vineyard; see fields under the plough; dairy farms and “trust stalls” outside farm gates with fresh raspberries, home made jam or fresh organic garlic. Visit Lillydale, the country town with a handmade lolly shop, street poles painted with local history, pretty cottages, Art Deco buildings, galleries, wineries, a famous water fall just 10 minutes walk along the track - and where everyone smiles and says “hello”. But please beware of chickens crossing the road! |
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| East Coast Tasmania |
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Discover winding roads, cut from mountain sides, running parallel with wild, cascading rivers; see quaint country towns, vineyards sweeping down to meet the ocean, fabled salt white beaches, spectacular scenery, olive groves, a pioneer cemetery, fields of yellow gorse in season and meet friendly, hospitable locals en route to the East Coast of Tasmania from Hobart or Launceston.
Visit Maria Island National Park with Fossil Cliffs and Painted Cliffs, carved by time and looking like huge open mouths. Near Bicheno see abundant wildlife; take a 3km coastal walk to see the power of nature at the Bicheno Blowhole; walk silently on the beach to see wild little penguins returning home; then enjoy a cosmopolitan dinner in a Tapas Bar, French Restaurant or a Wine Bar in the small country town, so Australian that the newsagent knows each customer by name and the ANZAC Day Service spills out across the roads.
Explore a Freycinet marine farm and taste plump Australian oysters off Coles Bay; 4WDrive rugged tracks in Freycinet National Park; climb the circular boardwalk at Cape Tourville lighthouse for spectacular panoramas of bushland, pink granite peaks and tiny islands in the ocean below; from the southern end of the track, trek some 90 minutes to Wineglass Bay Lookout for Wineglass Bay views; test the fabled “squeakiness” of the iconic sands in a steep cliff walk or cross the isthmus to remote, white sandy Hazards Beaches and the Lemana Lookout; see the wide waters of Promise Bay; or, to bathe in almost certain seclusion, nudists or skinny dipping trekkers can hike the Friendly Beaches, north east of Coles Bay.
See the granite rocks on the beaches of the Bay of Fires; from Binalong Bay, take a short trek to Skeleton Point for wide coastal views of the Bay of Fires and Eddystone Point some 35 km distant with many easily accessible coastal tracks. In St Helens, a 1 hour walk circuit takes in the foreshore, working fishing bay and Kings Park; from St Helens Point, walk Burns Bay to Beer Barrel Beach or walk Peron Dunes to Maurouard Beach in similar times. South of St Helens at oceanside Scamander, set on a wide river mouth, with pelicans feeding in tidal pools visitors have a choice of walks with easy Scamander coastal beach access; in season, beware of many rare sea birds breeding in Beaumaris Beach area! |
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| North West Coast Tasmania |
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Where better to experience nature at its most pristine than the North West Coast of Tasmania? With the cleanest water in the world and the largest temperate rainforest in Australia, the Tarkine, ensuring that the freshest air on earth continues to be purified as nature intended.
Climb The Nut, an ancient extinct volcano standing sentinel over Stanley fishing village; near to the Rocky Cape National Park, Table Cape Rd meanders past pretty cottages, farms, rolling hills, turkey dams and splendid ocean views; visit the famous bulb farm in the rich red loam of a volcanic plug here; see masses of birds and great flocks of sheep; see exotic road names, such as Murdering Gully Rd, with hawthorn trees, flowering delicately in spring time and carrying blood red autumn berries.
Seafood delights are caught and cooked daily at restaurants and cafes all along the coast and just off shore, King Island produces some of the finest dairy products, cheeses and cream in the world.
Horses and ponies prance in paddocks, hairy bulls and Angus cattle declare “Beef Country” and Hereford cattle in rolling, verdant velvet pastures, protected by hedges and copses, proclaim ‘Dairy Country’. Then rich red soil, with waves of nodding flower heads, acres of vegetables or strawberry fields and “PYO” signs tell of life at a slower pace than mainlanders are used to. See bustling country towns such as Wynyard, pretty Boat Harbour Beach, with colourful cottages, a wide, long beach and rocky outcrops beyond a winding road, lined with deciduous trees, where great waves come rolling in from the Bass Strait; and wonder - who were the sisters of “Sisters Creek” and who was the doctor of Doctors Rocks Geological Site?
See Somerset, pretty Ulverstone and Penguin where the locals share the beach with colonies of little penguins; at beachfront Burnie see splendid Art Deco buildings, makers of paper art and glass, gold and silversmiths and whisky and vodka distillers and Burnie Cheese Tasting Centre; the Narawntapu National Park is ideally located to view the prolific wildlife of Tasmania east of Devonport, which is central to Cradle Valley Wine Route and the North West Coast; with vintage trains, an art gallery that was once a church, a maritime Museum and the “open to public” home of Enid and Joseph Lyons, the 10th Prime Minister of Australia. |
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| Western Wilderness Tasmania |
Adventure |
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Riding Tasmania’s awesome West Coast Wilderness Railway or travelling en route from Hobart to Strahan, its easy to think you have fallen in love with the sparkling waterfalls, fern clad rainforest and spectacular peaks of the Franklin-Gordon River Wild Rivers NP; but cruising exciting Macquarie Harbour to the awful history and wonderful relics of Sarah Island then exploring the mighty river and jewels of the undulating ancient rainforest, you know you have fallen in love and will want to return again and again to experience the different seasons of the stupendous wilderness region where Piners and Miners, convicts and whalers, fisher folk and conservationists have all left their mark on the wilderness wonderland.
See the world as it should be seen and rejuvenate the spirit on fine wilderness walks through palm-like pandanis and beech trees dressed in a different shade for each season in the Cradle Mountain- Lake Clair National Park; sight the spires of Cradle Mountain soaring high above Dove Lake, prolific wildlife, cascading rivers and velvet clad riverbanks overhung with ancient rain forest; visit a wilderness photo gallery or the Tasmanian Devil Sanctuary. Adventurers can heli-fly high above the ancient glacial lakes, spectacular mountains, gorges and valleys on the flight of a lifetime before rejuvenating the body in a luxury spa then enjoying a splendid meal of fresh Tasmanian produce with some world class cool climate Tasmanian wines.
In winter, experienced skiers can enjoy cross country skiing in The Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair NP and serious bush walkers can delight in overnight camping with a four hour walk being the only way into The Walls of Jerusalem NP, to the east; adventurers can discover the gateway to the south-west wilderness and a landscape created over the millennium by glaciers in the Hartz Mountains National Park a few hours drive from Hobart; see waterfalls cascade off the dolerite range, glacial lakes, wet eucalypt forest, rainforest and remote mountain ranges sprinkled with alpine heath.
Serious cave-adventurers can enjoy a specialist cave tour of King Solomon’s Cave and Marakoopa Cave, deep in the limestone of the Mole Creek Karst National Park, and light adventurers with accommodation at Mole Creek can take in guided cave tours seeing ancient stalactites, columns and stalagmites, cathedral-like caverns, subterranean streams and glow worms. |
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