Must-see hotels in Hobart & Around

  • Altamont House

    Hobart

    Things get real steep real fast on this Patrick St block, but with altitude comes great views! Occupying the ground floor of a gorgeous 1854 stone-and…

  • Battery Point Boutique Accommodation

    Hobart

    Typical colonial midrangery in a block of four muted-grey-coloured serviced apartments – sleeping three, with full kitchens – in Battery Point’s heart …

  • Signalman's Cottage B&B

    Hobart

    A studio-style, self-contained B&B just 10 minutes from the city, surrounded by bush and with awesome views from the Mt Nelson lookout just metres away:…

  • Apartments on Star

    Hobart

    This old brick house at the bottom of Star St comprises two hip apartments, bolstered by an adjacent building housing a further two slick units. Cool…

  • Blue Hills Motel

    Hobart

    Blue Hills is a funky 1960s motel in the backstreets of Battery Point, with plenty of free parking, and wi-fi (big tick), clean rooms (tick) and a value…

  • Travelodge Hobart

    Hobart

    The safe-bet Travelodge rises 10 red-brick floors above the Macquarie St fray. Rooms are compact but stylish, and great value this close to the action…

  • Hadley's Orient Hotel

    Hobart

    This sumptuous place has clocked up more than 170 years of hospitality in the heart of the CBD. It’s acquired plenty of modern embellishments since its…

  • Heimat Chalets

    Hobart & Around

    About 8km north of New Norfolk (signposted off Lyell Hwy, west of the bridge) is Heimat, offering kid-friendly accommodation in a rural setting with…

  • Base Camp Tasmania

    Hobart & Around

    It's just 14km west of New Norfolk, but BCT feels a thousand miles from anywhere. A winding mountain dirt road passes spooky shacks and car wrecks before…

  • Pickled Frog

    Hobart

    Yet another old Hobart pub (the former Bavarian Tavern) turned into a backpackers, this one has a lurid frog-coloured paint job. It's a rambling, woody,…

  • Fountainside

    Hobart

    Venture past the '90s exterior and reception to discover renovated rooms that are surprisingly modern and spacious. The eight-tier building hugs a busy…

  • Edinburgh Gallery B&B

    Hobart

    This funky, art-filled hotel puts an eclectic stamp on a 1909 Federation house, just west of the CBD. Six of the 10 rooms have private bathrooms; the rest…

  • BIG4 Hobart Airport Tourist Park

    Hobart

    Plane-spot from your cabin or caravan at this big, clean and grassy caravan park beside Hobart Airport. Space at each campsite is generous and there are…

  • Prince of Wales Hotel

    Hobart

    A severe 1960s glitch in Battery Point’s urban planning, the POW is nonetheless exquisitely located. It offers basic pub-style rooms and a couple of…

  • Rydges Hobart

    Hobart

    In a prime hillside position overlooking North Hobart Oval (any football this weekend?), great-value Rydges comprises 64 hotel rooms centred on a former…

  • Argyle Motor Lodge

    Hobart

    Hobart's oldest motel (read into that what you will), the 37-room Argyle is close to a lot of things – the North Hobart strip, the State Cinema, Australia…

  • Elms of Hobart

    Hobart

    Built in 1917 for the Palfreymans, a haughty Hobart merchant family, this self-assured, National Trust–listed mansion features beautiful gardens (perfect…

  • Imperial Hotel Backpackers

    Hobart

    Right in the middle of the city, in one of Hobart's original hotels (1870), this maze-like hostel has loads of communal space, an upgraded kitchen, high…

  • Lodge on Elizabeth

    Hobart

    Built in 1829, this old-timer above a busy Elizabeth St corner has been a schoolhouse, a boarding house and a halfway house, but now opens its doors as a…

  • Government Huts

    Mt Field National Park

    Get back to your rootsy mountaintop essence at these three simple, six-bed cabins 15km inside Mt Field National Park. Built in the 1940s, the cabins are…

  • Waratah Hotel

    Hobart

    Known as ‘W Block’ to truant students from the nearby college, the only thing the chunky-looking 'Tah' has in common with its namesake native bloom is its…

  • Quarry Apartments

    Hobart

    Stylish, compact apartments right on (actually, above) Salamanca Place. It's not a hotel as such: check-in is DIY via instructions you receive once you…

  • Mayfair Plaza Motel

    Hobart

    The Mayfair development in the '90s sent Sandy Bay into an architectural tailspin from which it hasn't recovered, but if that doesn’t bother you (you're…

  • Macquarie Manor

    Hobart

    Plush, high-ceilinged heritage rooms and continental breakfasts are the order of the day at this central, well-groomed, Regency-style guesthouse. Enough…

  • Mantra One Sandy Bay Road

    Hobart

    These spacious and stylish apartments, in a staunch old redbrick building, are a short stroll from Salamanca Place, the city centre and Battery Point,…

  • Barilla Holiday Park

    Hobart & Around

    A passable option for those with wheels, Barilla is midway between Hobart (14km) and Richmond (14km). It’s close to the airport, the Coal River Valley…

  • Laurel Cottage

    Hobart & Around

    Laurel Cottage is a ramshackle two-bedroom, 1830s convict-brick cottage near the Richmond Bridge, with an authentic interior and a wood fire. There's a…

  • New Norfolk Caravan Park

    Hobart & Around

    This caravan park has shady, poplar-studded grounds on the Derwent River’s south bank, with ducks waddling around on the lawns. There are a handful of…

  • Hamlet Downs

    Mt Field National Park

    Amid rural quiet and spectacular flower beds 12km east of Mt Field National Park at Fentonbury, Hamlet Downs is a gracious 1860s homestead transformed…

  • Central Hotel

    Hobart

    Downstairs is a mainstream Aussie pub with gaming machines, cheap meals and big-screen sports; upstairs are 11 surprisingly decent en-suite rooms with TVs…

  • Best Western Hobart

    Hobart

    OK, so it looks something like a cruise liner crossed with a USSR administrative compound, but if you're looking for a predictable, no-frills, affordable…

  • Sorell Barracks

    Hobart & Around

    This historic, white-walled Georgian terrace (1827 – the oldest building in Sorell) is now colonial-style accommodation. There's a two-bedroom suite…

  • Welcome Stranger Hotel

    Hobart

    Only a discerning eye will appreciate the aesthetic qualities of this modern redbrick pub, but upstairs there are 14 decent pub rooms with en suite. It’s…

  • Hobart Cabins & Cottages

    Hobart

    An unflattering 8km north of the city across the road from Hobart's racetrack in Goodwood, the modest Hobart Cabins & Cottages offers a few powered sites,…

  • Waterfront Lodge

    Hobart

    Overlooking the semi-industrial New Town Bay and the Cornelian Bay Cemetery, 5km north of the centre, this funky 1960s motel has compact, modern units,…

  • Mt Field National Park Campground

    Mt Field National Park

    Run by the park administration, this self-registration campground is a few hundred metres past the visitor information centre and has decent facilities …

  • Hobart's Accommodation & Hostel

    Hobart

    In a former pub (the ever-rockin’ Doghouse), Hobart Hostel offers clean redecorated dorms, with good-value en-suite twins and doubles upstairs. Downstairs…

  • Woolmers Hotel Apartments

    Hobart

    Despite lashings of naff brown-brick colonial coach-house style, Woolmers remains a solid choice not too far from the action. Spacious studio and two…

  • Zero Davey

    Hobart

    These modern, funky apartments on the edge of Hobart's kinetic waterfront precinct don't garner much external architectural kudos, but inside they're…

  • Richmond Coachmans Rest

    Hobart & Around

    A no-fuss, tidy row of three motel-style units on the main street. Unit 1 is a two-storey, two-bedroom affair; the other two are studio-style doubles…