Midlands & Central Highlands
On the southern outskirts of Miena, this jaunty, rough-sawn timber lodge offers clean, comfortable cabins.
Must-see hotels in Tasmania
Tasmania
Nestled behind a stand of Norfolk Pines on Mersey Bluff, this basic, pleasantly green park is just steps from Bluff Beach and is immaculately presented…
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…
The East Coast
Cove Beach Apartments is actually two separate, two-bedroom apartments – one upstairs, one downstairs – in a big timber beach house decked out in better…
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…
Midlands & Central Highlands
The shingle-covered Lake Leake Hotel offers decent (albeit basic) pub accommodation with shared bathrooms, and hefty post-fishing bar meals (mains $16 to …
Cradle Country & The West
The Crays has six simple studios and cottages with basic kitchenette and bathroom on the Esplanade, opposite Risby Cove, as well as two self-contained…
BIG4 Iluka on Freycinet Holiday Park
The East Coast
Iluka is a big, rambling park that’s been here forever and is an unfaltering favourite with local holidaymakers – book well ahead. The backpackers section…
Midlands & Central Highlands
This gracious 1835 hotel is a fascinating old building: a tunnel (now blocked) runs beneath the street to the old jail; it was purportedly used to…
The East Coast
Kitted-out well for visiting mountain bikers, this modest two-bedroom weatherboard cottage sits behind a big camellia bush at the northern end of town and…
The East Coast
This roomy self-contained, white weatherboard cottage is on the main street, about 1km from the pulsating commercial heart of Scottsdale. There are two…
The East Coast
This noble house on the hill above Swansea has been a B&B for 100 years – plenty of time to perfect the formula! Book a room inside the 1853 house (open…
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…
Hobart
Built in 1917 for the Palfreymans, a haughty Hobart merchant family, this self-assured, National Trust–listed mansion features beautiful gardens (perfect…
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…
The East Coast
Anabel’s is a National Trust–classified home with accommodation in a wing of motel-style units (some with cooking facilities) off to one side. They're a…
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…
Tasmania
On the road to Leven Canyon, this lodge is known for its garden (entrance $5), an ambitious project incorporating a Zen garden, pear walk, wisteria…
The East Coast
Wrapping itself underneath and behind Derby's post office, Postmasters Lodge is stylishly renovated cottage accommodation (three bedrooms, sleeping up to…
The Southeast
A trad, upstanding B&B with welcoming hosts, river views, a petal-filled garden and twittering birds – all rather English, really. Donalea has two bright…
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…
The East Coast
Strung out for 1.3km along the foreshore, this must be Tasmania’s longest caravan park. It's a basic set-up for campers, but there are BBQs, a kids’…
The East Coast
A scatter of architecturally quirky, roll-roofed chalets in wildlife-rich bushland a few kilometres south of town, close to the sea. Tune your ears into…
Launceston
BIG4 is the closest camping to the city centre – about 2.5km to the south – but it's right on the highway and is pretty noisy. The new self-contained…
Tasmania
A mini-settlement in the centre of town, these six self-contained cottages are dowdy, but offer clean and comfortable accommodation. Sleeping between two…
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…
The East Coast
Breathing new life into the former Branxholm Primary School, this budget lodge is set up well for mountain bikers, with bunks for up to 12 people, bike…
Tasman Peninsula & Port Arthur
This place has tidy self-contained units sleeping up to five, horseshoeing around the garden and outdoor barbecue area. Externally it’s all faux-Victorian…
Launceston
Its claim to boutique status doesn't really bear scrutiny, but this option just a short (uphill) walk from the centre of town is worth considering for its…
Tasmania
The nanna-style decor won't please everyone (warning: there's carpet in the bathrooms), but these cottages in the pretty garden of a handsome 1835 house…
Southport Hotel & Caravan Park
The Southeast
This sprawling, faux-colonial pub, general store, petrol station and caravan park is Southport's cultural and commercial core. The weary can bunk down for…
Launceston
Sporties (Sportsmans Hall Hotel) is a bit of a local institution. The 10 upstairs rooms have decent beds and TV; three have en suites and others have…
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…
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…
The East Coast
Lords has been lording it over Scottsdale since 1911 and still pulls in the punters for hefty pub meals (mains $14 to $33). Upstairs are 15 basic pub…
Hobart
Plush, high-ceilinged heritage rooms and continental breakfasts are the order of the day at this central, well-groomed, Regency-style guesthouse. Enough…
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,…
Bruny Island
Across the road from the beach in Adventure Bay, this park could do with a few trees but has decent facilities, including some swish one-bedroom cabins…
The East Coast
This low-slung, highway-side, red-brick tavern has a few motel rooms out the back (25 of them, to be precise, each with an Aboriginal name: Waddy,…
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…
