Must-see hotels in The East Coast

  • BIG4 St Helens Holiday Park

    The East Coast

    Rolled across a green hillside 1.5km south of town, this park has plenty of family-centric amenities (games room with cinema, jumping pillow, playground)…

  • Piermont

    The East Coast

    Down a hawthorn-hedged driveway, 4km south of Swansea, these 21 stylish stone cabins fan out from an old farmhouse close to the sea and beside a lagoon…

  • Schouten House

    The East Coast

    This brick-and-sandstone 1844 mansion was built by convicts, and was the centre of 'Great Swanport' before the action shifted a little further north…

  • Saffire Freycinet

    The East Coast

    Tasmanian travel glamour lives here. This architectural, gastronomic and wallet-slimming marvel has 20 luxe suites, with the curvaceous main building…

  • Beach Path House

    The East Coast

    Painted cream and navy, this mid-century beach shack has been reborn as a contemporary holiday house, with three bedrooms, an open fire and a little deck…

  • Avalon Coastal Retreat

    The East Coast

    What a beauty! Like something out of a James Bond movie – all glass and steel and endless ocean views – this is possibly the most luxurious beach house in…

  • Wineglass Bay Camp Site

    The East Coast

    Excellent free camping at the southern end of Wineglass Bay (keep it hush-hush, or everyone will be here). It's a long trudge along the beach sand,…

  • Rocky Hills Retreat

    The East Coast

    About 15km south of Swansea, this architect-designed hideaway overlooking Oyster Bay bills itself as having mastered the 'gentle art of light'. It’s 2km…

  • Kingfisher Cottage

    The East Coast

    Not gregarious, not making a statement, not flashy or pretentious – just the perfect little beach house in a primo location, right in the sandy heart of…

  • Freycinet Lodge

    The East Coast

    Pioneering Freycinet Lodge is in an amazing location, completely surrounded by the national park at the end of Richardsons Beach. (We doubt the planners…

  • Tin Dragon Trail Cottages

    The East Coast

    These five neat, sustainably built cottages sit near the Ringarooma River on a property that has an interesting story to tell from the Chinese mining past…

  • Darlington Camp Site

    The East Coast

    Grassy unpowered sites behind the dunes of Darlington beach. The camp shelter has gas barbecues and a fireplace, and there are toilets and showers ($1)…

  • Weldborough Hotel

    The East Coast

    This remote and characterful 1876 pub – it basically is the township of Weldborough – has basic rooms, but its true treats are the park-like camping area …

  • Hamptons on the Bay

    The East Coast

    This former Japanese restaurant complex has been reborn as tasteful clifftop cabin accommodation, with black-painted floorboards, top-of-the-line beds and…

  • Swansea Backpackers

    The East Coast

    This hip backpackers was the first in Tasmania to introduce capsules (rather than bunk beds) to its dorm. It has smart, spacious public areas, and the…

  • Freycinet Retreat

    The East Coast

    Beat a retreat up Mt Paul, north of Coles Bay, where two carefully crafted ecolodges offer super peninsula vistas, and resident wildlife are your only…

  • Aurora Beach Cottage

    The East Coast

    For total seclusion, marvellous Aurora Beach Cottage is a great option. It's a timber-and-stone house 18km north of Bicheno at Seymour, set in the dunes…

  • West End Beach House

    The East Coast

    Architect-designed to have a minimal environmental footprint, this fabulous, roll-roofed holiday house en route to Mt Tanner has a very Australian vibe:…

  • Bay of Fires Bush Retreat

    The East Coast

    On the outskirts of town, near the turn-off to the Gardens, this rustic, hippy-goes-boutique bush-camping retreat involves interesting 'bell tents' with…

  • Sanda House

    The East Coast

    A colonial B&B in Orford’s oldest house, a photogenic 1840s stone cottage (actually, some sections date back to 1825!) surrounded by lovingly tended…

  • Pelican Sands

    The East Coast

    If you want to stay on the waterfront, you can’t get much closer than this. The six compact, motel-style, self-contained units here have been tastefully…

  • Arthouse Bay of Fires

    The East Coast

    Lasso some like-minded amigos and book this architect-designed beach house, with polished floorboards, granite bench tops and a wide curvy deck backed by…

  • Redcliffe House

    The East Coast

    This restored, two-storey convict-built farmhouse (1835) is just north of Swansea, backing onto the Meredith River. The five guest rooms have various…

  • Scamander Sanctuary Holiday Park

    The East Coast

    Just south of Scamander township behind the beach is this affable caravan park, with 20 hectares of wild dune and bush landscape. Sleeping options include…

  • Beaumaris Beach Pad

    The East Coast

    This new, two-bedroom beach house is architecturally excellent, with dapper grey vertical weatherboards, lots of glass, a broad deck and a stylish…

  • Willow Lodge

    The East Coast

    This endearing Federation-era (1881) B&B is presented with absolute attention to detail. Two bright, colourful rooms overlook garden blooms, and the…

  • Eagle Peaks

    The East Coast

    These two beautiful Tasmanian-oak and rammed-earth studios are 4km north of Coles Bay. Each unit has its own kitchenette, timber deck and comfortable king…

  • Addlestone House

    The East Coast

    This immaculate, 100-year-old B&B (transported here a while ago from nearby Mathinna) is an excellent option. Two guest rooms are beautifully decorated (a…

  • The French House

    The East Coast

    About 4km from St Helens, this B&B, built in the 1980s by a Frenchman homesick for his country home, exudes Gallic charm. Upstairs are four compact en…

  • Freyscape

    The East Coast

    Very nice. Very nice indeed. Freyscape is a fancy new guest at the Coles Bay accommodation party – an utterly contemporary three-bedroom house (sleeps up…

  • Beulah

    The East Coast

    This appealing 1878 home has three rooms decked out in tolerable heritage style. Ease into a chair by the fire in the guest lounge, sip a complimentary…

  • Bicheno Backpackers

    The East Coast

    This congenial backpackers has dorms spread across two mural-painted buildings, plus a 12-berth self-contained house nearby, set up as six doubles. Room 5…

  • Bicheno by the Bay

    The East Coast

    There are 20 cabins and five motel rooms in a bushy setting here, the biggest sleeping 10. The A-frame sea-view cabins are the pick of the bunch…

  • Artnor Lodge

    The East Coast

    Just off St Helens' leafy main street, this neat, understated, peaceful little motel complex extends from the back of a 1940s house. Clean budget rooms…

  • Freycinet Rentals

    The East Coast

    Your hub for renting (mostly older-style) holiday houses and beach ‘shacks’ in and around Coles Bay. Prices swing wildly between summer and winter, and…

  • At the Bay

    The East Coast

    Yes, it is at the bay. Almost in it, in fact, sitting above Jetty Rd abut 50m from the water. At the Bay is a slick, renovated holiday house with a pink…

  • Wagner's Cottages

    The East Coast

    Wagner's Cottages entails four stone cottages in cottage gardens a couple of kilometres south of town. Cottagey, yes, but they're characterful and…

  • Bed in the Treetops B&B

    The East Coast

    Some 7km out of St Helens en route to Binalong Bay, take the (steep) drive up and up through the trees to reach this secluded, stylish timber home. There…

  • Freycinet Sanctuary

    The East Coast

    These two hillside holiday houses – one with two bedrooms, the other with one – are just how Australian beach shacks should be: simple, unpretentious,…

  • Beachfront Bicheno

    The East Coast

    There are renovated ocean-facing rooms with balconies and snazzy bathrooms here, and ranks of view-free rooms out-the-back (the ones by the pool are…