The East Coast
In a quiet spot beside the Brid River, a short drive out of town, Platypus Park has a range of cottagey apartments and doubles, overseen by the friendly…
Must-see hotels in The East Coast
The East Coast
This sparkling B&B has two plush, stylish suites furnished and managed with vigorous attention to detail. Spot whales from the balcony, sink into a…
The East Coast
On a former concrete-mixing yard, this stylish new one-bedroom apartment is right in the middle of Whitemark, and – if you like your regional Tasmania…
The East Coast
Star Wars' Tatooine meets ecofriendly at this holiday home that looks like it was sculpted from white clay and filled with designer furniture. Just up the…
The East Coast
On the way into town from the south, Homelea is a bent-elbow of eight renovated '70s motel units (one- or two-bedroom). All have a kitchen, and are styled…
The East Coast
A snappy-looking group of seven tidy corrugated-iron-clad one- and two-bedroom units on the main street, each with a deck, bathroom, a small kitchen in…
The East Coast
These 20 chic, self-contained, grey-and-blue chalets are just steps from Jubilee Beach. The best ones have amazing 180-degree water vistas – high, wide…
The East Coast
This is about as close as holiday houses get to the national park. The elevated, ash-coloured, new(ish) four-bedroom house sits unobtrusively among the…
The East Coast
How sweet! The flashy, very 1980s-looking house out the front doesn't promise much, but there's a lovely little one bedroom cottage here too, with a neat…
The East Coast
This lovely little self-contained, steep-roofed bushland cottage is behind an arts retreat where people come to paint, think and pursue their muse. It's a…
The East Coast
Free camping on west-facing Hazards Beach, a short(ish) walk across the isthmus from Wineglass Bay. BYO everything; national park fees apply.
The East Coast
An array of nicely updated motel-style cabins, set amid native gardens and with wraparound decks looking out over Franklin Sound. The tavern restaurant …
The East Coast
Tucked behind Richardsons Beach, near the entrance to Freycinet, these camp sites are seriously popular. From late December to mid-February and at Easter,…
The East Coast
Away from the main holiday hubbub, right on the beach about 4km north of Coles Bay, this small resort dances to the beat of its own drum. It has keenly…
The East Coast
Darlington's brick penitentiary once housed the island’s convicts. These days it's simple accommodation, with mostly six-bunk rooms, shared bathrooms and…
The East Coast
Arcing along the dunes at Barnbougle golf course is a tightly spaced row of 22 self-contained timber cottages with little decks, sleeping up to four, plus…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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
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…
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…
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,…
The East Coast
On the tidal lagoon at Georges Bay, fronted by neat little box-hedge gardens, this rangy, corporate complex has 60 rather generic rooms and echoingly…
The East Coast
All timber floors, high ceilings, roofs shaped like rolling waves, and bright, nautical white interiors, this stylish hillside holiday house is a place to…
The East Coast
Dubiously famed for Priscilla, Princess of the Paddock, the beer-imbibing pig, the Pub in the Paddock is also worth a visit for its old-time country…
The East Coast
‘Seaview’ is correct: the coastal panoramas from this working beef and blueberry farm, 500m above sea level, are unbelievable! It's the kind of place you…
The East Coast
A neat, family-friendly park close to Schouten Beach. There’s not much space between cabins and no trees, but the new owners are sweeping the broom…
The East Coast
This large, contemporary, family-centric three-bedroom holiday house, on the quiet side of town near the blowhole, sits atop a web of steel support posts…
Bicheno East Coast Holiday Park
The East Coast
This trim, decent park with plenty of grass (not many trees) is right in the middle of town, and has BBQs, laundry facilities and a kids’ playground. The…
The East Coast
Free Freycinet camping on isolated, west-facing Cooks Beach, on the Freycinet Peninsula Circuit walk. BYO everything; national park fees apply. It's a 4½…
The East Coast
On the way out of town heading north, these deeply old-school, self-contained brick units (one with wheelchair access) are roomy and great value, if…
The East Coast
A homely, renovated 1940s place with three bedrooms (sleeping up to six), walking distance to the Lady Barron shops and pub, and with views across…
The East Coast
There’s accommodation upstairs at this 1910 pub in the middle of town; ask for one of the handsome, newly renovated rooms. It also does huge pub meals …
The East Coast
These simple, secluded cottages and the smart Beach House are 8km north of Bicheno in the dunes behind Denison Beach. All have BBQs and decks for admiring…
