Hello! Would love some advice/feedback on our itinerary below and anything we might be missing! We are a family of 4 (kids ages 12 and 15) and will be visiting Tasmania in July...we know it will be cold! Our kids enjoy walking so hoping to enjoy lots of the outdoors. Also if anyone has recommendations on Airbnbs or other accommodations would love to hear them! Flight there is not booked yet so I'm open to flying into Launceston if that makes sense.

Day 1 - Arrive in Hobart early morning, hire car and drive to Freycinet area
Sleep in Coles Bay area

Day 2-3 spend time in Freycinet area
Sleep in Coles Bay area

Day 4 - Maria Island
Sleep in Triabunna area

Day 5 - Tasman NP
Sleep nearby?

Day 6 - Port Arthur then drive to Hobart
sleep in Hobart

Day 7 - visit Bonorong then MONA - is this doable/recommended in one day or should we do Bonorong on our first day?

Thank you!!

Looking for a place in Tassie in early April to propose to my partner! Was thinking to do it in Freycinet but is there anywhere with a killer view we can get a great photo besides Mt Amos (not confident about the hike)? Thanks in advance!

Thought I'd give a summary of our 7 trip to Tasmania, plus some ideas to make it shorter/longer.. in case it's useful to anyone planning.

• Day 0 - Arrive in the evening, collect hire car and head to air bnb in Hobart.
• Day 1 - Bruny Island and Platypus walk. We enjoyed this as a nice way to start the holiday. We made it all the way to the lighthouse - great views. We loved the rainforest road through to adventure bay, where we spotted albino wallabies. Bread fridge was a highlight, as was cheese, beer and bread company - we wished we'd bought more of the relishes from there. Get shucked was my first time enjoying oysters! Back on the mainland we went to Platypus walk 30 mins before sunset and spotted a platypus which we followed for about 20 mins.
• Day 2 - MONA. The original plan was MONA followed by Bonorong, but we loved MONA so much we stayed there. We caught the boat and paid extra for the posh pit because why not? MONA was fabulous, the only issue we had was trying to push our return boat back, because we'd booked the posh pit there was limited availability. My advice would be to book the latest boat home and bring it earlier if you want, rather than the other way around. We ate the the Source which was amazing food. 100% recommend MONA, and I'm not usually an art/museum person!
• Day 3 - Salamanca markets and whale watching. Salamanca markets were fine - we were looking for gifts for people but if we weren't I'd have spent much less time there / missed it altogether. Our favourite food was the lobster sliders. Didn't spot the wallaby pies, but the curried scallop pies deserve an honourable mention. If you do miss this, you can get some of the same market stuff from the MONA ferry exit area. Whale watching was spectacular; I think we got lucky but I also cannot recommend Wild Ocean Tasmania enough, Dano was fantastic.
• Day 4 - Maria Island. Loved Maria Island, the wombats were special! We hired bikes and made it to the isthmus beach before making our way back up again. Loved the wildlife and the history of the island. I wish we could have stayed overnight there but we didn't have sleeping bags etc with us. Drove up to Freycinet to stay overnight there after.
• Day 5 - Freycinet, and Devils@Cradle. We did an ocean kayak tour which wasn't quite what we booked due to weather conditions, and was a little disappointing as the other people in the group were very slow. Then we legged it up to the wine glass bay lookout - very pretty! Then we drove to Cradle Mountain and did the evening devil and quoll feed tour which was super interesting - we really loved it.
• Day 6 - Summit hike Cradle Mountain. We started at Ronny's creek and went up via Marion's Lookout, then to the (almost) summit. We returned via the face trail and caught the bus back from the Dove Lake drop off. This was fantastic and highly recommend. We got lucky with the weather, but it started grim which meant we started later than planned and had written off the summit. We stopped at the false summit - there was a lot of icy looking snow in the saddle, and very windy conditions; we didn't feel prepared to go over, but even walking poles may have boosted our confidence. The views from the false summit were great though. The rest was snow free. Whole thing took us about 6.5 hours.
• Day 7 - Cradle valley hike, Trowunna wildlife sanctuary. I'd originally thought we'd do the Dove Lake circuit, but seeing as we'd seen a lot of that via the face trail, we were recommended the valley hike, which we started at Dove Lake and made our way back to the national park centre - it was a different hike to what we'd done the previous day, much easier! And differing landscapes and vegetation en-route. Then we went to Trowunna and caught one of their free tours, which included devil and quoll feeding. Loved all the animals, including some we hadn't spotted in the wild yet. Then we went to the ferry terminal for the evening boat to the mainland.

Logistics:

• We booked one way car hire from Hobart Airport to Devonport Airport, then we took a taxi to the ferry terminal.
• 4 nights in West Hobart in an air bnb, 1 night in Cole's Bay in the Big 4, 2 nights in Cradle Mountain Discovery Parks. Hobart we didn't need to be in the centre as we had a car, and the location of the Discovery Parks at Cradle Mountain almost couldn't be beaten.
• Mid October

Shorter / Longer:

• If I had to choose, I would personally choose Maria Island over Bruny, as I'm more into nature and being active etc. But if you're more of a foodie then Bruny is a good choice
• I think it would be possible to do Bonorung on the same day as MONA but I'd do Bonorung in the morning and drive from Bonorung to MONA, arriving at MONA around 11 or 11:30. Would mean you'd miss out on the boat though.
• We failed at getting Mount Wellington in - we were aiming for a sunset up there but didn't manage it
• Salamanca markets - consider skipping if shopping isn't your thing
• Maria Island - consider staying overnight if you can
• Freycinet - I think I'd have enjoyed a longer hike here; we'd made a decision around kayaking though. We possibly could have stayed longer and skipped Devils@Cradle / pushed it to another day.
• Cradle Mountain - you may be reliant on the weather so have contingency plans. The Cradle Mountain side of the park was actually smaller than I was expecting though, we seemed to cover a lot of it in our one day.
• Devils@Cradle vs Trowunna (or other nature parks). Devils@Cradle is just Devils and Quolls (and a wombat that we didn't see, and a free roaming pademelon). Trowunna was devils, quolls, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, various birds, potoroos, bettungs, echidnas... The free tour at Trowunna included devil feeding. The information at Devils@Cradle was much more in depth and just about Devils and quolls, and it was better set up for viewing the devils while they were eating. But if you've only got time for one then I'd say Trowunna offers most of what you get at Devils@Cradle and more.

My partner and I are heading down to Hobart for a week and we looking for food recommendations.

We are on a fairly tight budget but would like to splurge for one dinner at somewhere fancy and special.

Are there any restaurants in Hobart that do great seafood? Or just a good steak?

Any other cuisine recommendations welcome as well.

I'll be visiting Hobart in late January for 8 days (I'm from NSW). Please give me your best recommendations for things to do and places to visit!

And I'll definitely need a good coffee spot to try!

Thanks guys :)

Hi all, I'm visiting from California and looking forward to spending time on your island! I know 6 days is not nearly enough, but hey, I'll take it. :)

I'll be there late November to early December. Here's my current itinerary:

Wednesday

• Pick up bike in Launceston early
• Launceston -> Ben Lomond (specifically, checking out Jacob's ladder, maybe hang out a bit)
• Ben Lomond -> Freycinet
• Hang out on the beach and camp near Cole's bay

Thursday

• Cole's bay -> Port Arthur
• Port Arthur -> Hobart
• Hang out in Hobart, get a room somewhere

Friday

• Hobart -> Bruny Island
• Camp on Bruny island

Saturday

• Bruny Island -> Mole creek via A5
• Stay at Mole creek, check out the caverns

Sunday

• Mole creek -> Cradle Mountain
• Cradle Mountain -> Stanley

Monday

• Stanley -> Arthur River

• Arthur River -> Launceston

• Stay in/near Launceston for early departure tomorrow

How does this look? Am I trying to fit too much in?

Given that motorcycling is a primary motivation for this trip, I expect to spend a lot of time riding, but I also want to limit it to under ~250km a day so I can enjoy other things too. I'm pretty flexible in finding things ways to pass the time, so I first want to see if this is feasible or if I'm off. Thanks! :)

Hey! I'm visiting Tasmania next December and thinking about renting a car for the whole week!

But I'm on a budget, just thinking of renting a (relatively) very cheap one.

Do you recommend any agency/website/other unconventional way?

Thank you so much!

So much to do, so little time!!

How does this look for a Tassie itinerary?

• day 0 - arrive 7pm, stay in Hobart
• day 1 - Hobart, mt wellington, Bonorong
• day 2 - Bruny Island
• day 3 - whale watching, eagle hawk neck
• day 4 - Maria Island
• day 5 - wine glass bay and surrounding
• day 6 - bay of fires, travel to Launceston to stay overnight
• day 7 - flight out of Launceston in the morning

We love outdoors, wildlife, cheese.. would love to do cradle mountain but I think we've decided we'd be packing too much in. We'd need to do some rejigging of the earlier days to get MONA or Salamanca market in - would there be space for either of those on day 3? (Bearing in mind whale watching is 2-3 hours and would finish at 1 or 2pm I think). Or day 1 would need to be moved to day 3 to get the Salamanca market there (Salamanca market being a Saturday only?)

Is there anything we're missing or you'd recommend we do instead?

Day 0 is tomorrow so departure imminent 😂

Edit: possible tweaks to include cradle mountain:

• skip Maria island
• combine whale watching with Bruny or is there another day it could be combined with?
• skip bay of fires altogether?

(Dec 14) Day 1: Fly into Hobart in AM, check out Salamanca market and MONA. Dinner at Sonny

Day 2: Farm gate market, day trip to Bruney Island (check out Mt Wellington if time permits)

Day 3: Drive to Freycinet National Park. Stay in Coles Bay. Check out Wineglass bay. Visit a winery

Day 4: Cape Tourville lighthouse in AM. Drive to Bicheno and check out the area. Blowhole, Douglas Aspley NP. Visit a whisky distillery (Waubs Harbour) time permitting

Day 5: Drive to St Helens and Bay of Fires. Stay in St Helens

Day 6: Leave early and drive to Little Blue Lake and on to Floating Sauna. Then drive to Bridestowe Lavender and on to Launceston. Stay in Launceston

Day 7: Explore Tamar Valley wineries. See penguins at sunset

Day 8: Go to airport, return car. Fly home

Any thoughts/input would be appreciated!

Hello!

I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for camper van companies for a 4 night rental in mid-December. I'm also wondering if any companies provide bedding for rent or if they are included in the rentals, the companies I've looked at so far don't mention bedding and I don't want to bring sheets for such a short part of a 3.5 week trip.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I am getting married to the love of my life next year and I was wondering if anyone has any experience or recommendations for things to do on a 7day trip around Tasmania (this would be during winter).

I would appreciate any advice, even breath taking places you visited in longer or shorter trips :)

Thanks everyone!

Hello Everyone!

I was hoping to get some advice on my first solo trip to Tasmania around the end of this month. I wanted to know some tips and advice to make my trip smoother and exciting for me. Is tasmania easy to drive? Like the route and everything is good for a not really confident driving person. I know how to drive but it different side on my country and Tasmania it on the other side, so it abit tricky and I’m nervous.

Should I consider booking a tour instead? Or drive around myself? If I wanted to go cradle mountain, do hiking, soghtseeing, should I travel to Launceston or Hobart? Which place is easier to get to the attractions places?

Thank heaps.

its a bit dodge but my only way to get home from launceston is to bus. ive been looking it up but i was wondering if anyone would know what busses i would need to catch to get back to hobart or glenorchy and what money theyed take? thanks

Hi! I’m travelling to Tasmania this December for ~10 days.

Interests:

• I’d like to do things on a budget.
• I’m all into nature hikes and sightseeings - I’m an “intermediate-level” hiker but unfortunately it’ll be hard to take a tent with me (so I’m thinking about renting a car and sleeping on it - btw, is this illegal / frowned upon?)
• I like to meet locals who are willing to trade life stories and give further travel advice usually inaccessible to the typical tourist

What would you recommend? Travel hacks, safety tips, social hotspots, nature must-see sites, low-budget options… I would appreciate any kind of help in this regard.

I’m taking care of vaccines, health insurance and travel visa. Anything else I should prepare before hand (such as car rental)?

Thank you so much!

Hi everyone. My partner and I will be heading to Tassie in November. Neither of us have been, so don't really know what to expect. I was hoping that people could check over this Itinerary to see if it is appropriate/doable, and whether people had suggestions if not? Thanks!

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TLDR: Trying to get up Mt Wellington this morning/today, no car, but all busses sold out.

Hey all! Woke up to a cracking day, more snow on the mountain. Seems like the perfect day to go up Mt Wellington! We don't get our car till tomorrow and looks like all the explorer busses are sold out. Anyone have any suggestions? Otherwise hopefully will still be rad tomorrow.

Hi all, I’m visiting Tasmania next month and plan to visit Cradle Mountain. What is the shortest hike to the top in terms of time and distance? How high can we reach by car? Is it worth to allocate a full day for there? Thanks!

Hi All!

Need your advice on a 5-day Itinerary trip from Launceston to Hobart in about a week. We are a group of 7 and this is our first time going to Tasmania.

I admit we have been very ambitious with the itinerary, so might need eliminate some depend on the time and weather. Any tips or suggestions how we can make this trip the most of it? How is the road condition? And where can we find aurora?

We are also quite nervous about the weather, what can we prepare to survive the extreme 😅

Would appreciate any comments 🙏 thanks for your help ❤️

Also any suggestions on where to stay?

Hello, First time in Tasmania and wanting some suggestions of hikes and places to see and eat

Doing cradle mountain tomorrow, what are the best tracks?

Thank you

Off to Tas for a month in October. Through internet research, I have come across shuttle bus hours, passes, fares etc. I was hoping to see a daybreak/sunset at the mountain. How early/late can I be there (say at Dove lake) for a possible daybreak? I was hoping to drive there too, would it be feasible to drive there before the shuttle bus hours and then leave after? Cheers :)

Hi!

I will be travelling to Launceston next week, and plan on visiting the Tamar Island Wetlands via public transport. Based on Google maps, it is accessible via bus 780/788 (Manion's Coaches) from Launceston CBD. Understand from Manion's site that it is possible to pay via cash on the bus, if one does not have a TransportMe card. However, I wasn't able to find the exact cash amount I would have to pay online. Can someone please offer some advice on how cash payment can be made on buses serviced by Manion's, and if there's an exact amount I should prepare for the journey?

Thank you!

Hello all!

I will be heading to Cradle Mountain (CM) end of the month. As a solo female without a car, would it be safe to walk to and from my accommodation (~10min walk away from the CM visitor center) to the Devils@Cradle sanctuary after dark? A ~20-min walk is completely doable, but I'm not sure whether there are walking paths leading to the sanctuary, and whether it'd be safe to do them after dark (in terms of road safety etc), given that I've read that there are no streetlights in the area.

Sorry for the silly question, and thank you very much in advance!

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Our family are travelling in a campervan up the east coast in early January. Our preference would be the national park campsites. I noticed Freycinet has a ballot system (which it looks like we have missed) but most other camp sites don't do bookings. How busy does it get in early January, especially places like Bay of Fires? We are worried about rocking up and not being able to get a spot anywhere!

Hey everyone, so for a bit of context myself along with 3 mates will be returning to tasmania for another getaway (the first was so good we had to come back)

We are all 20/21 years old, our rough plan is to stay for 8-9 days

Day 1-3/4 will be in an airbnb in hobart

Day3/4-6 will be out hiking, no accomodation needed

Day 6-8 is where we are stuck, we want to get an airbnb but in a different part of the state for the last couple days, where would be a good area which has stuff to do and see?

We are into hiking, we love food, and enjoy awesome atmospheres/nightife (we thoroughly enjoyed launcestons saturday night vibe in pubs and bars when we were down in april)

What areas do you awesome people recommend for days 6-8?

Cheers!!!

Hi, I'm going to be coming down to Tassie end of August until mid September. I will be working in Burnie during the week but will be doing exploring on weekends. Staying an extra week so I can purely just explore Tassie without work getting in the way. Please give me advice on my itinerary. I've already booked accomodations but open to feedback on the activities I'm planning to do each day.

Need ideas on what to do Sunday 15th Sep in Hobart, and let me know whether it's worth driving to The Nut or if there are other places we should visit around the area. Also, what is the weather like around September? Thanks!

• Monday 26th to Friday 30th August in Burnie
• Saturday 31st August (staying in Bicheno)
  • Picking up partner from Launceston airport
  • Bay of fires
  • Binalong Bay
  • Drive to Bicheno
• Sunday 1st (staying in Burnie)
  • Explore Coles Bay/Freycinet early morning
  • Drive to Burnie accomodation
• Monday 2nd to Friday 6th September (staying in Burnie)
• Saturday 7th September (staying in Launceston)
  • Liffey Falls
  • Drive to Launceston
• Sunday 8th September
  • Cataract Gorge
  • Tamar Islands Wetlands
  • Partner leaving in the afternoon
  • Drive back to Burnie
• Monday 9th to Friday 13th September in Burnie
• Saturday 14th September (staying in Hobart by myself)
  • Driving from Burnie to Hobart in the early morning
  • Salamanca market
  • MONA (art gallery)
• Sunday 15th September (staying in Hobart)
  • Friend flying in around 1.20pm
  • Not sure what to do this day, any ideas??
• Monday 16th September (staying in Cradle Mountain)
  • Tasman peninsula early morning
    • Pirate’s Bay Lookout
    • Tessellated Pavement
    • Fossil Bay Walk Lookout
    • The Blowhole
    • Tasman Arch
    • Remarkable Cave
  • Drive to Cradle Mountain from Tasman Peninsula
• Tuesday 17th September (staying in Sheffield)
  • Cradle Mountain hikes all day
• Wednesday 18th September (staying in Devonport)
  • Stanley (The Nut) - drive there from Cradle Mountain (2.5 hour drive)
  • Drive to Devonport accomodation (1.5 hour drive)
• Thursday 19th September
  • Leaving from Devonport to Melbourne via Spirit of Tasmania

Hello, Tassies! I'm coming to visit your beautiful island this February for a solo trip and I'm looking to hike Mt. Wellington/kunanyi. I get a lot of varying results when I research hiking the mountain up and back. Some say three hours, some say seven, depending on my starting point... Is there a good starting spot that would get me to the summit and back in a day? I'll be staying in downtown Hobart so I'll either need to uber or ride my bike to a starting point but I'm flexible. Thanks for any pointers you can provide!

I am a surfer coming to Tasmania looking for a photographer. Does anyone know a local photographer to take photos this weekend?