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Standard Ensuite room (Sgl/Dbl/Twn) – get it while it is HOT! Use ‘DiscoverTas Holiday Deal’ as promo code. Smithton is an ideal base to tour around the North West of Tassie.
Discover Tasmania’s beautiful Autumn … when Autumn leaves fall so do our package prices! 5 Nights, includes entry for 2 to MONA.
Luxury apartments $320
Seaview Rooms $145 and
Standard Rooms from $110.
Join a lantern-lit walking tour to experience the Port Arthur Historic Site by night. It is a very different place after sunset, full of mystery and intrigue.
Robert Pennicott’s original and multi-award winning Bruny Island Cruise. Travel up close to high sea cliffs, coastal landforms and abundant sea and coastal wildlife.
Join Robert Pennicott’s legendary team for an award winning cruise from Port Arthur to Eaglehawk Neck. See spectacular sea cliffs, Tasman Island and sea and coastal wildlife.
Why not spoil yourself? Take $30 off Window and Captain’s Upper Deck tickets on this luxury, half day cruise where magnificent marine scenery will leave you spellbound.
Book a tour at Hollybank Treetops Adventure and you’ll receive a free photo from your journey! Simply mention this ad when booking.
As one of the 6 extremely lucky winners of the 3 night Tasmania Wilderness escape last weekend thanks to Discover Tasmania and Jetstar and the lovely promoters of Discover Tasmania; Mark, Liza and Tim who were truly amazing and included everything possible to make our holiday catered for in 5 star quality, I would like [...]
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While being serenaded by Jo Stafford’s rendition of “Autumn Leaves“, you will arrive at Fentonbury, approximately 72 kilkometers west of Hobart. If you travel well along the B61 Gordon River Road and ignore the turn to Gordon Lake, (accidentally traveling straight along the C608 Ellendale Road), you to find yourself joining with the A10 Lyell [...]
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My sister and her husband retired to Somerset in the late 90′s. I had been to Tasmania on three occasions prior to this. The first with a school excursion from Victoria in the 50′s, when we travelled by ferry and bus, visiting Hobart and Port Arthur. The second in the 70′s with a group of fellow teachers. [...]
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It was only fitting that as I made my way south towards Port Arthur, that the sky began to take on a very ominous feel, with slate grey clouds swirling above me in every direction that I looked. Port Arthur is one of the cornerstones of Tasmanian history if not all of Australian history. It [...]
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With some spare time on my annual leave I decided to pack up my most beloved camera and head off to the West Coast. Leaving from Devonport I travelled through Burnie before heading south on the Murchinson Highway, my destination for the week was Granville Harbour. I had arranged to rent a private shack there [...]
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Short distances on great roads with little traffic (I live in Sydney!) allowed me the time, space and rare pleasure of being able to indulge my photographer’s eye (alas with just an i-phone) from a fun perspective. Just pick a theme. It was soon clear there was plenty of Tasmanian wildlife willing to pose. These [...]
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Eighty-four kilometres north of the beautiful port city of Hobart or a leisurely two and a half hours drive from Devonport, you will come to Oatlands. Approaching Oatlands from either direction on the A 1, you may spy the windmill of the Oatlands Flour Mill. This pinnacle of pioneering success was erected by John Vincent [...]
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As a professional Photographer who travels to Tasmania frequently for Landscape and Wedding Photography, I never get tired of the scenery. It just gets better and better each time I visit. To all the people that want to try something different, try Tasmania. You will not regret it. Instead you will find travelling there addictive. [...]
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Being a professional photographer with a background within the Travel and Tourism industry I often find it hard to be impressed by the wonders that life throws at me … until I visited Tasmania in January 2011. I often find myself limited by windy weather and rainy conditions and after having read all literature available [...]
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The first leg of the trip was an uneventful, though always interesting, journey across the top of the Island to Burnie, where we turned south on the road heading for Strahan. At Tullah we cracked the thermos open for a welcome coffee, and had a quick look at the ‘Wee Georgie Wood’ steam train attraction, [...]
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