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10 Day Tour | Discover Tasmania | 2024

Hobart - Cradle Mountain - Launceston - Port Arthur

Enjoy 9 Nights of Premium Accommodation

Comfortable coach transport with experienced Travel Director and Driver Guide

A range of included meals, including a lunch cruise on the Gordon River

Guided city tours, nature walks and a range of local experiences

Entry, tour & cruise in Port Arthur and much more!

From $4,099 Typically $4,799 pp Twin Share

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There’s little of the Apple Isle you won’t experience on this full tour of Tasmania. Now Available to book for 2024!

This is an experience spanning Tasmania’s charming cities, World Heritage-listed sites and humbling wilderness – much of it (the Tarkine, Cradle Mountain, Gordon River) along the wild West Coast.

When you’re not gazing over Australia’s best beaches in the east (Wineglass Bay regularly takes the honour), opportunities abound to indulge in regional produce – whiskey, wine, or oysters. It's time to take off - to Tassie!

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Itinerary Downloadable Itinerary


Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10

Day 1

Hobart

The Tasmanian capital of Hobart may be small in size, but it’s big in attractions, as you’ll discover this afternoon. Put your destination into perspective from the summit of Mt. Nelson, offering endless vistas over Australia’s southernmost city. View the charming Georgian cottages of Battery Point and explore the streets and convict-built warehouses along Salamanca Place, the backdrop of epic Saturday markets. Gaze over boats at Constitution Dock - this is where yachts finish when competing in the annual Sydney to Hobart race, and take a stroll in the second oldest Botanical Gardens in Australia with its amazing collection of plants from around the world. Tonight, join your Travel Director for a Welcome Dinner.

Accommodation: Best Western Hobart

Meals: Dinner

Day 2

Hobart Strahan

Western Tasmania is like nature amplified, a place where the wilderness rules and people are few and far between. Visiting Mount Field National Park is a humbling experience, not only for the fact it’s part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, but also because it’s home to some of the tallest eucalypts and flowering plants on Earth. Wander amid these giants to reach Russell Falls – take a deep breath; you’re officially on holiday. Records continue to be broken at Lake St. Clair, the deepest freshwater Lake in Australia, before you arrive in Strahan, gateway to World Heritage listed Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.

Accommodation: Strahan Village

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Day 3

Strahan

The inky waters of the Gordon River – given its colour by amber button-grass tannins – are as eery as they are beautiful, the mirror-like surface only broken by your Gordon River chariot as you cruise through Hells Gates, the treacherous entrance to the harbour before returning to Sarah Island. It’s hard to reconcile the beauty of this part of the state with its grim history as a penal colony; a place where convicts would fell Huon pines for boat building. Disembark at Heritage Landing to view one of these 500-year-old majestic trees. Safely back on dry land, it's soon time to discover 'The Ship That Never Was', the dramatic and hilarious true story of the Great Escape from Sarah Island! You'll see it performed live by a group of theatre professionals.

Accommodation: Strahan Village

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 4

Strahan Cradle Mountain Burnie

Today your journey reaches new heights – quite literally with a visit to the 1,545-metre Cradle Mountain, your backdrop as you explore Dove Lake on your Cradle Mountain tour, the wild alpine moorlands here a natural magnet for lovers of the wilderness. The spectacular and pristine wilderness of Cradle Mountain is home to the mysterious and secretive Tasmanian Devil. You’ll love the next adventure today, a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience. A Day Keeper at Devils @ Cradle will lead you through the sanctuary and provide you with a thorough insight into its operation. When joining this tour you will be directly supporting these animals and threatened species conservation. Leave the Central Highlands after an uplifting day and head towards the scenic north-west coast for your overnight stay.

Accommodation: Beachfront Voyager Motor Inn

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Day 5

Burnie  Launceston

Table Cape is by far Wynyard's most remarkable natural wonder, at 180 metres high, 'The Cape' - as locals refer to it - offers spectacular views of Tasmania's coastline. As you drive to the top of the remains of a 12-million-year-old volcano you'll reach Table Cape lookout where, on a clear day, you can see mountain ranges over 175 kilometres away. If there’s a town with a cuter name than Penguin, we’re yet to find it. Locals embrace its appeal – there are penguin sculptures at every turn, including one measuring over 3 metres tall. Your journey along the northwest coast also passes through Ulverstone and Sheffield, The Town of Murals, boasting over 100 large paintings depicting the area’s rich history and local characters. All this exploring builds an appetite. Refuel at Ashgrove Tasmanian Farm, where happy cows contribute to award-winning cheeses – everything from cheddar and red Leicester to creamy Tasmanian blue.

Accommodation: Best Western Plus Launceston

Meals: Breakfast

Day 6

Launceston

There are few places in the world where you can leave the city behind and within minutes be amid an immense wilderness area. Launceston is one. Blink and you’re at Cataract Gorge, a yawning chasm carved by ancient rivers. This rare natural phenomenon unites bushland with neat Victorian gardens, replete with ferns and exotic plants. Get a different perspective of the green cavern on the optional scenic chairlift, zipping you over the water to a lofty lookout. We wouldn’t blame you for lingering here, or perhaps sample more of Tassie’s finest fare on a Tamar Valley winery tour. The choice is yours.

Accommodation: Best Western Plus Launceston

Meals: Breakfast

Day 7

Launceston Bicheno

You’ll smell Bridestowe before you see it, this enormous lavender farm perfuming the Tasmanian countryside. The flowers grown here aren’t just used in fragrances – they’re also infused into ice-cream, teas and jams. It’s a tasty entrée to the Legerwood Carved Memorial Trees, sculpted into World War One soldiers. Little penguins come out to play in Bicheno; sign up to spot them after dark as they waddle to shore from the water.

Accommodation: Beachfront at Bicheno

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 8

Bicheno Hobart

The colours at Freycinet National Park are so vivid you’ll think someone has taken the glasses off your nose and cleaned them for the first time: The patchwork of ocean blues that lap Coles and Wineglass bays. The dramatic pink granite cliffs. There’s a reason why the peninsula stars on postcards. The other place on postcards is Richmond, its grand 1820s Georgian buildings today home to bijou boutiques, galleries and cafés that appear to be lost in time.

Accommodation: Best Western Hobart

Meals: Breakfast

Day 9

Hobart Port Arthur Hobart

The Isle of the Dead, Devil’s Kitchen, Blowhole… the attractions at and around Port Arthur nod to the region’s notoriously grim history. This is the best-preserved convict site in Australia, and among the most significant convict-era destinations worldwide. The stories these walls could tell.

Accommodation: Best Western Hobart

Meals: Breakfast, Farewell Dinner

 

Day 10

Hobart

Your holiday concludes this morning after breakfast.

Meals: Breakfast

Want to stay longer, or add on another day trip? Get in touch!

Inclusions & Exclusions


Inclusions

  • Specialist team of two: highly experienced Travel Director and Driver Guide
  • Local Specialists (Guides)
  • Centrally located premium hotels
  • 9 Full Breakfasts, 5 Dinners (plus 1 Farewell Dinner)
  • Lunch cruise on the Gordon River
  • Guided walk in Cradle Mountain
  • Visit Cataract Gorge
  • Bridestowe Lavender Estate stop
  • Guided walk through Freycinet National Park
  • Entry, guided tour and cruise at Port Arthur Historic Site
  • City tours in Hobart and Launceston

Accommodation:

  • Best Western Hobart
  • Strahan Village
  • Beachfront Voyager Motor Inn
  • Best Western Plus Launceston
  • Beachfront at Bicheno

Exclusions

  • Flights
  • Items of a personal nature
  • Travel Insurance
  • Tipping

Single supplement: $1430 is available at check-out.

Child policy: children are able to undergo this tour with a parent or guardian - contact us for discounted rates. 

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