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The heart-shaped island of Tasmania is a place of lush valleys, peaceful towns and isolated coastlines. It is also blessed with fine country hotels and lodges where you can enjoy a home-from-home stay in a friendly atmosphere.Peppers Calstock is set ... More

The heart-shaped island of Tasmania is a place of lush valleys, peaceful towns and isolated coastlines. It is also blessed with fine country hotels and lodges where you can enjoy a home-from-home stay in a friendly atmosphere.

Peppers Calstock is set within two hundred acres of private grounds, and is an exclusive retreat offering elegant boutique accommodation to groups and individuals wishing to revel in the best on offer in North West Tasmania. Just forty five minutes from Launceston, Peppers Calstock has seven rooms and two suites decorated in the Provencal style. Take a decadent picnic with you for the day on your return you can enjoy a delicious seasonal menu accompanied by an extensive wine list.

Set in a spectacular waterfront location just inside Freycinet National Park, Freycinet Lodge is the perfect place from which to explore the Freycinet peninsula. Employing a delicate eco-footprint, the lodge with its stylish yet simple wooden cabins are living proof that being with nature means neither roughing it, nor destroying what you have come to see. You need look no further for a place in which rejuvenate and relax.

Islington Hotel Tasmania is a small five star guesthouse in Hobart built in 1847. Restored to its former glory but also updated to modern standards of luxury, the Islington Hotel maintains country simplicity by serving breakfast around an antique table in the kitchen. There are five original bedrooms and six garden rooms, all with heated granite floors, deep Italian baths and separate showers if you are looking for a friendly upmarket guesthouse in Hobart then you need look no further.

The Tasmanian locals are almost proud that time has semi-passed their island by. This is reflected in their hotels, lodged and guesthouses where tradition is preserved, and only eco-friendly development approved.