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Hobart and Surrounds

Willie Smith’s Apple Farm’s annual Mid Winter Festival is a kind of mini Burning Man, with an effigy of Big Willie set alight.
Culture holidays

The cosiest destination in the world to visit in winter

Is the Apple Isle the cosiest place in the world to experience winter? Like good cider, the events are spiced up with a little bit of Tasmanian crazy.

  • by Lee Tulloch
The architects behind Marriott International's first Luxury Collection hotel in Australia have reinvented, beautifully and sensitively, a former hospital.
Hobart

Review: Perfect score for this unique Tasmanian hotel

This beautiful property celebrates its buildings' origins while cleverly incorporating the new and the luxurious.

  • by Trudi Jenkins
Artist Jeewan Suwel.
Hobart

Henry Jones Art Hotel artist-in-residence program: The Hobart hotel that takes art to heart

A Hobart hotel is making art its point of difference...

  • by Jim Darby
Created and performed by Nunami Sculthorpe-Green, takara nipaluna (walking Hobart) launched in February 2022.
Hobart

Indigenous tours in Tasmania: New walking tour offers First Nations perspective on Hobart

This 90-minute experience highlights and honours the place, presence and stories of First Nations people in a city that has historically excluded them.

  • by Elspeth Callender
Winemaker Nick Glaetzer has transformed an old ice factory on the edge of Hobart's CBD into Tasmania's first urban winery and tasting room.
Hobart

Hobart urban wineries: Cellar doors within the Tasmanian capital city

Tasmania is known for its fresh produce and its gourmet, farm-to-table eating. What's most surprising is that this from-the-source experience is also available in the middle of Hobart.

  • by Ben Groundwater
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MONA's High Tea for Two is the museum's new - and secretive - experience for women only.
Hobart

MONA Ladies Lounge high tea: Inside the secretive new, women-only experience

Secrets are hidden behind a jade-draped cube at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art.

  • by Catherine Marshall
MACq01 at the waterfront with the former Henry Jones industrial complex (now housing the Henry Jones Art Hotel) behind.
Hobart

MACq01 hotel review, Hobart, Tasmania: History in the making

With the mid-December opening of Hobart's Tasman, the highly-rated MACq01 has been presented with some serious competition.

  • by Jim Darby
What's behind the curtain? Only women who book for Mona's new high tea can find out.
Hobart

Mona's High Tea for Two in the women's only Ladies Lounge

''The guest of the Ladies Lounge feels completely indulged, showered with attention, champagne and beautiful food.''

  • by Julietta Jameson
Corinda is perched on the highest point in Glebe, within strolling distance of the CBD and Hobart's historic waterfront.
Hobart

Corinda, Hobart, Tasmania review: Time stands still at this historic Hobart hotel

Time stalls the minute you enter this historic sanctuary.

  • by Mark Daffey
The snug, snazzily decked-out lobby includes the reception, a small lounge with a thoughtfully-included fireplace.
Hobart

Vibe Hotel, Hobart review: A four-star hotel with all the smarts

The vibe around Hobart these days couldn't be better and this smart and affordable four-star hotel is only one part of the city's elan.

  • by Anthony Dennis

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