Tasmania, take your bow — this has been your year. In a state defined by quality and calm, the best places to stay in Tasmania are up there with the world’s finest. Take, for example, The Tasman in Hobart, which has featured on The World’s Best 50 Hotels. Or Saffire Freycinet, which has been an international chart-topper since its 2010 start. You get the idea — for such a small island, there is no shortage of luxury hotels in Tasmania.
From the rugged north where tiny Stillwater Seven stands proudly as an independent passion project to the pristine east coast with its pinots and Piermont Retreat, Tasmania accommodation adopts an embraceable form.
As always, the bush walking is still epic and the air still crisp, but Tasmania now welcomes a crowd that comes for eating and drinking, too. If that describes you, here are the best luxury Tasmania hotels to book.
GT‘s top picks for Tasmania Hotels in 2025
- Best luxury hotel in the heart of Hobart: The Tasman
- Best luxury lodge experience: Saffire Freycinet
- Best boutique stay for Launceston dining: Stillwater Seven
- Best Tasmania hotel for ultimate seclusion: Kittawa Lodge
- Best new Tasmanian guesthouse: Vipp Tunnel
The Tasman
Notable awards: Number 49 in The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2024 and the current Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide
Australia’s only outpost of Marriott’s Luxury Collection brand, The Tasman, opened in December 2021 and sets a dazzling standard in Hobart’s beating heart. A total of 152 rooms and suites, some with baths and some with working fireplaces, are all an exercise in express placemaking. Moo Brew and Lark Distillery fill the minibars and amenities from Beauty and the Bees and Grown Alchemist line the bathroom vanities while original Georgian-era vaulted doors retrace Hobart’s history. Downstairs, chef Massimo Mele serves exceptional Italian at Peppina.
Address: 12 Murray St, Hobart, Tasmania
Saffire Freycinet
Notable award: TripAdvisor 2025 Traveller’s Choice Award – Best of the Best
Launched in 2010, Saffire Freycinet is already an icon. The monumental architecture by Robert Morris-Nunn and his partner Peter Walker meets a national park setting so stunning, it feels AI-generated (hello Wineglass Bay). Go anywhere great on the east coast and you’ll be informed about the chef, sommelier, baker or host trained at this bar-raising lodge. Dining is led by Toby Raley (The Fat Duck and Quay), who calls on Tasmania’s waters and paddocks and Saffire’s own kitchen garden. Accommodation in the 16 suites and four private pavilions is all-inclusive and all-premium, which stretches to the artisanal treats in the minibar and drinks in the lounge.
Address: 2352 Coles Bay Rd, Coles Bay, Tasmania
Stillwater Seven
Notable awards: 2020 Paul Davis Hotel Design Award and the current Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide
There are just seven rooms at Stillwater. Seven sublimely appointed, luxuriously tended to rooms. Each one upholds the quality experienced in chef-owner Craig Will’s dining room, Stillwater Restaurant. This, of course, would be the first reason to stay. Book into this restored 1830s flour mill to turn a stellar meal into a stellar night. Framed by stone walls, timber beams, and Tamar River views, time in the room is wound right down thanks to an in-room locavore breakfast and a minibar filled with Tasmanian delights. Or kick back in the lounge where premixed cocktails and a parade of treats from the kitchen abound. And if you’re travelling with your beloved pet, Room Seven has a dog-friendly courtyard.
Address: 2 Bridge Rd, Launceston, Tasmania
Credit: Adam Gibson
MACq01 Hotel
Notable award;: TripAdvisor 2025 Traveller’s Choice Award – Best of the Best
The contemporary monument that is the MACq 01 Hotel, which opened in 2017, is sited on an 1820s causeway by the original IXL Jam factory (now Henry Jones Art Hotel). This is a modern hotel that embraces the history on which it was built. Coming inside, the story begins at Evolve Spirits Bar, where bartenders pour fine whiskies and inventive cocktails, surrounded by fossils and artefacts. Then, in the lounge, around a roaring fire, Hobart’s Indigenous history unfolds amid art and design by descendants of the first Tasmanians. Keep moving to the Old Wharf Restaurant to take in found objects from Hobart’s industrial era, many dug up on-site. At The Story Bar, old newspapers share headlines from the 20th century in a tribute to Tasmania’s egalitarian watering holes. The guest accommodation is just as expressive. Every door to the 114 rooms exhibits one of Hobart’s unique characters, each with a story to tell. The rooms are all kitted out with robes, games and a minibar of Tasmanian treats. Still, upgrading to the Premium Waterfront Suites with rooftop terraces and pinch-me views is worth the splurge.
Address: 18 Hunter St, Hobart, Tasmania
Kittawa Lodge
Notable award: Condé Nast Traveller’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2024
On 96 acres along the rugged coastline of Tasmania’s King Island, chic lodges sit separately but together in quiet, perspective-shifting luxury. Kittawa Lodge originally opened in 2019 with two one-bedroom lodges, catering to couples seeking a wild escape. Now, it’s expanding its accommodation offering to larger groups by welcoming a new two-bedroom retreat to its stable.
In keeping with its smaller siblings, the new Kittawa Retreat boasts sweeping coastal views across the Bass Strait from every angle. The open-plan living and dining area is centred around wood-burning fireplace and cosy lounges, while the bathrooms feature oversized sculptural tubs with horizon views. Luxurious king beds are dressed in fine linens, with the option for twin beds in the second bedroom. Meanwhile, an outdoor cedar hot tub and cellar room stocked with fine wines and cocktails are also exclusive to the new structure.
GT tip: If this prospect already sounds like heaven, ready yourself for regular takeovers where a top chef takes up residence to cook private dinners for Kittawa Lodge guests. This year, Rosheen Kaul and Stephen Nairn will grace the Kittawa kitchen for three days in May–June and July–August, respectively. Outside of these takeovers, couples who like to cook together will bond over gourmet provisions. Baked treats and picnics can also be enjoyed at each guest’s fancy – by a secluded beach, on a grassy knoll, or in front of a roaring fire.
Address: 1272 South Rd, Pearshape, King Island, Tasmania
Pumphouse Point
Notable award: 2016 Gourmet Traveller Regional Hotel of the Year
Ever dreamt of a night suspended over a lake, with stillness all around? Are you inspired by the postcard-worthy shots from this divine stay? Us too. The place to experience such quiet luxury in Tasmania is Pumphouse Point, an adults-only retreat on Lake St Clair with 19 rooms within a reclaimed 1930s Hydro-Electric station. The hotel spans two iconic industrial buildings: The Pumphouse, over the water, and The Shorehouse, over the land. Days at this luxury Tasmania hotel are spent riding e-bikes and rowing boats. Then, perhaps, a visit to one of the help-yourself bars before settling in for a farm-to-table affair over shared tables in the Shorehouse dining room.
Address: 1 Lake St Clair Rd, Lake St Clair, Tasmania
Piermont Retreat
Notable award: 2024 Tasmanian Tourism Awards – Best Self-Contained Accommodation – Silver
In Swansea, on its own scallop of Great Oyster Bay, Piermont Retreat is the home of rugged luxury. Accommodation runs the gamut from rammed earth one-bedroom cottages to architectural three-bedroom pavilions, all with log fires and the kind of interiors you can’t help but take photos of. The tennis court, pool and bicycles keep groups occupied while Homestead Restaurant (on-site) offers up some on the best Mediterranean dining on the coast.
Address: 12990 Tasman Hwy, Swansea, Tasmania
Vipp Tunnel
A slice of Danish design has landed on Tasmania’s Bruny Island, with Danish studio Vipp taking to the rugged Australian isle. The brand’s newest guesthouse merges architecturally daring design and sustainable building practices with a cantilevered dwelling that is both at one with its natural surroundings yet bold in its form. Beauty and brutalism are in balance with the quarters designed by Hobart-based studio, Room11, filled with furniture pieces by Vipp and outdoor sculptures by Danish artist Lin Utzon. While not technically a hotel, the secluded stay is open to the public to book exclusively and sleeps two, and includes a fully furnished kitchen and study. Dubbed the Vipp Tunnel, it joins the brand’s other residences in unique destinations including Todos Santos in Mexico, Puglia in Italy and Lake Immeln in southern Sweden.
Address: Apollo Bay, Bruny Island, Tasmania
While Tasmania sees its peak with the summer crowds, autumn is a particularly scenic time of year to visit the Apple Isle. Glorious autumn colours, crisp mountain air and cooler temperatures make March and April a great time for tackling many of the state’s hiking trails, including walks at Cradle Mountain and Freycinet National Park. Plus, April boasts many Tasmanian food-fuelled festivals worth checking out, including the Tasmanian Autumn Festival and TrailGraze.
In winter, however, Tasmania revels in its off season — fewer crowds, excellent whale watching, cosy dining experiences and, of course, Hobart’s annual winter arts festival Dark Mofo.
For those who prefer warmer climates, spring brings wildflowers, wildlife watching and a few more food festivals; while summer benefits from longer days (up to 16 hours of daylight in December), sunny beach activities and, in February, the least amount of rainfall for those planning an outdoor-centric holiday.
Tasmania is known for its pristine and rugged landscapes, stretching across the entire state. From the crystal-clear waters and pink granite mountains of Wineglass Bay in Tasmania’s east to heading west to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Cradle Mountain in Lake St Claire National Park to the lush rolling hills of Tamar Valley in the north, Tasmania is abundant in beauty. We recommend choosing a region based on your intended holiday, or taking a couple of weeks to tour around the island to see it in all its glory.
