Fly to Hobart, Tasmania on a Friday afternoon or evening and pick up the rental car from the airport. We hired a brand new Volkswagen Golf Polo GTi2017edi and covered 1700 – 1800 kms over the stretch of the entire trip. We choose to spend the night in a motel for a throwaway price of $80 for the four of us. To be honest, it wasn’t so bad, motels in Hobart are really clean and come with great quality. Alternatively, you can find your accommodation through Airbnb or Hotelplanner.com.
Local transportation: we hired our car from Rentforless which is now Drive Car Hire and paid about $200 AUD for the entire trip. Which when split among the four of us was pretty cheap!
Travel expense to Tasmania as a round trip: Flight from Melbourne to Hobart and back to Melbourne From Launceston / Hobart (as a round trip) can cost you approximately around $ 150 – $ 200 (AUD)
Things we did in Hobart: No trip to Tasmania is complete if you don’t spend a day or an evening in Hobart, the harbor capital. We spent the evening driving through the pretty laneways. Visited squares of iconic Salamanca (if you’re here on a Saturday you will get to experience the Saturday markets, heaven for food lovers) and drove to the top of Mount Wellington where you get a breathtaking view of the city and sunset. You can get here head towards “Pinnacle road” and drive towards the summit to see spectacular views of the city. Then we headed back to Tavern 42 degrees south to dine with the sea views. We enjoyed a calm and blissful moonlight walk around the harbor. Then we went to our motel to fall asleep dreaming of what awaits the next day.
Things you can do in Hobart during the day:
Take a short walk to the award-winning Pennicott Wilderness journeys and catch an afternoon Derwent River cruise. It’s less than 3 hours sightseeing cruise which will allow you to take in Australia’s second oldest lighthouse, and see Betsy Island. This place is home to seabirds and you get to wave at their resident little penguins. If you have time, then you must visit the world’s most controversial museum – The Museum of Old & New Art.
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