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Day by Day in our Luxury Tasmanian Hotel

 

Running Woodbridge is not a walk in the park.

 

I have been, and continue to be, an avid fan of The Duchess of Duke Street and Upstairs, Downstairs and Pride & Prejudice and Country House Party and now, of course, Downton Abbey.  Yes, I am a ‘tragic’!

 

But I am also a realist, and so Fawlty Towers is Hospitality Training 101 for all staff.

I often say that running Woodbridge is a bit of a mix of all of the above, hopefully, less of the later, although we do have our moments!

Our Blog is a glimpse behind the scenes of the day to day running of Woodbridge.

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Tasmanian Accommodation and Travel – tough times

Tasmanian Accommodation and Travel still affected Tasmanian accommodation and travel providers and still doing it tough in a post-COVID world.   Guests staying at The Woodbridge have been commenting. Many Tasmanian accommodation and travel providers, and hospitality businesses seem to either be not operating. Or they are only operating limited hours.   They are right! […]

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Sustainable Luxury Travel – Hobart ticks the boxes

  Sustainable Luxury Travel – Hobart hotels are ticking the boxes   Environmental concerns continue to shape global conversations and the concept of sustainable tourism is transitioning from being a niche trend. It is becoming a mainstream requirement and hearing the call for sustainable luxury travel – Hobart hotels have reacted. Consequently, old and new hotels […]

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Tasmanian Wild Platypus Experience

  Tasmanian Wild Platypus Experience from your window   A Tasmanian wild platypus experience is usually high on the wish list of people coming to Tasmania.   The Tasmanian platypus is larger than its mainland cousins. I have often thought that I was seeing a dog swimming in the river, but then you see it […]

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Mount Field Tall Trees Wilderness Walk

  Mount Field Tall Trees – Wilderness Walk Experience   The Mount Field Tall Trees walking experience is an absolute must do when coming to Tasmania Our guests love that the wilderness is on our doorstep. But we are also we are only 20minutes from MONA and the city pleasures of Hobart. And we have […]

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New luxury Hobart hotels building boom

New Luxury Hobart Hotels – and recycling the old   New luxury Hobart hotels seem to be popping up on the skyline every time I drive through the city.   Sadly they are tending to be very same same, boxes of conformity. I regret the loss of charm and character that used to distinguish Hobart […]

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Luxury Hotel Top Experiences Tasmania

  Luxury Hotel Top Experiences  #1 is about the hotel experience itself   Guests tell us that the experience of staying in the hotel is as important as the experiences to be had there. I know that that is true of John and my travels. Finding somewhere lovely to stay (and it needn’t be over […]

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Romantic Boutique Getaway Accommodation

Romantic Boutique Getaway Accommodation is a in demand, and this market continues to grow. And it is not just the young set that is booking. The Oxford English Dictionary gives two meanings for “romance.” The first is, as one would expect, is associated with love. The second refers to “a quality or feeling of mystery, […]

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Sustainable luxury hotel accommodation

Sustainable luxury hotel accommodation and indeed sustainability in all aspects of travel, is the new imperative. Climate change challenges every aspect our lives. And it challenges across the broad tourism spectrum. It impacts from the cost of flights to the sustainability policies of even the smallest tourism provider For the more discerning travellers, sustainable luxury […]

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Hobart luxury holiday hotels availability

Hobart luxury holiday hotels availability is fluctuating dramatically. Travel numbers are definitely improving, but they are still nowhere near where they were pre-pandemic. Hobart was fully booked out for some peak weekends such as the recent Wooden Boat Festival. But this was the exception rather than the rule. Hobart continued to have good availability over the […]

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Luxury Accommodation Best Service

    Reently I was at a symposium where we discussed what constituted luxury accommodation best service standards.   It was generally agreed that things had changed since the pandemic, and that the situation was continuing to evolve. Hotels are scrambling to keep up with what they can or can no longer offer as ‘luxury […]

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Tasmanian Endangered Wildlife Experiences

      Tasmanian endangered wildlife experiences are high on the bucket list for many of our guests, especially our International guests.   Our favourite Tasmanian Endangered Wildlife Experieces   We highly recommendations the private night experiences offered by Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, just 15-20minutes drive from The Woodbridge. This has been a firm guest favourite […]

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Tasmanian Holiday Travel Accommodation costs

    Tasmanian Holiday Travel Accommodation cost are up. There is no denying it.   It is not that suppliers here are being greedy! It is inflation, which is hitting at every aspect of holiday planning. It is affecting flight and driving costs for the consumers. and supply issues and costs for the providers. And […]

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Solo Travel Luxury Market

Solo travel luxury market is an increasingly important part of our business at The Woodbridge Tasmania. This season, in particular, we have seen a huge jump in single bookings, especially single ladies. They frequently come for an extended stay and use us as their base. They explore during the day, and come ‘home’ to familiar […]

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Tasmanian Holiday Travel Trends

Tasmanian Holiday Travel Trends … where are we heading? Tasmanian Holiday Travel Trends are a microcosm of what is happening in rest of the world. Tourism has been up and down and all over the place since Covid came into our lives. And Tasmania, perhaps moreso than many, as it has such a small local […]

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Tasmanian Luxury Accommodation Experience – Beer

Tasmanian Luxury Accommodation Experience – Fresh Hop Beer Festival   The Woodbridge Tasmania is the ideal base for the Fresh Hop Beer Festival. It is 10 minutes walk to activities and music at the New Norfolk Distillery. And it is 10 minutes drive to the iconic hop fields and Oast houses at Bushy Park.   […]

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Luxury Hotel Best Tasmanian Experiences

  If you are in the market for a Luxury Hotel Best Tasmanian Experience, we can put that together for you.   We find that our guests want one or more of several things from their stay in the Derwent Valley. wilderness, wildlife and walking adventure outdoor activities cellar door and distilleries And The Woodbridge […]

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Luxury Hotel Fly Fishing Experience

    Luxury hotel Fly Fishing Experience was the perfect gift   A luxury hotel fly fishing experience was what she was looking for to treat her husband. It had been long hard few months on the farm. They had in fact just finished weeks of crutching – backbreaking and no-so-pleasant work.   It was […]

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Historic Hotel near Hobart turning 200

  Historic hotels near Hobart or in Hobart are not that uncommon. But Woodbridge has an edge, in fact several edges. it has an absolute riverfront location all guests are accommodated in the original historic building, not in annexes as in most of Tasmania’s  historic hotels Woodbridge turns 200 in 2025 and as such is […]

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Agrarian Kitchen Cooking Classes reopen

The Agrarian Kitchen Cooking Classes are back!   After many many many months relocating, The Agrarian Kitchen Cooking Classes will recommence on Saturday 29 October 2022.   12 years after the school opened, it was closed….. but it wasn’t bad news.   It was moved from its original home in Lachlan  and moved into New […]

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Boutique Hotel luxury retreat – creating ‘sanctuary’

    Boutique hotel luxury retreat – your room should be a sanctuary   Most guests love our relaxed, understated design heuristic.   Of course, it is not necessarily to everybody’s taste. Some expect more glitz, more opulence, more everythin’ as ‘evidence of luxury’. But our design ‘atmosphere’ is based soundly on science – the […]

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Luxury Tasmanian Accommodation – guest expectations

  Luxury Tasmanian accommodation may never be the same after the changes brought on by COVID.   There has been an interesting travel development as domestic travel has mostly returned to normality post Covid. Daily housekeeping in hotels doesn’t appear to have returned to ‘normal’.   The practice of reduced routine housekeeping became standard during […]

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Luxury Accommodation Tasmania Covid Mask update

  Luxury Accommodation Tasmania Covid – masks mandates lifted   The Premier of Tasmania has announced that from 5pm, Friday 11 March 2022 masks will not be mandatory in many settings. This includes hospitality and tourism premises, workplaces, personal care, sport and recreation, retail and service sectors. This applies to customers and staff.   The […]

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Luxury Tasmanian waterfront hotel for TV series

  Luxury Tasmanian waterfront hotel to feature in new Australian TV series   A luxury Tasmanian waterfront hotel, The Woodbridge, will be one of the sets used for a new TV series, Deadloch. Discussion with the TV production team of Deadloch commenced in November 2021. Management later met with key personnel on site at The […]

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Tasmanian Luxury Hotel Helicopter Transfers

  As well as offering Tasmanian luxury hotel helicopter transfers, our preferred helicopter supplier has new guest experiences on offer!   Below is a tempter from their newsletter.     Jump on board our tasting flight   Love wine, gourmet cheese and unique signature spirits? Then this is the experience for you. (Or for that […]

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