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16 Nov
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! […]
READ MORE14 Oct
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 […]
READ MORE11 Oct
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 […]
READ MORE7 Oct
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 […]
READ MORE15 Sep
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 […]
READ MORE31 Jul
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 […]
READ MORE12 Jul
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, […]
READ MORE20 Jun
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 […]
READ MORE24 Feb
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 […]
READ MORE22 Feb
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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