I'm after advice and recommendations (of course! ).

My Australian wife-to-be has suggested Tasmania as the destination for our honeymoon, and has sent me a few tourist sites. I've been looking through these, but whilst it looks very pretty and everything, I'm just totally 'planned out'. I've been organising selling the house, and my visa paperwork, the cat's paperwork, co-organising the wedding... I just can't think anymore!

Does anyone have any recommendations of things to see/places to stay in Tas for a week? I'll be taking my car (Mazda MX5) and would prefer value for money suggestions, as after the wedding and everything else funds will be tight.

Thanks!

Some ideas, Cradle Mountain, Strahan, Hobart, Salamanca place, go to the Cascade or Boags brewery. Do some hiking. Visit Port Arthur.

Bring along your siblings and do what the locals do

Don't go there on the Spirit of Tassie whatever you do. It's like dicing with death the crossing is so bloody rough.

Thanks for the replies. I've read the entry about Tassie on Wikipedia and it sounds like a great place to visit. Will investigate the places Silver suggests.

What utter rubbish.

Ww went over on it the other week and both there and back had gale warnings with 4mtr swells and all we felt was a slight rocking motion.

My OH gets seasick if she fills the bath up too high and she slept the whole night through. Get yourself a cabin though because those airline type seats look bloody uncomfortable.

Thing thats always put us off spirit is the cost. If your going for a week its only really break even of fly + rent a car and flying you get straight to Hobart..

Or are we missing something on getting cheap trips on spirit?

Love tazzy tho very beautiful, derwent valley is spectacular in the winter..

Whatever.

But in my experience it certainly isn't rubbish. Our car got dented because even through they were chained in the boat was pitching so much the cars were moving about and banging into each other. Cargo dudes said not unusual.

I stayed a couple of nights in Devonport then went via Sheffield to Deloraine. I liked Sheffield with all the murals.

Hobart is nice - I like how it's compact enough to walk round. Nice harbour area, good fish and chips.

I took my bike to Tasmania. The rail trails around Hobart are easy - no steep gradients. If you wanted a little fresh air you could probably hire one for the day and ride around the bay.

After Hobart I went to Launceston. If you are there then you have to go to that Cataract Creek place.

If you're looking for beaches and tranquility travel up the east coast - Bicheno, Swansea etc. West Coast is far more wild - plus boat trips and seaplane trips from Strahan. Queenstown is a weird place, looks like the surface of the moon because of all the mining, but an interesting place to experience.
Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair and the surrounding area are truly beautiful, and if you are a serious walker some of the bushwalks are irresistable.
Hobart is just idyllic and has so many historic sites that it'll keep you going for ages.
Port Arthur is worth a day on its own - incredible atmosphere, truly fascinating though sad history.
Get hold of a copy of Lonely Planet Tasmania - very accurate

We went over there on the Spirit of Tassie, it was like a Mill Pond there and back.

Barney