 Port Arthur Accommodation in Tasmania
About Port Arthur,
Port Arthur is situated 93 kilometres south-east of Hobart in Tasmania - Australia. Port Arthur is a major Australian heritage site. Access from Hobart city to Port Arthur is by road with all sorts of tourist holiday accommodation along the way including, road side hotel motel accommodation sites and wilderness b&b holiday accommodation deals. Port Arthur is officially Tasmania's number one tourist attraction with holiday accommodation to match lincluding luxury resort style 2, 3, 4, 5 star accommodation deals, family holiday 1, 2, 3, 4 bedroom apartment or unit accommodation places, backpacker and nomad hostels, guesthouses or cabin accommodation deals and plenty of tourist or holiday spots with waterviews. No visit to Tasmania is complete without seeing the Port Arthur heritage and historic area. Port Arthur was established as a convict settlement and soon became Australia's largest. Things to do in Port Arthur include visiting the Bush Mill, a popular stop, with its historic timber mill, settlement displays, and steam railway. From Port Arthur there are nightly ghost tours to the convict ruins, and it is possible to cruise to the Isle of the Dead. Activities around Port Arthur include surfing, sea kayaking and bushwalking which are popular and the coastline is spectacular viewing.
Port Arthur has many cafes and restaurants with fine foods, clubs and hotels with live music nightly and coastline picnic parks etc. Many Port Arthur visitors go to the Openair Museum, Tasmania Devil Park in near by Taranna where the Devils are fed daily at 11 am. There are other native animals and birds including wombats, quolls and eagles which can be seen close up. A short drive south of Port Arthur is Remarkable Cave, so called because its opening is said to resemble a map of Tasmania. From here you can walk to Crescent Bay, a secluded curve of striking beauty backed by huge sand dunes. All of these places have holiday accommodation sites for you to stay and rest. Just 20 kilometres north-west of Port Arthur is the old Coal Mines Historic Site, where interpretive signs explain the harsh lives and working conditions of repeat offenders from Port Arthur who worked underground extracting coal. Look out for DooTown, a quirky shack community devoted to homes with a theme: “GunnaDo”, “She’ll Doo”, "Humpty Doo” – and many more.
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