A Stay At The Salamanca Inn, Hobart [Review]

When visiting Hobart, uncovering a spot to enactment tin beryllium hard arsenic determination are truthful galore options to take from. However, for the cleanable determination successful Hobart’s CBD and for a comfy night’s sleep, I ever caput to Salamanca Inn.

I archetypal stayed astatine the Salamanca Inn back successful March 2013 and I truly liked it, truthful I was keen to enactment determination again connected our road travel astir Australia a fewer years later.

For household accommodation successful a superior city, it’s hard to beat.

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There is simply a crushed wherefore it’s our go-to spot to enactment successful Hobart, which I volition uncover to you successful this implicit and honorable reappraisal of Salamanca Inn…

About Salamanca Inn

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The Salamanca Inn successful Hobart is simply a 4.5-star aparthotel that’s independently operated by a Tasmanian local.

It has prima AAA standing and is nestled connected the doorstep of Salamanca Place, location to the iconic Salamanca Market each Saturday.

Like each buildings connected Salamanca Place, the inn is successful a humanities gathering made of 1830s sandstone and allows visitors to enactment successful a small portion of Hobart’s history. Surrounding the gathering are Georgian Warehouses and Plane Trees, allowing guests to consciousness the humanities ambience of this area.

Despite its humanities setting, the wrong of the inn is modern and luxurious. Each of the 60 rooms successful the inn is simply a afloat self-contained suite with a surviving country and kitchenette, truthful you tin bask each the comforts of location but with the added luxury of edifice amenities.

Great spot for the kids

Some cardinal amenities astatine the edifice are an onsite beef and seafood grill restaurant and rooftop heated indoor excavation and spa, laundry facilities, escaped wi-fi, summons assistance, and concern center.

If you don’t consciousness similar cooking successful your suite, the inn is located adjacent to respective of the city’s champion restaurants, cafes, and bars.

The inn besides has undercover car parking.

What I Like About Salamanca Inn…

1. Central Location wrong walking region to attractions

Famous Salamanca Markets

The fig 1 happening I similar astir the Salamanca Inn is it’s location. Within a abbreviated stroll of the edifice you volition find respective celebrated landmarks, specified arsenic Parliament House, the humanities Sullivans Cove, and galore specialty shops.

Literally a 1 infinitesimal locomotion to Salamanca Place wherever the famous Salamanca markets, pubs, restaurants and buying are.

Salamanca Place

It’s a 5-minute locomotion to the historical waterfront wherever you tin respect the boats, devour food & chips (we urge Fish Frenzy) and drawback the ferry to Hobart’s fig 1 attraction, MONA.

Hobart Waterfront

Fish & chips successful a cone astatine food frenzy

And, it’s a abbreviated locomotion to Historic Battery Point, 1 of the prettiest inner-city suburbs you’ll find successful Australia. We loved wandering this suburb which besides has a large kids playground and immoderate bully cafes.

Battery Point

Now that we person kids, it’s uncommon to conscionable beryllium capable to locomotion retired your doorway and casually stroll somewhere. I can’t archer you however overmuch of a buzz doing this gives me.

I astir bushed the doorway down erstwhile it was clip to navigator meal and idiosyncratic had to locomotion astir the country to bargain the supplies from the markets.

“I’m going!”

A small, exquisite sensation of freedom.

2. It has family-friendly amenities

Checking successful to the Salamanca Inn

But backmost to the Salamanca Inn. It’s an all-suite edifice with self-contained apartments. For families, successful the city, these apartments are ideal.

Salamanca Inn has 60 afloat self-contained suites with a modern blase benignant ranging from King Suites to multi-bedroom suites and larger Family Apartments. This Hobart accommodation has precocious finished a multi-million-dollar refurbishment.

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The room country is comparatively small, but it’s a metropolis hotel. It worked perfectly fine.

Even though the restaurants beckoned us, and we did dine retired 1 night, apartments are a large mode to chopped down your costs truthful you tin question more.

Plenty of country for cooking. Love the champers!

We stayed successful a 3 chamber suite, arsenic Craig’s parents were visiting.

It was spacious, with the main chamber upstairs, successful a benignant of loft mounting – our kids liked the attic consciousness of it. And the different 2 bedrooms were downstairs – the girls loved their bunk beds.

Plenty of abstraction for the household to chillax and ticker TV 

The Salamanca Inn besides has a abstracted lounge and the TV has 5 movie channels that features caller releases.

There is simply a edifice successful the gathering serving good Tasmanian nutrient and an indoor heated swimming excavation and spa for those looking for immoderate h2o enactment and relaxation.

She loved the stairs!

If you are lucky, you mightiness besides person beauteous views of Mt Wellington similar we did from our balcony, and erstwhile we moved suites for our last night, views of the gardens of Salamanca Place.

Mt Wellington views from Salamanca Inn, Hobart

I loved watching them acceptable up for the markets successful the greeting and proceeding the buskers earlier strolling down for a look spot ourselves.

If you can, clip your sojourn truthful you tin research these markets, yummy thoroughfare nutrient to beryllium had, arsenic good arsenic bully arts and crafts.

Busker astatine Salamanca Markets

On 1 rainy day we made the 50m amble to the Irish pub connected the country with Craig’s dada for a fewer pints of the achromatic stuff. That’s determination close determination – you truly bash person EVERYTHING connected your doorstep.

If you’re looking for a mid-range household flat enactment successful Hobart, past Salamanca Inn is simply a truly worthwhile choice.

What I didn’t similar astir Salamanca Inn

It’s hard to accidental what I didn’t similar due to the fact that I did truly bask my stay, but obscurity is perfect. The biggest downside is though parking is provided, you inactive person to wage for it astatine $15 AUD per day.

Parking is simply a premium successful Hobart’s CBD truthful I tin spot wherefore they complaint for this, but arsenic it’s not the cheapest accommodation successful Hobart it would beryllium bully if the parking was included successful the terms of the room.

You mightiness besides find that immoderate rooms are not accessible friendly, truthful beryllium definite to interaction the edifice earlier booking to spot which country is champion suited for you if you person mobility issues.

Check-In/Check-Out Instructions

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Checking successful is precise easy. You simply request to amusement your booking notation and a government-issued photograph recognition and the recognition paper oregon debit paper you reserved your preservation with.

You whitethorn beryllium asked to wage a currency deposit for incidental charges, and you volition request to wage a aforesaid parking interest if you get by car.

Be definite to fto the reception cognize of immoderate peculiar requests earlier hand, specified arsenic optional extras similar rollaway beds, cribs, and babe beds for children aged 0-2.

Note that the minimum check-in property is 18.

The check-in clip is from 2.00pm until midnight, and check-out is by 11.00am. There is nary after-hours check-in if you get precocious astatine night.

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