About Us
Somewhere nice to stay
Hamlet Downs offers guests beautifully restored comfortable and cosy Bed & Breakfast or Fully Self-Contained accommodation options. Hamlet Downs is nestled in Tasmania’s picture perfect Derwent Valley. Overflowing beds of cottage garden favourites intermingled with natives surrounds the cottage. These melt into a generously sprawling vegetable patch, which in turn leads to an orchard and a series of water ponds and developing water gardens. There is a walking track along our creek and around extensive dams where our resident platypus, bird life and other wildlife are often seen.
Hamlet Downs is a no smoking establishment.
Bed & Breakfast Accommodation
Guest bedrooms have ensuite or private bathrooms with access to a lounge area, dinning facilities and outside verandah areas. A fully equipped kitchen is also accessible by guests staying in the main B&B facility allowing the option of preparing your own evening meal. The Possum (King) bedroom does not have cooking facilities but does have a microwave, kettle, bar fridge & toaster. Linen including towels, bedding, tablecloths and kitchen towels are provided.
Enjoy a complimentary port during your stay. A selection of DVD's and CD's are provided as well as some books including those on bird watching and some novels.
Our peaceful and beautiful surrounds will leave you feeling rested and refreshed ready to explore our unique part of Tasmania.
Our bedrooms are named after common local wildlife.
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Bandicoot (Queen sized bed with ensuite) |
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Platypus (Queen sized bed with private facilities) |
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Potoroo (2 single beds with private facilities) |
| Possum (King sized bed (or 2 extra long singles) with ensuite. Room can also accommodate an additional single bed). This room also has its own attached dinning and lounge area as well as its own entrance. |
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All beds have electric blankets and bedrooms have electric heating and are fully insulated for guests' comfort. The dinning room in the main facility, where most breakfasts and dinners are served, has a fully equipped kitchen at one end and a free standing wood heater and bar area at the other end with 2 recliners. This joins the guests' lounge room with TV, video and games table. Guests in the Possum King Ensuite bedroom enjoy their own lounge and dining area*. There are 2 outside covered verandah areas for guests as well. These lead to the concreted guest car park.
Hamlet Downs offers guests a choice of light continental style breakfasts or full cooked breakfasts (e.g. juice, cereals, seasonal fruits and cooked to order, you can choose from our farm free range eggs**, bacon, sausages, toast with jams and plunger coffee and tea). Espresso is also available at extra cost. We also endeavour to cater for any special dietary needs. A dinner menu featuring our own home grown seasonal produce is available. For guests that require the complete dinner, bed & breakfast package, Hamlet Downs can provide a great package - see separate page detailing the inclusions.
Self Contained Accommodation
Hamlet Downs offers guests a complete 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom facility sleeping up to 6 with 2 queen sized beds and 2 single beds all with electric blankets. Two additional portable single beds are available taking the total capacity to 8 on request. A large dinning room, lounge room (TV, Video & Games Table) and a fully equipped kitchen is provided with breakfast provisions available on request. Cutlery, crockery and pots & pans are provided. The entire cottage has been fully refurbished, insulated and every room has electric heating together with a free-standing wood heater in the dinning room. A cot is available at extra cost.
Hamlet Downs - A Paradise
Whether you are staying as Bed & breakfast or Self-Contained, Hamlet Downs gives you the best of everything. Simply relax or take an easy stroll along our platypus Viewing track. Nocturnal wildlife is abundant with possums, wallabies and bandicoots often seen. We also have a wide variety of birds for the birdwatchers (over 30 varieties in Summer).
Why not take a few days to explore our diverse and unique local area whilst here. We are just 10 minutes from the gates of Mt Field National Park featuring the world famous Russell Falls. Perfectly located for day trips to South West National Park, Lakes Pedder & Gordon and the Central lakes district and close to the historic towns of Hamilton, Bothwell and New Norfolk. Visit the world's tallest hardwood trees at the Styx - Big Tree Reserve near Maydena.
* The King Possum Room does not have cooking facilities except for a microwave oven.
** When available
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