Best Hotels Near MONA Museum Hobart

Australia's first dedicated art hotel, the Henry Jones occupies a converted 19th-century jam and pickle factory on the waterfront with original stone walls and industrial ironwork creating the backdrop for a world-class rotating art collection. Every room is unique, the bar serves exceptional Tasmanian whisky, and the waterfront view at sunrise is one of Hobart's great daily pleasures.

• Art hotel
• Waterfront
• Tasmanian whisky

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Voted one of the world's finest boutique hotels multiple times, Islington occupies a grand Georgian villa with views of kunanyi/Mount Wellington across a garden of Tasmanian wildflowers. The eleven individually curated rooms are filled with antiques and contemporary Tasmanian art, and the champagne breakfast included in every stay is the finest in Hobart.

• World-class boutique
• Mount Wellington views
• Champagne breakfast

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Right on iconic Salamanca Place, steps from the weekly market and overlooking the waterfront, Salamanca Inn offers apartment-style suites in a heritage sandstone building. The combination of full kitchen facilities, the prime location, and the Victorian-era character makes it outstanding for longer stays and families.

• Salamanca Market
• Apartment suites
• Sandstone heritage

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The most complete full-service hotel on the waterfront, the Grand Chancellor offers a pool, spa, multiple restaurants, and harbour-view rooms in a contemporary tower that has become a Hobart skyline fixture. The roof bar at sunset with Mount Wellington glowing behind the Georgian rooftops is a memorable Tasmanian experience.

• Harbour views
• Pool & spa
• Full service

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A storytelling hotel built on the history of Tasmania's explorers and convicts, MACq01 has themed its rooms and public spaces around specific historical figures — navigators, whalers, bushrangers — with handwritten letters and artefacts making each room a narrative experience. The bar serves the full range of Coal River Valley wines and Lark Distillery whisky.

• Storytelling hotel
• Tasmanian history
• Whisky bar

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Hobart's newest boutique luxury offering, Moss Hotel brings a refined contemporary design sensibility to the Salamanca district with rooms that reference the Tasmanian landscape — moss, dolerite, sea glass — and a restaurant that celebrates the island's exceptional food provenance with honesty and skill.

• Newest luxury
• Tasmanian design
• Restaurant

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