Quamby Estate

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Few hotels can match the setting of this classy country-house hotel, which offers 10 stylish rooms (opt for a downstairs deluxe suite) in a pastoral 1828 homestead. Dinners (two/three courses $60/75) are in a formal ballroom setting with an informal atmosphere, and you can play golf, grab one of the free bikes, or just pretend you're 'to the manor born'.

The estate is the base for the Cradle Mountain Huts Walk and Bay of Fires Lodge Walk, making a stay here the perfect pre- or post-walk reward. You'll find it off Meander Valley Rd, between Carrick and Westbury.

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

  • Cataract Gorge

    Cataract Gorge

    10.76 MILES

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    13.57 MILES

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  • Liffey Falls

    Liffey Falls

    15.38 MILES

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  • Clarendon

    Clarendon

    19.87 MILES

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  • Bass & Flinders Centre

    Bass & Flinders Centre

    28.62 MILES

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  • Platypus House

    Platypus House

    25.73 MILES

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  • Queen Victoria Museum

    Queen Victoria Museum

    12.36 MILES

    Inside the restored and reinvented Inveresk railway yards, QVMAG has the usual assembly of dinosaurs and stuffed animals, but they sit alongside historic…

  • Queen Victoria Art Gallery

    Queen Victoria Art Gallery

    11.72 MILES

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7. Trevallyn Nature Recreation Area

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