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Join Dark Sky Tasmania members for a guided walking tour of Hobart after dark. Learn how the lighting we add to our city impacts the way we use our public spaces and affects the environment at large. This one-hour walk will offer a unique insight into urban lighting and the problem of light pollution. As you wind your way through the Hobart streets, you will experience various examples, both good and bad, of how artificial light at night influences the way people interact with their city after dark, and the impact this is having on our planet.

You know the feeling: You fall in love with a wine at a vineyard, or over a magical night out with friends, and when you open the same bottle at home… something's missing. The wine hasn't changed but it's not quite the same. Wine is never just about taste. It's about the music, the lighting, the company, the moment. In this immersive workshop, Curly Haslam-Coates, a synaesthetic wine educator who experiences flavours as a multi-sensory journey, will guide you through a different kind of wine tasting. One that explores how memory, environment, and emotion shape what's in your glass. Learn how to create experiences that elevate the everyday, and turn a simple glass of wine into something unforgettable.

Pink-glowing possums and bandicoots, green-glowing snails and wallabies, blue-glowing spiders and sugar gliders, technicolour owls, flowers, and fungi! Join biologist Dr Lisa Gershwin on this truly unforgettable nature experience, a short walk from Hobart's CBD. Lisa will share the glowing world through fascinating stories and show you how to get great photos. You might even spot a platypus! Lisa will supply the ultraviolet (UV) torches and the natural history narrative, while nature will supply the wonder and awe.

Mantra Collins Hotel is one of Hobart's most popular hotels due to its great central location. Situated just two streets back from the Hobart Waterfront and one block from the Central Business District, the hotel is within a short stroll of the famous Salamanca Place. Here you will enjoy the Salamanca Market every Saturday, decadent restaurants, fresh gourmet producers and boutique stores with handmade crafts. Here you can catch the ferry to the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona). From this Hobart accommodation, you'll also find tour meeting points, along with the city's main attractions close by. Walk to the Hobart Visitor Information Centre, Theatre Royal, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Hobart waterfront and Constitution Dock. Housed behind a historic facade, combined with a modern accommodation tower, Mantra Collins Hotel offers contemporary hotel rooms, along with one and two-bedroom apartments some with iconic views over Mount Wellington, Queen's Domain and the Central Business District. Providing the perfect vantage point of Hobart and its surrounds, this centrally placed accommodation is self-contained with a kitchenette ( apartments only) LCD televisions with Foxtel, Wi-Fi, in-room-controlled A/C, and double glazed floor-to-ceiling windows. This hotel does not accept cash as a payment method. Credit, debit and prepaid cards are accepted to buy goods and services.

YHA Hobart Central is the most centrally located traveller accommodation in Hobart, only one block from the city's waterfront. The YHA is an easy walk to the MONA museum ferry at Constitution Dock, Salamanca Place and a multitude of bars, restaurants and cafes. YHA Hobart Central has clean and comfortable private and shared rooms, a social/lounge room with television, a kitchenette with communal cooking facilities and fabulous, friendly staff ready to help you with loads of local tips and tour bookings. There are also loads of great bar and dining opportunities, whisky distilleries, local markets, nearby bush walks, scenic Botanic Gardens and the beautiful Derwent River on your doorstep.

Among Hobart's finest, Vibe Hotel stands out as the ultimate 'eat, play' and stay' destination. Nestled in the heart of Hobart, this hotel embraces the Australian lifestyle to the full while the architecturally-designed facade - with its trademark coloured feature fins – has transformed Hobart’s skyline. Be welcomed by impeccable hospitality and meticulous details from the moment you step through the front doors. Immerse in contemporary rooms that were inspired by the sandstone cliffs of Bruny Island, along with Tasmanian oak furnishings, handcrafted by local artisans. Experience the ultimate esacape at our contemporary plunge pool, or take in the architectural design of our onsite Belvedere restaurant.