The Stanley Hotel is located on the coast at Stanley, in Tasmania’s northwest. Stanley is 90 minutes west of Devonport (127 kilometres/79 miles) and an hour west of Burnie (78 kilometres/48 miles).Built in the 1830s, the Stanley Hotel is offers standard and en suite rooms. You can choose from queen-size rooms with a private bathroom, standard queen or double rooms with shared bathroom facilities and single or bunk rooms which open onto a sunny upstairs deck. The hotel also has a bistro, wine cellar and gift shop. In Stanley you can visit the Nut – the imposing remains of an extinct volcano rising 152 metres from the sea. Try the challenging climb to the summit or take the chairlift for breathtaking views of the coast. See world-class Tasmanian contemporary art at the Stanley Artworks gallery, discover the history of early European settlement at Highfield House, or learn about ancient Aboriginal culture at Rocky Cape National Park. You can see fairy penguins return to their burrows at dusk, take a wildlife cruise to a seal colony or travel further west to remote beaches near Marrawah and the Arthur River.
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