PROPERTY HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Voted World’s Best Boutique Hotel and World’s Best Luxury Hotel, Saffire Freycinet is Australia’s premier luxury lodge, providing an authentic and immersive connection to the magnificent Freycinet National Park and Wineglass Bay in Tasmania.
  • Saffire offers an authentic, enriching and uplifting experience which promises every moment to special. Distinct in its design and exclusive in its features, Saffire sets itself apart as the best luxury accommodation in Tasmania by its approach to tailored, one-on-one experiences and service.
  • Just 20 accommodation suites are discreetly positioned overlooking the Hazards Mountains, Freycinet Peninsula and the pristine waters of Great Oyster Bay, along with an exclusive day spa, restaurant and lounge. All of the suites are luxuriously appointed, featuring the best in design and furnishings and capturing the unique nature of the surrounding coastline.
  • The lodge is intimate, engaging, secluded, and offers unique experiences to leaves guests with an unforgettable connection to place.
  • The Saffire experience is made up of moments. Meaningful moments that capture the essence of Saffire and its close connection to the Freycinet area. The moments can be as unique as wading out to partake of fresh oysters in the waters of a nearby estuary.
  • From early morning to late evening, food innovation in the kitchen does not compromise the true flavours of home-grown produce. Our knowledgeable and skilled team is warm and friendly and presents au guéridon cooking and silver service with panache.

EXCLUSIVE LUXE VOYAGER VIP BENEFITS & BEST PRICE

We negotiate rates & benefits for our clients directly with the hotels’ senior management. Our rates match or in many cases are lower than the best online rate for the property. Our clients also enjoy a suite of extra VIP privileges and recognition while staying at a partner hotel.

  • Complimentary room upgrade on arrival.
  • Daily complimentary buffet breakfast for two.
  • Up to $100 dining or spa credit per stay, and or in-house dining / spa discounts.
  • Welcome amenities (wine/chocolates/fruit) and card from the GM.
  • Complimentary private airport transfers.
  • Complimentary roll-away bed if required.
  • Early check-in and late check-out.
  • Complimentary Wi-Fi.
  • Enhanced recognition through VIP status at all touch points in the guest experience.

A complete or partial suite of VIP benefits will be offered, subject to the property T&C, including availability, category of room & length of stay.

ACTIVITIES:


Schouten Island Experience

Enjoy close-up interactions with soaring sea birds, playful marine mammals and a diversity of life on your way to Schouten Island aboard our purpose-built vessel, Saffire. The adventure also includes a visit to culturally significant sites of past and present inhabitants, including the Australian fur seal. Morning tea is included and prepared by the team of chefs at Saffire.



Wine and Vine Adventures

A wine lover’s delight! At the local Freycinet Winery, you will learn the art of winemaking and indulge in some fine Tasmanian fare – and some wine tastings of course!



Freycinet Marine Oyster Farm

Don a pair of waders and visit a working oyster farm located in a beautiful setting within an internationally significant wetland and ornithological site. Develop an understanding for wetland and marine ecology.



Wineglass Bay Lookout Walk

Freycinet National Park is a must see during your stay at Saffire Freycinet. Join one of our informative guides on a walk to the lookout over Wineglass Bay.


Shorter Walks of Freycint

Join one of our guides for an easy two-hour tour, which combines two of the popular shorter walks of the Freycinet Peninsula. Your first walk will be around the Cape.



Connect to Country Walk

Take a coastal stroll along the beach from Saffire with our indigenous guide Mick Quilliam. Discover the history of the Oyster Bay people, taking in the beauty of the coastal tracks and rock platforms and the wonders of the fauna .



Pelican Bay Canoeing and Bird Watching

Unwind and absorb the breathtaking beauty of the Swanport estuary on this guided canoeing adventure at the mouth of the internationally significant Moulting Lagoon wetland. Observe the flocks of pelicans and gaze into the crystal clear waters teeming with marine life.



Le Pique Nique

Explore iconic Wineglass Bay on a guided 5km walk, taking you to the crystal white sands and azure waters of South Hazards beach. Loaded with history and untouched beauty, you’ll then be greeted by one of Saffire guides who will indulge you with a gourmet picnic of locally sourced produce, served with a distinctly French flavour. Enjoy charcuterie, local oysters, barbequed seafood and free range meats, farmhouse cheese and petit desserts before being ‘chauffeured’ back aboard our Saffire vessel via the peninsula’s spectacular fiery red coastline. Cost $450 per person, minimum four people.



Wineglass Bay by water experince

Come aboard our purpose-built vessel, Saffire, to discover the internationally acclaimed Wineglass Bay. After taking in the breathtaking scenery, you will stop off at one of many white sandy beaches that are dotted around the Freycinet coastline. Stretch your legs with a short, guided walk, or try your luck fishing with our skipper. Enjoy a sumptuous lunch before a leisurely cruise back into Great Oyster Bay. Cost is $395 per person, minimum four people.



Third-Party Experinces

With the Freycinet National Park on your doorstep, there’s a world of deserted islands, wild bushlands, secluded beaches and other Tasmanian attractions to explore. Our third-party experiences place you in the hands of local operators who have an intimate knowledge



Friendly Beaches Quad Bike Experience

Saffire Freycinet invites thrill-seekers on a quad bike tour along four-wheel drive tracks through coastal heathland to southern Friendly Beaches in the Freycinet National Park. Join our adventurous guides on an exciting and challenging half-day adventure. Early bookings essential! (A valid driver’s licence is required to operate the quad bikes. Learner’s licences are not accepted. Maximum of three drivers plus one passenger per tour permittted.) Cost $240 per person.

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OVERVIEW

Saffire Freycinet Tasmania Lobby

Voted World’s Best Boutique Hotel and World’s Best Luxury Hotel, Saffire Freycinet is Australia’s premier luxury lodge, providing an authentic and immersive connection to the magnificent Freycinet National Park and Wineglass Bay in Tasmania. Distinct in its design, exclusive in its features our intimate lodge offers one-on-one service and is all-inclusive, with a wide range of individually tailored, immersive nature based experiences and service. Just 20 private suites overlook the magnificent Freycinet National Park, with Wineglass Bay, one of the world’s best beaches, just a short guided walk away. All of the suites are luxuriously appointed, featuring the best in design and furnishings and capturing the unique nature of the surrounding coastline. Saffire also offers a luxury day spa, unforgettable culinary experiences and so much more.

To experience Saffire Freycinet is to detach from ordinary life and become truly immersed in every moment. The Saffire experience is made up of moments. Meaningful moments that capture the essence of Saffire and its close connection to the Freycinet area. Moments as complex as the luxurious pleasures of a day spa experience, or as unique as wading out to partake of fresh oysters in the waters of a nearby estuary, as inspiring as the sunset splashed across the Hazards, and as intimate as the morning sun creeping up the wall of your suite. Shaped as a stingray perched on the dunes, Saffire Freycinet showcases the best of Tasmania and will leave you with an unforgettable connection to place.

ROOMS

The 20 low-slung pavilions are huge and, for the most part, open plan, creating different living zones via a subtly elevated sleeping area. The décor is warm, tactile and evocative, but there’s also all sorts of tech to amuse and sun-splashed corners in which to snuggle or snooze. Along with local wines, the complimentary minibars are refreshed daily with Tasmanian artisan vodka, gin and whiskey, chocolate truffles and spiced nuts; there are also Nespresso machines and Jing loose leaf teas. Marble bathrooms have deep baths, double walk-in showers, underfloor heating and lush La Gala products, including fragrant mineral salts and milk baths for soaking. But it’s really all about the sublime cinematic views from their large picture windows.

Saffire Freycinet Luxury Suites

Luxury Suites

At Saffire Freycinet, the Luxury Suites are beautifully appointed, featuring Tasmanian timber furnishings and fittings. Every suite has alluring views, generous relaxation area and an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary furnishings. The Luxury Suites are 80 square meters and feature Saffire’s bespoke king bed, LCD screen TV and Blu-ray DVD, as well as a Geneva iPod music system.

Saffire Freycinet Signature Suites

Signature Suites

At Saffire Freycinet, the Signature Suites feature all of the amenities of the Luxury Suites, with the addition of a greater living space, a relaxing deck lounge and a bathroom overlooking Great Oyster Bay. The Signature Suites of the luxury Tasmanian accommodation are 96 square meters and feature Saffire’s bespoke king bed, LCD screen TV and Blu-ray DVD, as well as a Geneva iPod music system.

Saffire Freycinet Private Pavilions

Private Pavilions

The Private Pavilions offer the highest standard of luxury accommodation of all the suites at Saffire Freycinet in Australia. It features a separate bedroom and dining area with a kitchen, allowing guests to choose a dinner in suite option with the chef. A plunge pool takes center stage in the extended private courtyard. The premium mini bar offers French champagne and is complimentary during a stay. The Private Pavilions are 140 square meters and feature Saffire’s bespoke king bed, LCD screen TV and Blu-ray DVD, Geneva iPod music system, deck with outdoor lounge chairs, private courtyard with plunge pool, private suite kitchen, WI-FI internet access, espresso machine, dining area, spacious living room with separate bedroom area, as well as double shower and bath.

DINING

The hotel’s restaurant, Palate, is open only to guests and is widely considered to be Australia’s most exclusive dining room, with its Modern Australian cooking often making food writers’ best-lists (and making non-guests very envious). Degustation dining is encouraged, but you can also mix and match across the menu, or order a Cape Grim eye fillet or simple pan-fried fish, if its comfort food you’re craving. In fact, the chef takes requests. The sommelier Justin is equally committed to finding what will delight or surprise, according to the guest’s mood. Lunch can be had here too, or fresh, healthy salads are served in the lounge.

Saffire Freycinet Palate Restaurant

Palate Restaurant

Palate Restaurant provides tailor made gourmet moments that enhance the genuine flavors of home grown produce. Multi course menus matched with outstanding local wines are designed around what is available, fresh from the water or paddock that day and as such, the restaurant publishes new menus for each day.

Saffire Freycinet The Lounge

The Lounge

For guests accustomed to luxury travel, The Lounge is an ideal place to take a moment, grab a book from the library or meet for a drink at the lounge bar. During the day the lounge becomes a relaxed and casual setting to enjoy fresh local produce from the barbecue and outside terrace and at night transforms into a stunning setting to enjoy evening canapes and pre dinner drinks.

Saffire Freycinet Bar

The Bar

our lounge is the perfect place to take a moment and for a drink at the lounge bar.

FACILITIES

Facilities beyond a smart little gym and blissful spa are experience-based and, apart from boat trips, included in the room rates. They include hikes, shuckings, tastings and bubbles at a beautiful oyster farm, mixology or cooking classes, a visit to their own Tasmanian devil reserve.

Saffire Freycinet Pool

Pool

Saffire Freycinet Spa

Spa

At Saffire Freycinet Tasmania, our highly skilled therapists and masseurs have the skill to help you achieve your highest health and wellness potential. Following your Spa Saffire consultation, your therapist will prepare a program of day spa treatments and therapies to reflect your personal needs and preferences. Men’s treatments are also one of our specialties.

Saffire Freycinet Gym

Fitness

We also have full gym facilities, so you don’t need to interrupt your personal workout rituals. Relaxation is vital for stress relief. We have meditation classes available.

Area & Location

Area, Country
Coles Bay, Australia
Nearest Airport
Hobart International Airport , Hobart
Local Currency
Australian Dollar (AUD)
Time Change
GMT +10
Language
English
Best time to go
A year round destination, though temperatures drop between June and August

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