Derwent Bridge Chalets & Studios

We stopped for 2 nights and had a very comfortable stay in the queen bed cabin "Claire" with parking directly outside the frontdoor. I booked directly with the owner Louise who was very accommodating and shared her local knowledge. Our cabin was great with a bush view from the little loungeroom, a fully equipped kitchen to cook up a nice dinner, a spa bath and a laundry. The cabin was warm and well built for cold climate, although it was hot when we visited. The location is very close to Lake St.Clair and many bushwalking tracks. There is a cafe next door serves nice food but be aware they may not be open for dinner every night so we called ahead and arranged for a dinner takeaway. Thanks for the tip, Louise. Otherwise, bring your own food. There is a local pub but it was shut for renos when we visited. We would definately come again.

A lovely little place, quant and quiet. Check in was easy and the cabins were close by. There is not much privacy as the cabins are so close to each other, buts again guests keep to themselves. The cabins are clean and tidy and have everything you would need. Please note there are breakfast cereals in the cabins but they are NOT free you have to order and pay extra.

Looks are deceiving! Looks dated on the outside, but warm, cosy and modern on the inside. All cooking facilities available. Hot showers. Heater was left on for our arrival. Very quiet. Close to St Clair lake, and "The Wall" (a must visit). Small servo next door which serves meals. Very good.

I organised 17 bushwalkers in 7 chalets and Studios for mostly 3 night stays and couple of 2 nights Stays at Louise’s Chalets. The outside appearance is a bit tired looking , the inside of the buildings are homely and well equipped, with very comfortable beds.||Louise was true to form on check in for most of the guests she was Mrs. Hyde sour , miserable , disorganised, yelling at one friend for not parking her car correctly. A couple of older friends tried to check in earlier but were very rudely told no check in’s until 3 pm.||This is stated on the website but as all the bookings were made directly with Louise this was not known. ||When the guests were checking into the building I was staying in they were told that were not using wood at the moment . She was very miserable towards them. ||Fortunately no one encountered Louise for the whole stay except she became Mrs Jekyll and brought matches to our Chalet so we could like the wood heater as the temperature was plummet ing to 3 degrees over night .||The theme is a lot of reviews on here are the same , Derwent Bridge / Lake St Clair is a wonderful area to explore and fantastic bushwalks but unfortunately as the Hotel up the road no longer offers accommodation Louise has a monopoly.||Hopefully future travellers with encounter Louise as Mrs Jekyll and not Mrs Hyde||||BE Warned

The chalet we stayed in was not the one we booked and the woman in reception (owner?) did not see a problem. Her respense was that they often change bookings "if a room does not smell good"!! In fact she was very offhanded in general. Nonetheless, the room was basic but ok for the price. There was very little choice in accommodation between Hobart and Queenstown as we left late after the Salamanca market. Sadly the pub is closed but fortunately the Hungry Wombat Cafe was open which offered a very limited dinner menu. However, it was one of the best meals we had during our 2 month trip.

The chalet was nice and location was great. The reason of one star review was for the extra $50 charge on my card. I was surprised with the charge and queried it by email. I received an invoice saying $50 was for extra bed. We are a group of 2 Adults and 1 young Child. I had paid extra for the child. There were 2 bedrooms. 1 Bedroom is queen bed and another one 3 single beds. We used 1 queen bed in bedroom 1 and 2 single beds in bedroom 2 as the adults do not share the queen bed. It looks like the accomodation were forcing the 2 adults or the adult and child to share the queen bed, which was a weird rule. I read the reviews here (should have read before we booked), apparently there were many patrons who had the similar charges. We had a wonderful stay but the wonderful memory was ruined by the extra charge. It was only for a little charge which i feel pitty about it....

We arrived at 530, so not early or late. The owner made us feel like we were a terrible inconvenience for interrupting feeding her 17 yr old dog. |We stayed in the Rufus chalet. There was one small panel heater in the bedroom and a wood fire in the lounge room. It took us quite a while to get it going, we live on a farm with wood heater so we are experienced. There is no other heating, we put a Log on before bed but by 1am the fire was out, unsuitable wood and not split small enough. It was minus 4 when we got up at 7am so If it wasn’t for the electric blankets we would have frozen.|If you don’t mind a complete lack of customer service & unsuitable heating the cabin was clean and fully stocked - just don’t eat the breakfast cereal otherwise you’ll pay a hefty penalty. Do yourself a favour and stay an extra night somewhere else.

Have read the reviews but I'm still giving 5 . This may just be the cleanest ,best, cosiest self-contained accommodation we have stayed in during our 5 week visit to Tasmania s . BUT you do need to bring all your groceries with you.