Stanley Hotel

A beautiful hotel with a view of the bay and town. Centrally located , I could walk to everything. Very clean and quiet. If your arriving after 6pm I recommend you make a booking for the Bistro because it was fully booked when I arrived. Stanley is a lovely picturesque seaside town with fabulous old buildings and houses. The Nut excellent.

I had a great stay at the Stanley Hotel near The Nut. The location is absolutely wonderful, with stunning views and easy access to all the highlights of Stanley. You really can’t miss the hotel—it stands out thanks to its distinctive color! The restaurant was a real highlight of my stay. The steaks were absolutely awesome—perfectly cooked and full of flavour. The atmosphere was warm and inviting, and the staff were friendly across the board, making the whole experience even more enjoyable. My room was cosy, clean, and comfortable—just what you want after a day exploring the area. All in all, a top-notch place to stay with great food, welcoming service, and a charming setting. Highly recommended!

Hotel rooms are accessed up a steep, narrow staircase (no lift) like UK accommodations. Room was snug but adequate and well heated. Bathroom was also snug, particularly the shower. Dining was in the Bistro in the basement and had a very good menu and bar service and well trained staff that met any needs required of them. The Hotel seems to also be popular with members of the community.

Great restaurant. Very friendly staff and delicious food. I rated the seafood chowder as the best I had in Tassie. My partner also really rated his Cape Grim steak. The abalone entree was delicious! Highly recommended.

We stayed in Amelia's Cottage which is right beside the beach with a beautiful walkway following the coastline. The one bedroom apartment had everything needed including a washer/dryer to catch up on our washing. Shops were within walking distance and we stopped at some fabulous restaurants, wine bars and tourist sites.

Let’s be clear it’s not a 5 star hotel, but value for money and location it’s 5 star. Very comfortable and clean with pub and restaurant too. We used them both and they were great. Our room was lucky enough to have a massive veranda which had the weather been warmer would have been awesome just overlooking the street.

We loved our time here at the Stanley Hotel. Front desk staff were friendly enough and it is in a nice central location to the nut, the general store, and hurseys seafood. The room was spacious enough for a couple and we were lucky enough to get a balcony, although it was shared with the next room it was still nice to be able to sit out and watch the road. We were satisfied with our stay.

Who doesn't love Stanley? If it wasn't for the wind and cold, everyone would live there. The pub was good and the food was OK. Our accommodation was outstanding, a minor problem but they did everything they could to make us happy.

Three years ago I would have given this place five stars, as my first experience of Stanley and the pub was really one to remember. My friend and I, travelling through in a campervan, stopped overnight and got a bit tipsy in the public bar drinking delicious Boags Wizard Smith ales and meeting abalone divers next to the fire before having the meal of our lives (the chowder blew us away) in the bistro out the back. A year ago, on my first return to Stanley since moving to Tasmania, I would have knocked the rating back to three stars. The pub didn't live up to the memory I'd been hanging onto. It was still tasty but the whimsy was gone, and I stayed upstairs at the pub overnight (I hadn't done so on my first visit), which was an interesting experience. I don't stay in a lot of pub accommodation but I reckon this was bang on for a standard pub room, so all good, but it's not an accommodation option I'd personally leap at. My third visit was just a couple of weeks ago. I took my visiting BFF up to Stanley for the night because the north west is the Tasmania of my heart, my favourite corner of the state, and I'm still inexplicably drawn to Stanley. The accommodation we stayed in recommended the pub for our meal. It was... fine. Tasty food but nothing overwhelming. The bistro room itself smelled a bit weird, a little musty. The service was sweet. I have to stop ordering the seafood bisque (did it used to be a chowder? Has it changed? How's my memory?) because as tasty as it is, I don't think it'll ever live up to that first precious memory. We also visited the bottle shop for the first time, and the range of Tassie wines was better than in the bistro! We grabbed a bottle of Blue Penguin Shiraz (which ended up being confusingly fruity for a Shiraz) and the public bar staff were good enough to pop the cork open for us as our accommodation's room didn't have a bottle opener (and we're so used to screw caps these days, we didn't even think to check). So I'm gonna stick with three stars. My nostalgia for the pub is stronger than my present experience, but it's still a good spot for this little town.

After a long drive great pub food and comfortable room. Central location to the town. Make sure you book ahead as Dinner hours in Regional Tassie is usually 6pm to 7:30pm as a rule of thumb. They looked after me here and after a short wait had a 3 course meal. Very attentive staff.