Affiliate Disclosure

Hours, prices and access verified by the Bruny Island Tours team — last checked 2026-09-21.

Plainly, and before anything else: Bruny Island Tours may earn a commission when you book through a link on this site, at no extra cost to you.

What that means in practice

The tours listed here are sold through Viator and GetYourGuide. When you follow a link from one of these pages and go on to book, the platform pays us a share of its own commission. You pay the same fare either way; the price on the booking page is the operator's price, not a marked-up one.

What we are not

We are not a tour operator. We do not run any of these tours or cruises, employ any of these guides or hold your booking. Your contract is with the operator, through the platform.

We have no connection with the Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania, Bruny Island Tourism, SeaLink, Kingborough Council, Cape Bruny Lighthouse Tours or any tour or cruise operator.

How tours get listed

Operators cannot pay for placement, position or a badge. A badge on a card is a measured claim: Top rated only on a tour rated 4.9 or higher, Best seller only on the tour with the most reviews, Best value only on the cheapest. Bruny Island Safaris' food day with the lighthouse climb carries Best seller, the 3-hour wilderness cruise from Adventure Bay carries Top rated, and the Tours Tasmania hike carries Best value. A platform's own badge, such as a certification, is not shown.

Several tours are sold on both platforms: the same operator, the same day, two listings with their own ratings and slightly different fares. Both appear because each is separately bookable, and they are never shown side by side as if they were different days.

The featured tours at the top of the homepage are three different kinds of day: a food day with the lighthouse climb from the Hobart information centre, a walking and sightseeing day with hotel pickup, and the cruise that starts on the island.

Prices, ratings and how current they are

Prices, star ratings and review counts belong to the operators and were taken from their own listings on 21 September 2026. They move, and the figure at checkout is the one that counts. Every tour fare is quoted in US dollars because that is the currency the listings were captured in; nothing is converted at an exchange rate. Every fare here is per person except the private charter, which prices per group of up to four, and that is the listing's own statement rather than our reading of it.

The facts about the national park, the parks pass, the lighthouse and the roads are the Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania's own, read from its pages. The ferry's timing and queues are Bruny Tourism's, and the way the fare is charged is SeaLink's. The climate figures are the Bureau of Meteorology's own averages for the Cape Bruny Lighthouse station. The cruise's departure times are the operator's own timetable. Where a detail comes from a listing, such as a meeting point, a group size, an age limit or what lunch includes, it belongs to that tour.

What we deliberately do not publish

The ferry's vehicle fares. SeaLink's own fares page could not be read, and the figures elsewhere are undated, with a fare change announced for 28 September 2026. We say only that the fare is charged per vehicle and that foot passengers travel free.
The price of the lighthouse tour. The only published figures we found were dated to a season that has ended, so we say only that it is a separate paid tour.
First and last sailings, and the ferry terminal's hours. They change with the season, and the timetable is SeaLink's to publish.
The island's size, length and population. We found no official source that states them.
How many seals live at The Friars. One source says hundreds and another thousands, so we say only that they haul out there.
Whether wombats live on the island. The Parks and Wildlife Service lists them among the animals to watch for; Bruny Tourism says none have reached the island. We claim neither.
A build date of 1834 for the lighthouse. One listing gives it; the Parks and Wildlife Service and the lighthouse's own tour operator say 1836, first lit in 1838.
A Travelers' Choice badge. No listing in this capture carries that award, so the badge is not shown on this site.