Bruny Island food tours put the oysters, cheese, honey and chocolate in the fare, and most of them pay for your lunch as well. You cross on the ferry, eat your way down the island and let someone else drive.
Everything is paid for: morning tea on the beach, lunch at Hotel Bruny, a private chocolate and fudge tasting, honey and cheese. You also climb inside the lighthouse with a guide. Only drinks with meals cost extra.
From $203 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A tasting day from the Hobart waterfront for up to 24, with an hour's lunch by the beach and honey and chocolate stops. The food and drink on the itinerary are in the fare, and select hotels can arrange a pickup.
From $210 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Six guests at most, collected from a cruise ship or a central hotel. You taste bread, whisky, oysters and wine, when the cellar door is open, with an hour at a vineyard. Lunch is yours to buy.
From $261 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A private day for your party, from two to eleven, with breakfast, a vineyard lunch, bottled water, the ferry and park fees in the fare. You pick the afternoon, and a lighthouse tour is one of the choices.
From $720 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Ten hours from central Hobart with morning tea on the beach, lunch, chocolate, honey and cheese, the ferry and the park in the fare, and a guided climb inside the lighthouse.
See this tourA food tour here is a day on the road, not a sit-down tasting in one place. You cross on the ferry from Kettering, then drive from producer to producer: oysters, cheese, honey, chocolate, bread, wine and whisky. Between them you stop at the lookouts, and most food days also give you a beach and a walk.
What makes it a food tour is who pays. On these days the tastings are in the fare, and on most of them lunch is too. On a sightseeing day you stop at the same producers, but you buy as you go. So the real question is how much of the eating you want paid up front.
The island has no gate and no entry ticket. The fare buys the guide, the transport and the food, and on some days the ferry and the park pass as well.
You do not reach for your wallet at every stop. The Bruny Island Safaris day covers morning tea, lunch at Hotel Bruny and three tastings. The Pennicott day covers the food and drink on its itinerary, with an hour's lunch by the beach. You only pay for extra drinks.
Only the Bruny Island Safaris days take you up inside Cape Bruny Lighthouse. The private day offers a lighthouse tour as one afternoon choice, and every other day stops at the grounds or skips the cape. If the climb matters to you, that settles it.
A driver would need to plan the order, find parking and watch the clock for the ferry. On a food day the guide knows the route and the opening hours. You eat, and someone else drives the gravel.
The Signature day takes six people at most. The private Discovery day takes your party alone, from two to eleven, with breakfast and a vineyard lunch.
The sightseeing days stop at many of the same places. Here is what changes when you pay for the food up front.
| A food day | A sightseeing day | |
|---|---|---|
| Lunch | In the fare on most | At your own cost |
| Tastings | In the fare | Bought as you go |
| The lighthouse | Climb on the Safaris days | Grounds only, or none |
| Group size | 6 to 24 | 10 to 20 |
| Fare, per person | $203 to $210 | $130 |
| Free cancellation | 24 hours | 24 hours |
If you eat lightly, a sightseeing day plus what you buy may cost less. Those days, and the walks they add, are on Bruny Island walking tours. The seals and cliffs are on Bruny Island boat tours.
Nine hours and 45 minutes from Franklin Wharf, with an hour's lunch by the beach and honey and chocolate stops, and the food and drink on the itinerary in the fare.
Check availabilityWhat each fare covers, line by line, is in our guide to tour prices.
Still weighing food against the cliffs? Our guide to choosing a tour works through it question by question.
Would you rather walk, cruise or spend two days? Every kind of trip is compared on Bruny Island Tours.