Australia
4 ranked
hotels in Hobart
4 MICHELIN Keys · 0 Forbes Five Star · 1 World's 50 Best placings
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Sandstone waterfront beneath kunanyi, gateway to Tasmanian wilderness
Hobart has 4 hotels ranked in the finehotels.world index. The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Hobart leads on prestige score at 5.79 out of 10, followed by MACq 01 Hotel and The Henry Jones Art Hotel. Of those, 4 hold MICHELIN Keys, 1 have placed in The World's 50 Best Hotels.
Hobart's hotels occupy the colonial sandstone warehouses that line its working harbour. Four ranked properties all hold MICHELIN Keys, and one restaurant appears on The World's 50 Best list. The Henry Jones Art Hotel was made from a former jam factory on Hunter Street, keeping its brick and beams while hanging contemporary Tasmanian art through the public rooms.
Next door, MACq 01 sits directly on the Hobart docks and builds its rooms around local stories, while The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel occupies a run of nineteenth-century buildings and a 1940s art deco block on Davey Street. The Islington Hotel works at a very different scale, a regency house with gardens at South Hobart looking up at kunanyi.
| Hotel | Prestige | Distinctions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Hobart1 Key · 50 Best · 152 rooms | 5.79 | 1 MICHELIN Key; World's 50 Best No. 49 in 2024 |
| 2 | MACq 01 Hotel1 Key · 114 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 3 | The Henry Jones Art Hotel1 Key · 56 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 4 | The Islington Hotel1 Key · 11 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
Prestige score is shown out of 10. Sources: MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, Forbes Travel Guide 2026 Star Awards, The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 to 2025, La Liste Top 1000 Hotels.
Sullivans Cove, covering Hunter Street, the docks and Salamanca Place, holds nearly all of the ranked hotels along with the Saturday market, the galleries and the ferry to Mona; Battery Point rises immediately behind with cottage streets and Georgian houses; South Hobart and Sandy Bay offer garden settings and the road up the mountain.
December to March is the Tasmanian summer, taking in the Sydney to Hobart finish, the Taste festival and long daylight, with the tightest availability; the Dark Mofo period in June draws a distinct winter crowd, and the shoulder months of April, May, October and November are quiet.
By prestige score, the three highest ranked hotels in Hobart are The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Hobart, MACq 01 Hotel, The Henry Jones Art Hotel. The score is a composite of MICHELIN Keys, Forbes Travel Guide Five Star ratings, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025, and La Liste's hotel ratings. finehotels.world tracks 4 award holding hotels in Hobart in total.
Hobart has 4 hotels holding MICHELIN Keys in this index.
Each hotel is scored on a fixed formula built only from award facts, then shown on a scale of 5.00 to 10.00. MICHELIN Keys carry the most weight, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating adds a flat six points, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are weighted equally, and a La Liste rating moves the total slightly. Nothing a hotel supplies about itself enters the score, and the full formula is published on the methodology page so any figure in the table can be reproduced from the awards beside it.
December to March is the Tasmanian summer, taking in the Sydney to Hobart finish, the Taste festival and long daylight, with the tightest availability; the Dark Mofo period in June draws a distinct winter crowd, and the shoulder months of April, May, October and November are quiet.
Sullivans Cove, covering Hunter Street, the docks and Salamanca Place, holds nearly all of the ranked hotels along with the Saturday market, the galleries and the ferry to Mona; Battery Point rises immediately behind with cottage streets and Georgian houses; South Hobart and Sandy Bay offer garden settings and the road up the mountain.