We loved our stay at Recreation Cottage, its clean, comfortable and best of all wonderfully peaceful and so close to the beautiful Derwent River. The cottage has everything you need and Lynette and John are fantastic hosts. We never ran out of places to eat; within 5 minutes walk there are two pubs, an Asian place (Room 23, yum), Salty Dog (which we didn't get to) and Pep's Pizza (also didn't make it). One of the pubs is Robbie Browns which we recommend extra highly because the staff really know their whiskey. The other, Beach 32, is great too. There are big shops (Coles etc), plus a really nice wholefood place and lots more restaurants/takeaways 15 mins walk up the road in Kingston Central so at Kingston Beach you get the best of all worlds. There are regular buses to Hobart 2 mins from the house, and lovely bush tracks to explore - though we didn't have enough time to do these justice. Very highly recommended!