10+ stars to Anne and Terry and their beautiful home in South Hobart! This place was so perfectly described online that it was even better once we walked in to find all of the additional extra amenities and cute little touches that they added to the home. Location is great - very short drive to the city (close enough for you to walk less than 30 mins if you wanted but far enough to not be IN the busy city!) and we checked in right after a beautiful (but freezing!) drive up to Mt. Wellington, which is about 20 minutes depending on how high you go up to the mtn.
There's a great little welcome binder that Anne & Terry have prepared for their guests with lots of local information. You can really tell that they are genuine when it comes to wanting to accommodate all of their guests needs and have really gone ABOVE AND BEYOND to make sure that the place has everything that you would need (that you might not have even known you needed!), especially if it's something little like nail polish remover, origami paper and instruction books, a heater in the bathroom, 2 suitcase stands, extra blankets for the couch, extra chargers, wine bottle opener, coffee/tea, different TYPES of oil to please the olive aficionado and all the cleaning supplies if you needed it. I also read online that if you are missing something to cook like flour, then you can just knock on the door to see if Anne & Terry have some extra to spare, which is so great because who wants to purchase that when you are traveling?!
We found out the hard way that everything closes pretty early in Tasmania and were so pleasantly surprised to see that if we got in late, there were even a few little items to eat/cook just so that we wouldn't go hungry! Very kind and thoughtful touch to the home.
Anne & Terry's place was so wonderful - we really wished we could have stayed longer! One of the sweetest things I noticed was that Terry saw we had left to go get a drink at the pub across the street and since their neighborhood is quite dark, he turned on the outdoor lights for us so we wouldn't slip on the set up stairs up to the guesthouse. They also provided the place with flashlights, DVDs, arts & crafts materials, brolleys, a recycling bin... I honestly mean it when I say this place had everything! We spent our last night here and are planning on coming back on a motorcycle trip and I will make it a point to visit Anne & Terry again. Thank you so much for letting us into your home and I hope everyone else who visits it gets to enjoy it as much as us! :)