We stayed at Penny’s place for a week. She is a wonderful host with plenty of good tips for you, will have a chat with you if you feel like it or will leave you some privacy. The house is absolutely charming. If you don’t have a car nor a bike it is about 25min to the city center (walk+bus) and 20min walk to the botanical garden or the closest small beach, so you can still do things around if you don’t feel like going to the city center, but close enough to visit Hobart. We can only recommend!