We enjoyed our stay at Karen's place. Karen was very quick to respond to our booking request with all the necessary information. The apartment is spatious and very convenient to the University campus in Sandy Bay where my husband and I had work meetings (followed by 2 days holiday), a relatively easy walk of about 10 minutes. The apartment was comfortable for our party of 4 (age range from 2 to 69). We got by without a car, just walking and using buses (and ferry to MONA) although a reasonable level of fitness is required. The price of the apartment's excellent views is that it is on a big hill! The bus service is not great - while the drivers are generally friendly and do their best, the buses are often late and rushed (and also not that frequent at the stop closest to the house). However we had no real problems getting around. As well as the Salamanca/Battery Point area that we had seen before, this time we also enjoyed visiting Signal Point at Mount Nelson and Long Beach in Sandy Bay (unfortunately the twilight market wasn't on the week we were there, but there is an excellent playground at Long Beach and we had a nice dinner at Prossers). We used Hobart maxi connect to and from the airport - we found them to offer a reliable, reasonably priced service and they can provide baby/child car seats.