New Sydney Hotel & Backpacker Inn is located on Bathurst Street within close distance to everything you need in Hobart. The hostel can serve as a base while you explore the region or arrange your fruit picking work.
Hostels
Central City Backpackers Hobart
Central City Backpackers Hobart offers a fun and friendly vibe in the centre of Hobart, a stones through from everything you need in the city centre. The hostel can help with finding harvest jobs, weather updates, tour advice & information, accomodation around Tasmania, travel tips, and fair dinkum honest advice. There’s heaps of dorm or room options so you sure to find the bed for you!
Transit Backpackers
Transit Backpackers team prides themselves on their local knowledge of Hobart and the surrounding areas, so that should have some great insights when it comes to harvest work and fruit picking. The hostel provides clean, comfortable and affordable accommodation to the traveller or working holiday maker with an array of dorm rooms and kitchen and shower facilities. Transit is located on the busy Liverpool street, so you’ll be amongst the action.
Tassie Backpackers
Tassie Backpackers at the Brunswick Hotel, provides quality accommodation at very affordable prices. The hostel is within walking distance to everything you’ll need in Hobart and is a great place to set yourself up for a fruit picking or Tasmanian adventure. The backpackers is a part of the Brunswick Hotel, so you can grab a beer or quality feed metres from your room.
Hobart Hostel
The Hobart Hostel is a friendly hostel located in the centre of town withing close proximity to the Salamanca markets, restaurants bars and cafes. The hostel will serve as a good base for finding fruit picking work or residing while you work ( if you have your own car). There is an option of dorm rooms, double rooms, and doubles with ensuites, so sit back relax and enjoy what Hobart has to offer.
Pickled Frog Backpackers
Pickled Frog Backpackers is situated in the centre of Hobart, a pefect location to base yourself and explore the surrounding areas. The hostel is a great starting point for harvest or fruit picking work in the area with New Nortfolk a stones through away and many other picking areas nearby. The Frog has been operating since 2000 and is still going strong!
Huon Valley Backpackers (Baffles Hill)
Huon Valley Backpackers (Baffles Hill) is located centrally in the middle of the Huon Valleys fruit growing district, just 3/4 of an hour south of Hobart it’s a great place to find fruit picking work and stay during your working holiday or travel adventure. Work is arranged from mid November through to May with special weekly rates for working holiday makers. The hostel is on a farm setting overlooking the views of the Huon river and the heritage mountain areas.
Little Devil Backpackers
Little Devil Backpackers is one Tasmania’s newest working hostels, located in the beautiful Huonville region just 38km south of Hobart. The hostel will assist guests with finding farm or processing jobs in the area from late October to May each year. The hostel itself has indoor and outdoor dinning facilities, a 42inch plasma, dvd player and internet access for all guests.
MacWright House Hostel
MacWright House Hostel is larger style house which has been modified to serve as a hostel offering a shared kitchen, BBQ and laundry. There are 9 bedrooms in the hostel, each configured which a different number of beds and setup. Long term rental deals may be available.
Hawley’s Gingerbread House Hostel
Hawley’s Gingerbread House is more of a cosier, boutique hostel with no rooms sharing more than 4 occupants at any one time. The hostel itself has WiFi in all rooms as well as an outdoor terrace for guests to use. Linen is included in the price and there’s a storage area if you’ve checked out but not leaving until the arvo. A great friendly hostel to base yourself for your working holiday or visit to Devonport.