The Pavilions at Mona

Style

Arty avant-garde architecture

Setting

Banks of the Derwent River

Maverick, multi-tasking The Pavilions at Mona mixes a serene riverside setting with ultra-contemporary pavilions, original art, a winery, lip-smacking restaurant and alternative festivals – and comes up trumps. With an ambitious private museum also on site, this is one for culture vultures, gourmets, gadget heads and style fiends.

Facilities

客室

Eight pavilions, all suites.

Checkout

11am, but flexible for Smith members (or for the 'flirtatious', as Mona's cheeky in-room compendium suggests). Check-in, 3pm.

詳細

Rates at The Pavilions at Mona include cooked breakfast in the Source restaurant or continental breakfast in-room, and a bottle of Muse Series wine.

Also

Of all The Pavilions at Mona, the Charles has the strongest set-up if you have mobility needs; it features wider entry ways and has handrails in the shower and toilet, as well as a bedroom and bathroom on the same level as the living spaces. Pathways from the restaurant, reception, museum and carpark areas link to all pavilions, occasionally involving slight inclines or uneven sections. In the museum and restaurant, there are lifts to all floors.

フィットネスセンター

インターネット接続（無料）

ホテル内にレストランあり

ルームサービス

At the Hotel

Winery, gym, sauna and free WiFi. In rooms: TVs in bedrooms, living areas and some bathrooms, original art, minibar, temperature-controlled wine storage, kitchen.

Our Favourite Rooms

Mona's eight bold pavilions are all unique. The original four, celebrating Australian artists Sidney (Nolan), Brett (Whiteley), Arthur (Boyd) and Charles (Blackman), each boast a painting by their namesakes, as well as ancient artefacts. Intimate and modernist, they cantilever dramatically over the river, with Zen-chic rooms and serene water views from outdoor decks. We like spacious two-floor, two-bedroom Brett, but cosier one-bedroom Sidney has a great bathroom. The four newer pavilions, named after architects Robin (Boyd), Esmond (Dorney), Walter (Burley Griffin) and Roy (Grounds), are set back from the river; three-storey, two-bedroom faceted-metal penthouse Roy is the most spectacular, spacious and private (ideal for families), with a spa bath on the deck for bathing alfresco.

Poolside

Low-lying and intimate, the heated infinity lap pool nestles beside Roy pavilion, with angled floor-to-ceiling windows so you can gaze out to the tree-fringed river while you swim. Work out at the gym alongside, then wind down at the sauna.

Packing Tips

Swimsuit, gym and yoga kit if you're the sporty type. Forget bag-clogging books, though – each pavilion comes with a stack of art and architecture tomes, novels and mags, all personally recommended by Mona staff.

Also

The adjacent Mona gallery, and its café and bars, are only open Friday to Monday. The Source restaurant will still be open to guests for breakfast and alternative dinner arrangements can be made when the restaurant is closed.

子供

The Pavilions at Mona has a sophisticated adult vibe, but kids are welcome and the private, two-bedroom pavilions make cool family cocoons. The hotel can supply baby cots (AU$50 a night), roll-out beds for older kids (AU$100 a night) and babysitters.

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Food & Drink

Top Table

Request a table by the window overlooking the river – or venture out onto the terrace in warm weather to soak up fresh air, sunshine and aquatic horizons.

ドレスコード

Go minimal and modern to match the mood; stylish sartorial statements for admiring the art, architecture and gourmet offerings, plus lower key threads for lounging in your private pavilion.

Hotel Restaurant

On the first floor of The Pavilions at Mona's sharp-suited, ultra-contemporary reception building the Ether, you'll find destination restaurant the Source, a cool confection of minimal white tables and crisp glass walls which make the most of killer rustic views. The menu consists of French-influenced Mod Oz dishes, which embrace the mantra 'think globally, but act locally' with great oysters, mussels, escabeche and pan roasted fish on offer, as well as delicious desserts, and own-label wine and beer produced on the premises.

Hotel Bar

Pop to the Mona museum Wine Bar out near the lawn for tempting drops and cheese platters.

Last Orders

The Source is open for lunch Friday–Monday from noon to 4pm.

Room Service

Continental breakfast can be pre-arranged to arrive at your room between 7.30am and 10am.

Planes

Fly into Hobart International Airport, which handles regular domestic flights from major cities on the Australian mainland – although no international flights. From there, it's a 25-minute, 20-kilometre drive to The Pavilions at Mona.

Automobiles

A taxi from the airport to Hobart city centre costs around AU$36.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

There's no need to leave entertainment one-stop shop The Pavilions at Mona, so lap up the remote riverside feel away from inner-city Hobart. Check out the free Cellar Door tastings (be sure to prebook), hit the heated swimming pool and sauna, or order a soothing massage in the privacy of your apartment-style room (there isn't a spa here, but you won't miss one).

Save a day to visit the adjacent Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), carved out of a dramatic cliffside site beside the Ether reception building. Offering a secular temple to Australian and global art through the ages, it's home to a controversial, high-impact collection, including digital mummies and real Egyptian ones, as well as 'Cloaca Professional', a jaw-dropping machine that replicates the human digestive system. Designed by Melbourne firm Fender Katsalidis Architects (who also created the hotel's four residential pavilions), it's on a par with the scale of Adelaide's Art Gallery of South Australia and Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art, and has become a major draw-card for Hobart. Interactive Mona O guides explain the works on show and allow you to save your museum tour to your email account, so you can download visual highlights at home. Refuel while you get your art fix at the Void Bar or in the nearby Wine Bar above ground. Don't miss the concrete Casket back at the hotel, a quirky wunderkammer display pod offering a microcosmic taste of the art and ancient artifacts on show in the Mona museum. We love the way it opens seductively as you approach.

Staff and concierge services can pretty much make anything happen for you here, as the tongue-in-cheek room compendium suggests. 'Please see reception if you're planning a pool party or ritualistic orgy', jokes the blurb. And when it comes to travel experiences, it jests, 'We can arrange pretty much anything legal. Jusk ask.'

If you're staying over a Saturday, it's worth checking out the Salamanca Market on Salamanca Place in Hobart's historic quarter, where over 300 stalls sell local produce, delicious snacks, crafts and flea market treasures. For a scenic journey, take Mona's boat there and back along the river (you can book tickets in advance for the 30-minute ride).

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