Affiliate Disclosure

This site earns money in one way. Some links on these pages point to live booking pages, and if a booking goes through, a commission is paid back to the site. That is the whole arrangement. The price shown on the booking page is the price you would see anyway, with nothing added for arriving via a link. No tour operator, from Pennicott Wilderness Journeys to the smallest family-run guide, pays to appear here or to be described favourably.

Trips For Sale, At Arm's Length

Money changes hands here, so it deserves a plain sentence. When you book a Bruny Island cruise, lighthouse tour or multi-day Tasmania trip through a link on this site, the booking platform pays a commission. What it does not buy is a favourable write-up. Operators with thousands of reviews and operators with three sit side by side, ranked on the merits recorded in the listings, not on who sends a payment.

Listings Shown, Boats Not Run

Every tour on this site is run by someone else. Pennicott Wilderness Journeys runs the wilderness cruises, Bruny Island Safaris runs the lighthouse and full-day trips, and Tassie Tours Tasmania, Tours Tasmania, Bespoke Tours Hobart, Love Tasmania Tours & Coal River Coaches and Island Scenic Flights run the rest. This site compares what they offer. It owns no boats, no coaches and no aircraft, and no seat on any departure carries this site's name.

This site is an independent comparison of Bruny Island tours, not a tour operator. Every trip listed here, from the Pennicott Wilderness Journeys cruises to the Bruny Island Safaris lighthouse tours, is designed, guided and run by the operator named on its listing. We compare what they offer, then send you to the live booking page to reserve your seat.

A quick example of the line being drawn. The 3-hour wilderness cruise priced from A$190 covers the cruise itself, and the Hobart bus option is priced separately on the listing. That distinction comes from the operator's own details, and the booking page spells out exactly what your payment covers for whichever option you choose. Sorting out those details, and any change to them, sits with the operator rather than with this comparison site.

Costs Outside These Pages

Some costs sit outside the prices you see here. The ferry from Kettering to Bruny Island is one example: operators like Pennicott Wilderness Journeys include the crossing in their day tours from Hobart, but if you travel independently the ferry fare is your own to pay. Tastings, meals and hotel pickups outside the terms stated on a listing can also add to your total.

A Ranking No Operator Buys

• Rankings follow the recorded evidence: the rating, the number of reviews behind it, the duration, the from-price and what the tour actually includes, drawn from the live listing.
• No commission rate, past relationship or freebie shifts a card's position. An operator paying more never moves up, and an operator paying nothing is never pushed down for it.
• New listings get a fair shake. The scenic flight with no reviews yet sits in its category on its merits, unpenalised for being new and unboosted for anything beyond the facts.
• Where two tours look close on paper, the differences that matter to a visitor decide it: the duration, the from-price, the pickup arrangements and the category, not any commercial arrangement.

Where Each Tour Number Comes From

Every rating, review count, price and duration on this site comes from the live listing for that tour. The 4.8 rating across 1003 reviews for the Ultimate Full-Day Bruny Island tour, the A$25 entry for the Cape Bruny Lighthouse tour, the 3-hour wilderness cruise: each figure is taken from the operator's published listing, not from our own assessment. Where a listing carries no reviews, as with the Island Scenic Flights scenic flight, we say so plainly.

Booking Direct Works Too

Booking with an operator directly is always open to you, and nothing on this site needs a tagged link to be clicked. The FAQ and the guides stand on their own either way.

Spotted a from-price that no longer matches the listing, or a tour card sitting higher than the facts justify: send a note. The about page explains how the cards are chosen and ordered.