No wifi. No television. That’s the part people write about.
Time to slow down
Hunter was built for people who came here to be outside. Three cabins on thirty-six acres of bushland at Glen Huon, spaced far enough apart that you can spend a whole weekend here without seeing another person.
There is no wifi and no television in any of the cabins. It reads like a subtraction until you are sitting in one. In three years of reviews, almost nobody mentions the thing that is missing. What they write about instead is the mist coming off the river at breakfast, the light going gold over the hills at six, the black cockatoos, the rain on the skylight above the bed.
Mobile reception works throughout the property, so switching off stays a choice rather than a condition. Take the call if you need to take the call. Most people find they have stopped reaching for the phone by the second morning.
The bath
Every cabin has a deep stone composite bath set hard against the full-height windows, big enough for two, angled so the valley does the entertaining. Run it in the afternoon and you will still be in it when the light goes. There is no reason to get out and nothing waiting for you when you do.
“Some places hold you differently. This was one of them. The bath was a ritual, the light through the windows something I kept returning to, and falling asleep under stars felt like a quiet gift… We left slower and more restored.”
Switching off
Dusk is the hour the cabins were designed around. The fire is set in the hearth before you arrive, so lighting it is one match and no errand. Run the bath, open something, and watch the township lights come up across the valley.
Later the sky over Glen Huon has almost nothing in it but stars, and the skylight above the bed means you do not have to go outside to see them.
“A little cocoon of everything you need to just switch off, recharge and reconnect with the person you are with.”
What’s already here
Nothing to organise and nothing to bring. It is all set before you arrive.
Beyond the door the rest of the property is yours: walking trails through thirty-six acres of eucalypt woodland, a private dam, natural rock formations, and a deck with nothing in front of it but valley.
In their words
having the wood heater on, the stars twinkling overhead and the lights of the township in the distance is the most serene way to fall asleep. The bathtub looking out over the view big enough for two is such a beautiful touch, encouraging a moment of peace.
A real home away from home, as peaceful as it gets with thoughtful touches throughout.
It’s a great place to really unwind and switch off as there is no tv or wifi
The view
The cabins face out, not in. Full-height glass along one wall, a deck past it, and thirty-six acres of eucalypt woodland running down towards the Huon River. Morning is mist lifting off the water. Evening is the light going long over the hills and the township coming on in the distance.
It is the same window every day of your stay, and it does not look the same twice.
“instead of Netflix the viewing was the valley with the changing light of setting sun over the hills and in the morning, the mist hugging the river and rising through the forest.”
$569 a night, booked direct. The best price you’ll find anywhere.
