At Hadley’s Orient Hotel, our heritage-listed hotel plays host to almost two centuries of stories, scandals and secrets to be explored. The floor boards whisper of the hotel’s rich and often tumultuous history.

In fact, the halls house memories of gentlemen’s lunches, nights of cabaret and the most marvellous soirées. It’s true that the very fabric of the property is woven with tales of convicts, entrepreneurs, celebrities-past and countless other patrons of days gone by. 

Some such figures include Sir William Don (1862), Tasmania’s first royal visitor, the Duke of Penrieve, France (1866), Dame Nellie Melba (1909), Antarctic explorers Douglas Mawson (1911) and Roald Amundsen (1912) as well as a host of visiting governors, premiers and prime ministers.