The popular Port Arthur Mega day tour is a flexible and great value for money tour showcasing the fascinating Tasmanian history, the natural attractions of the Tasman Peninsula, and Tasmania’s unique wilderness. Port Arthur Historic Site has been awarded Tasmania’s best Major Tourism Attraction for the fourth consecutive year. Furthermore, the World Heritage listed site was also named Tasmania’s best Cultural and Heritage tourism attraction for the third year in succession. To do the Port Arthur Mega tour is an absolute must for anyone visiting Tasmania.
Posted By : Stephen R
Using Tripadvisor for a trip trip to Port Arthur Tasmania Australia. Reservations made online with confirmation email soon after however another email stated pending but nothing more than that remark. Email also stated three days required before final confirmation so I was confused to say the least. On the third day there was no confirmation And no email. To be on the safe side I purchased a ticket through another vendor 24 hours before I was supposed to leave on the Tripadvisor tour. Four hours before the alleged tour through Tripadvisor was to begin. I received an email that the tour was canceled!
Thankfully I had purchased a tour the night before.
Emails requests were not returned through Tripadvisor until the final email a few hours before the trip was to commence.
For this reason I will never use Tripadvisor for a tour!
On over 20 tours taken in three months time,in Asia and Australia, I had not one problem with any other tour!
Subsequently, I am spammed by TripAdvisor for tours of Australia some three weeks after I left the country and there seems to be no end in sight. They need to get their act together in my opinion.
Dr Rasmussen.
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Posted On : 2023-03-25 07:24:46 
Posted By : Rob_GC2019
1. Make it quite clear in your brochures that its a 11 seater bus very uncomfortable.
2. Don't dump your passengers off at Richmond at 8.30am when the town is closed and point to a bridge with instructions to meet me there in 30 minutes
3. Its a trip to see Port Arthur we were given instruction to randomly stroll around when there was a free guided tour. Take the tour and start at the beginning not at the end.
4. This was the highlight of our trip, 2.5 hours at Port Arthur not enough.
5. Don't answer your phone of have a conversation on the phone when driving paying customers.
6. Stick to the guided tour and historical chater, no political views or complain about rules and regulations.
7. Please clean the vehicle' windscreen so you can see through the windscreen when driving into the sun.
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Posted On : 2021-03-21 23:48:37
Posted By : ychoi88745
Had a great day, everything was nicely paced, and got to visit Richmond early, so had some great photograph opportunities. Mark the tour guide, was great and very funny, kept us laughing the entire way through. Definitely worth the money. Would recommend this tour.
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Posted On : 2018-11-30 04:58:35
Posted By : Grace B
Generally I thought the tour was good value as it covered Richmond port Arthur and parts of the Tasman peninsula. We weren’t guided at Port Arthur but we could have joined one. We wandered around on our own which was pleasant but not informative. The site was beautiful but some re-enactment of events as occurs in other sites would have been interesting. We had about 2 hrs there. We went to the unzoo which was disappointing. I love the concept but I would have been furious if I’d paid $36 to see one devil feeding and a few reclining kangaroos. Fortunately it was only a few dollars more than the standard tour. We could have had less time at Richmond and more at Tasman peninsula walk or included a winery. Mark was quite funny at times but I can see it could be too much ‘commentary ‘ for some. I was very appreciative of the drop off at the airport. Overall a better option than driving yourself probably.
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Posted On : 2018-10-22 02:53:56
Posted By : Alexandra F
Although i had paid ,Mark decided as the big boss,not to pick me up because i dared to complain that they were late and i was waiting in the rain at the street.He was totally rude ,i even when to the police to complain and they adviced me to write my story here and not only he was laughing on me at the phone ,he said to the tourist information that he did not pick me up because i was i threat to other people......
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Posted On : 2018-03-30 17:59:03
Posted By : neil651
Fantastic day wit a very good guide. Certainly worth going for this experience. So much history and well restored
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Posted On : 2018-03-15 00:29:45
Posted By : skpolak
We were picked up at a different hotel than the one we were staying in for some strange reason. When we got on the bus the tour guide Mark started with this incessant conversation that rarely stopped and got less informative, more rude and at times definitely racist.
We were dropped off in Richmond and told to walk a km to where he would be waiting on the bus, gave a 30 second description of where we could head and was gone. Didn’t know about the history of the bridge or the town. Just told there was a bakery and where the toilets are.
We stopped numerous times to look at stupid or pointless things like the US embassy, which turned out to be a KFC.
Before we got to Port Arthur we wanted to visit the Tassie Devil sanctuary which we were promptly told was a waste of time and we needed all 4 hours at port Arthur.
When we get to Port Arthur we were rushed inside and given a map and a lanyard that let us in. He walked us down the steps, after complaining about how much a waste of money ( 11 million)the new visitors centre was and how stupid the new museum in the centre was, he spent another minute telling us to cut through the park and go around and meet back at the bus at 4:20 while he goes for a 12km run.
4 hours was far too long though Port Arthur itself was beautiful.
Honestly I would not recommend this tour to anyone and it was the black stain on our holiday.
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Posted On : 2018-02-24 05:26:09
Posted By : Stephanie C
Booked the port Arthur full day mega tour excellent value for money, the guide Mark took time to get to know everyone's name he had a great sense of humour and included everyone in his chat very informative and nothing was to much trouble for him would definitely recommend thanks Mark for a great day out Stephanie and Mick Graham and Annette
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Posted On : 2018-02-04 05:56:15
Posted By : 737sachaw
I enjoyed the Port Arthur Mega Tour this week. Mega being the right word! This tour included so many extras which was great.
Port Arthur was amazing, I still can't believe it was an active prison for boys and adults for 50 years! It's a must see if you're in Hobart.
The people on my tour bus had already done other tours that week with Mark and had come back for more which is always a good sign.
With adventure island it was nicer being in smaller groups, Mark makes sure you all get involved and enjoy everything.
We were lucky enough to see the sea bridge raise as a yacht went through which was a nice surprise and good to see it in action.
They offer an option to add the unzoo to your tour but unless you're really tight on time for being in Hobart I wouldn't choose it as there's so much to see at P A. It's much bigger than you expect!
Top tip for Port Arthur; if you're having lunch there use the restaurant in the newly built visitors centre, not the other cafe. There's much more choice in the visitor centre one.
All in all the tour was a great day and well worth the money! A must do!
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Posted On : 2018-01-09 05:31:43
Posted By : Graham B
The trip was good but we found Port Arthur disappointing. Too commercialised now and has lost it's atmosphere.
