cost to take car and caravan to tasmania

You’ll be taking the Spirit of Tasmania ferry (Geelong ↔ Devonport), and pricing is a choose-your-own-adventure of season, cabin/recliner, passengers, and how big your car-plus-caravan combo is. Vehicles are charged separately from caravans/trailers, with the towable bits priced mainly by length and height, so every extra metre is a little farewell to your wallet. As a rule of thumb, budget several hundred dollars each way for the rig before cabins, then add fares for the humans and any cabin upgrade. Peak school-holiday sailings and weekends cost more, off-peak midweek less, and pets, bikes and roof pods can tweak the total. Book as early as you can—spaces for long rigs sell out—and recheck prices close to departure because ferry fares move around like a kelpie on espresso.