Launceston to Cradle Mountain 6:30am

Terms and Conditions

Launceston to Cradle Mountain 6:30am
from $60.00 per person

No minimum numbers required
group discounts apply
10% surcharge on Sundays

and Public Holidays

For the 2025/26 season, we are offering some amazing Early Birdie Deals including discounts on group bus tickets, a FREE Personal Locator Beacon hire for each order and a FREE bag of WonderWool. These offers are valid for bookings made before the 31st August 2025 for travel between 1st October 2025 and 30th April 2026.

Discounted Group Bus Tickets
For groups of 4 or more, we have reduced our bus ticket prices for early bookings, these prices are automatically discounted when booking. The Early Birdie group ticket discounts are for bookings made for 4 or more people in one booking, one payment and one pick-up/drop-off location.

FREE Personal Locator Beacon hire
All bookings can receive 1 x PLB hire for FREE. To receive this great offer simply book your PLB on our website under HIRE GEAR for your travel dates and then at checkout, enter the code PLBFREE. This will bring the cost of the PLB to $0 saving you $50.00.

FREE WonderWool
Each booking can also receive a FREE 25g bag of WonderWool for your trip. Keep blisters away with WonderWool. To receive 1 x FREE bag of WonderWool, book your WonderWool on our website under SHOP and the cost is $0. Limit of 1 bag per order.

Our pick-ups in the Launceston CBD begin from 6:15am and as we quite often have many pick-up locations each morning, we limit our pick-up locations to the CBD of Launceston only. If you are staying outside of the CBD please contact with us to discuss your closest pick-up location. 

With Airbnb accommodation we will of course do our best to pick you up at your accommodation but if there is not a safe pick-up zone for our bus and trailer, we will need to pick you up at the closest safe location. If you are unsure if your accommodation is within the CBD pick-up zone, please feel free to email us to confirm. 

Our Launceston to Cradle Mountain 6:30am service begins with early morning pick-ups starting from 6:15am from Launceston CBD, Overland Track Transport arrives at the Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre at approx. 9:15am, having you start your adventure early. With only one stop on the way in Sheffield (the town of murals) at the foothills of majestic Mount Roland, where there is a toilet stop, small supermarket for any last minute supplies and a café stop for breakfast and coffees at Bosimis Bakehouse.

Our service includes FREE luggage storage and delivery to Lake St Clair on the day we pick you up for passengers with return bookings, this includes from Lake St Clair to Launceston or Lake St Clair to Hobart with us (maximum 20kg). Luggage storage and delivery to Lake St Clair for one-way passengers is also available ($40 per item, maximum 20kg).

Mural in Sheffield Launceston to Cradle Mountain 6:30am

Since 2017 when Overland Track Transport was born, we are extremely grateful to have won awards for People’s Choice with the Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Tourism Awards, Most Dynamic Newbies, Outstanding visitor experience, Tourism Excellence, Exceptional Tourism and Hospitality, Traveller’s Choice with Tripadvisor and ReviewPro #1 reviewed tourism business in Tasmania.

Overland Track Transport is fully accredited with State Growth of Tasmania as a commercial passenger provider including our Regular Passenger Service (RPS) licences along with Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife as a tourism operator within the Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park. Overland Track Transport is also an Australian Quality Accredited Tourism operator and a member of the Tasmanian Tourism Industry Council. With fully accredited drivers who have all completed the Overland Track, our goal is to have you on the track safely, fully prepared, feeling confident and ready for your adventure. 

Do you have a group booking of 4 or more? Simply select the number of passengers in your booking  and your group discount will be applied for parties of 4 or more. Discounts apply for groups of 4 or more with one booking, one payment being made for the group and one pick-up location in Launceston.

Once we have our stop in Sheffield, we climb our way onto the plateau and arrive at the Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre for you to do your safety briefing and check-in. Here we can help with pack fittings to ensure your pack is sitting properly, do gear checks, demonstrations and provide our expert advice. This is also where you can fill up your water bottles and experience the last flushing toilet you will see for the week.

Fuel, Food, Maps, Day Packs and many more items are available on our website to pre-book and collect from our driver when we pick you up on our way to Cradle Mountain. Our buses are also stocked with both items for sale including, fuel, maps, WonderWool blister prevention, ear plugs (for the noisy huts) and many other items.  All items are also available for pre-booking from our shop here and we will have these available for your collection when we pick you up from your accommodation. *remember you are not able to fly with fuel canisters or liquid so pre-booking these with us is the easiest option.

Are you flying into Launceston and staying the night in the Cradle Valley to start your adventure the next day? As our Launceston to Cradle Mountain 6:30am departure is too early for any flights arriving into Launceston. Please see our 12:00pm Launceston to Cradle Mountain regular departure service which include 11:45am pick-ups from the Launceston CBD and 12:15pm pick-ups from the Launceston airport.

This service operates from the 1st October to the 30th April excluding Christmas Day. Limited services during May. For Winter transport options please click here

Sunday and Public Holiday surcharge of 10% applies to all tickets.

We look forward to having you on board – Sean and Andrew, owners of Overland Track Transport

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