How This Guide Compares Tours

Every cruise you can book out of Strahan sits on one page here, so lunch and dinner runs on the Gordon River can be weighed against each other before any money changes hands. The roster holds four tours across two categories, all roughly six hours and all departing wharves along the Esplanade. Still wondering whether the day justifies the fare? Is the Gordon River cruise worth it?

How We Compare The Cruises

strahanrivercruises.com puts the cruises you can genuinely book out of Strahan, Tasmania next to each other. Four tours fill the roster across two categories: two lunch cruises on the Gordon River, run by World Heritage Cruises and NRMA Tasmania, and two dinner cruises covering the same harbour and river in the evening. Every tour appears with its rating, review count, duration and cancellation terms in one view, so a lunch run rated 4.8 across 1635 reviews can be weighed against a smaller dinner departure without juggling half a dozen tabs. All four call at Hells Gates, Sarah Island, Heritage Landing and a salmon farm, and all four allow free cancellation. None of these tours are ours. No booking or payment passes through this site; every reservation goes through the live listing, and the commercial arrangement behind these pages is explained at /disclosure/.

The Plain Facts

Meal timing sorts this roster. Both lunch cruises run roughly six hours from Strahan, calling at Hells Gates, Sarah Island, Heritage Landing and a salmon farm along the way, with the World Heritage Cruises lunch rated 4.8 across 1255 reviews and the NRMA Tasmania run at 4.8 across 1635. Two dinner cruises cover the same waters in the evening, one rated 4.9 across 23 reviews and the other 4.5 across 12. No operator here can promise weather or water conditions on the day you sail, and winter maintenance windows can thin the timetable, with one operator noting a June 2026 spell and another an August 2026 closure. All four tours allow free cancellation, but always confirm current availability on the live listing before travelling.

How The Figures Work

Every from-price shown here comes straight from a tour's own listing, and operators adjust them for season and demand, so the live booking page is the one to check before you book. Review totals and star ratings appear exactly as published, with no rounding up and no padding. If a tour publishes no price, none appears here, and a small review count stays small.

Where Details Come From

This page works like a comparison desk, not a travel diary. No claim here rests on firsthand experience, and nobody behind it pretends to have sailed every Gordon River departure. From-prices, durations and cancellation terms are taken from each tour's live booking page, since operators move those details with the seasons. Background on Strahan, Macquarie Harbour and the west coast draws on operator guidance and local tourism sources. No operator pays for a higher position, a better write-up or friendlier wording.

Two Ways To Cruise

• Gordon River lunch cruises: two tours, both roughly six hours from Strahan, one run by World Heritage Cruises rated 4.8 across 1255 reviews from A$160, the other by NRMA Tasmania rated 4.8 across 1635 reviews from A$165, each calling at Hells Gates, Sarah Island, Heritage Landing and a salmon farm.
• Evening dinner cruises: two tours on the same harbour and river, one rated 4.9 across 23 reviews and one rated 4.5 across 12, both from A$160 and roughly six hours, with free cancellation on each.
• Shared itinerary stops: Hells Gates, the Sarah Island penal colony ruins, the Heritage Landing rainforest boardwalk and salmon farm visits appear on all four tours.
• Evening dinner cruises: two operators run sunset departures on the Gordon River out of Strahan, both with free cancellation.

Every Cruise Listed

Four tours fill the roster across two categories, from a lunch cruise carrying 1635 reviews down to a dinner run with 12. Star averages and review totals are lifted straight from each listing, and published from-prices run A$160 to A$165 in AUD. Prices shift with the calendar and operator, so every card links to the tour pages where the current figure lives.

Every cruise in one machine-readable file: llms.txt. Why these tours made the cut: about page.