Discount hotels in Fremantle, Australia, put visitors in the heart of a bustling city noted for its location at the mouth of the Swan River. The city is found in Western Australia only about 19 kilometers from Perth. In addition to the river, visitors here will find the city’s landscape is dominated by hills, which are called Booyeembara by the indigenous people here.
Hotels in Fremantle are situated to give vacationers an opportunity to tour the important historical attractions. Fremantle’s roots date to the early 1800s when the Swan River Colony was formed here. Through the years, the city has served as an important port. During World War II, for example, the city’s port was the second largest base of operations for submarines in the Allied fleet in the Pacific. Attractions in Fremantle include the Maritime Museum, the Round House jail, which dates to the 1830s, and the University of Notre Dame Australia. Freemantle Prison is a towering structure constructed in the 1850s when the town’s Round House could no longer house the area’s criminal population. This particular structure is said to be among the most notorious prisons in the whole of the British Empire.