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  • APsydney
    APsydney   22 reviews
    Stopped by for a Sunday lunch and found the place very popular with the locals. The menu is quite diverse and very impressive for pub fare. Not just burgers and fries but everything from pastas to steaks to garlic prawns to seafood linguine (highly recommend this dish). The outdoor beer garden was simple but the beautiful weather made it enjoyable to be outside. The wait for our food was quite long, at least 45 minutes, but once we were served every single meal was delicious and cooked well. The chips were cooked in a beer batter and were exceptionally good. All 7 of us were quite happily surprised and we will definitely go back again next time we're in the Hunter.

    11 months ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • me just me
    me just me  Newbie   1 review
    Paid $95 a night for a down market pub room with absolutely no facilities. There is nothing at all to recommend this place.

    The view out the windows is pure industrial - tyre places, metal and fencing supplies, open rubbish skips.

    The room is just that, a room - small, poky, just big enough for a double bed and a wardrobe that looks like it was salvaged from Vinnies back door.

    No sink, no fridge, mini bar, tea or coffee, absolutely nothing to justify such a ridiculous rip off - not even those little crappy shampoos - all you get is a couple of towels and those tiny foul smelly soaps.
    Leave the room shut up for any length of time and the place begins to smell like a doss house for homeless men.

    Every time you crossed the room the wardrobe rocked noisily on the creaky floor.

    The bathrooms are your very very average pub amenities down the end of a corridor - old, in need of maintenance, drafty and more like an old council public toilet block or changing rooms.

    Continental Buffet breakfast is included they say - Ha! - only if your idea of a sophisticated European breakfast smorgasbord is a bar fridge full of old stale supermarket bread (still with the discount stickers attached), and a trestle table with a toaster, an urn of boiling water, lots of sachets of cheap coffee, tea, sugar and jams, and pile of single serve Kelloggs cereals.

    Supposedly there's cheaper backpacker accommodation here, in bunks rooms out the back near the skips.

    If this place was priced at $30 or even $40 a night it might represent reasonably average value (although I've stayed in *many* better $40 country pub rooms all over the country) - to pay $95 is obscenely absurd.

    Go anywhere else if you can find it in town, but try the motels first.
    They may be modern, soulless, totally without any sort or spirit or romanticism, even just plain sterile and boring - but at least you'll be able to tick off where your $100 went - TV, decent shower, mini bar, clean modern room, little shampoos...

    If you have to pay that much for the night, you should at least get something for the money.

    2 years ago

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