HOTEL REVIEW - Miner's Lodge Motor Inn - Mackay

Needing a cheap family room fairly quickly due to a medical appointment we decided to stay at the Miner's Lodge Motor Inn on Nebo Road in Mackay as I have stayed there before a couple of times both for work and for sporting commitments and found the place to be quite nice.

This was the first time staying in a family room out the back of the property and like a lot of the other rooms at the Motor Inn, they are quite old. The linen looks quite old. The room is fairly tired, but it’s still a half decent place to stay.

This family room has two big rooms and an ensuite attached to one of the rooms. The ensuite has a very low roof and is quite cramped and the décor in the ensuite is somewhat worse off than the rest of the room.

The beds were comfortable. The facilities were pretty good - although we didn’t test the fairly basic kitchenette that is in the second room.

Car parking can be tricky, particularly with a bigger car and limited parking in some sections of the Motor Inn.

Overall, the Miner's Lodge Motor Inn did the job for our one night stay. I wouldn’t recommend staying longer-term due to the tiredness of the rooms and some facilities, and I would recommend that the people that run the Motor Inn that it’s time to invest in a little bit of an update to some of the rooms.

It’s also definitely worth mentioning that as a plane spotter The Miners Lodge Motor Inn is a great place to stay with the airplanes on finals to Mackay Airport passing low over the place.