Shortland Budget Accommodation

Comfy beds and good bedding. Shared bathrooms below average. Toilets falling apart. Poor lighting. Limited power points. Decent security. No housekeeping. Great bistro food.

Bad smell carpet.. air con and lamb were not working in my room

Please do not stay here. Price horrible for the conditions of the room. Pictures show the front of establishment (pub area) which looks quiet nice, however the back area where the actual rooms are looks like a drug-house. The place is called "hotel" but it's actually a motel, as it says in the front of the room's building. In addition, the mold/smell inside the room and hallways was digusting at best. My partner and i could not sleep as our throat hurt from pungent mold smell. All night the walls were wet and sweating. Not to mention the poor quality of the bed and the "furniture" in the room. For the love of god just go somewhere else to sleep one night. I would consider my car instead.

Awesome staff and reasonable pricing.

Good quality pub accomodation

The poewr sockets were dusty & the kitchen is in need of a made over. Smelt old & now water pressure in the shower

Mouldy, musty rooms, sagging beds, paint flaking of walls, room in general was well below a suitable standard.

Cheap price was good, but limited hours for check in & check out were frustrating (& staff weren’t onsite when I needed to check out and had to be called in)

Great little place to stay for a couple nights. Really great for the price a very friendly staff. Adjacent to the Shortland pub where there is really good food

Behind a pub. i like laundry and tidiness.

It was very handy to stay at for a night. Everyone was quite in the motel. Having a TV, microwave etc and seperate female amenities was good Bar staff were helpful and friendly

Bit ran down and old. Couldn't get many channels on the tv reception was terrible. And im sure there was blood scatter all over the bedroom wall..

The location was pretty handy. The room basic but for the money reasonable. The pub, staff and food were great. We had to pay $100 room key/damage deposit which we were not aware of until checking in. Would have been good to know prior.

the food and the pub attached were first rate the facilities in the room were nonexistent - a communal bathroom, no access for patrons with back issues i.e. disabled bathrooms - my wife had to call me to help her off the toilet, ramps for easy access to rooms, parking for guests not given a parking space reserved for their personal use, uneven road surface in car park. We have never before left a motel by 6.00 am because we didn't like the conditions - not even coffee

Heating, bed, linen, hot water etc are good. Non smoking is also good. Parking is good. Expedia indicated free wifi and check in time as 12noon. No wifi. Real check In time is 2pm. Restaurant closed early. Finding a place to get food in the night is difficult.

Close to high way to travel home, staff helpful, rooms needed an up grade, very old looking, was not a where you had to leave a $100 deposit for your room in case of damage, which was return on leaving but found it very inconvenient was not told when room was booked. As I had just come from John Hunter hospital after paying big money to see specialist this was not in my budget, why something was not said on booking the room I don’t know would not stay there again

Convince for my needs

Understandably, its budget accomodation so you get what you pay for. The fabric chair in the room was filthier than any roadside pick up. The bathroom (ladies) had such a terrible odour that I had to breathe through my mouth when i went in there. The guest kitchen could use infinite maintenance. I had booked for multiple nights and was so relieved when I left. On the plus side, the bottleshop is 20 seconds away - I needed it!

THe location was very close to our family in Shortland. Lovely bed. We didn't enjoy the dark grey walls and black carpet, but I see other rooms are painted a pleasant cream, so wé'll take a cream room next time.

Staff was rude about unclean kitchen staying its not our job to clean kitchen...u have to clean yourself. And also about $100 deposit taken last week npt yet returned.