Oriental Hotel

Food and service was excellent Rooms could do with a freshen up

The room was old and tired.

All good

The first things we noticed about our room at the Oriental Hotel were the earplugs on the bath-towels on the bed (where in other hotels you might get a cake of soap). All a bit alarming, and is was very noisy from say 5 to 6pm with lots of logging trucks rumbling past in the street outside. But after that it was quiet - we had no need for the earplugs at all. Overall, we thought the hotel very good, though were disappointed with the wifi reception in our room (it was better in the bar downstairs). We had seen reviews that commented on the excellent wifi that sold us on the place but when we got there it was a different story, with the woman who checked us in saying it could be 'hit and miss'. It was more miss than hit on our visit. On the plus side, the room was relatively spacious for an older style hotel, the bed comfortable and the shared bathrooms spotlessly clean. The tariff was reasonable and, downstairs in the pub, there is an excellent, highly rated restaurant (another reason we stayed here) and a pleasant bar area. The wide balcony outside the room was also excellent, but definitely not between 5 and 6pm for the reasons stated before.

This was a beautiful old pub, and it was very clean. However I thought it was very expensive for what it was. It was a shared bathroom arrangement, the bed was poor quality, the TV kept pixellating and cutting in and out, the door onto the verandah was barely lockable, and there wasn't even a chair in the room. I think a fair price for the room I stayed in would be more about the $50-60 mark instead of the $102 I was charged. That aside, the staff were friendly and helpful, and the hotel was in neat and tidy condition

Lovely big, comfortable room.