Gundagai Motel

Booked online, prior to arrival we were sent an sms with a code to get into the room. On arrival, we parked around the corner as we were towing a small boat trailer and couldn’t find our room. We located the room no 29 which is attached to no. 30 and the back laundry. They are tucked in the back of the motel and do not have allocated parking. Apparently parking for these rooms is in the club car park across the road. Two commercial clothes dryers were in operation directly outside the door. We phoned the offsite contact number to be informed the motel was full, when I asked for a refund was informed that there was a room available but it was a family room and after 45 minutes and an additional $55 we were allocated a room that had parking. With no onsite reception if have issues it could be hard to get them resolved. As with all offsite booking systems they had no idea of where any of the rooms were located and trying to explain our needs was difficult. If I had known that it was going to cost us $195 we could stayed somewhere much nicer. Definitely will not stay here again.

I have stayed at this motel before when travelling and it was relatively cheap and ok. If you get a room on West Street be aware it is the main trucking route through town and can get noisy but it’s gotta be cheap for a reason. However this time around the bed or whole room or something stunk of cigarette smoke and bad body odour. It was foul. I wouldn’t stay there again.

We phoned to book at lunch time on the day of our arrival and were allocated a room and told of the self check-in arrangement that worked well. It transpired that our room and another [29 +30] are not in the 'main building' and window looked onto a passageway. Our room was rather small; as new; no hanging space and very quiet until the 'in house' laundry commenced operations at approx 9.30am.

This property is very convenient to the CBD and in particular the Serviceman’s club. Only a short distance to a good selection of hotels where a meal can be had. The room was small, although clean and comfortable, however the road noise was horrendous. Every truck or car that went past was audible in the room making an uncomfortable night, and there were a lot of trucks like its a bypass or similar. Check-in was unique as a code was sent by SMS with a room allocation. We never saw anyone from the property at all.

Convenient location, comfortable beds, clean, quiet, park right outside your room, microwave, china and cutlery. Easy checkin with a room code for the door. Walk to coffee and meal options. Decor pleasant. Highly recommended for all ages.

Clean spacious room. Comfortable bed, well appointed. Very helpful, friendly staff with a sense of humour which always helps. Great value for money. Perfect position across the road from the main street. What more could you want for a quick stopover between Sydney and Melbourne?