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Reviews of Anchorage Motor Inn

3.5 out of 5
Anchorage Motor Inn
18 Bowman Road, Caloundra, QLD

Reviews

6.8
Rating 10 - Excellent. 68 out of 453 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 163 out of 453 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 130 out of 453 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 57 out of 453 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 35 out of 453 reviews" "

7.2/10

Cleanliness

7.4/10

Staff & service

6.2/10

Amenities

5.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Erica

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

6/10 Okay

Scott

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great budget property clise to all local amenities and attractions
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Wesley

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a great place for travellers to stay overnight as part of a leg. Great location close to shopping, Maccas and KFC plus next-door to other eateries. Bathroom door was hard to open and close and had to lift it up to move. TV had no channels. Shower was 11/10 tho. Great pressure and nice and hot. I would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Joy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
This motel is very clean and very basic. Only two pillows, no spares, no blanket on the bed and a thin cover in the wardrobe. No hand towel or face clothes or shampoo. As often happens the photos look much better than the reality.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

4/10 Poor

Desley

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Unfortunately I cannot rate this motel well. Dirty bathroom with mould, a broken shower curtain rail, windows that would not lock, broken screens, and insufficient bedding (1 sheet and 1 blanket in winter is not enough).
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

4/10 Poor

Zrinka

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This room is nowhere near $210 we paid for it. So overpriced. The coffee table was sticky with a thick coat of grime. Bathroom door didn’t have a lock, no light in toilet. Previous guests old toilet roll left around. There were extra large cockroaches in the kitchen probably due to dominos shop behind motel. There were tiny insects everywhere. Hard to tell what they were, but you could see them all over mobile phones and feel them on your legs. The occupants of other rooms seem to be long term residents waiting for housing who had their cars there for years which an inch of dust all over it. Not a comfortable feeling walking around. Just after midnight someone had either a chainsaw revving or a petrol blower revving for about 10-15 min. Most of the lights didn’t work and it was so dark outside you couldn’t see where to go to get upstairs. I’m currently saying in the most beautiful motel at Hervey Bay for $155. Clean and recently renovated and much cheaper.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

6/10 Okay

John

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very sad and old property,leaking taps,bed hard overall a horrible experience
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

8/10 Good

Mark

Liked: Staff & service
Annie the host was very nice and friendly. Great location and close to nearly everything. Room was very average and is overdue for major renovations. It served its purpose. Fine for 1 or 2 nights but that’s the limit.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Wifi was poor. Not many tv channels
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

8/10 Good

Lorna

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Annette

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It was a reasonable price and we could book for just 1 night.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Caloundra visit
Owners were very friendly. Beds and room were comfortable and clean. Light over single bed was broken, and sliding door to bathroom kept coming off bottom runner. Ceiling fan only worked on full speed. Very close location to shopping and beach. Coffee shop near by as was supermarket. Enjoyed our stay.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Leanne

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Patricia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good last minute basic bed for one night. 2 mins away from the funeral I needed to attend next morning. Easy to get through on the phone to confirm check-in etc.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

6/10 Okay

Larissa

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
The pool was shut and not cleaned for a long time. Ground maintenance was below average. Close to amenities, so location was good. Lovely lady at check in.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

carrie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Owner was very accommodating and pleasant to deal with.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Fran

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Tropical feel
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2022

6/10 Okay

Emily

Travelled with family
Location was great close to everything you need. place is very run down, and when booked given option of 2 double beds and 2 single beds at booking only to find that room doesn't exist when we arrived. So 5 people had to share 4 beds with very limited linen and comfort.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2022

6/10 Okay

Dave

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
My bed was broken
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022

8/10 Good

Shirley

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2022

10/10 Excellent

Alice

Older style accom
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022

10/10 Excellent

Kelly

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great complimentary facilities for the family including a pool and a tennis court. And lovely welcoming staff.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Lyndall

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

8/10 Good

Dane

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Accommodation was good, room was clean and well presented, could do with some TLC, new coat of paint etc.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2021

10/10 Excellent

Lyndall

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

10/10 Excellent

Lyndall

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

10/10 Excellent

Anna

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
You do not get what you pay for.
We paid for Balcony, free breakfast and free internet. We received a ground floor room with only block out curtains so we could not open for natural light. Other wise you are in a display window. All fly screens were torn. No breakfast, no toaster, no microwave and no plates. Internet did not work at any time. We did ask for a microwave and toaster, but never got one. Excuse for not getting what we paid for was that she/owner has to pay high fees to Hotels.com.
All furniture in room except bed, bedsides and table and 2 chairs
Contents of unit minus the kettle.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2021

6/10 Okay

Tara

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Fine for a place to lay your head if you don’t want to swim in the pool (mouldy bottom) or watch TV (only choice of channel 10 & then the remote was broken so couldn’t turn the tv off. However room was clean and the bed was fine - you get what you pay for I guess
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

8/10 Good

alan

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

jodie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Owners are wonderful.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

John R

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Over night stay
Very friendly staff, nice area.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Noel

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Value for money door to bathroom needs repair sun lighting up the room at 530 am not so good.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

6/10 Okay

Phuong

Travelled with group
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good location. The owner is not friendly. The property is old, not look like in the photo. Only 1 thin dirty blanket. The air con is very old, very noisy.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

6/10 Okay

Kate

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Great location, comfy rooms, reception staff/manager was abrupt and easily confused. Seemed to be an issue with the booking which caused hassles when they could have been easily sorted.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

4/10 Poor

Rachel

Travelled with family
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location was good. Very basic, not even hand towels available. Property needs maintenance. Broken doors, showers, shower head wouldn't stay up. Holes in wall, tiles missing.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Dave

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a quaint motel in a very convenient location. The manager is an extremely lovely lady, who tries to make your stay a happy one. The motor inn is at the value end,so obviously it lacks some of the finer points, but I would highly recommend it as a base for your holiday or business trip.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Shower pressure was a bit sad
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

6/10 Okay

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
2 night get away
It was ok convenient to everything but found the bed quite uncomfortable other than that we got what we paid for the Asian lady at reception was nice too as there wasn’t much milk or teabags in our room but she re stocked when we went out for a walk it was a shame it was so so windy which spoiled our 2 days away
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

6/10 Okay

Dianne

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Affordable, basic, comfortable accommodation but on a main road
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A little run down and not the cleanest place I have stayed. Tv remote didn’t work, the A/C kept turning up in temp and mad the room like a sauna.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff. Very uncomfortable bed with thin pillows. Room and amenaties were clean but entire motel is outdated.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff was very friendly and helpful
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Alan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Sam

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Staff & service
It was busy. Service was poor
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Too cold no heater
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very disappointing.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2021

2/10 Terrible

sandra Jones

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Faark lodge
This place was disgusting filthy taps power points holes in walls showers need a good bleaching sink needed a good clean needs new linen and a quilt wouldn't go astray 2 blankets were thrown in a cupboards needed a good wash and should have been in plastic pillows were so old and thin fan needed cleaning no i would rate this place a 0
Stayed 1 night in May 2021