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Mitchell River Tavern

3.5 star property

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Queen Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets
Bar (on property)
Queen Room | Bathroom | Shower, free toiletries, hair dryer, towels

Reviews

8.6 out of 10
Excellent

Popular amenities

  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
  • Air conditioning
  • Bar
  • Housekeeping

Explore the area

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59 Main Street, Bairnsdale, VIC, 3875
  • Place, Nicholson St. Gallery
    ‪3 min walk‬
  • Place, St Mary's Catholic Church
    ‪10 min walk‬
  • Place, McLeod's Morass Wildlife Reserve
    ‪2 min drive‬

Room options

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Budget Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Budget Room

7.2 out of 10
Good
(5 reviews)
  • 151 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free WiFi

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Double Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Double Room

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • 151 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free WiFi

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Queen Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Queen Room

9.6 out of 10
Exceptional
(4 reviews)
  • 237 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed
  • Free WiFi

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Family Room | Desk, iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

Family Room

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • 291 sq ft
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Double Bed and 2 Twin Beds
  • Free WiFi

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About the neighborhood

Bairnsdale

With a stay at Mitchell River Tavern in Bairnsdale, you'll be a 4-minute walk from Nicholson St. Gallery and 9 minutes by foot from St Mary's Catholic Church. .This hotel is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) from East Gippsland Rail Trail and 1 mi (1.6 km) from Bairnsdale Historical Museum.

What's nearby

  • Nicholson St. Gallery - 3 min walk - 0.2 miles
  • St Mary's Catholic Church - 10 min walk - 0.6 miles
  • Robb Street Gallery - 14 min walk - 0.8 miles
  • Bairnsdale Historical Museum - 19 min walk - 1.0 mile
  • McLeod's Morass Wildlife Reserve - 2 min drive - 1.0 mile

Getting around

  • Bairnsdale Station - 11 min walk

Restaurants

  • ‪Classique Café - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪The Grand Terminus Hotel - ‬7 min walk
  • ‪McDonald's - ‬8 min walk
  • ‪KFC - ‬19 min walk
  • ‪Lake Whadie - ‬12 min walk

About this property

Mitchell River Tavern

Mitchell River Tavern offers 11 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Flat-screen televisions are featured in guestrooms. Bathrooms include showers and complimentary toiletries.

This Bairnsdale hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.

Make yourself at home in one of the 11 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.
Take in the views from a terrace and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access.
Enjoy a satisfying meal at Mitchell River Tavern serving guests of Mitchell River Tavern. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge.
The front desk is staffed during limited hours. Free self parking is available onsite.
Mitchell River Tavern - Onsite restaurant. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free uncovered self parking on site

Food and drink

  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Restaurants on site

  • Mitchell River Tavern

Family friendly

  • In-room refrigerator

Conveniences

  • ATM
  • Limited-hour front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Outdoors

  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Well-lit path to entrance

More

  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Electric kettle
  • Refrigerator

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board on request
  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: 9:00 PM
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from noon - 8:00 PM
Front desk staffed during limited hours
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Renovations and closures

This property is closed from July 24 2025 to July 14 2027 (dates subject to change).

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

National rating

This property has been awarded a star rating from the Australian Star Ratings Agency, Star Ratings Australia.

Property is also known as

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Mitchell River Tavern Reviews

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 92 out of 209 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 85 out of 209 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 25 out of 209 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 6 out of 209 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 209 reviews

9.2/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.2/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

Verified

8/10 Good

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A nice place to stay for an overnight stopover
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

ebony

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent, will come back and stay again
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Warm welcome and the restaurant meal was good value.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Kathryn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was a good size, warm and very clean.
Stayed 1 night in May 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Lisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great place to stay overnight for an early start the next morning. Fantastic drive through coffee/breakfast next door.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Fiona

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was a lovely surprise and the meal in the bar was excellent
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Brian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A great place for an overnight stay on the way through. Easy, clean and convenient.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Vicky

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We loved our stay since it was the perfect Australian hotel that we imagined an Australian hotel would be. It was clean, had a great dining room, very helpful staff, and a great bathroom in our queen suite. We will stay there again and will recommend it to all our Californian friends
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

Stuart

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very clean, nice but old decor.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Narooma and Back

Overnight stay. Close to centre of town so an easy walk around the shops. Restaurant had a good menu and staff very friendly and helpful. Wednesday night and restaurant was full so this indicates the popularity and quality of the hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

jeanette

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice occomodation
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Debra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely old building, very convenient, not overpriced. Bed was a little soft, but otherwise facilities were excellent. Staff couldn’t have been more helpful.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

William

Second stay here. Accomodation is upstairs not possible for some with movement limitations. Restaurant and cocktail bar are both good quality and reasonable value
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

Fiona

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great to sign in after hours Everyone else in town had closed their desks
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Stuart

Liked: Amenities
I booked late in busy season. The accomodation was close to everything. Staff were friendly and helpful. Room, bed and bedding were in excellent order and clean. I haven’t stayed in accomm like it before and was surprised and pleased with it. Would recommend it to anyone.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Awesome
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Monica

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly and helpful chustomer service!
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Yvonne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I was pleasantly surprised. Most Tavern/hotel rooms are very basic, with often shared bathrooms etc. This had it all. Good value for money also.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

Glyn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice big room, handy location, but because of this very noisy. Bear in mind this is a traditional hotel building with accommodation rooms on the upper floor. Many stairs & no lifts.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025
Verified

6/10 Okay

Neville

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Room was okay, no soap at all, the stairs to access the rooms too narrow and too many.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024
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4/10 Poor

Shivani

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The bed had bugs, very itchy night all over. Bathrooms were nice a clean. Very noisy during night with doors banging.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Verified

6/10 Okay

Adrian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
our shower did not work properly, but the room was fabulous
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

Marc

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stay was good. Clean room. Only issue we had was noise. I think it was coming from the events room downstairs. Loud music untill 9:30pm.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

John Roger

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We had an enjoyable meal in the restaurant. Our room was clean and spacious. Check in at the pokies bar was a bit unusual and there was no obvious signage on the exterior of the building to indicate it was the Mitchell River Tavern. Also, the lack of a lift to our room upstairs was an inconvenience for bringing in luggage.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023
Verified

4/10 Poor

Phillip

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
No internet access and staff were not very helpful at all
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2024

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