Cooktown Hotel

Paid $95 for a private, en-suite room in this charming old hotel. Doug and Cath are very helpful, and all of their local knowledge and support is very

An old style country pub, with a little charm. Good for a beer in an interesting setting, it does have atmosphere. Open style setting you can easily lose the afternoon.

Ordinary Pub food at a realistic price. Probably wouldn't buy a red by the glass though.The beer was cold and cheaper than my local down south which is a surprise when you think how far away Cooktown is from anywhere.We were in the beer garden and the very friendly staff were chatty and even bought our small dog a bowl of water.

The whole place smells like a urinal, drinks are expensive, the food is very basic and over priced and the staff are a bit strange

My wife and I are visiting the beautiful town of Cooktown for just one night. We decided that we felt like pizza for dinner so we pulled up outside the hotel with the intention of crossing the road to buy pizza from the shop opposite the pub. We saw a sign saying 'gourmet pizzas' and thought we'd give the pub a try instead. We ordered a meat lovers pizza with buffalo wings on the side. When we received our pizza we were shocked at just how small a $16 pizza could really be. The pizza certainly didn't taste 'hand made' or 'gourmet', just you're average supermarket shelf type pizza. The Buffalo wings tasted ok, but didn't taste very fresh...