Blue Gum Hotel
Family rooms and free parking on the Pacific Highway
About this stay
Travellers staying here will find a straightforward highway hotel built around the essentials a road trip actually needs: a car park that does not cost extra, family rooms sized for more than two people, and an on-site restaurant and bar for the nights nobody wants to go looking further afield. Waitara train station is a short walk away, putting Sydney's CBD on the North Shore line without moving the car. Rooms come with air conditioning, a private bathroom and a flat-screen TV, and the property carries daily housekeeping and an on-site ATM. Billiards is available for guests who want something to do before dinner, and the location on the Pacific Highway keeps the next leg of a Sydney to North Coast drive close at hand.
- Family rooms
- Free on-site parking
- On-site restaurant and bar
- Near Waitara train station
Our take
This suits families and road-trippers who want a functional overnight stop on the Pacific Highway without paying inner-Sydney rates, particularly anyone planning to leave the car and take the North Shore line into the CBD. Free parking and family rooms are the real draw. Couples chasing a scenic or boutique stay should look elsewhere, since the setting is a working highway strip rather than a destination in itself, and the appeal here is entirely practical.
- ✓Request the family room specifically at booking, standard doubles fill first on weekends heading north out of Sydney.
- ✓Walk to Waitara station instead of driving into the city, it saves both parking costs and North Shore traffic.
- ✓Eat on-site after a long driving day, the restaurant and bar cover dinner without another stop on the highway.
Why we love it
- Free on-site parking right on the Pacific Highway
- Family rooms sized for more than a couple
- Waitara station a short walk for the CBD
- On-site restaurant, bar and billiards table
Why guests love itTravellers pulling in off the Pacific Highway after a long stretch of driving find the free parking lot the first genuine relief of the stay, no circling for a street space with a tired family in the car. The family room keeps everyone together instead of splitting across two doors, and the on-site restaurant means dinner happens without another stop. Waitara station two minutes away turns the next morning into a train trip to Sydney rather than a fight with North Shore traffic and city parking.
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