Ayrline

For a couple of weeks recently I was working in Far North Queensland. Ah yes, the tropical north of Australia; Port Douglas restaurants,  Cairns, Townsville.  Or Ayr.

Ayr is 85km south of Townsville in the heart of Queensland's Burdekin region and is a pretty much what you would expect from a country town.  It's the centre of a cane and corn farming area and is about 15 minutes from the beach.

I stayed at the Ayrline Motel. It's not the best motel in town but it is far, far, far from the worse. What makes this hotel so much nicer than some of it's competitors is the management. The couple that run this motel are lovely. They are friendly and tolerant - very good qualities for motel managers

The rooms are small but are all clean.  Some seem to have been recently refurbished. 

The Ayrline doesn't have a restaurant but they do room service.  You need to order before 6.30pm and then nominate what time you would like it. Though in a town where all the restaurants stop taking orders at 8.00pm this doesn't seem outrageous.

There is also a very small pool and a bbq area.  

The hotel is a block back from the main road.  I think though that all the motels are either on the main road or one block back from it.

I don't have photos of the hotel, but here is one of the countryside.