Quality Inn Railway Motel

My wife and I attended a 4 day Conference in Perth, Western Australia in May 2024. To maximise the airfare from Brisbane we extended our visit by adding a three night stay in Kalgoorlie - "the capital of the Goldfields", after the Conference concluded. To get to Kalgoorlie (650 kilometres east of Perth) we travelled on the Prospector Train. The journey took 7 hours and was quite a pleasant experience. We researched where we wanted to stay in Kalgoorlie on the Internet before leaving Brisbane and stumbled on the Quality Inn Railway Motel and this became our choice of accommodation for our three night stay. It’s a large complex with two distinct sections – a rendered cream concrete and brick corner block ( Forrest and Wilson Streets) housing the reception office as well as Carriages Restaurant and a second larger section mostly in red brick consisting of three buildings containing 102 units, set in a square horseshoe configuration around a large concrete car parking area. A partially covered driveway into the complex separates the two sections. The exterior of the complex provides an overall pleasing effect. Its number one selling point is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION !!! It is located directly opposite the Railway Station and a leisurely 500 metre walk to the Town Hall in Hannan Street. A bonus being opposite from the Railway Station was that we did not have to carry our luggage too far to get to our accommodation – a “hop, skip and a jump”, no more than 100 metres, and we were there. The Quality Inn Railway is motel accommodation. It’s not luxury but it is clean and comfortable. We chose a deluxe unit with a Queen bed and a kitchenette. The cost per night was a little more expensive than we might have expected; however we appreciated we were paying for the supreme location. As well as the Queen bed, there were two basic lounge chairs with a small occasional table. The kitchenette had a microwave, a small bar fridge, a stainless steel kitchen sink and cupboards with a range of cutlery, crockery and glassware. We utilised the kitchenette for our morning breakfasts. For other meals we either ate out or brought takeaways back to the unit. This arrangement suited us fine. The unit does not cater for the traveller who wishes to cook full meals. There is no actual bathroom as such but a separate room with a door that houses the toilet and shower recess. The wash basin is actually outside this room opposite the kitchenette with the towel racks beside the kitchenette. It’s an unusual arrangement but it works nonetheless. There is a simple writing desk with a chair below the television and attached to the writing desk is a useful luggage rack. There is a swimming pool on site – however we chose not to partake because we were too busy touring. On site is the Carriages Restaurant where breakfast is served each morning if you don’t wish to eat in. It also offers dinner and on one of the nights of our stay we had a m

My wife and I stayed 2 nights, arriving at 2PM from Perth on the Prospector Rail PL01 A nice receptionist asked for my name, showed our prepayment, took a credit card guarantee and presented our key with an instruction pamphlet that included the WIFI. We walked along the front to Room #7. The deluxe queen was vinyl wood floored, spacious and clean with a long shelf desk containing a fully outfitted kitchenette(electric frying pan, micro & medium refrigerator), a small table and chairs, a comfortable queen, a sink outside a tight room for the toilet and a nice sized tile shower & exhaust fan. The wall AC was quiet, the secure WIFI was decent and did not use their pool or restaurant. We walked 500m S to Woolworths near the long main Hannan Street lined with noteworthy period architecture.