Katoomba Hotels - Reviews and Rates

30.04.09: It was hard to get out of bed this morning. We really got used the comfiness of the place! After chilling out with Cassidy, the dog, we headed toward the Blue Mountains, near Sydney. We stopped for a kebab and the owner, a Turkish lad, started to have a good chat, and even offered us some apple tea and fig.


We wanted to vis...

We pick up our hire car. It is a Toyota Yaris and manages to absorb our travelling bags without too much difficulty. We have been "upgraded" from a manual to an automatic which is a nuisance as the engine struggles to cope with hauling the bags and us up hills. We eventually navigate out of Sydney and are soon driving through small suburban town...

Not such an early start today but a heavy day ahead of me, though I didn't entirely grasp that concept until I was down in the valley. Before that however I had to navigate Katoomba Street which seemed to have grown a market overnight and was thronging with people. It turned out that the Winter Solstice Festival, which has been going for about e...

This was a really long day, that technically actually started last night as I got the bus from Byron Bay, overnight, to Sydney. The bus was an hour late, so the journey did not begin well, and everyone seemed to have had the same idea as me regarding saving time and money on accomodation, so the bus was full and I had only one seat on which I co...

So I've already told you guys how much I love my hostel, so I'll tell you more about Katoomba. It's only a 2 hour train ride from Sydney but it's like entering a time warp! All the people and shops look like they never left the 70s! We walked down to Echo Point to see the Three Sisters The Blue Mountains get their name from the blue haze around ...

Last night it was literally freezing. Car was covered in frost, we managed well especially since the caravan next to us had a fan on its heating system which was blowing straight into our tent! We made an early start and travelled over the Blue Mountains to the 'Zig zag railway'. The original rail route through the Blue Mountains from Sydney to ...

Having decided to stay put in Katoomba for a while and do short drives out from there, today we went to the Jenolan Caves. This involved one of the worst hairpin drives so far this trip!! Not only was the road very narrow but you couldn't see round the bends, we were pleased to arrive. What a surprise, not only did you enter the 'complex' throug...

Lovely day. We left all but one bag at the Hilton and had quick walk to Central Station to grab the early train to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. Really annoying train ride with an abusive mom repeatedly threatening and cajoling her out of control kids. "I'll tell you one more time to shut up or I'm goin' to whoop you." Or "Stop it! Don't you k...

I am making a face because Marah has beaten me at Speed Scrabble---again. "The disciple has become the teacher," I say to her as we flip our tiles back over. She laughs. "Yup. I'm schooling you." The best thing about Marah ("Mar") and Michaela ("Mix") is that they keep me humble. When I go out hiking with other guests at the hostel I can puff my...

We hired a car for a few days and headed out of the city and into the Blue Mountains. First we visited the famous three sisters but the place was packed so we decided to head on to Govetts Leap. We did a cracking bush walk from Govetts Leap lookout to Pulpit rock and realised that this would probably be our last bush walk for a long, long time -...