if all you need is a basic old style motel in which you will only sleep,city walk is for you...visiting rockhampton for a couple of nights i was able to get a room for A$62 in which everything worked and the light breakfast (cornflakes,bread for toaster,butter and jam-tea making facilities were already in room-were placed in frig late afternoon)reception arranged a taxi on morning of departure and recommended a 4 block walk to lee kerniganns "best western hotel" -not a chain but original local hotel that was holding a rodeo that evening...its a sprightly 6 block walk to the river and local bus terminal,so if you do not have a car you may want to be by the river...the bus to yeppoon seems to operate every two hours and there are busses to the major mall at north rockhampton every half hour but,beware,last trip back to city leaves at 5.20pm (10 minute trip).
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