Name: Darwin Resort
Address: 378 Stuart Highway, Winnellie, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Darwin, Northern Territory, AU
Price range: $59–$117 per night
Rating: 7.9

What guests think

Reviews of Darwin Resort describe a budget-friendly, airport-convenient stay with renovated cabins and a clean pool, but frequent complaints about cleanliness, disruptive noise from roads or aircraft, and inconsistent after-hours check-in communication and access.

Room quality varies: some note modern upgrades and comfortable spaces, but others report maintenance problems, ant infestations, and temperamental air conditioning or electronic door systems. The location is handy for the airport and city by car, yet can feel a bit isolated or seedy, with limited nearby dining and occasional on-site restaurant closures. Expect basic, variable comfort suited to budget-minded travelers prioritizing proximity over polish.

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Facilities

Pool is widely praised as clean and enjoyable. Facilities feel uneven, with the on-site restaurant often closed or unavailable and recurring issues with electronic or security doors and site lighting.

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10

Eve

Apr 26, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Relaxing nice and quiet. Pool area always clean and the water crystal clear.

6

Raymond

Oct 9, 2024

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Stayed 6 nights

This accomodation is budget, with your own transport it is not difficult to get to wherever you want to go. It's a pity the restaurant is closed down. I've stayed before and would stay again but not if I was travelling with my wife.

4

Kathryn

Sep 4, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

The lack of cleaning everything dirty, no complete coffee/tea making facility,unkept grounds, broken locks on window, electric doors that imprison guest's in a power failure.

10

Ronald

Aug 16, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

I had read reviews and was a little worried, the reception staff were very friendly and helpful, security gate to get to our cabin, which was right next to the pool which was clean and looked lovely, to our spa cabin , great deck excellent security and was very clean and very comfortable. It was quiet, families having bbq at the pool on clean bbqs,We thought it was excellent place to stay, we would recommend to stay in Darwin and close to everything we wanted .

6

Annetta

Apr 4, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Lovely little compact unit. High tech security and comfortable. Great layover for travelers as close to airport. Ease to contact after hours staff.

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K

May 29, 2025

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Stayed 5 nights

The room had no toilet paper, no or very little liquid soap & tea bags. A lot of main road noise flood lights on all night which made it hard to sleep the room was in disrepair

10

Eve

Apr 25, 2024

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Stayed 4 nights

Very relaxing, loved the pool

2

Margaret

May 28, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

No Reception. Very dark. Poor lighting for people on foot. Directions not helpful. Felt unsafe. No food available at all!!! Would not stay there again.

8

Delan

Aug 18, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

Not too far from the airport, price reasonable in peak Darwin holiday season. Rooms quite clean. Not much around except a petrol station. Although some days the restaurant onsite is open. Phone assistance to process check-in as reception not open when i arrived

10

Gregory

Jun 28, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Electronic door that was not working properly. Spent 10 minutes trying to get out of the room. A/C kept turning off and needed to be reset using the electronic door button. Was not restful as it would become hot, get up reset.

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Cleanliness

Feedback on cleanliness is mixed: while some rooms and linens are described as very clean, many reviews cite dirty rooms or furnishings, stained bedding, and recurring ant problems. Housekeeping and maintenance lapses include mouldy bathrooms and showers that leave floors wet.

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Jaymee

Oct 1, 2023

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Stayed 3 nights

My 8 month old son was bitten all over his body by ants during the night. Everything was dirty

6

Wahidah

May 12, 2024

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Stayed 3 nights

Inconvenient to check in if you arrive after 5PM - in our case, they forgot to email the access code to get room key beforehand. Ants are everywhere in the room. No housekeeping. $20 charge if you don't wash your cups in the room 10-minute to DRW city and airport by car They provided storage for our bigger luggages since we stayed there 2 times and went somewhere else in between

4

Kathryn

Sep 4, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

The lack of cleaning everything dirty, no complete coffee/tea making facility,unkept grounds, broken locks on window, electric doors that imprison guest's in a power failure.

10

Clint

Mar 26, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

Clean and everything was of a high standard.

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Annette

Aug 23, 2023

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Stayed 2 nights

This unit was Dirty and disgusting. Stained Towels, dirty floor. requested ground floor due to disability. Was given second floor. I have nothing nice to say about this place except. DO NOT STAY HERE. Spoke to staff and all I got was a very weak apology.

6

Wahidah

May 12, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

We stayed twice at this property - for 4D3N and we checked out to go to Kakadu National Park for 3D2N and came back to Darwin Resort for 2D1N - they provided storage for our bigger luggages between the stays. The property was nice - most of the rooms were on individual buildings, so it provided privacy, 'chalet-like' stay. However the rooms were crawling with small ants - in the bathroom, even on the beds. Front desk closed at 5PM (or 2PM on Sunday/ public holidays) - they didn't email us the code to the box to get our room key as promised (we have informed them that we would be arriving around 7pm on the 1st stay). Had to call the sister-hotel in the city and fill up some form before they emailed us the code. There was no housekeeping service, there's a notice put in the room that $20 charge will be imposed with we did not clean our cups/ plates. 10-minutes to airport and DRW city. And OK place if you're on a budget but there's no 'resort' to it

2

Brendan

Oct 7, 2025

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Stayed 19 nights

Room very averages and Pizza under the bed and someone spat on the wall behind the door when i first got to my room.

4

Richard

Sep 2, 2025

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Stayed 6 nights

Someone's old milk drink left in fridge on arrival; Shower floods the entire bathroom when used. Barely enough room to walk around bed. TV the size of a postage stamp and half the channels didn't work. Had a guy foraging for cigarette buts and begging for cigarettes outside my room. Yelling and screaming outside during the night Just overall awful, will never stay here again

2

Magdalene

Sep 5, 2023

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Stayed 3 nights

Extremely disappointing cabin size nice cabin cleanliness -5 actually it was dirty, bathroom shower & toilet not cleaned air-con had mold please wash the dam curtains cutlery for 1 ? as for the locals at the bus stop OMG action movie for free at least there Language was cleaner than the cabin.

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Ewen

Sep 15, 2024

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Stayed 7 nights

The website photos did not reflect the poor conditions of the unit we paid for. The unit had a bad odour and was very hot on arriving. We had to wait 45 minutes with other people also waiting as we had not received the promised code to get keys from lockers. The air con was inadequate and turned off when we went out during the day. The fridge was poorly maintained/cleaned and leaked water onto the floor overnight. The appliances in the kitchen cupboard were dirty and had a bad smell. The couch was dirty and covered in stains. The mattress and bed linen were dirty and the disabled shower was unsafe due to water not draining away properly.

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Rooms

Rooms range from modern or recently upgraded to dated, with comfort varying widely. Common issues include traffic or aircraft noise and intermittent in-room problems like weak air conditioning, small or faulty TVs, and malfunctioning spa baths or electronics.

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Peter

Jul 15, 2023

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Stayed 2 nights

Very run down cracks so big in the walls your fingers can fit in them. no service or room cleaning. Room didn’t even have a desk or table just one old smelly lounge chair. Very noisy “right next to airforce base” loads of drunks out the front fighting and shouting all night Think twice before booking unless you have no other options

6

Cheryl

Mar 3, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

Average stay. Air conditioning didn’t work. They said they would change our room but didn’t. No reception available on weekends.

8

matthew

Jun 15, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Clean and affordable, looked recently renovated. The bed was comfortable and the linen nice and fresh, aircon worked well but tv remote didn’t, tried to use manual buttons but gave up in the end. Overall, it a nice stay, clean and affordable.

10

Christiaan

Sep 29, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

Awesome layout , amazing bathrooms , a little out of the way and no restaurants or eating nearby without transport

4

Helen

Aug 18, 2025

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Stayed 7 nights

I would rate this 2 star, bed uncomfortable, area a bit seedy. Had better stays for price! On flight path, no crockery or cutlery to speak of. Asked for room to be cleaned while we were out and not done Good water pressure was probably tge upside

4

Richard

Sep 2, 2025

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Stayed 6 nights

Someone's old milk drink left in fridge on arrival; Shower floods the entire bathroom when used. Barely enough room to walk around bed. TV the size of a postage stamp and half the channels didn't work. Had a guy foraging for cigarette buts and begging for cigarettes outside my room. Yelling and screaming outside during the night Just overall awful, will never stay here again

8

Anthony

Aug 17, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Nice room with modern upgrade. The room being on the highway side of the complex was noisy.

10

Joseph

Jan 8, 2026

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Stayed 1 night

Very good location. Great rooms

8

Chase

Jul 28, 2025

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Stayed 4 nights

Stay was enjoyable, would recommend motion sensor timer delay on the A/C be extended so it could stay longer during the night.

6

Eve

Feb 23, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

It would of been nice if the room was nice and cool when we arrived it was like a oven the room when we arrived. They need to service their air conditioners its not very cold.

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Service

Staff interactions are mixed: several guests found the team friendly and helpful, including with late-night arrivals, but many reported poor communication and difficult after-hours check-in with missing codes or unreachable contacts. Some pre-check-in ID processes and access instructions caused delays.

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Karl

Jan 24, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

key not left in lock box, no text with instruction given for late check in. very noisy with disturbance early in morning. not a pleasant stay

8

Ryan

Aug 13, 2024

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Stayed 4 nights

Great property near airport. Arrived in a 1am, process to check in was good. Door was difficult and stuck but staff member came to help.

2

Sonja

Oct 6, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Terrible communication. We’re not able to check in.

4

Clive

May 19, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Close to the airport and thats about it. I was an after hours check-in and they're link was a 404 page not found. Took ages to get in after multiple calls hang up. 👎

10

Helder

Feb 9, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

A good place to stay overnight clean and tidy. Helpful staff on support to late check-in.

8

Kylie

Apr 3, 2024

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Stayed 2 nights

Friendly staff

8

Morell

Sep 8, 2025

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Stayed 7 nights

The staff were very helpful

4

Helder

Feb 16, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

It is really hard to contact the hotel arrive late and reception is closed the two contact numbers are inefficient. The landline automatic machine repeats the same options and the mobile line does not answer and does not reply to calls. extremely hard to chek in late.

10

Monique

Aug 15, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

Checked in late and out early but room was lively and clean. Late Checkin was easy. Thanks

6

Kathryn

Oct 26, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

I didn't like the fact they ask for a mandatory pre check in which includes uploading photo ID. After several attempts to upload photo ID with a failure each time. Contacted them and was advised to call on arrival at around midnight and someone would come and site ID then get key. Not allowed pin to key box and produce ID on checkout as previously done. Had to wait half hour for person to check ID after 4 hour flight and it being after midnight. Ridiculous.

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Location

Handy to Darwin Airport and a short drive to the city, but somewhat isolated for dining without a car. Several reviews note traffic or aircraft noise and a few mention the surrounding area can feel seedy or unsafe.

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Peter

Jul 15, 2023

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Stayed 2 nights

Very run down cracks so big in the walls your fingers can fit in them. no service or room cleaning. Room didn’t even have a desk or table just one old smelly lounge chair. Very noisy “right next to airforce base” loads of drunks out the front fighting and shouting all night Think twice before booking unless you have no other options

6

Lars

Jul 12, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

Höchstens für eine Nacht Hotel liegt nahe am Flughafen Renovierungsbedürftig

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Wahidah

May 12, 2024

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Stayed 3 nights

Inconvenient to check in if you arrive after 5PM - in our case, they forgot to email the access code to get room key beforehand. Ants are everywhere in the room. No housekeeping. $20 charge if you don't wash your cups in the room 10-minute to DRW city and airport by car They provided storage for our bigger luggages since we stayed there 2 times and went somewhere else in between

8

Ryan

Aug 13, 2024

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Stayed 4 nights

Great property near airport. Arrived in a 1am, process to check in was good. Door was difficult and stuck but staff member came to help.

10

Christiaan

Sep 29, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

Awesome layout , amazing bathrooms , a little out of the way and no restaurants or eating nearby without transport

6

Wahidah

May 12, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

We stayed twice at this property - for 4D3N and we checked out to go to Kakadu National Park for 3D2N and came back to Darwin Resort for 2D1N - they provided storage for our bigger luggages between the stays. The property was nice - most of the rooms were on individual buildings, so it provided privacy, 'chalet-like' stay. However the rooms were crawling with small ants - in the bathroom, even on the beds. Front desk closed at 5PM (or 2PM on Sunday/ public holidays) - they didn't email us the code to the box to get our room key as promised (we have informed them that we would be arriving around 7pm on the 1st stay). Had to call the sister-hotel in the city and fill up some form before they emailed us the code. There was no housekeeping service, there's a notice put in the room that $20 charge will be imposed with we did not clean our cups/ plates. 10-minutes to airport and DRW city. And OK place if you're on a budget but there's no 'resort' to it

4

Helen

Aug 18, 2025

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Stayed 7 nights

I would rate this 2 star, bed uncomfortable, area a bit seedy. Had better stays for price! On flight path, no crockery or cutlery to speak of. Asked for room to be cleaned while we were out and not done Good water pressure was probably tge upside

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Luisa E

Apr 26, 2023

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Stayed 1 night

As a female solo traveler I felt unsafe and scared. I can not believe Hotels com advertise this type of accomodation. Locals people drunk walking around, noisy, room looking extremely tired, old, needed a good clean.the area, grounds, didn't feel safe. Extremely disappointed

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K

May 29, 2025

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Stayed 5 nights

The room had no toilet paper, no or very little liquid soap & tea bags. A lot of main road noise flood lights on all night which made it hard to sleep the room was in disrepair

8

Delan

Aug 18, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

Not too far from the airport, price reasonable in peak Darwin holiday season. Rooms quite clean. Not much around except a petrol station. Although some days the restaurant onsite is open. Phone assistance to process check-in as reception not open when i arrived

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Dining

On-site dining is limited: the restaurant is often closed or unavailable, and some guests reported no food options on site or only basic in-room utensils. There are few eateries in the immediate area.

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Raymond

Oct 9, 2024

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Stayed 6 nights

This accomodation is budget, with your own transport it is not difficult to get to wherever you want to go. It's a pity the restaurant is closed down. I've stayed before and would stay again but not if I was travelling with my wife.

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Wahidah

May 12, 2024

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Stayed 3 nights

Inconvenient to check in if you arrive after 5PM - in our case, they forgot to email the access code to get room key beforehand. Ants are everywhere in the room. No housekeeping. $20 charge if you don't wash your cups in the room 10-minute to DRW city and airport by car They provided storage for our bigger luggages since we stayed there 2 times and went somewhere else in between

10

Christiaan

Sep 29, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

Awesome layout , amazing bathrooms , a little out of the way and no restaurants or eating nearby without transport

6

Wahidah

May 12, 2024

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Stayed 1 night

We stayed twice at this property - for 4D3N and we checked out to go to Kakadu National Park for 3D2N and came back to Darwin Resort for 2D1N - they provided storage for our bigger luggages between the stays. The property was nice - most of the rooms were on individual buildings, so it provided privacy, 'chalet-like' stay. However the rooms were crawling with small ants - in the bathroom, even on the beds. Front desk closed at 5PM (or 2PM on Sunday/ public holidays) - they didn't email us the code to the box to get our room key as promised (we have informed them that we would be arriving around 7pm on the 1st stay). Had to call the sister-hotel in the city and fill up some form before they emailed us the code. There was no housekeeping service, there's a notice put in the room that $20 charge will be imposed with we did not clean our cups/ plates. 10-minutes to airport and DRW city. And OK place if you're on a budget but there's no 'resort' to it

4

Helen

Aug 18, 2025

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Stayed 7 nights

I would rate this 2 star, bed uncomfortable, area a bit seedy. Had better stays for price! On flight path, no crockery or cutlery to speak of. Asked for room to be cleaned while we were out and not done Good water pressure was probably tge upside

10

Eve

Aug 25, 2024

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Stayed 3 nights

It was lovely and l noticed you finally put a non slip mat in the disability shower which is awesome. However you changed the dinning table to a coffee table which was not suitable having dinner. Please put back the dinning table we can use it as a coffee table too. No sharp knives so could not cut a lemon or even a watermelon. There is a need to put better cutlery out.

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Ramziya

May 12, 2024

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Stayed 6 nights

The cabin was clean, big, air conditioned. Parking was just next to cabin. Need probably a car for convinence. Community kitchen wasnt the cleanest, would of been convenient if they had stove or air fryer in the cabin.

4

Marcel

Jul 14, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

All good Sink and shower not clean No bowls for breakfast

2

Margaret

May 28, 2025

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Stayed 2 nights

No Reception. Very dark. Poor lighting for people on foot. Directions not helpful. Felt unsafe. No food available at all!!! Would not stay there again.

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Delan

Aug 18, 2025

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Stayed 1 night

Not too far from the airport, price reasonable in peak Darwin holiday season. Rooms quite clean. Not much around except a petrol station. Although some days the restaurant onsite is open. Phone assistance to process check-in as reception not open when i arrived

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Month	Average price
January	$58
February	$61
March	$66
April	$77
May	$96
June	$130
July	$141
August	$144
September	$89
October	$60
November	$56
December	$55

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
				1 $62	2 $71	3 $72
4 $63	5 $63	6 $63	7 $63	8 $64	9 $72	10 $74
11 $62	12 $63	13 $62	14 $63	15 $64	16 $72	17 $71
18 $65	19 $64	20 $63	21 $62	22 $63	23 $78	24 $74
25 $68	26 $65	27 $65	28 $68	29 $68	30 $78	31 $74

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Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
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20 $117	21 $108	22 $101	23 $102	24 $103	25 $81	26 $81
27 $59	28 $81	29 $75	30 $78