Simpson Desert
Birdsville Hotel
Birdsville, Queensland, 4482, Australia
The Birdsville sits at the edge of Australia’s Simpson Desert, home to fat-tailed marsupial mice, sand dunes, and little else. (Aussies say it’s located “out in bloody woop-woop.”) The pub within—your standard dive hung with outback hats and beer posters—dates from 1884 and over time has become the stuff of legend. Visitors are mostly horse-race enthusiasts who puddle-jump in for the Birdsville Races in September (an airstrip is conveniently located just outside the hotel) and slightly demented off-roaders attempting to traverse the whole of the Birdsville Track, a onetime camel trail that stretches some 320 miles.
What to Order: A pint of Queensland’s own XXXX (“fourex”) beer. Cheers, mate.
Amenities
Open / Closes- Handicapped Accessible
- Laundry Service
- Meeting Room
- Parking Available
- Tennis
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Number of Rooms: 27
